Reposted by BrigidAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years. 14864832580
Reposted by BrigidRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Greta Thunberg: "The President of the United States just said that a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again & no one is reacting. This speaks for itself: what the fuck is anyone even doing at this point? We have normalized genocide, total annihilation of entire people." 13539571644
Reposted by BrigidProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Our team at Duke has spent almost a decade studying the transition of middle income countries (MICs) out of aid Transition is of course the goal for all MICs—but we’ve studied what happens when aid donors cut aid suddenly without proper planning SUDDEN cuts cause disease resurgence & mass death 👇 08840
Reposted by BrigidElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact. But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.nbcnews.comMeasles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted.As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests. 923390
Reposted by BrigidAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/02/2026www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/2025...cidrap.umn.edu2025 measles resurgence carries estimated $244 million price tag 16334
Reposted by BrigidDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands | Sierra Clubsierraclub.orgThis Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public LandsNortheast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing 04327
Reposted by BrigidTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/02/2026One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.” 121795571
Reposted by BrigidRuth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 28/02/2026it’s also all related. the men who traffic children with impunity are the same ones who start wars, bomb schools, support genocide, ignore laws, shirk taxes, beat their wives and children, and steal every dollar they can from the people. it’s all an expression of the same belief: no one else matters 4557205
Reposted by BrigidTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/02/2026I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving. 2382323699
Reposted by BrigidRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The DoD now has more money than it knows what to do with. Imagine if we spent that money on healthcare or housing instead. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK 22841641457
Reposted by BrigidBoulder Voter Rob @bouldervoter.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Universal healthcare is hard. Only 31 of the top 32 countries have managed it. 528331
Reposted by BrigidElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.thelancet.comCOVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortiumCOVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities. 7129551238
Reposted by BrigidChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons. "It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.lawdork.comTrump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy. 10766312
Reposted by BrigidDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/02/2026"Hold on, we actually allow a failsafe" The failsafe: Having a birth certificate, ID, and being willing to sign an affidavit on penalty of perjury. This is what gendered administrative burdens look like. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl... 751544390
Reposted by BrigidPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districtscapitalbnews.orgBlack Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism CaseThe lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery. 2731231063
Reposted by BrigidAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/02/2026Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community." 365182274860
Reposted by BrigidMark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease 435124456140
Reposted by BrigidBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.pbs.orgWATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate changeThe Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv... 20992838111976
Reposted by BrigidCongressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/02/2026Republicans' so-called "SAVE America Act" would require every American citizen show a 1) Passport or 2) Government ID AND a birth certificate to vote. Millions of Americans don't have a passport or ready access to their birth certificate. This is a voter suppression bill. Plain and simple.youtube.comDon Beyer Will Vote NO On Republicans' Voter Suppression BillYouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer 511621
Reposted by BrigidAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/02/2026Today we remember Alice Ball, an African American chemist who developed the 1st effective treatment for leprosy prior to antibiotics. After Ball died at 24, a male colleague stole her research. Ball was not recognized until a historian found her original thesis. Feb 28 is Alice Augusta Ball Day 7663166
Reposted by BrigidOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269214043
Reposted by BrigidChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026How did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward. 780127565000
Reposted by BrigidMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care. 447295426392
Reposted by BrigidOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents. 15785581213737
Reposted by BrigidAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government 293170924986
Reposted by BrigidThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n... 332132155002
Reposted by BrigidMeta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔 313176046772
Reposted by BrigidKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is: 461272606390
Reposted by BrigidBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault. 30555981319370
Reposted by BrigidThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/01/2026The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.bit.lyThe man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family saysFamily members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city. 90926401
Reposted by BrigidAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here." 5483972912595
Reposted by BrigidNina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!theguardian.comEconomic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations 1530403
Reposted by BrigidNaomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...naomikritzer.comHow To Help if You are Outside MinnesotaI’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo… 1614591086
Reposted by BrigidLynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 08/01/2026Do not comply with illegal orders. You have a right to film police and federal agents on public property. You have a right to assemble on public property without permits (in most areas), but also fuck getting permits for the rest. Don't stop recording. Don't stop watching. 628187
Reposted by BrigidRandom Street Medic @randomstreetmedic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026So RFK and friends have basically reverted us back to the food pyramid, a thing we haven't used in 30 years because it wasn't backed by science. Also, based on their recommendations, I see a lot of gout and tyramine-driven disease (including hypertension) 1154
Reposted by BrigidAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/01/2026Michael Fanone, one of the heroes of January 6th, writing this morning on Minnesota: "The kind of senseless, tragic killing we’ve just witnessed in Minneapolis is a predictable outcome of the current drive to take over communities, assert government power, and intimidate locals into submission."newsletter.ofthebrave.orgTrump flooded the streets with ICE agents. One just killed an unarmed woman.Good cops have been shouting from the rooftops that this would happen. 13711
Reposted by BrigidRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Politicians & lobbying groups have been trying for years to prosecute the low-level dealers, plugs, and even just friends-who-use-together for homicide when someone dies from an overdose. ChatGPT coached a kid to take drugs with it for months then gave medical advice that was so wrong it killed himfuturism.comChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He DiedDetailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral. 4281109
Reposted by BrigidMolly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 07/01/2026what in the actual fuck is going on 5317015
Reposted by BrigidAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted. 7664073312380
Reposted by BrigidAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you. 278131253866
Brigid @beesaid.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Who wants to guess which states? 🙄 www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-man...beckershospitalreview.comHHS freezes $10B in funding for 5 states — 3 federal updatesHHS freezes 10B funding for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, requiring fraud safeguards before payments resume. 000
Reposted by BrigidMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness. 5442451389
Reposted by Brigidbarefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025I think tied up in this may also be an expectation of (let's call it) epistemological labor, in which women (or those in feminine-coded disciplines) are expected to cater to and make their work accessible and friendly to men. it's "you should smile more" but in academic writing. 193
Reposted by BrigidRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation? 605147874897
Reposted by BrigidQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/12/2025To recap this week: •Trump fires 8 immigration judges •DHS tweets "remigration now,"—an actual Nazi policy •DHS defies court order & deports a 19-year-old college student •Trump regime removes report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous women, calling it "DEI" This is an overt policy of white supremacy 6264117
Reposted by BrigidJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/12/2025"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...time.comThe Real Way Schools are Failing Boys“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls." 713421928