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US Steel plant explosion in Pennsylvania kills 1, injures 10
US Steel plant explosion in Pennsylvania kills 1, injures 10
A search and rescue operation is underway for another person who is unaccounted for, while the cause of the explosion is unknown.
www.bbc.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
AOC speaking out about abuse experienced from a fellow congressman Ted Yoho: youtu.be/Q3Xjv03Qrtc?...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Full Response to Rep. Ted Yoho | NowThis
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
youtu.be
July 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
1/3 For decades, patients & providers trusted CDC’s vaccine guidance.
Now, with fraudsters & charlatans stacking ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices):
❓Who do we trust ❓
Now, with fraudsters & charlatans stacking ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices):
❓Who do we trust ❓
US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis’
As official health guidance changes, scientific groups are stepping in with evidence-based recommendations
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Need some re-inspiration this weekend?
⬇️ 3 🔥 #PublicHealth podcast episodes.
1. Radiolab @radiolab.bsky.social: Patient Zero
2. This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky.bsky.social: Ebola: The New Kid on the Block
3. This American Life @thisamericanlife.org: Shots in the Dark
Others to rec?
⬇️ 3 🔥 #PublicHealth podcast episodes.
1. Radiolab @radiolab.bsky.social: Patient Zero
2. This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky.bsky.social: Ebola: The New Kid on the Block
3. This American Life @thisamericanlife.org: Shots in the Dark
Others to rec?
July 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
May 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is such an important thread about the potential threat to Medicaid in the GOP budget. To be clear, cutting Medicaid ends with a lot of people losing their healthcare. And a lot of people dying. So many people depend on Medicaid paying for their Medicare premium through the state buy-in program
In the middle of the night, House Republicans released the text of Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill." Despite what they've said for months, it's now confirmed:
They're ripping health care away from millions of Americans to give their billionaire donors another tax cut.🧵
They're ripping health care away from millions of Americans to give their billionaire donors another tax cut.🧵
May 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Republicans are going to talk a lot in the coming days about targeting "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicaid. But you can't find $715 billion in waste in the program – it simply isn't possible.
What they're really doing is zeroing in on working families. Here's three examples:
What they're really doing is zeroing in on working families. Here's three examples:
May 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Trump's bill will eliminate health coverage for at least 13.7 MILLION people.
They're doing this by slashing $715 BILLION from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, even though they pledged not to cut Americans' health care.
They're doing this by slashing $715 BILLION from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, even though they pledged not to cut Americans' health care.
May 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“We are now all at home, being paid to stay home while they announce, less than 24 hours later, our jobs,” said one APHIS employee who accepted deferred resignation and now sees their position on the list of openings. “What logic metric is being used to justify this?”
@altusda.altgov.info
@altusda.altgov.info
After paying people to leave, one federal agency is scrambling to fill positions
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sen. Johnson at a later mass meeting of citizens in Nashville:
"Do not talk about Republicans now: do not talk about Democrats now; do not talk about Whigs or Americans now; talk about your country, and the Constitution, and the Union.
"Do not talk about Republicans now: do not talk about Democrats now; do not talk about Whigs or Americans now; talk about your country, and the Constitution, and the Union.
May 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Want to know what a government truly cares about? Study its budget.
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
Want to see how little Trump & co. care about
Americans’ health? Read this.
The author lays out exactly what OMB is proposing for public health—and why it’s dangerously wrong.
Great talking points. Call your reps 5calls.org
The Cruelty of the OMB Budget Proposal: An Advocacy Guide to Public Health
True priorities are revealed in a budget.
open.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump wants to sell off land that all Americans own. It should make you furious. - Vox
May 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Trump wants to sell off land that all Americans own. It should make you furious. - Vox
@npr.org ain’t one to mess with.
NPR goes in on Trump’s EO defunding public media: “We will challenge this Executive Order using all means available.”
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g...
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH)
Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.
Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@altdhs.altgov.info well... I'm sure USCG will be following suit. @altcoast.altgov.info
May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
DHS is halting policies that allowed some employees to work flexible arrangements, giving workers less than a day’s notice to start a five-day, in-person schedule
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Homeland Agency Ends Flexible Work Plans With One-Day Notice (1)
The move is the administration’s latest effort to end flexible and remote work arrangements that some officials have criticized as inefficient.
news.bgov.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
NIH autism study will pull from private medical records - NPR
April 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
NIH autism study will pull from private medical records - NPR