@multipletuesdays.bsky.social
Overeducated indoor cat. Interests include tea, music, public health, international affairs, politics, and resisting the patriarchy.
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Here in this timeline we live in, I think about “binders full of women” at least weekly.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Here in this timeline we live in, I think about “binders full of women” at least weekly.
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This piece stays at the right level of zoomed out and has the right take home messages imo! bsky.app/profile/josh...
On the firing and (partial) unfiring of CDC experts by an administration that uses RIFs as political retribution with blatant disregard for agency missions. It is the kind of error that should have political consequences.
Unserious people cause real-world harm:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Unserious people cause real-world harm:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This piece stays at the right level of zoomed out and has the right take home messages imo! bsky.app/profile/josh...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Full frontal attack on public health
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Full frontal attack on public health
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IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
kffhealthnews.org
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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Trump said today that he heard rumors that people in Cuba are too poor to buy acetaminophen and autism doesn’t exist there. Both of these statements are incorrect.
Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.
Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.
September 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Trump said today that he heard rumors that people in Cuba are too poor to buy acetaminophen and autism doesn’t exist there. Both of these statements are incorrect.
Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.
Rumors is a great album by Fleetwood Mac but not a great basis for public health policy.
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Eight states and New York City officially announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative this week, while the West Coast Health Alliance released its first vaccination guidelines. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
States rally to offset fracturing of federal healthcare agencies: ‘Diseases don’t see state lines’
Changes to regulatory or information environments will help states decouple from federal health recommendations
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Eight states and New York City officially announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative this week, while the West Coast Health Alliance released its first vaccination guidelines. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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As the RFK antivax gang dismantles vaccine access, kids will suffer, along with their families
As will the child health care work force 👇🏾
As will the child health care work force 👇🏾
In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER.
And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin.
Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.
And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin.
Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.
September 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
As the RFK antivax gang dismantles vaccine access, kids will suffer, along with their families
As will the child health care work force 👇🏾
As will the child health care work force 👇🏾
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“There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.”
24 years ago today, I fell in love in NYC. In the shadow of Ground Zero & the horrors of that day.
We have been married for 22 years now. And we have two fabulous children.
I think of this whenever I worry about the darkness.
There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.
We have been married for 22 years now. And we have two fabulous children.
I think of this whenever I worry about the darkness.
There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“There can be beauty, even when the worst of humanity is on display.”
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If you need an ad-free mental distraction from , I have found the Fruit Merge game on the CBC Kids website very addictive and fun: www.cbc.ca/kids/games/p...
Play Fruit Merge | Games | CBC Kids
Use your mouse to drop and combine fruit, making even bigger pieces of fruit!
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If you need an ad-free mental distraction from , I have found the Fruit Merge game on the CBC Kids website very addictive and fun: www.cbc.ca/kids/games/p...
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I know this isn't the news right now. But I have some updated info on Covid vax availability.
Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions.
But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions.
But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
Can You Still Get the Covid Shot?
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I know this isn't the news right now. But I have some updated info on Covid vax availability.
Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions.
But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
Several states where CVS/Walgreens weren't offering them or required Rx 1.5 wks ago now have them without Rx because of state officials' actions.
But still 13 states where CVS and/or Walgreens require Rx.
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At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
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"In the context of the larger fight against cancer, the failure to pass the Give Kids a Chance Act is just one of many political setbacks." A failure, a disgrace, and an abdication of congressional responsibility.
Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.
Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.
www.thebulwark.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"In the context of the larger fight against cancer, the failure to pass the Give Kids a Chance Act is just one of many political setbacks." A failure, a disgrace, and an abdication of congressional responsibility.
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If you are wondering whether or not you can get a COVID vaccine, wonder no more…
🧪#MedSky
🧪#MedSky
September 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you are wondering whether or not you can get a COVID vaccine, wonder no more…
🧪#MedSky
🧪#MedSky
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Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.
September 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Aside from the incredibly flimsy evidence claiming a link between ASD and acetaminophen use in pregnancy, there is something remarkably cruel about effectively trying to restrict one of very few pain medications that are known to be safe in pregnancy.
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Don’t let them tell you he’s joking.
He’s putting armed troops in the streets.
Not a joke. Not a drill.
He’s putting armed troops in the streets.
Not a joke. Not a drill.
Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
August 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Don’t let them tell you he’s joking.
He’s putting armed troops in the streets.
Not a joke. Not a drill.
He’s putting armed troops in the streets.
Not a joke. Not a drill.
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A functional Congress that remembers its Article I duties would be amazing right now.
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A functional Congress that remembers its Article I duties would be amazing right now.
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"How did you go fascist?"
"Two ways: gradually, then suddenly"
"Two ways: gradually, then suddenly"
Ominous: Trump and Stephen Miller are very clearly working to acclimate Americans to the spectacle of US troops in US cities, to the idea of the military carrying out domestic enforcement on US citizens.
Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
Harrowing stuff from @vermontgmg.bsky.social in this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1995...
August 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"How did you go fascist?"
"Two ways: gradually, then suddenly"
"Two ways: gradually, then suddenly"
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and “People are dying from being pregnant.”
Read my story, about how abortion bans hurt obstetric care, at the gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
Read my story, about how abortion bans hurt obstetric care, at the gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
The States Where It’s Riskier to Have a Baby
In places with significant abortion restrictions, many pregnant women experience delays, confusion, and other substandard care.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
and “People are dying from being pregnant.”
Read my story, about how abortion bans hurt obstetric care, at the gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
Read my story, about how abortion bans hurt obstetric care, at the gift link below: www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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It’s not that they will take away your grants. It’s that they will always move the goalposts.
August 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
It’s not that they will take away your grants. It’s that they will always move the goalposts.
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too many tales like this one
too many insanely great ideas
too much accomplishment
too much promise
all of it suffocated by design
too many insanely great ideas
too much accomplishment
too much promise
all of it suffocated by design
I have
NIGMS R35, impact score 12
NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile
NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I)
and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3.
PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25."
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NIGMS R35, impact score 12
NIHGRI R21, 4th percentile
NHGRI R01, 7th percentile (co-I)
and it seems like none will be funded. 0/3.
PO (who has been very helpful) said "Unfortunately, I do not expect this application will be selected for funding in FY25."
😭
August 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
too many tales like this one
too many insanely great ideas
too much accomplishment
too much promise
all of it suffocated by design
too many insanely great ideas
too much accomplishment
too much promise
all of it suffocated by design