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jessicacalarco.com
This is the courage we need from science and from institutions more generally.

Against the CDC's MAHA-fied efforts, the @ameracadpeds.bsky.social recommends Covid vaccines for all kids <2 years, kids 2-18 in high-risk groups/households, and kids in any family wanting extra protection against risk.
COVID-19 continues to result in hospitalization and death in the pediatric population. Infants and children 6 through 23 months of age are at the highest risk for severe COVID-19. Given this, the AAP recommends a COVID-19 vaccine for all children ages 6 through 23 months old to help protect against serious illness. Children younger than 2 years old are especially vulnerable to severe COVID-19 and should be prioritized for vaccination unless they have a known allergy to the vaccine or its ingredients. In addition to the recommendation for all children younger than 2 years, the AAP recommends a single dose of age-appropriate COVID-19 vaccine for all children and adolescents 2 through 18 years of age in the following risk groups : Persons at high risk of severe COVID-19 Residents of long-term care facilities or other congregate settings Persons who have never been vaccinated against COVID-19 Persons whose household contacts are at high risk for severe COVID-19 The AAP also recommends the vaccine be available for children ages 2-18 who do not fall into these risk groups, but whose parent or guardian desires them to have the protection of the vaccine. The most updated version of the COVID-19 vaccine that is available should be used. The Academy’s recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines are published online here and will be published in the November issue of Pediatrics (online Aug. 19). “We extensively reviewed the most recently available data about COVID-19 risks in kids, as well as safety and effectiveness of available COVID-19 vaccines. It's clear they are very safe for all populations. Among the reasons we decided to move to a risk-based recommendation for healthy older children is the fact that the hospitalization rate for young children and children with underlying medical conditions remains high, in line with rates for many of the other vaccine-preventable diseases for which we vaccinate,” said Sean O’Leary, MD, FAAP, chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases.
August 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM

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jessicacalarco.com
Oklahoma is already facing serious teacher shortages. These "exams" will make those gaps harder to fill. And in the process, they'll erode the state's public education system, achieving the real goal of pushing families into private and charter options and into homeschooling instead.
August 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM

jessicacalarco.com
Families and educators: Tell your Congress members that enough is enough. You shouldn't have to pay for Trump's lies.
cleaver.house.gov Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @cleaver.house.gov · Aug 19
Trump’s tariffs are the reason parents are paying more for supplies this back-to-school season.

Families asked for relief, not even higher prices.
August 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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Trump’s tariffs are the reason parents are paying more for supplies this back-to-school season.

Families asked for relief, not even higher prices.
August 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM

jessicacalarco.com
*Turns out
August 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM

jessicacalarco.com
Turn out, there's a close resemblance between his new Oval Office and his penthouse apartment, as featured in a 1994 episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Though, the episode is less notable for his style than for his creepy comments about daughter Tiffany.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE4...
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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walkerbragman.bsky.social
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who has spent years promoting skepticism toward mRNA vaccines, melts down over criticism from the American Medical Association, blaming the group for widespread vaccine skepticism because it supported COVID shot mandates.

A totally unserious man.
Jay Bhattacharya responding to AMA post saying it’s disappointing to see HHS shift away from mRNA vaccines and blaming him for separating the government’s public health role from its furry to promote science: What the AMA forgets, is that in 2021, they encouraged COVID vaccine mandates that ignored both science and the principle of informed consent. This disregard has significantly contributed to the erosion of public trust in health institutions. It’s time for the AMA to acknowledge this failure, reflect, and take meaningful steps toward reform. Evidence of the AMA’s stance can be seen here: 🔗 https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/582688-ama-warns-of-severe-and-irreparable-harm-if-biden-vaccine-mandate-is-halted/ 🔗 https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/569167-american-medical-association-calls-for-public-private-sectors-to-mandate/
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM

jessicacalarco.com
It was actually 1994. And it's an absolutely sickening watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE4...
Robin Leach Defends Trump's Remarks About Daughter's Legs in 1994
YouTube video by Inside Edition
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM

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simonwdc.bsky.social
2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM

jessicacalarco.com
And, as one mom I interviewed called her son, "a little bundle of original sin."
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM

jessicacalarco.com
I don't think so. One of the things I find in my research is that conservative (esp. White, Evangelical) parents are generally very much in favor of physical discipline for kids, including their own.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM

jessicacalarco.com
And it's not just the Texas GOP. Back in June, the White House posted on X "Daddy's home," in reference to the President's supposedly "tough" approach to diplomacy during a NATO summit. Suggesting that what the world needs is a leader who's going to yell and hit rather than coddle and coo.
White House X post: 🎶 Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy. President Donald J. Trump attended the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands.
August 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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jessicacalarco.com
The GOP loves to rail against the "nanny state." But, as their treatment of Texas Rep. Nicole Collier makes clear, they're perfectly happy to run an authoritarian "daddy state" where "bad children" are locked in their rooms without their supper and threatened with the belt if they don't comply.
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM

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mcopelov.bsky.social
Good morning, everyone. Please enjoy your coffee & your “Reverse Emails” of the fascism, as predicted.

It’s actually worse, since both Texas & DC are below the fold, without any mention of the actual fascism:
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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melodyschreiber.com
This is a great graphic: all of the studies with a dot in the corner were conducted by the Geiers -- one of whom, David Geier, practiced medicine without a license
August 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM

jessicacalarco.com
It's also giving wannabe Russian Tsar vibes.
Catherine Palace near St. Petersburg with white exterior and bulbous gold towers, adorned with additional gold filigree.
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM

jessicacalarco.com
The redecorated Oval Office looks like the set of an SNL sketch parodying an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, circa 1989.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 19
Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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meganranney.bsky.social
A must-read, must-share piece - clearly deconstructing the shoddy science of the Geiers (who are inexplicably in charge of studies at HHS).

Consider this an early warning for what lies ahead. 🛟🩺🧪

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show a causation that doesn’t exist.
www.nytimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM

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joshtpm.bsky.social
Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
August 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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kjephd.bsky.social
The brakes on runaway autocratization are off
peoplefor.bsky.social People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 18
Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave.

They are requiring Democrats to sign “permission slips” and have a police escort in order to leave the chamber, and she refuses to sign it.
August 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM

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crockett.house.gov
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
August 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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jessicacalarco.com
Okay, so I know there are far more pressing questions in the world right now, but: who is buying emu placenta cream?!?
Display stand in an Australian gift shop, featuring a large pile of boxes of emu oil, (emu, I'm presuming) placenta cream, and (emu, again I'm presuming) lanolin cream. On sale, 6 for $70 or $12.99 each.
August 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM

jessicacalarco.com
Probably.
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM

jessicacalarco.com
From what I can see on the website, Indiana University isn't currently recruiting *any* new faculty.
August 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Seems problematic.
August 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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returnstosender.bsky.social
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
August 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM

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casmudde.bsky.social
This is absolutely terrifying... and yet, the (potential) reality for many of us teaching in GOP-controlled states.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 18
What's happening in Indiana should be a warning for all of higher ed.

IU sanctioned a Professor--who was previously arrested and sanctioned during a campus protest--for allegedly violating the state's "intellectual diversity" law, based on an anonymous complaint.

www.indystar.com/story/news/e...
The complaint against Robinson was filed last year and cited classroom comments he made about the university restricting free speech rights, times he's been arrested while protesting, and his views regarding the state of Israel. "He has used class time to say that the university is restricting people’s free speech. He has talked about being arrested during class time several times," the complaint reads. "He talks negatively about the state of Israel and describes the war in untrue and unfair ways."
August 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM

jessicacalarco.com
I think it's both. Yes, they had fewer opportunities to join unions. But a lot of GenX (especially middle class White men) bought in hard to anti-union rhetoric, seeing them as "my dad's thing" (ie, old, stodgy, uncool). GenZ, by contrast, has embraced unions despite similar challenges policy-wise.
August 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM

jessicacalarco.com
GenXers were also the first 401K generation. So they (especially White middle class men) convinced themselves they were being independent by making their own fortunes with "smart" investments. But that meant selling out to capitalism. And rejecting the unions that could've curbed their selfish bent.
August 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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bcburden.bsky.social
Trump himself votes by mail

He does not have this power (& wouldn’t allow a Dem president to control state elections this way)

Creates pretense to challenge midterms if GOP loses ground as expected

Distraction from Epstein files

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump vows to target mail-in ballots ahead of midterm election
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order ahead of next year's midterm elections, saying he would lead "a movement" targeting mail-in balloting and voting machines across the country.
www.reuters.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM