Sign in

Felice Freyer

@felicejfreyer.bsky.social
1.2K followers 3.1K following 55 posts

Reporter (details: felicefreyer.com) • Journalism professor • Immediate past president, Association of Health Care Journalists • Will follow you back only if you include a bio

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Massie goes full beast mode today. Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.
470180045560
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
8043812253
Reposted by Felice Freyer
WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Listen. No other words needed. #ChoosePeaceNotChaos
43521
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
m.youtube.com
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
97128476962
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
21325169216847
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
politico.com
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
711788756
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
10529101105
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17/11/2025
This relative advantage means that, even if they are relying on government programs like welfare or Medicaid, Trump supporters can see themselves as the "deserving" poor while disparaging others who are worse off than they are for being "lazy" and making "bad choices." 1/
517447
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
6682592610271
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
8838493557
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
propublica.org
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
7444622717
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
367131556448
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Steve Semick @newarsenalofdemocracy.org · 14/08/2025
Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare. It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today! #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity
15201186
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 13/08/2025
The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!
713739
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
1/ How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law? Not by truth, but rather by coordination. Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
6141110
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
833254805602
Reposted by Felice Freyer
🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"
youtube.com
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
19821236
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
214146694257
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.
youtu.be
Misinformation with a Motive: Whitehouse Reveals Trump's Plot to Wreck Social Security
YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
1137
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social
161113634249
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
093
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.
190
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
thecrimson.com
Trump Admin’s $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Grants Could Hit Boston’s Hospitals Hardest | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of nearly $9 billion in multi-year research funding tied to Harvard has sparked uncertainty across the University — but the brunt of the planned cuts...
10654252386
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”
050
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Important for all of us but especially journalists.
6061921855
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
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.
365242287679
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
10706255012922
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
314268256727
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
810336737195
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thank you.
040
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health. If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?
56747140
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
9052800213787
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Great essay by @dicktofel.bsky.social “Too often, we have left readers, listeners and viewers with the impression that government is riddled with corruption when corruption is actually the exception.” open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
open.substack.com
Prize-Winning Lessons on Explaining Government
What the new book from Michael Lewis can remind us
031
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.
859132863914
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
7563591710989
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
3252757510444
Reposted by Felice Freyer
E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 21/03/2025
🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
431130714
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Hmmm, was that second news alert a comment on the first?
000
Reposted by Felice Freyer
5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This deserved a meme.
420889
Reposted by Felice Freyer
HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
One of the reasons the GOP wins all the time is that they have a few very simple messages and they stick to them. They repeat them over and over. They don't say ANYTHING that might confuse their target audience. And they present a united front.
3113
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
640123794454
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#journalists HJ25 is not only the best conference in journalism, it also offers financial support to help you get there. Today is the deadline to apply! healthjournalism.org/fellowships/
healthjournalism.org
Fellowships
Improve your skills and connect with fellow health care journalists with AHCJ fellowships.
011
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hey everyone, the book that Facebook is trying to suppress is available from many booksellers. I just bought the audio version. Grab it while you can! Here’s a column about it: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Tell-All Book That Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read
The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.
010
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Journalists! Check out this great new fellowship opportunity from @healthjournalism.org healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...
healthjournalism.org
Firearm Violence Reporting Fellowship
If you're ready to uncover the complexities of firearm violence and bring critical stories to light, this reporting fellowship is for you.
053
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Some health systems are sending patients home to heal, using home visits and technology to monitor them. But these programs struggle to gain traction in a fiscal and regulatory netherworld. @kffhealthnews kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org
Sent Home To Heal, Patients Avoid Wait for Rehab Home Beds - KFF Health News
Many patients ready to leave the hospital end up lingering for days or weeks — occupying beds that others need and driving up costs — because of a lack of open spots at nursing homes and rehabilitatio...
020
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Whether it's because their federal government is withdrawing from the World Health Organization, cutting public services or attacking reproductive rights, health professionals in the U.S. have a good reason to be alarmed.” www.moosejawtoday.com/national-bus...
moosejawtoday.com
B.C. takes advantage of U.S. 'chaos,' trade war to attract more doctors and nurses
The "chaos" in the United States provides an opportunity for British Columbia to recruit more American doctors and nurses, the province's health minister said as she announced changes aimed at fast-tr...
010
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The "Do Not Associate" List How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths. Antonia Scatton open.substack.com/pub/reframingamer…
open.substack.com
The "Do Not Associate" List
How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths.
1515693
Reposted by Felice Freyer
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
17158142715
Felice Freyer @felicejfreyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“The Trump administration is deleting taxpayer-funded data — information that Americans use to make sense of the world. In its absence, the president can paint the world as he pleases.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data
Sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent “truth.”
000