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Brigid

@beesaid.bsky.social
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Public health professional, doctoral candidate researching repro policy impacts on health systems. She/her Opinions expressed are my own.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential 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.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Greta 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."
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Our 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 👇
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The first concern with measles is, of course, the devastating health impact. But this article does a great job of explaining the economic costs.
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Measles 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.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/02/2026
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/2025...
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2025 measles resurgence carries estimated $244 million price tag
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands | Sierra Club
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This Monument Is the Latest Casualty in Trump’s War on Public Lands
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument could be opened up to commercial fishing
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
One 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.”
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
it’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
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/02/2026
I 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The 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
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Boulder Voter Rob @bouldervoter.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Universal healthcare is hard. Only 31 of the top 32 countries have managed it.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Remember 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.
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COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium
COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
BREAKING: 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.
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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.
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Don 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...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A 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 districts
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Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case
The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/02/2026
Rep. 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."
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026
In 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
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, 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.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The 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...
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/02/2026
Republicans' 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.
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Don Beyer Will Vote NO On Republicans' Voter Suppression Bill
YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/02/2026
Today 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
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir 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
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
How 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.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
BREAKING: 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.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Truly insane
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota 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.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Walz: 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
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The 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.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/01/2026
The Minneapolis protester fatally shot by a federal officer was 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti, his parents say.
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The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family 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.
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Aaron 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."
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I 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.com
Economic 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
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/01/2026
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ARE 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...
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’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…
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 08/01/2026
Do 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.
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Random Street Medic @randomstreetmedic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So 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)
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/01/2026
Michael 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."
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Trump flooded the streets with ICE agents. One just killed an unarmed woman.
Good cops have been shouting from the rooftops that this would happen.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Politicians & 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 him
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ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died
Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 07/01/2026
what in the actual fuck is going on
RFK's new food pyramid, which suggests you ought to eat more steak and eggs and milk than whole grains or nuts, to use just one example
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: 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.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Raju: 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.
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Brigid @beesaid.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Who wants to guess which states? 🙄 www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-man...
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HHS freezes $10B in funding for 5 states — 3 federal updates
HHS freezes 10B funding for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York, requiring fraud safeguards before payments resume.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
In 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.
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barefootwriter @bfwriter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Spotify 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?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/12/2025
To 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
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Jess 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...
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The 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."
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