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@g21r.bsky.social
Medical student in New Orleans with a background in environmental sociology 🏳️🌈🌻🩺
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Thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, millions of adults aged 55 to 64 may now be locked out of SNAP if they’re not able to work.
And in a one-two punch, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating Trump’s cuts will be.
And in a one-two punch, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating Trump’s cuts will be.
Trump's USDA is hiding the data on food stamp cuts
The agency's food insecurity survey was pointless "liberal fodder," a spokesperson said.
www.motherjones.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Thanks to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, millions of adults aged 55 to 64 may now be locked out of SNAP if they’re not able to work.
And in a one-two punch, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating Trump’s cuts will be.
And in a one-two punch, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating Trump’s cuts will be.
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We must prioritize public health over unjust corporate profits — and we must start with our food system.
op: @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social
op: @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We must prioritize public health over unjust corporate profits — and we must start with our food system.
op: @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social
op: @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social
This BAT SH*T crazy. Sick to my stomach.
April 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This BAT SH*T crazy. Sick to my stomach.
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I'm autistic. Somehow I've been married for more than 26 years, paid taxes for 30+ years, and raised an autistic kid who is now studying engineering. I've been a professor for 15 years, a full professor for 2, and have published 2 books. Oh and I can 🚽 just fine. 🧵
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
April 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm autistic. Somehow I've been married for more than 26 years, paid taxes for 30+ years, and raised an autistic kid who is now studying engineering. I've been a professor for 15 years, a full professor for 2, and have published 2 books. Oh and I can 🚽 just fine. 🧵
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Confirmed cases of measles
in the US.
2020: 13
2021: 49
2022: 121
2023: 59
2024: 285
Total cases: 527 (5-years)
2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
in the US.
2020: 13
2021: 49
2022: 121
2023: 59
2024: 285
Total cases: 527 (5-years)
2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
April 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Confirmed cases of measles
in the US.
2020: 13
2021: 49
2022: 121
2023: 59
2024: 285
Total cases: 527 (5-years)
2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
in the US.
2020: 13
2021: 49
2022: 121
2023: 59
2024: 285
Total cases: 527 (5-years)
2025: (first 90 days)
628 confirmed cases of measles, and 3 deaths.
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The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—
Oh.
Oh.
April 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—
Oh.
Oh.
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My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
April 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
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Sen. Booker just broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history—a record set by Strom Thurmond trying to block the Civil Rights Act. The irony ain’t lost on us. From fighting against justice to fighting for it. This is what courage & being on the right side of history looks like!
April 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sen. Booker just broke the record for the longest floor speech in Senate history—a record set by Strom Thurmond trying to block the Civil Rights Act. The irony ain’t lost on us. From fighting against justice to fighting for it. This is what courage & being on the right side of history looks like!
… still can’t stop watching this reckoning by @booker.senate.gov and democratic colleagues. I have my medical boards in 3 days and attempting to do flash cards… but man am I glued to this live stream.
April 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
… still can’t stop watching this reckoning by @booker.senate.gov and democratic colleagues. I have my medical boards in 3 days and attempting to do flash cards… but man am I glued to this live stream.
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America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence.
Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence.
Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.
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Between January 21 and February 11, 2025, the CDC removed 203 datasets (13% of its online datasets). The situation is dynamic; various datasets have been removed, restored, manipulated, or not posted as planned.
Full article:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Full article:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Disappearing Data at the U.S. Federal Government | NEJM
Starting in January 2025, various government health datasets were removed, restored,
manipulated, or not posted as planned. The consequences of these changes could be
far-reaching.
www.nejm.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Between January 21 and February 11, 2025, the CDC removed 203 datasets (13% of its online datasets). The situation is dynamic; various datasets have been removed, restored, manipulated, or not posted as planned.
Full article:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Full article:
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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In case link stops working, here are screenshots of the text that I reassembled from the mailchimp URL. Apologies I could only alt text the first 2000 characters due to word limit. This text and images are quoted from original link posted at top of thread by Carlos F. Jackson, Dean and Professor.
![Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
Dear Colleagues,
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design because our academic program and DEl initiatives are legally compliant, in alignment with our university values, and an extension of the mission of our school.
On Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 3:30 p.m., President Ono, Provost McCauley, CFO Chatas, and VP for Medical Affairs Runge wrote to the University of Michigan community announcing the elimination of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI), the discontinuation of the university DEl 2.0 Strategic Plan, university-wide elimination of diversity statements, and legal review of existing programs to ensure they comply with federal law and guidance. Two hours prior to this announcement, I was walking through Pierpont Commons and took a picture of this University of Michigan sign, which explicitly states, "Our Core Values:
Integrity, Respect, Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, Innovation." The move to eliminate the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion directly contradicts these institutional values. While I, as Dean, and Stamps, as a school, did not directly create the University of Michigan's Culture Journey or signify these six values, we have collectively worked to honor them.
Integrity, Respect, Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Innovation are aspirations that establish a benchmark by which to measure our actions, actions that work to build and sustain our community. Throughout the 2024 national election, DEl, immigrants, and trans communities have been targeted as political flashpoints. On January 27, 2025, two DEI-related
Executive Orders that potentially impact the university were issued, including the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity order, which expands the application of the Supreme Court ruling that struck down... [truncated due to character limit]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7v32ymwa2bz72sihnbipopxg/bafkreibfthiw2qsoxpbh5qghqwfpycrlxbvxgenrtyoyveavx5k4rgi6ka@jpeg)
![I assure you, the Stamps School's academic program and initiatives to support faculty, students, and staff are fully legal and ethical. Secondly, the central claim in the "Dear Colleague" letter is erroneous, which attempts to argue that the United States wasn't founded upon structural racism. Despite efforts to rewrite history, the fact remains that the United States was founded upon systemic and structural racism. Chattel slavery, African Americans designated as 3/5ths a person, broken treaties and forced relocation, and Jim Crow laws are just a few examples of racism that is structural and systemic. A further example that systemic and structural discrimination existed in the country's formation is the fact that women did not have the right to vote until 1920, as suffrage has existed for only 105 years. The forces behind the "Dear Colleague" letter want to ignore these difficult truths that our country was formed on very unequal and discriminatory terms. Wealth that was generated through the formation of the United States came from land-taking and the greatest form of dehumanization, enslavement. These are difficult truths that our own
University of Michigan's Inclusive History
Project articulates through the most profound scholarly rigor and peer review. We must reckon with these difficult truths and figure out how to co-build the future together. This mandate of reckoning with history is the imperative that the civil rights movement and generation gave us, and we must now steward onward. Rather than reaffirming that we are operating academic programs that are legally compliant and affirming the value and prestige of the peer-reviewed knowledge production produced by the University of Michigan's 100 academic programs that are ranked in the national top 10 within their respective fields, yesterday, the university chose to eliminate the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion..... [truncated due to character limit]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7v32ymwa2bz72sihnbipopxg/bafkreieiju2ivbgrhm7723wgu3ttfvia32vh3umapjfv3axlg333v24lxq@jpeg)
March 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In case link stops working, here are screenshots of the text that I reassembled from the mailchimp URL. Apologies I could only alt text the first 2000 characters due to word limit. This text and images are quoted from original link posted at top of thread by Carlos F. Jackson, Dean and Professor.
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If only the wealthy tech bros seeking to purchase the fountain of youth just for themselves would invest in the *already evidenced based* approaches that extend human lifespan in aggregate. Like childhood vaccines, safe water, access to food, housing, and education, reducing domestic violence...
—What are these 12 companies that purport to promote longevity and healthspan missing?
—Evidence.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-busine...
—Evidence.
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-busine...
March 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If only the wealthy tech bros seeking to purchase the fountain of youth just for themselves would invest in the *already evidenced based* approaches that extend human lifespan in aggregate. Like childhood vaccines, safe water, access to food, housing, and education, reducing domestic violence...
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"The tobacco and ultra-processed food industries
exemplify the detrimental effects of corporate influence
on public health." @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
exemplify the detrimental effects of corporate influence
on public health." @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The need to call out corporate corruption in health
The 2023 Lancet Series on the commercial determinants of health1 highlighted how commercial
organisations shape health policies, both positively and negatively. Some negative
actions, such as spreadin...
www.thelancet.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"The tobacco and ultra-processed food industries
exemplify the detrimental effects of corporate influence
on public health." @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
exemplify the detrimental effects of corporate influence
on public health." @thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
www.propublica.org
March 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
This was an ad on my Instagram. Absolutely dumbfounded with how anyone in healthcare could think that we shouldn’t learn about social determinants of health, or that learning about the diversity of our patient population would do anything other than improve care and patient-provider relations.
March 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This was an ad on my Instagram. Absolutely dumbfounded with how anyone in healthcare could think that we shouldn’t learn about social determinants of health, or that learning about the diversity of our patient population would do anything other than improve care and patient-provider relations.
Yall WHAT is an “illegal protest”??? What does that mean
March 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Yall WHAT is an “illegal protest”??? What does that mean
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“The idea that ICE can detain people on the basis of its own conclusions or biases, and then decide later how it wants to charge the person, is extremely problematic,” a legal scholar says, about the arrest of the Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Constitutional Rights and the Power of ICE
A legal scholar explains the unusual justification for the Columbia graduate’s arrest, and what it could augur for immigration enforcement in Trump’s second term.
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“The idea that ICE can detain people on the basis of its own conclusions or biases, and then decide later how it wants to charge the person, is extremely problematic,” a legal scholar says, about the arrest of the Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil.
I feel like it should not be allowed for a state representative’s mailbox to be full 🙄 been calling my senators office multiple times over the past few weeks and only gotten through once.
March 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I feel like it should not be allowed for a state representative’s mailbox to be full 🙄 been calling my senators office multiple times over the past few weeks and only gotten through once.
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Why am I NOT surprised to see that House Republicans are pushing ahead with their budget plan to cut TRILLIONS from the budget at the expense of American people? CUT Medicaid, CUT food programs for our seniors and children.
They’re just looking out for their billionaire buddies.
They’re just looking out for their billionaire buddies.
February 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Why am I NOT surprised to see that House Republicans are pushing ahead with their budget plan to cut TRILLIONS from the budget at the expense of American people? CUT Medicaid, CUT food programs for our seniors and children.
They’re just looking out for their billionaire buddies.
They’re just looking out for their billionaire buddies.
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So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.
February 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.
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Think of all the brilliant, talented, smart people with federal government experience who are now looking for work. Who's recruiting these people to run for office??? Please tell me someone is?
February 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Think of all the brilliant, talented, smart people with federal government experience who are now looking for work. Who's recruiting these people to run for office??? Please tell me someone is?