Melissa Higdon
@mhigdon.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, former salsa dancer trying to get back into it, #Leguminati
Despair is not an option.
Despair is not an option.
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@gallego.senate.gov
Great hit on Jen Psaki's show tonight.
You're one of my Senators, whom I proudly voted for!!
Great hit on Jen Psaki's show tonight.
You're one of my Senators, whom I proudly voted for!!
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
@gallego.senate.gov
Great hit on Jen Psaki's show tonight.
You're one of my Senators, whom I proudly voted for!!
Great hit on Jen Psaki's show tonight.
You're one of my Senators, whom I proudly voted for!!
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We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.
We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.
But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.
Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.
But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.
Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.
We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.
But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.
Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.
But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.
Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
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Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today.
He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.
He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.
October 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Trump got his COVID19 vaccine today.
He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.
He will always have access to everything he needs to maintain his health while denying others the same.
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Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”
October 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”
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Vaccinations Averted 17 Million Deaths in Past Five Years – But Global Challenges Persist healthpolicy-watch.news/vaccinations... via @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
Vaccinations Averted 17 Million Deaths In Past Five Years – But Global Challenges Persist - Health Policy Watch
Vaccinations have saved the lives of an estimated 17 million people between 2021 and 2024 – but global immunisation programmes face several challenges,
healthpolicy-watch.news
October 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Vaccinations Averted 17 Million Deaths in Past Five Years – But Global Challenges Persist healthpolicy-watch.news/vaccinations... via @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
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ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
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TGIF! I had a wild evening finishing my recap and criticism of this week's chaotic and unbearably stupid ACIP meeting.
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The Advisory Committee for Immunization Propaganda
Anti-vax ACIP wants to build trust in vaccines by lying about the evidence
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
TGIF! I had a wild evening finishing my recap and criticism of this week's chaotic and unbearably stupid ACIP meeting.
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
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Folks should care *way* more about FL ending childhood vax mandates than they apparently do. This is *huge.* Other red states are going to follow suit, & national herd immunity will be lost. W/o it, *everyone* will be increasingly exposed to diseases we haven't been for years.
That's important...
That's important...
September 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Folks should care *way* more about FL ending childhood vax mandates than they apparently do. This is *huge.* Other red states are going to follow suit, & national herd immunity will be lost. W/o it, *everyone* will be increasingly exposed to diseases we haven't been for years.
That's important...
That's important...
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#CDC was alerted to 3 more #flu deaths in kids, bringing the total for the 2024-25 season (so far) to 278 — only 10 fewer than during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. About 90% of those kids weren't vaccinated against flu. So tragic.
Kids should be vaccinated against flu.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
Kids should be vaccinated against flu.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
August 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#CDC was alerted to 3 more #flu deaths in kids, bringing the total for the 2024-25 season (so far) to 278 — only 10 fewer than during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. About 90% of those kids weren't vaccinated against flu. So tragic.
Kids should be vaccinated against flu.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
Kids should be vaccinated against flu.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
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Right-wing media are pushing for a more exclusionary America, calling for targeted deportations of noncriminal migrants and elected officials they deem “not American.”
MAGA media figures argue some Americans are not really American
As the Trump administration continues to expand immigration raids, arrests, and mass deportations, right-wing media have pushed for a more exclusionary America, calling for targeted deportations of no...
www.mediamatters.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Right-wing media are pushing for a more exclusionary America, calling for targeted deportations of noncriminal migrants and elected officials they deem “not American.”
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Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
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📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
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“[T]he greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.” -Shannon Chakraborty
#timetoresist #laborday
#timetoresist #laborday
August 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
“[T]he greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.” -Shannon Chakraborty
#timetoresist #laborday
#timetoresist #laborday
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Since Thursday, federal agents have been out in DC. Trump plans more Monday - unwanted by residents. DC is their home, not his. Join the rally & press conference Mon 10 AM, 815 16th St NW. RSVP: bit.ly/free-dc-our-... #MDIndivisible #freeDC #WashingtonDC
DC is our home. Trump can't have it. — Free DC
On Monday, August 11, Free DC and partners will hold a press conference and rally to make it clear DC belongs to DC residents.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Since Thursday, federal agents have been out in DC. Trump plans more Monday - unwanted by residents. DC is their home, not his. Join the rally & press conference Mon 10 AM, 815 16th St NW. RSVP: bit.ly/free-dc-our-... #MDIndivisible #freeDC #WashingtonDC
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Republicans know they can't win unless they cheat. Once again, they are gerrymandering to suppress the vote and undermine democracy.
@govwesmoore.bsky.social, Maryland must be ready to fight back and fight for a better future!
#MessWithTexas #FAFO #MDIndivisible
@govwesmoore.bsky.social, Maryland must be ready to fight back and fight for a better future!
#MessWithTexas #FAFO #MDIndivisible
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Republicans know they can't win unless they cheat. Once again, they are gerrymandering to suppress the vote and undermine democracy.
@govwesmoore.bsky.social, Maryland must be ready to fight back and fight for a better future!
#MessWithTexas #FAFO #MDIndivisible
@govwesmoore.bsky.social, Maryland must be ready to fight back and fight for a better future!
#MessWithTexas #FAFO #MDIndivisible
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July 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
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Trump said ICE arrests “the worst of the worst.” Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal is the best of the best. Free this man now. #fuckice #crushice #eyesonice #MDIndivisible
July 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump said ICE arrests “the worst of the worst.” Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal is the best of the best. Free this man now. #fuckice #crushice #eyesonice #MDIndivisible
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This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
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An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
projects.propublica.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon:
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
An event planner
A coal miner
An Uber driver
Tortilla maker
Barber
DoorDashers
Soccer coaches
Furniture-maker
Car washers
Taxi drivers
HVAC techs
Auto parts worker
Tire plant worker
and 240 more...
projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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This morning, the Atlantic published an article on David Geier, highlighting his history of publishing papers that claim associations between various vaccines and chronic conditions, including autism.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
July 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This morning, the Atlantic published an article on David Geier, highlighting his history of publishing papers that claim associations between various vaccines and chronic conditions, including autism.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
June 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This is oligarchy. This is obscene.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.
End this oligarchy.
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CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
June 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...