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APHA @apha.org · 09/03/2026
Simple but targeted collective action & cross-sectoral partnerships can be effective strategies for reducing pollution, helping neighbors & protecting health. 📢🌎 At a recent event, climate & health experts shared real-life examples of communities standing up for their health. vist.ly/4ubrw
A person in a brown shirt stands at a podium speaking during the “Our Planet, Our Health” event in Arlington, Virginia, in March. A photo of a crowd of protestors in Thailand carrying signs is on a projector screen behind the person presenting. The words, "No mine" are visible on one of the signs.
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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 18/02/2026
After a long drawn out saga, a federal judge in Maryland blocked ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Let’s be clear: Due process & justice won today. While we celebrate this victory, we know that the fight continues. www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/u...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities, federal judge rules | CNN
Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot be re-detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, dealing the Trump administration another blow in its effort to keep him lock...
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Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH @jonathanpatz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
EPA rescinded the climate change Endangerment Finding an hour ago. Here's our response: theconversation.com/trump-says-c... @docsforclimate.bsky.social @csfh-lab.bsky.social @globalecoguy.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social
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Trump says climate change doesn’t endanger public health – evidence shows it does, from extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses
Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Erasing the federal endangerment finding increases the risk.
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨 New from me I speak w/ Mary C. Turner, a registered nurse & one of the presidents of @nationalnurses.bsky.social, the largest nurses union in the US, which has called for ICE to be abolished after Alex Pretti's killing Listen on any podcast player @therealnews.com therealnews.com/nurses-union...
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Largest nurses union calls to abolish ICE after Alex Pretti killing: 'They messed with the wrong profession'
“What Alex did that day was pure instinct, pure professional behavior,” NNU President Mary C. Turner tells us. “That’s just what you do when you're a nurse.“
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wrote myself a pep talk to get back to work tomorrow. It helped me. Hope it helps you.
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I don't know how to do this
But I'm going to keep doing it anyway.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The nurses are pissed
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
“we can’t campaign on ice executing citizens because then they’ll raise the salience of an issue voters are 60-40 to 70-30 against“
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/01/2026
I have never ever seen anything like this. I have seen communities organize around natural disasters in a somewhat similar way but obv that wasn’t 80% SECRET.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...
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Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids
ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it. Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/01/2026
One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The 2023 global heatwave led to 178,000 deaths. More than half (54%) of those deaths were attributable to human-induced climate change. The heat may not get you first, but the heat is killing huge numbers of our brothers & sisters. @jeffgoodell.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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Global excess deaths associated with heatwaves in 2023 and the contribution of human-induced climate change
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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
So: 1) the courts do not operate in a vacuum and public opinion on this mattered; 2) his acts helped shape public opinion, which you said was a bad idea because it made immigration too salient; and 3) his visit probably helped ensure Kilmar was kept alive
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/12/2025
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/11/2025
"There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them" From @juliettekayyem.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 26/11/2025
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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APHA @apha.org · 21/11/2025
APHA and other leading medical, health and patient advocacy groups issued a joint statement on the alarming changes made to the CDC autism website. #SpeakForHealth vist.ly/4fexk
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Collin Pearsall @cpearsall242.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
During #COP30 it is important to remember that climate policy is health policy, and that climate action is needed to improve health. Some background information in a new commentary by me, @jonathanpatz.bsky.social, @howardfrumkin.bsky.social, and Vijay Limaye. theconversation.com/want-to-make...
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Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change
From extreme heat to mosquito-borne illnesses, climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease. Health scientists explain what individuals and governments can do about it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/11/2025
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
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What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
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Climate for Health @climate4health.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Peek @ecoamerica.bsky.social’s Marryam and Amanda at #APHA2025!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-... (I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )
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I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE.
How am I supposed to adequately care for patients who are being constantly terrorized by immigration police?
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 05/11/2025
this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."
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singeli @singeli.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A beautiful story about a beautiful man in an occupied neighborhood in my occupied city. We are all worse off for this loss, and I am so grateful to local independent journalists for calling attention to it.
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APHA @apha.org · 04/11/2025
Climate-driven extreme weather has increased in frequency & ferocity in recent years. The impact on human health is growing. Jamaica’s recent hurricane shows the urgency of preparing www.apha.org/publications... #APHA2025
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Cities, nations need a plan for extreme weather
Among 100 cities worldwide of 1 million or more people, 77 had no heat-health action plan.
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Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments @envirn.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Nurses are driving climate action in health care. 🌍 Is your school part of the movement? Join the School of Nursing Commitment from the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE). Prepare future nurses to protect health in a changing climate. 👉 zurl.co/MyY4t @enviRN
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI
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Climate for Health @climate4health.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Join the party for a festive evening full of community building, food, dancing, art and inspiration to celebrate #CEHday & honor the 2025 Awardees in style with @cehnetwork.bsky.social! RSVP: bit.ly/CEHNawards25
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Twentieth Annual Awards Celebration
Celebrate the 2025 Child Health Advocate and NOW Youth Leadership Awardees in Style!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)
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APHA @apha.org · 17/09/2025
You're making a difference on climate change and health. Why not get recognized for it? Apply for the Excellence in Climate Leadership Awards, sponsored by APHA's Center for Climate, Health and Equity. bit.ly/469w391 #ClimateChangesHealth
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
⬇️ These new resources offer strategies to build public understanding of how climate change affects early childhood development. They highlight key mindsets, communication challenges, and emerging recommendations to shape a more informed conversation.
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Connecting Early Childhood Development to Climate Change
Connecting Early Childhood Development to Climate Change
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Shweta Narayan @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ever wondered how deeply fossil fuels harm our health and drive the climate crisis? Join climate leaders, mayors, health professionals, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change to uncover the full story. 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/C2GLaunch @courtghoward.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social
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APHA @apha.org · 10/09/2025
New on Public Health Newswire: EPA proposal to roll back air pollution regulations ignores science, threatens lives: publichealthnewswire.org?p=epa-propos...
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Groundbreaking climate study ties individual fossil fuel companies to extreme heat events, a potential game-changer for climate lawsuits. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...
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Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications | CNN
For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ex...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Burning fossil fuels & climate change harms human health in so many ways. This one is particularly heartbreaking in that wildfire fighters put their lives on the line for us and are paying such a dear price. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @cuclimatehealth.bsky.social
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
3 former Surgeon Generals issue a warning: "The CDC is more than just an agency. It is the cornerstone of public health... The recent turbulence at the CDC threatens to undermine this legacy, and we feel this is not just a bureaucratic or political issue. It’s truly a matter of life and death."
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Surgeons general warning: CDC saves lives. It's up to us to save public health. | Opinion
As surgeons general, we took an oath to protect Americans. It includes speaking up when public health is in danger. We see that danger now at the CDC.
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I'm delighted to share our recently published research study on the potential to better integrate health policy & climate policy in the US federal government--for the benefit of all Americans, now and in the future. @finejulia6.bsky.social @joshettinger.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Advancing and integrating climate and health policy in the United States: Insights from national policy stakeholders
Many experts have called for integrating climate policy with health policy. We investigated U.S. federal policy stakeholders’ views on these goals and…
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 04/09/2025
Frankly, I have seen enough. Secretary Kennedy should be fired immediately. He's destroying the agency responsible for keeping diseases (like measles and Ebola) under control. This is deadly serious.
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