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Dr. Sharon

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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The 2009 swine flu pandemic showed me how devastating and deadly #influenza can be. I still tell those stories today when I discuss arming our immune systems with updated flu shots. #vaccinessavelives
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/06/2025
UPDATED TODAY: If you're looking to get in touch with us about a specific issue related to the Trump administration, we've got a list of the federal agencies/topics our reporters are covering + their secure contact information 👇
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What ProPublica’s Reporters Are Covering During Donald Trump’s Second Presidency — and How to Contact Them
From Trump’s relationships with billionaires to immigration, here are some of the issues and topics our reporters are watching during his second presidency.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2025
NEW: The Trump administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens. Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak. We are on a path towards dictatorship.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Jace D. Flatt, PhD, MPH (They/He) @jaceflatt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is beautiful - as scientists are fired or lost their federal funding, Silenced Stories generates awareness and advocacy. #CantFireScience If you have a story, share it here: forms.gle/XnC9kyp9uTaZ... silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists @silencedscience.bsky.social
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
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Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker (Public)
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Coffeemancer Vanvidum @vanvidum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The lesson of today is: Never let impostor syndrome hold you back. There's almost no way you're actually less competent than some of the people in charge.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Mission Accomplished
The U.S. has the highest rate of firearm deaths, nearly five times that of the second-highest country, France.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 08/03/2025
Stand Up for Science Burlington, Vermont
I do my own research. Literally
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.  "Party of family values."
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
You have “good insurance” through your job? Well your pediatrician’s office could fold and the [oncologist, neonatologist, critical care, pediatric surgeon, pulmonologist, infectious diseases, nephrologist, etc] that your child needs may not be there anymore when half their payment base collapses.
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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Advocacy tip via AAP President Sue Kressly #AAPAdvocacy #AAPAdCon
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Dr. Sharon @drsharon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Kids are 22% of the US population but 100% of the future. - AAP President Sue Kressly #speakupforkids #AAPAdvocacy #AAPAdCon
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/02/2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.
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Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 14/02/2025
This should really be titled Recognizing Vaccine Preventable Diseases. I think the hardest part is going to be picking these out of the more common diseases we see. Fixed the title and the degrees! #pedsICU
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University of Minnesota Infectious Diseases @umn-idim.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, is growing, with 24 cases and at least 14 hospitalizations—mainly among children. Low vaccination rates are fueling the crisis. Outbreaks like this will become more common as vaccine misinformation spreads and laws weaken immunization requirements.
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Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties - KFF Health News
With hospitalizations and at least nine confirmed cases, health officials race to contain a growing outbreak in a community with low vaccination.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11/02/2025
I've met with many cabinet nominees across many admins, and my meeting with RFK Jr. was by far the most troubling. He rattled off debunked conspiracy theories & lied to my face—denying his own statements he'd made on record. We cannot confirm an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2025
this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Welcome to the Dark Ages.
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Dr. MikeMD @pediatricpulse.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Had our first flu death in a previously healthy child. About 24 hour period between feeling ill and death. Every year most of our PICU admissions with influenza are not vaccinated. Don't skip yours.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the US & affects many people at young ages. Cancer trials are often the best hope for survival for people who currently have cancer as well as those who will subsequently develop cancer It is critically important for these trials to continue
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Pretty slow start to #flu season this year so far. But #CDC reports there seems to be a slight uptick in activity among kids. They are the engines of flu transmission; where they lead, adults will follow. First pediatric flu death of the 2024-25 season has been reported. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
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