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Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I have a regular update for subscribers later tonight, but I also wanted to share that the HHS Tracker is updated through today. Thank you to everyone who has cited it. That tells me it's worth continuing.
infoepi.org/posts/2025/...
HHS Under RFK Jr.: Centralization, Corruption, and Censorship – InfoEpi Lab
From February to April 2025 (now through June 2025; now through August 10, 2025), a series of events unfolded at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that have fundamentally altered the nation’s public health infrastructure.
infoepi.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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In 2022, inspectors described a “cascade of failure” at one foreign factory.

The FDA barred it from shipping drugs to the U.S. — then excused more than 20 drugs from the ban, despite risks to consumers.
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
www.propublica.org
June 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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hey! Haymarket is making our book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement FREE in ebook form for the next 12 days!

hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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June 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.
Palestinian children face starvation under Israel’s total Gaza blockade
UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.
bit.ly
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated

Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts.

These cuts will impact Every Single American.

Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.
April 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Congratulations to Source Booksellers, well-deserved winners of @publisherswkly.bsky.social’s Bookstore of the Year!
PW Bookstore of the Year 2025: Source Booksellers
This year’s award goes to a beloved Detroit shop whose Octogenarian owner is considered bookselling royalty.
www.publishersweekly.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
February 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM