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Gail Hansen

@gailrhansendvm.bsky.social
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Public health veterinarian/epi concentrating on AMR, One Health, and humane treatment of animals. And a theater lover.

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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 1h
Mansplaining sexual assault to a woman who has been sexually assaulted is typical (sigh). open.substack.com/pub/bitchyhi...
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Apparently Surviving Sexual Assault Comes With Homework
Women are expected to prevent sexual violence before it happens, survive it correctly when it does, and apparently stop the next man afterward too.
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Bradley Perry @bradleyperry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧪 Every 28 September, the global community comes together to raise awareness about rabies elimination. “Stronger Together,” highlights a simple truth: rabies elimination is only possible when we work together.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is not a shred of evidence that she will follow science; every indication that she will loyally follow Trump no matter what lies he spouts. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Public health advocates express concern about nominee to lead the FDA
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
By destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction, write @ariberman.bsky.social & @pemalevy.bsky.social.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the past, CDC has believed the state health departments. Now, CDC doesn't if they don't like the state's answers. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/penn...
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Pennsylvania tops 800 measles cases as CDC acknowledges only 1 measles death
The state has reported 4 recent measles-associated deaths that the CDC hadn't listed on its dashboard.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Trumpa dministration can't do math (but we knew that). Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Because why should kids of parents without means be protected from disease?😒 www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc...
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CDC inaction delays COVID shots for low-income children
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No surprise that Trump exaggerated claims and that they only last until he is out of office (the end of his term).
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Lori @tygergyrl17.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From Kevin J. Wallace: So, this childish president wants to destroy the Kennedy Center because his name can't be put on it.......how long do we have to endure this insanity?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To all of you who think Trump won't demolish the Kennedy Center if he doesn't get his way: Have you seen the East Wing of the White House lately?
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not surprising at all. It is a political, not a medical decision at CDC these days. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cdc-...
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CDC’s new tracking method for measles deaths puzzles experts
Four measles-related deaths have been reported in Pennsylvania, but not by the CDC.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search for Voter Fraud www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud
Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.
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Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says
The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh for fucks sake. Come on!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Me predicting weeks ago that Trump was going to blame Ukraine for diesel prices and that he would publicly demand that Zelenskyy stop bombing Russian refineries, which happened today.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/09/2026
Back then, Bush and Giuliani were right when they affirmed that American Muslims are simply fellow Americans—and today’s Trump-radicalized GOP is wrong. It’s as simple as that.
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How the Right Came to Embrace Anti-Muslim Bigotry
After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Republican leaders opposed anti-Muslim sentiment. But the right’s worst instincts won.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WAPO: “.. The Associated Press is advising its reporters and others who follow AP style to continue referring to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite President Donald Trump’s order to rename it Lake America last month ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a US citizen, this advertising campaign from the US government is disgusting and embarrassing.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a sane country, it would be a huge embarrassment for the draft-dodger president to admit that he looked into giving himself the Medal of Honor and was disappointed to learn he couldn't.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dr. Osterholm explains this well. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
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Making Sense of Measles Misinformation
This past August, Pennsylvania announced two measles-associated deaths in unvaccinated residents, marking the first measles deaths in the state in thirty-five years. This week, hosts Chris Dall and Dr...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because it’s make-believe, that’s why!! FFS, people Don’t be stupid
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great practical ideas. Neither silence nor screaming are good options.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A dire warning, billionaire criminal Musk has set up a scheme in the form of a website votesafe.org in order to steal voter information. Never click on the link and please share this everywhere so others won’t fall prey to it like so many others.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho Now more than ever.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As he backs Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant purge, Republican Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen’s hog business employs undocumented workers. This is one of America’s worst-kept secrets. US businesses—including the Trump Organization—have depended on undocumented labor.
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As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers
Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have...
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🇨🇦
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D @musingstranger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What is to be done when our media cannot call a lie a lie?
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here there is real fraud.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It would surprise me if vaccines had an effect on growth, but good to know it doesn't. www.cidrap.umn.edu/diphtheria/m...
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Mom’s Tdap vaccination doesn’t affect baby’s growth, analysis finds
Researchers say the data can help parents decide whether to get a vaccine that dramatically reduces the risk of whooping cough and other diseases.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026
Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Tyson CEO Donnie King made $34.4 million in 2025. The week before Thanksgiving, he told 3,200 workers in Lexington they'd be losing their jobs. Just weeks after, Tyson donated to the Pete Ricketts campaign.
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Such a liar. So easily debunked, but nobody seems to be able to tell him that to his face.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026
Anyone who has issues with Mamdani attending the commemoration is a bigot, Islamophobe, and/or racist. That's it.
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Ty Seidule @tyseidule.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hegseth plans on returning the Arlington Confederate monument. It’s pro-slavery and anti-United States. The cruelest, most racist monument in the US. Here’s the article I wrote for the WSJ a few years ago.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New NIAID Strategic plan Launched quietly I guess. Apologies if I missed the press release. No more discussion of emerging infectious diseases/pandemic preparedness. That's not good amid the many ongoing outbreaks/epidemics and the ones to come. NIH Jay Bhattacharya RFK bit.ly/4qYzkRa
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Discussed here
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RFK Jr. is a Creepy Weirdo Obsessed with Teenagers’ Sperm
Kennedy’s sperm obsession combined with his desire for healthy "Trump babies" to serve in a military led by a White supremacist, whom he believes to be a divinely anointed, testosterone-filled über
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Be wary if traveling to or living in Florida www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
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Florida’s Department of Health removes 4 vaccines from required list for public schools
Students would still be required to get vaccinated against 7 diseases.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So to Vance, Iran is not a war, despite US soldiers dying, US military bases destroyed, and missiles running out. Sounds just like Putin, who called the Russian full-scale war against Ukraine a "special military operation." The GOP continues to parrot its Russian patrons.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Someone inside the USPS, a whistleblower, saw something shady happening to your right to vote — and said something. They knew the cost. The retaliation. They came forward anyway. That’s good trouble. standingourground.us/p/when-you-s... www.standingourground.us/p/when-you-s...
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Gail Hansen @gailrhansendvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is not a thing-you don't screen for measles and find it by happenstance. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/cidr...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: ‘Died with, not from’ was a real COVID problem. It’s the wrong framework for measles.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 03/09/2026
4/4 This is a terrible way for the new CDC director to begin building trust with her workforce. At her first all-hands, Schwartz told us that building our trust in her was a priority. We can't imagine a worse early test of that promise.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: The House REJECTS a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court locked at 9 justices. Mwuhahahaha www.cbsnews.com/news/house-s...
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House rejects GOP constitutional amendment to limit Supreme Court to 9 justices
A GOP-proposed constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices failed in the House, coming up well short of the two-thirds majority needed.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Schools. Weddings. Infrastructure. We are not the good guys in this war.
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