Felice Freyer
@felicejfreyer.bsky.social
Reporter (details: felicefreyer.com) • Journalism professor • Immediate past president, Association of Health Care Journalists • Will follow you back only if you include a bio
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
Here's what I wish people understood: Trump supporters in poorer areas are generally the wealthy people in those areas -- the people who have kept their neighbors poor.
The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Economic anxieties are mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.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 4:06 PM
BREAKING from PP
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*
The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:
Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer
More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.
It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!
#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!
#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
August 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare.
It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!
#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today!
#HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
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The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!
August 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!
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How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
May 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
1/
How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law?
Not by truth, but rather by coordination.
Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
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Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
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youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse
May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
youtu.be
May 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse
May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
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‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.
Trump's First 100 Days: Oopsie!
Maddow spends 15 minutes going nonstop through a litany of Trump•Musk•DOGE screw-ups and walk-backs
1/9
youtu.be/bFKxLJuJPZA?...
Maddow spends 15 minutes going nonstop through a litany of Trump•Musk•DOGE screw-ups and walk-backs
1/9
youtu.be/bFKxLJuJPZA?...
Oops!: Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw-ups and frantic walk backs
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
April 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.
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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
www.thecrimson.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”
Reality is actually very uplifting. While Trump is afraid of anything even possibly good for our health, clean energy is now more economical than coal, and all Trump’s bombastic proclamations will not change this reality. Our states will continue this progress. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
US renewable energy farms outstrip 99% of coal plants economically – study
It is cheaper to build solar panels or cluster of wind turbines and connect them to the grid than to keep operating coal plants
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”
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Important for all of us but especially journalists.
Kidnapping.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.
Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.
A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
stop calling things deportation just because they call it deportation.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
-You cannot legally deport people without due process.
-You cannot legally deport citizens.
-They are defining down deportation to break the law.
April 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
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Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
April 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
April 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
Thank you.
Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Thank you.
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As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health.
If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?
If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?
April 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health.
If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?
If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?