Alyson Smith
@pedsaly.bsky.social
Pediatric PA. Associate Professor. Passionate about healthy policies for kids, equity, and Simpsons memes. Chilli Heeler is my spirit animal. Grateful mama. 💕
#MedSky #PedSky #MedEd
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Chicago 💙
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Alyson Smith
@pedsaly.bsky.social
· Aug 28
American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule for newborns - 18 yrs is the one to use. Just published August 19, 2025 ❤️ downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
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RFK Jr & the MAHA institute are selling anti-vaccine onesies.
When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering.
RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic.
He an anti-vaxxer.
He is a danger to society.
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When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering.
RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic.
He an anti-vaxxer.
He is a danger to society.
1/
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
RFK Jr & the MAHA institute are selling anti-vaccine onesies.
When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering.
RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic.
He an anti-vaxxer.
He is a danger to society.
1/
When I say they PROFIT by causing preventable illness & death, this only scrapes the surface of their deadly profiteering.
RFK Jr is not a vaccine skeptic.
He an anti-vaxxer.
He is a danger to society.
1/
“I see you, Chicago. I see you charging out of your homes before you’ve brushed your teeth to blow your whistles, shout down ICE agents, and hold onto your neighbors.”
“I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could.”
This is Chicago. ❤️🩹❤️
“I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could.”
This is Chicago. ❤️🩹❤️
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“I see you, Chicago. I see you charging out of your homes before you’ve brushed your teeth to blow your whistles, shout down ICE agents, and hold onto your neighbors.”
“I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could.”
This is Chicago. ❤️🩹❤️
“I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could.”
This is Chicago. ❤️🩹❤️
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"Low birth rates will end civilization."
-Elon Musk, 4/22/2025
-Elon Musk, 4/22/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"Low birth rates will end civilization."
-Elon Musk, 4/22/2025
-Elon Musk, 4/22/2025
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
Children should never, ever, ever be pawns. Ever.
Keep donating funds to your local food bank ❤️🩹
Keep donating funds to your local food bank ❤️🩹
Trump is fighting as hard as he can to starve kids for negotiating leverage.
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Children should never, ever, ever be pawns. Ever.
Keep donating funds to your local food bank ❤️🩹
Keep donating funds to your local food bank ❤️🩹
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Re-upping this today as texts filter in today w/multiple stories of ICE trying to detain people outside CPS schools.
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Re-upping this today as texts filter in today w/multiple stories of ICE trying to detain people outside CPS schools.
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"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The arrest appears to be one of the first in which immigration officers entered school grounds as part of an enforcement operation during Trump’s second administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"School officials showed agents the teacher’s employment documents, including a work permit, but agents nonetheless detained her."
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
🚨 Read this Chicago Tribune investigative piece. Please.
This ICE agent - charged with DUI - told arresting officers he was driving back his hotel after working at the detention center.
Driving through our suburbs. 😡
This ICE agent - charged with DUI - told arresting officers he was driving back his hotel after working at the detention center.
Driving through our suburbs. 😡
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
🚨 Read this Chicago Tribune investigative piece. Please.
This ICE agent - charged with DUI - told arresting officers he was driving back his hotel after working at the detention center.
Driving through our suburbs. 😡
This ICE agent - charged with DUI - told arresting officers he was driving back his hotel after working at the detention center.
Driving through our suburbs. 😡
Children who are exposed to violence may exhibit signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
“These kids can feel emotional and physical ‘aftershocks’ for months or years. They can relive the event again and again in their minds, and be less able to function normally in their day-to-day lives.”
“These kids can feel emotional and physical ‘aftershocks’ for months or years. They can relive the event again and again in their minds, and be less able to function normally in their day-to-day lives.”
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Children who are exposed to violence may exhibit signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
“These kids can feel emotional and physical ‘aftershocks’ for months or years. They can relive the event again and again in their minds, and be less able to function normally in their day-to-day lives.”
“These kids can feel emotional and physical ‘aftershocks’ for months or years. They can relive the event again and again in their minds, and be less able to function normally in their day-to-day lives.”
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Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
19thnews.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
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Good morning, America 🇺🇸❤️
October 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good morning, America 🇺🇸❤️
🥰🥰
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
🥰🥰
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Millions of people turned out to vote 17 years ago today, fueled by the hope that change is possible. So many still remember that anticipation and excitement.
Relive that moment with a preview of one of the election night stories we’ll tell at the Obama Presidential Center.
Relive that moment with a preview of one of the election night stories we’ll tell at the Obama Presidential Center.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
🥹❤️🩹
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No one went hungry in the presence of Jesus, and no one should live with food scarcity in a land filled with supposed Christians.
SNAP is an expression of compassion for human beings.
That’s exactly why MAGA Evangelicals want to destroy it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...
SNAP is an expression of compassion for human beings.
That’s exactly why MAGA Evangelicals want to destroy it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...
SNAP is What Jesus Would Be Doing. That's Why MAGA Christians Are Trying to Kill It.
The sin of cruelty toward the hungry
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No one went hungry in the presence of Jesus, and no one should live with food scarcity in a land filled with supposed Christians.
SNAP is an expression of compassion for human beings.
That’s exactly why MAGA Evangelicals want to destroy it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...
SNAP is an expression of compassion for human beings.
That’s exactly why MAGA Evangelicals want to destroy it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...
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Having to explain what tear gas is to kids
A child telling her dolls "We have to be good or ICE will get us"
A community having to stand guard so kids can get home safely
A child telling her dolls "We have to be good or ICE will get us"
A community having to stand guard so kids can get home safely
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Having to explain what tear gas is to kids
A child telling her dolls "We have to be good or ICE will get us"
A community having to stand guard so kids can get home safely
A child telling her dolls "We have to be good or ICE will get us"
A community having to stand guard so kids can get home safely
love you Canada 🇨🇦💙
November 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
love you Canada 🇨🇦💙
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this is so stressful a canadian anchor just did breathing exercises on air
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
this is so stressful a canadian anchor just did breathing exercises on air
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR NINE YEARS
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
November 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR NINE YEARS