Ethan Hume
@keenwah.bsky.social
Health policy @ UW. Interested in rural health & climate change. Tex’s human 🐕
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"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
truthout.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."
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November 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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This is fascism.
October 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is fascism.
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“In this instance, the only elected official guilty of calling for political violence was Gillette” - @newrepublic.com.
It is always the Right doing this shit.
It is always the Right doing this shit.
GOP Official Calls for Democratic Congresswoman to Be Executed
As the nation talks about the rise of political violence, a Republican official blatantly called for Representative Pramila Jayapal to be hanged.
newrepublic.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“In this instance, the only elected official guilty of calling for political violence was Gillette” - @newrepublic.com.
It is always the Right doing this shit.
It is always the Right doing this shit.
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"I look at my children and I say, 'I don't know if I'm going to come back. And I always tell them that I love them very much." - "Ana", farm worker & single mother of 3.
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Fear of deportation grips undocumented women on California's farms | Context by TRF
Women who are undocumented farm workers in California fear for their families amid the government's immigration crackdown
www.context.news
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"I look at my children and I say, 'I don't know if I'm going to come back. And I always tell them that I love them very much." - "Ana", farm worker & single mother of 3.
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www.context.news/socioeconomi...
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NO TRUST IN ACIP!
Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.
Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
NO TRUST IN ACIP!
Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.
Well, the absolutely incomprehensible vote at the end of the ACIP meeting has left everyone confused. MMRV resolution passed, so it’s off the schedule for younger children and CMS won’t cover it.
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Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
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Apparently being in the middle of fighting a wildfire is no protection from border patrol
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Apparently being in the middle of fighting a wildfire is no protection from border patrol
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Pro-wildfire? Arresting firefighters while they are tackling live wildfires? Owning the libs by putting everyone at risk of burning is certainly a take.
August 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Pro-wildfire? Arresting firefighters while they are tackling live wildfires? Owning the libs by putting everyone at risk of burning is certainly a take.
ICE is now arresting and disappearing firefighters working the Bear Gulch Fire (currently the largest wildfire in Washington State), as part of their ongoing mission to “make our communities safer”. Fuck those bootlicking goons.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
www.seattletimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ICE is now arresting and disappearing firefighters working the Bear Gulch Fire (currently the largest wildfire in Washington State), as part of their ongoing mission to “make our communities safer”. Fuck those bootlicking goons.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Chat, wtf is a mitochondrial challenge?
WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
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August 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Chat, wtf is a mitochondrial challenge?
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“As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new parts of the country.”
Ticks are migrating, but scant surveillance may leave doctors in the dark on patient treatment
Health departments struggle to adequately survey for ticks to warn doctors about new species and the diseases they carry.
www.npr.org
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“As human-driven climate change makes winters shorter, ticks are spending less time hibernating and have more active months when they can hitch rides on animals and people. Sometimes the ticks carry themselves — and diseases — to new parts of the country.”
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seattlewashington
Seattle
"Off the shores of Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Washington, a father and son had an unforgettable encounter with T65A5, a Bigg’s transient orca right in the heart of the Salish Sea."
Seattle
"Off the shores of Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Washington, a father and son had an unforgettable encounter with T65A5, a Bigg’s transient orca right in the heart of the Salish Sea."
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
seattlewashington
Seattle
"Off the shores of Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Washington, a father and son had an unforgettable encounter with T65A5, a Bigg’s transient orca right in the heart of the Salish Sea."
Seattle
"Off the shores of Dune Peninsula in Tacoma, Washington, a father and son had an unforgettable encounter with T65A5, a Bigg’s transient orca right in the heart of the Salish Sea."
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A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the CDC’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
What We Know About the C.D.C. Shooting in Atlanta
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the CDC’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
I feel like we’ve seen this one before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Aga...
August 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I feel like we’ve seen this one before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Aga...
You’ve gotta be kidding me, be so flippin’ for real right now. What did I even buy all those swan-necked flasks for.
August 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
You’ve gotta be kidding me, be so flippin’ for real right now. What did I even buy all those swan-necked flasks for.
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The EPA plans to reverse the ban on forever chemicals in drinking water.
Now states are rushing to pass their own laws.
At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states.
Now states are rushing to pass their own laws.
At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states.
August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The EPA plans to reverse the ban on forever chemicals in drinking water.
Now states are rushing to pass their own laws.
At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states.
Now states are rushing to pass their own laws.
At least 250 bills to regulate the hazardous chemicals have been introduced this year in more than two dozen states.
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Many older homes near L.A. contain lead pipes or lead-based paint. When wildfire erupted in January, ash and dust carried the lead for miles, creating a health hazard even in homes that appeared relatively untouched.
Smoke plume from January wildfire near L.A. carried lead for miles » Yale Climate Connections
Hazardous lead levels – the product of incinerated paint and pipes – have been found far from the fire’s edge.
yaleclimateconnections.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Many older homes near L.A. contain lead pipes or lead-based paint. When wildfire erupted in January, ash and dust carried the lead for miles, creating a health hazard even in homes that appeared relatively untouched.
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“Every time you go to your doctor or get treated by a nurse, there’s a chorus of researchers, public health workers, policy experts, epidemiologists and advisory panels arrayed behind them, aided by laboratories, databases, websites… Our current government seems determined to wrench this away”
Opinion | What Happens When Doctors Can’t Trust the Government?
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“Every time you go to your doctor or get treated by a nurse, there’s a chorus of researchers, public health workers, policy experts, epidemiologists and advisory panels arrayed behind them, aided by laboratories, databases, websites… Our current government seems determined to wrench this away”
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Excellent piece.
“The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was an act of international sabotage. It reverberated around the globe. But for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, it landed, literally and emotionally, on their doorstep.” — Moana Maniapoto.
Rainbows and rangatiratanga | E-Tangata
“The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was an act of international sabotage. It reverberated around the globe. But for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, it landed, literally and emotionally, on their doorstep.” — Moa...
e-tangata.co.nz
July 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Excellent piece.
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Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.
July 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it will shut down its Office of Research and Development and eliminate thousands of agency jobs. According to the agency, this office has long served as the scientific backbone of its efforts to protect both public health and the environment.
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🚨 #HHS just issued a rule blocking undocumented immigrants from accessing any taxpayer-funded health services under PRWORA — including Medicaid, CHIP, and TANF.
Because the best way to protect public health… is to deny it to the most vulnerable.
🧵Let’s break it down.
Because the best way to protect public health… is to deny it to the most vulnerable.
🧵Let’s break it down.
July 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨 #HHS just issued a rule blocking undocumented immigrants from accessing any taxpayer-funded health services under PRWORA — including Medicaid, CHIP, and TANF.
Because the best way to protect public health… is to deny it to the most vulnerable.
🧵Let’s break it down.
Because the best way to protect public health… is to deny it to the most vulnerable.
🧵Let’s break it down.