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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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cabaker2.bsky.social @cabaker2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is just what the fascists ordered:“Abortion surveillance is a critical component of what the CDC is currently doing.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rest assured, the new CDC director thinks ‘abortion surveillance’ is essential | Arwa Mahdawi
An exchange between Dr Erica Schwartz and Senator Josh Hawley during her confirmation hearing is alarming
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A new policy from the National Abortion Federation calls on allies to support abortion access throughout pregnancy, and reject viability limits and arbitrary gestation-based abortion bans. "People deserve abortion access throughout pregnancy, without government interference or fear of punishment.”
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On Fourth Anniversary of Dobbs, the National Abortion Federation Releases First Policy Position on Viability Limits Since the Overturning of Roe - National Abortion Federation
On the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) released its first policy position since Roe v. Wade w...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📌We are but one serious virus away from a catastrophe, and not near enough is being made about the fact that a former heroin addict and anti-vaxxer, who has ZERO training in medicine, academia, or scientific research would be leading the response. IT IS ABSURD.
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 12/05/2026
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #publichealth #Vaccinesmatter The Fight for a 💉 Since 2023, Moderna & Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for #hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works
Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn't likely coming any time soon.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On this day 70 years ago-May 1, 1956-the polio vaccine was first made widely available to the public. The vaccine’s developer, Dr. Jonas Salk, did not patent the vaccine so that it would remain available to as many people as possible in the US and internationally. Image: Harvey Georges/AP.
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ComicSansPants @nadaclu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Attn white candidates. We're listening to what you say about the Supreme Court rulings and women and immigrants and if you can't have a strong bold answer, we're moving on. --Your fellow white person. Equal rights means for equal for everyone! This rest of your message is just the side dish.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Trump’s elimination of the Title X Family Planning Program as we know it is not an isolated policy shift, but part of a broader effort to dismantle reproductive healthcare while redirecting public resources toward ideological programs and priorities. msmagazine.com/2026/04/30/t...
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Trump’s Budget Plunders Birth Control and Reproductive Health Programs—With Open Derision for Americans Who Need Them
The real-world impact of President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget's elimination of Title X funding for Planned Parenthood and birth control.
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Delay for Hep B Shots Could Result in Hundreds of Infant Infections — Studies truthout.org/articles/del...
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CDC-Backed Delay for Hep B Shots Could Result in Hundreds of Infant Infections, Studies Find
The CDC’s most recent vaccine recommendations are not based on science, critics say.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 27/03/2026
Wow, turns out vaccines during pregnancy are... safe and effective, even protecting babies! Incredible! Truly shocking! It's almost like science works?!💉🛡️👶 This admin keeps peddling COVID-19 antivax nonsense, but science prevails.💪 Science: 2,978,547 🧠🪱: -785
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Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Nearly $1.3 billion in local, state or federal government grants were awarded to 1,259 crisis pregnancy centers in total between 2019 and 2024 (in the US). These centers are doing real harm to pregnant people, as this report documents.
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Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed.
Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could ha...
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Boneafide🇮🇱 @bone00afide.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Imagine a president appointing an Attorney General who never completed their training, never took the bar, and wasn’t a practicing attorney. That would be absurd. Also, that’s what he’s doing with the nation’s top doctor.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Israel has made it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land in the occupied West Bank. That appears to flout agreements that Israel signed under the Oslo peace process as well as Trump's stated opposition to creeping annexation. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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Israel Gives Itself More Control Over Occupied West Bank
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Let me be very clear. It is not enough that RFK Jr. was forced to admit today that no causal relationship between Tylenol and autism has been shown. We know that while disinformation spreads like wildfire on social media, corrections most often die on the vine.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Idk how you can see this massive body of evidence and not come to the conclusion that the US government is trying to kill women and children by blocking these vaccines
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cabaker2.bsky.social @cabaker2.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@robbonta.bsky.social hoping you will support human rights.
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ACOG @acog.org · 05/09/2025
Acetaminophen remains a safe pain relief option during pregnancy. Despite recent unfounded claims, there’s no clear evidence linking prudent use to fetal development issues. ACOG's guidance remains. When needed in pregnancy, acetaminophen should be used in moderation, after consulting a doctor.
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ACOG @acog.org · 22/09/2025
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. bit.ly/47Wxc59
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Nurse Teri 🇺🇦🇬🇱 👩🏽‍⚕️ 👊🏼 🐸 @nurseteria.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Sen. Paul misleads the public about HEPATITIS B vaccine. A baby can become infected with Hepatitis B during birth if the mother is infected and proper post-exposure prophylaxis is not administered within 12 HOURS OF BIRTH #VaccinesSaveLives #HELPHearing #BelieveScience @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Republican opinion or polling doesn't dictate science. The MSM must stop treating them like they do. Fire RFK jr. Now.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
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Sparkling Wizzle @liberalbadger97.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Well that’s what happens when you stop funding women’s care. Not to mention strip them of their rights. www.cbsnews.com/news/mississ...
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Mississippi declares public health emergency over rising infant deaths. Here's what to know
Mississippi's infant mortality rate nearly double the most recent national average of 5.6 deaths per 1,000, according to the state Department of Health.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 14/08/2025
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Childhood vaccines create adults. Period. Breaking news: The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is reviving a long-defunct task force aimed at improving the safety of childhood vaccines, fulfilling a demand of anti-vaccine activists.
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HHS revives child vaccine safety panel sought by anti-vaccine activists
Anti-vaccine activists funded a May lawsuit to reconvene the defunct Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines and scrutinize the childhood immunization schedule.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation, and it's man-made, and that's very clear" www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Gaza facing man-made 'mass starvation', says WHO's Tedros
Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation caused by a blockade on aid into the Palestinian enclave, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
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cabaker2.bsky.social @cabaker2.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
If you’ve ever been given a free or low-cost test for lung, breast, colon or cervical cancer which caught a tumor, it’s likely due to a panel of 16 doctors and public health experts who reviewed the evidence and determined that a screening could save your life. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Kennedy's move to cancel preventive health panel meeting raises alarm
Task force members fear the health secretary may be gearing up to fire the panel members and install new ones, as he did with a separate vaccine advisory committee.
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cabaker2.bsky.social @cabaker2.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Talking about abortion without apology
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Fascism. Call it what it is.
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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 03/07/2025
ICE must be abolished
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Milk Burger @milkpork.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Make no mistake: Alligator Alcatraz IS a concentration camp, and they absolutely ARE planning genocide and ‘ethnic cleansing.’ As a white person, i don’t know what I can do to help, but if all I have is my voice, I will make sure it’s heard.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
⭕️Israeli settlers are burning down the Christian town of Taybeh in the West Bank The village is known for its uniquely all-Christian population. Cars, lands and home all attacked in a series of violent pogroms aimed at uprooting Palestinian communities. Mint Press News
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Vaccines only protect kids when they're given correctly and on time. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked panel meddling with the childhood immunization schedule isn’t just irresponsible; it’s dangerous.
washingtonpost.com
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule
The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.
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Tina MF @tmfab.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Some vaccines may reduce the risk of dementia through a double effect in which the jabs help protect the brain through their added “adjuvant” chemicals as well as by suppressing viruses, according to a study by Oxford university.
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Vaccines may offer double protection against dementia, study suggests
Oxford research shows adjuvant chemicals included in vaccinations may enhance their antiviral effect
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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Women prosecuted for miscarriages at record levels since Roe overturned | Arizona Mirror flip.it/C892Bf
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Women prosecuted for miscarriages at record levels since Roe overturned | Arizona Mirror
Pregnancy criminalization post-Dobbs shows record miscarriage prosecutions as women face charges despite legal abortion access
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CaptChesapeake @chesbaycapt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
#News #GreatNeighbors
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The Department of Homeland Security is lying. @padilla.senate.gov identified himself. Urging everyone to go out and righteously and peacefully exercise your freedom of speech and assembly. That’s how we take back our country.
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 09/06/2025
RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.
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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#Longcovid has now surpassed Asthma as a leading cause of illness in the US. Over 6 million now impacted. Between 10-20% of children have been harmed by #COVID reinfections and still there is no action from governments. When will children’s health come first?? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens
This JAMA Pediatrics Patient Page describes the symptoms of long COVID in children.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign. She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.buffalo.edu/news/release... We don’t see these sort of studies hitting the headlines, we see many alarmist stories instead. Nothing on the blood clot risks caused by #COVID itself. The risks from Covid are an order of magnitude higher.
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Big data study refutes anti-vax blood clot claims about COVID-19 vaccines
A study led by University at Buffalo researchers has confirmed that contrary to claims by anti-vaccine proponents, COVID-19 vaccines pose only trivial risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood cl...
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