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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 01/06/2026

🧪 What do forced relocation, uranium mines, COVID, and a negotiator who made the case for Social Determinants of Health a century early have in common? Our first Today in Public Health History covers The Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, and its modern echoes.

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Bosque Redondo: The Long Walk as Public Health History

How Bosque Redondo, the US government's forced relocation of Diné people, became a textbook public health disaster, and what the 1868 treaty did and didn't fix.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride to everyone, but especially those who feel like they're alone, don't belong, or don't conform to what people might think of your orientation or gender. As a Masc Enby who's felt like a fake because I could never be androgynous enough: I see you. I appreciate you. I welcome you.

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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 01/06/2026

Pride is a celebration. Its roots are rebellion. This year we’re embracing anger as a catalyst for change. not something to suppress. 🏳️‍⚧️ share our hotline 🏳️‍⚧️ check on your trans loved ones 🏳️‍⚧️ speak up, stay loud We're going nowhere. translifeline.org/donate

Purple graphic featuring archival-style image of queer and trans protesters holding a sign reading “Stonewall Was Resistance.” Large text reads: “PRIDE IS AN UPRISING.” Smaller text says: “Trans people have always fought for our right to survive, exist, and care for each other.” Red flame graphics and hand illustrations frame the slide.

Black background graphic with turquoise and cream text reading: “TURN ANGER INTO ACTION.” Bullet points below read: “Donate to Trans Lifeline,” “Share our hotline,” “Check on your trans loved ones,” “Support local trans orgs,” and “Speak up when trans people are targeted.” Broken chain graphics and a large red flame frame the slide.

Purple fundraising graphic with large cream and turquoise text reading: “WE TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.” Smaller text says: “Trans Lifeline is community-funded. Help us sustain peer support, crisis care, and resources for trans people this Pride.” A donation banner at the bottom reads: “Donate today: translifeline.org/donate.” Butterfly and flame graphics appear throughout the design.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/02/2026

As we say goodnight, a reminder that from lifesaving research to community care, Black innovators have shaped public health at every turn. We honor their brilliance, resilience, and impact. Black history is American history. Just a few public health heroes below. Happy Black History Month! ❤️🖤💚

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Recognizing Black Public Health Leaders Through History | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Researchers, physicians, and activists who have inspired Bloomberg School faculty and shaped the field of public health

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 31/01/2026

Indeed! It's a shame that, much like any good advice, that's far too often blatantly ignored.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 31/01/2026

Ah, how could we have forgotten. I suppose that idea was still bacon.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 31/01/2026

As promised a few days ago, I'm excited to present our community response guide to chemical agents. www.broadlyepi.com/community-ex... We look at what the most common so-called "riot control" weapons are, how to identify them, as well as how to treat and mitigate exposure. 🧪 reskeets appreciated!

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Community Protection Guide: Chemical Agents & Community Response - Broadly Epi

Disclaimer: This guide is a public health resource designed for education and community preparedness. It does not constitute legal or medical advice. The information synthesized here draws from public...

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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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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 30/01/2026

So, what's everyone's bets on what the current administration will do to cover up this latest Epstein file release? A) US Stikes Iran B) We "somehow" get imported cases of Nipah Virus C) Insurrection Act is illegally used to invade Minnesota (more) and Oregon (more) D) Something astoundingly dumb

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There were years (many years) in which friends and family would accuse me of being too pessimistic, yes, there were years (many years) in which friends and family would accuse me of being too pessimistic, but those years are over, and now I miss them, oh, how I miss them.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 30/01/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 29 PinkNews: Despite strong lobbying efforts by anti-trans Sex Matters, human rights body Council of Europe votes 3-to-1 to ban ‘conversion therapy’ across its 26 member states. UK Labour MP Kate Osborn brought the motion & 10k ppl in UK wrote in support of it.

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Council of Europe votes to ban conversion therapy

The Council of Europe has voted to pass a resolution banning so-called 'conversion therapy' for all, including trans people.

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Bullying countries into complying with anti-rights and extremist ideology is despicable and unacceptable. The imperialist goals of this administration are on full display in this policy’s conditions to receive U.S. foreign assistance.” - Anu Kumar, Ipas President

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Expanded Global Gag Rule is a major blow to global health and human rights - Ipas

The Jan. 27 expansion of the Global Gag Rule is just the latest action by the current U.S. administration to decimate global health and human rights.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 29/01/2026

🧪 New CPH Focus: Confounding Variables & Effect Modification. Learn how to spot the difference, analyze data correctly, and avoid common exam traps, with clear examples and practice questions. 🛟 As always, a like and a share are greatly appreciated! 👉 buff.ly/EeqQTO1 #PublicHealth #CPH

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 29/01/2026

Open Street Maps might be seeing some trouble according to their LinkedIn, as further attacks on open data increase. OSM has been absolutely critical to public health and public service tools for years. #MapSky #geography

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from the OpenStreetMap account marked “URGENT.” The post asks for technology journalists to cover a story about new risks to open data. It explains that OpenStreetMap is experiencing unprecedented bot scraping activity: instead of a few IPs making very large numbers of requests, there are now hundreds of thousands of coordinated IP addresses each making a small number of requests, making blocking ineffective. The post quotes senior site reliability engineer Grant Slater, who says OSM is being hammered by scrapers using residential proxy or embedded SDK networks, creating real costs for the volunteer-run project. Hashtags include #opendata, #OpenStreetMap, #AI, #Bots, and #Abuse. The post ends by noting the irony that OSM data is free to use, yet these bot attacks pose an unnecessary risk to the entire project.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Before anti-vaxxers we had HIV denialists. It is wild how history repeats itself. Reading this piece is like traveling back in time. So many similarities with what we are witnessing right now with the anti science anti vaccine brigade. History repeats itself, we keep choosing not to learn from it.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 28/01/2026

🧪 Epi Explained: Herd Immunity 🛟 This week we're breaking down how herd immunity actually works, and why high vaccination coverage matters for protecting entire communities, including people who can’t be vaccinated. Quick, clear, and a little spicy at times. buff.ly/Hm86fgh #PublicHealth #IDSky

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/01/2026

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 28/01/2026

What's the difference between Swine Flu and Bird Flu? One requires Oinkment, the other requires Tweetment.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/01/2026

🚨 The WH is now using disasters to take away state’s rights. Read this thread while it is still allowed.

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I sent my friend an article about how the “US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office,” and my friend (who is one of those 10,000) replied that: “lost” is a funny way of spelling “were fired or driven out.”

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 28/01/2026

To quote many a social movement, "Silence is violence", and friends, they're trying to commit violence against you in ways that should have been left in the history books.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Infectious diseases do not magically disappear just because you stop tracking and reporting. This is dangerous. When diseases spread in silence, outbreaks go undetected for much longer and containment is more difficult. All of this means more avoidable deaths. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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CDC Stopped Updating Key Vaccine, Infectious Disease Databases in 2025

The inaction 'demonstrates a profound disregard for human life,' says IDSA leader

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 27/01/2026

May he rest, and his work continue on!

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There is a cost to science denial.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 27/01/2026

🧪 New CPH Focus: Methods to Reduce Bias in Epidemiology. Learn how randomization, blinding, and standardization strengthen study validity, all with clear examples and CPH-style practice questions 🛟 👉 buff.ly/frFViGN #PublicHealth #CPH #CertifiedInPublicHealth #Bias

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/01/2026

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.

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UK loses measles elimination status

Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 27/01/2026

American Life Insurance Companies have a fantastic ability to do a psy-op on ICE by simply not allowing a policy for anyone who works with ICE/DHS due to "extreme risk". I'd certainly think carefully about my actions if I knew my loved ones would be on their own if I bit the big one.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 27/01/2026

A useful infographic for protestors. Actually, with my background in CBRN/Public Health, would a community guide to identification and remediation of chemical agents be of interest?

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 26/01/2026

Honestly a secret service contingent vs a gaggle of ICE idiots wouldn't be the match-up I'd expect, but I can't say I wouldn't be invested in the idea.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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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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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 25/01/2026

A lot of good Mutual Aid work often looks similar to a lot of Public Health work: Often it's quiet, mundane, but absolutely foundational to success. When you start hearing about everything going on (and you aren't already directly involved), that's when things are getting very messy.

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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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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

William Foege has died. He was a central architect of smallpox eradication, pioneering surveillance-driven ring vaccination when vaccine supply was limited. That strategy helped eliminate the deadliest human pathogen we’ve ever known. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

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William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

"look to the helpers" THEY'RE MURDERING THE HELPERS

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

January 24, 2026 at 18:42
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an
ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the 'hero' term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 24/01/2026

Fun fact, back during the days of bigger BLM marches, this and self-quarantine prevented what would have been huge COVID outbreaks. Dr. Tran has it right. For both operational and health security, wear an n95 (or the closest you can get).

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 22/01/2026

🧪 New CPH Focus: Message Development & Dissemination. Learn how to craft clear health messages, choose the right channels, and reach diverse audiences, then practice what you've learned with some quiz questions! 🛟 👉 buff.ly/PghL9Ik #PublicHealth #CPH #ScienceCommunication

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 21/01/2026

🧪 New Epi Explained: Age Adjustment. A quick, practical breakdown of how age adjustment works, why it matters, and how it keeps population comparisons fair. It's great for folks just learning about public health measures! 🛟 buff.ly/ySCUJlG #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 20/01/2026

🧪 New CPH Focus: Audience Analysis & Segmentation. Learn how to break populations into meaningful groups, tailor messages, and design campaigns that actually work. Plus, as always, CPH-style practice questions to test your knowledge. 🛟 👉https://buff.ly/qMIAMIT #PublicHealth #CPH

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