Dan Church
drchu1.bsky.social
Dan Church
@drchu1.bsky.social
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist in Boston MA, loves theater, books, classic movies, music, drag, cats (have three perfect ones), gardening, and urban hiking. 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
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ooh well done
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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[Exit King.]
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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15 October 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Vieyra, was born in Rotterdam.

In February 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.
June 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.

Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Still not over the brilliance of the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social concert of Doe Tote Stadt with the glamorous and brilliant @heldenmommy.bsky.social - a gorgeous and moving opera sung and played with total perfection. Heaven.
February 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Excited to see some much overdue attention being paid to hepatitis B. Great article in the New Yorker makes a strong and moving case for (finally) funding a response to this epidemic. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
#hepatitis #publichealth
A Cancer-Causing Virus Hiding in Millions of Americans
Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Seeing Lucinda Williams and her band perform “You Can’t Rule Me” by Memphis Minnie was exactly what I needed this week.
November 13, 2024 at 3:32 PM