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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Hantavirus news/reactions (e.g., "people stressing" claims) offer informative insight into public reaction to inf. disease news/risk--i.e. how the public constructs risk levels & what contributes to such constructions, including mis/disinfo & legit sci comm types (chicken & egg dimensions) 1/
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Bi-partisan group of lawmakers ask Secretary Rubio to release funding to GAVI, seeking to save children's lives by getting them vaccines. Secretary Kennedy halted the funds, putting children at risk of death and harm from preventable diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intellige...
washingtonpost.com
Vaccine funding fight heats up
A dispute between Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Senate appropriators is preventing global vaccine funds that Congress approved from being distributed.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Too young for MMR, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks: reminder: the risks for young babies are higher than older children. They are very vulnerable when anti-vaccine movements bring back disease. @lauraungar.bsky.social and Devi Shastri @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...
apnews.com
Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks
Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades.
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 06/04/2026
A petition is circulating asking UCSF leadership to not allow Vinay Prasad to return to a position at their institution now that his FDA job is ending. I'm not an author, but the petition nicely details a number of concerning issues and reasons for such an action. 🛟🧪🧭😷📈
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OPEN PETITION TO UCSF LEADERSHIP
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
“U.S. infants under 6 months old have COVID hospitalization rates as high as those in people who are 65 to 74 years old” No covid shot exists for these young children but 👇
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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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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
“Risk reduction on par with quitting smoking” www.cidrap.umn.edu/varicella/sh...
cidrap.umn.edu
Shingles vaccine tied to half the risk of cardiac events in older adults with heart disease
The risk reductions were on par with what would be expected from quitting smoking.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is absolutely horrifying. Six people have died in ICE detention centers in Texas in just six weeks — in overcrowded, understaffed facilities where abuse has been reported. These are human beings. This is a moral failure. And it’s happening in our state. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/19/i...
texastribune.org
What you need to know about Texas ICE detention deaths
Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths occurred in Texas.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
sooooooo Mercury in vaccines = 🤬 Mercury everywhere else = 😀👍???? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants
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kyleberkopes.bsky.social @kyleberkopes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The FDA has reversed course and will now review Moderna’s new flu vaccine. Last week, professional agitator Vinay Prasad overrode FDA scientists and sent a letter saying that the FDA would not review it.
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FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine
The FDA reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Is it too much to ask that large outlets have a single fucking clue about the people they platform and their weirdo positions? Honestly. Read more: www.importantcontext.news/p/jon-stewar...
importantcontext.news
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Public Health Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
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epp-97.bsky.social @epp-97.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Have you asked the businesses or event organizers why? Could provide some info/reason as to why they’re doing so
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Groups like the Brownstone Institute have been pushing to get mRNA technology banned. The FDA commissioner is an ally of Brownstone. The director of CBER is an ally of Brownstone. The director of CDER is an ally of Brownstone. For those keeping tabs.
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UAW @uaw.org · 10/02/2026
The freedom to form a union is essential to a democratic society.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Still true- though there should be much more overlap
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/01/2026
Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
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epp-97.bsky.social @epp-97.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
❤️ MN
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This is shameful. The man spent years working to undermine faith in public health, amplified by right-wing think tanks backed by big money to oppose anything big business doesn’t like. His contribution to our discourse was a declaration that we should let people get mass infected for herd immunity.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“There’s a baby in the car,” Barry told the agents. “There’s a baby.” ICE smashed their car window and left shards of glass all over the car seat holding a one month old infant. Why? To grab an immigrant with no criminal record as part of operation “Catch of the Day”
pressherald.com
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
You want to be a secret police but in this country you have no right to be secret about what you’re doing. And so we will continue to watch every step you take in our city, tens of thousands of us, because you have proven beyond all doubt that you cannot be trusted to operate unseen.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
startribune.com
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 23/01/2026
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 22/01/2026
Granted, my Minnesota cred is a bit rusty these days, but where the hell is this cadre of paid actors that can drive on snow and know the proper use of “Ope! Let me just scooch by you there…” supposed to be coming from?
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Adam Gray, who won a Trump +5 district by 0.1%, told me he's undecided on the DHS funding bill. "Very concerned about the oversight stuff, though, yeah. I mean, this last few months, it seems almost impossible to get any just direct answers out of the agencies." #CA13
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
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epp-97.bsky.social @epp-97.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I’d give them an F 😝
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Europeans probably are not aware that we had a few massive #NoKings protests last year. People are circulating petitions. Scientists write opinion pieces to reach public. Medical organizations are speaking out. But our elected representatives have to act. And that's why 2026 midterms are pivotal.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.” Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.
importantcontext.news
Jon Stewart Praises Attorney Behind Years of Anti-Vaccine and Anti-Lockdown Lawfare
“You’re a civil rights attorney who has been canceled by both the right and the left, which means you must be doing something right.”
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“The entire operation is becoming slower and more resource-intensive. There is good reason to believe that more immigrants are with their families tonight because of ICE Watch.”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This must be the “freedom” and “small government” the GOP talk about: Unaccountable federal agents terrorizing neighborhoods and attacking cars full of children as they try to escape.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"As US officials move to restrict vaccines, including the shots to prevent ...(RSV), more evidence is emerging...the jabs reduce hospitalizations." Nobody quite understands why HHS thinks more kids hospitalized makes them healthier. via @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Evidence shows benefit of RSV vaccines as Trump officials push restrictions
Shots to prevent respiratory syncytial virus recommended only for high-risk babies even as experts hail jabs’ success
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/01/2026
FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Don’t let them convince you that you don’t have a right to protest. Don’t let them say that showing up for your fellow human being doesn’t matter. Don’t let them scare you into silence. Documenting ICE atrocities saves lives. It’s our best chance to hold them accountable.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is a very handy article.
thenation.com
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The hypocrisy is staggering.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Tina Smith: "I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable."
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I gave out 5 flu shots in clinic today. I think some people are finally understanding how bad the season is. The fact that many people they know are sick or have been sick brings the realization closer home.
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Can we check her pulse?” “No! Back up! Now!” “I’m a physician.” “I don’t care.”
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Many doctors rely on an automated system that flags when a patient is due for a vaccine based on the CDC recommendations. The system does not flag vaccines that fall into the shared decision-making category meaning a child may miss a life-saving vaccine. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...
nbcnews.com
How the CDC's vaccine guidance changes could affect your next pediatrician visit
The CDC on Monday dramatically reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for all children. Here’s what parents should know.
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"These facts as alleged are sufficient to plausibly suggest the committee is neither fairly balanced nor free of inappropriate influence," www.reuters.com/world/medica...
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Medical groups' challenge to Kennedy-backed vaccine policies can proceed, US judge rules
Several major medical organizations can move forward with their lawsuit challenging policies adopted under U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy that they say will lower vaccination rates, a federal...
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