Lise Saffran
@lisesaffran.bsky.social
Teach public health storytelling, essayist, novelist, health humanities scholar.
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This is an excellent piece with a historical perspective on the dangers of the catastrophic attacks on public health in the U.S.
LIFE AND DEATH BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH
Emily K. Abel
andreasankar1.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is an excellent piece with a historical perspective on the dangers of the catastrophic attacks on public health in the U.S.
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In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Little timeline cleanse: New Orleans ❤️
October 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Little timeline cleanse: New Orleans ❤️
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They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started.
The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically.
AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created.
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The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically.
AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created.
🧵
Mutual AID 101 - Allied Media Projects
On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizer Mariame Kaba discussed a response to COVID-19 based in community building and resource sharing —…Read more
alliedmedia.org
October 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started.
The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically.
AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created.
🧵
The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically.
AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created.
🧵
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🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.?
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951
March 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.?
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951
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We go on.
We do not turn back.
The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake,
into a glance cast across the room,
a finger raised to the lips.
Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs.
‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
We do not turn back.
The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake,
into a glance cast across the room,
a finger raised to the lips.
Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs.
‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Then the Fog’
www.lrb.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We go on.
We do not turn back.
The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake,
into a glance cast across the room,
a finger raised to the lips.
Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs.
‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
We do not turn back.
The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake,
into a glance cast across the room,
a finger raised to the lips.
Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs.
‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Yes.
"We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."
"We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Yes.
"We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."
"We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."
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But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.
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What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.
June 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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There are five categories of climate denial:
1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late
They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late
They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
April 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There are five categories of climate denial:
1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late
They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late
They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.
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One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
Marin civic center.
April 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Marin civic center.
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The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
SpaceX gets up to $5.9 billion in new DOD launch contracts...more than it's competitors, United Launch alliance and Blue Origin.
April 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.
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I have Sen. Booker's live speech going on in the background here, and I gotta say, 13 hours in, it's really good. He's mad. Good.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I have Sen. Booker's live speech going on in the background here, and I gotta say, 13 hours in, it's really good. He's mad. Good.
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
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It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
March 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.
They know exactly what is going on.
Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
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if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
if you as an American Jew do not want to be used as the excuse for Trump's destruction of civil liberties and basic democratic protections, the time to speak out is right now
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Special Vermont Resistance edition
Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.
billmckibben.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Conquest: Trump
War: Hegseth
Famine: Musk
Death: RFK
War: Hegseth
Famine: Musk
Death: RFK
Y'all really voted for the dumbest Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Conquest: Trump
War: Hegseth
Famine: Musk
Death: RFK
War: Hegseth
Famine: Musk
Death: RFK