Celina Schocken
@celinaschocken.bsky.social
Dog lover, international women’s health expert, amateur gardener and book lover.
Grrrrr.
The State Department has warned employees not to use government funds to mark Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.” nyti.ms/3KhPDrA
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Grrrrr.
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Agree and will add that today’s “fighting didn’t work and I hope the GOP will negotiate with us on healthcare” press junket is messaging malpractice. All they had to say today was “we had to stop fighting BECAUSE they wouldn’t negotiate on healthcare and people were suffering real concrete harm”
There was always going to be an agreement & we were unlikely to get a lot. I think though it should have gone in to Dec if necessary, when most people would be making their decisions on open enrollment. Repubs still may have said no, but I think it would have made it clearer Repubs were to blame.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Agree and will add that today’s “fighting didn’t work and I hope the GOP will negotiate with us on healthcare” press junket is messaging malpractice. All they had to say today was “we had to stop fighting BECAUSE they wouldn’t negotiate on healthcare and people were suffering real concrete harm”
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KFF finds partisan split on Tylenol
Most Republicans (56%) say they think it’s definitely or probably true that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of kids with autism.
Most Dems (86%) say it’s definitely or probably false.
Multiple medical associations have said there’s no link.
Most Republicans (56%) say they think it’s definitely or probably true that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of kids with autism.
Most Dems (86%) say it’s definitely or probably false.
Multiple medical associations have said there’s no link.
October 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
KFF finds partisan split on Tylenol
Most Republicans (56%) say they think it’s definitely or probably true that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of kids with autism.
Most Dems (86%) say it’s definitely or probably false.
Multiple medical associations have said there’s no link.
Most Republicans (56%) say they think it’s definitely or probably true that taking Tylenol during pregnancy increases the risk of kids with autism.
Most Dems (86%) say it’s definitely or probably false.
Multiple medical associations have said there’s no link.
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What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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All The Demands Trump Is Making Of The Smithsonian theonion.com/all-the...
August 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
All The Demands Trump Is Making Of The Smithsonian theonion.com/all-the...
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The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.
Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m in contraceptives
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.
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Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Today's ACIP meeting is usually a time where experts come together to inform the future of vaccines. That is not what today will be. That is not what we can stand behind. The AAP will continue to recommend its own childhood vaccine schedule -- just as we have since the 1930s
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I know there’s a lot going on right now but don’t lose sight of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. This is serious, not just regional posturing. It has the potential to affect us almost as much as anything happening here at home. And this inept administration is clueless how to handle it.
June 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I know there’s a lot going on right now but don’t lose sight of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. This is serious, not just regional posturing. It has the potential to affect us almost as much as anything happening here at home. And this inept administration is clueless how to handle it.
This is outrageous.
If that’s what they do to a US Senator with a question, imagine what they do to farm workers, day laborers, cooks, and the other nonviolent immigrants they are targeting in California and across the country. Or any American that dares to speak up.
I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.
I will not stop fighting to demand accountability.
June 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is outrageous.
It's much faster to make sh*t up than doing science the right way.
A bunch of papers cited in the government MAHA report are apparently fake. www.notus.org/health-scien... @emilykennard.bsky.social @margaretmanto.bsky.social
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's much faster to make sh*t up than doing science the right way.
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A bunch of papers cited in the government MAHA report are apparently fake. www.notus.org/health-scien... @emilykennard.bsky.social @margaretmanto.bsky.social
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A bunch of papers cited in the government MAHA report are apparently fake. www.notus.org/health-scien... @emilykennard.bsky.social @margaretmanto.bsky.social
Making America much less Healthy
The MAHA Report cites studies that don’t exist.
W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
W/ @emilykennard.bsky.social:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Making America much less Healthy
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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover
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NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE guys are dismantling the Wilson Center, a key foreign policy research group funded by private money and Congress. Its head, Mark Green, a former GOP Congressman, resigned after DOGE entered this week. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
April 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE guys are dismantling the Wilson Center, a key foreign policy research group funded by private money and Congress. Its head, Mark Green, a former GOP Congressman, resigned after DOGE entered this week. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...
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The U.S. has ended financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting ~50 million women off from access to contraception.
One woman who has run family planning programs for decades told me: "Women will pay for this with their lives."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
One woman who has run family planning programs for decades told me: "Women will pay for this with their lives."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women (Gift Article)
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The U.S. has ended financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting ~50 million women off from access to contraception.
One woman who has run family planning programs for decades told me: "Women will pay for this with their lives."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
One woman who has run family planning programs for decades told me: "Women will pay for this with their lives."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Man neck-deep in mud rescued this morning along Mt. Vernon Trail
Man neck-deep in mud rescued this morning along Mt. Vernon Trail | ARLnow.com
Police and firefighters rescued a man precariously stuck in the mud near Roosevelt Island this morning. Initial reports suggest that a man in his 70s became stuck in the mud while trying to retrieve a...
www.arlnow.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Man neck-deep in mud rescued this morning along Mt. Vernon Trail
Now to get the Administration to comply.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to pay hundreds of millions in foreign assistance funds that have been in limbo despite his directive that such aid resume — action targeting President Trump’s pause in aid, which has led to chaos globally.
Judge orders Trump administration to pay millions in USAID funds
Officials have one day to resume foreign aid payments after a contentious hearing in which a government lawyer couldn’t say if funds had been unfrozen.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Now to get the Administration to comply.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
As an alum, I fully support this.
A friend who went to university of Chicago has told me I need to make fun of the economics department there more
February 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
As an alum, I fully support this.
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Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics.
Putin's best week in years.
Putin's best week in years.
February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Zelensky is being forced to plead with Trump that his own country, which has spent so much blood and endured so much horror, is allowed to be at the negotiating table about its own future. That's where we're at- a return of great power politics.
Putin's best week in years.
Putin's best week in years.
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There is no limit to MAGA performative idiocy.
February 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
There is no limit to MAGA performative idiocy.
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Rumors that Elon Musk has bought a Super Bowl ad spot to promote disinformation on USAID.
Excellent video here on the good USAID does in tbe world and the role it plays in promoting US Interests. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Excellent video here on the good USAID does in tbe world and the role it plays in promoting US Interests. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
Perception is reality.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Rumors that Elon Musk has bought a Super Bowl ad spot to promote disinformation on USAID.
Excellent video here on the good USAID does in tbe world and the role it plays in promoting US Interests. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
Excellent video here on the good USAID does in tbe world and the role it plays in promoting US Interests. open.substack.com/pub/asharang...