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Gabriela Oates, PhD

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Social epidemiologist. Academic researcher. UAB School of Medicine.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
And these are the same snowflakes who couldn’t handle wearing a mask during the pandemic.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is who is protecting you now, America.
Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S.
Terror Prevention
WEEDING OUT TERRORISM
Tom Latchem Reporter
Updated Jun. 6 2025 5:58PM EDT
Published Jun. 5 2025 7:01AM EDT
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Take note.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)
Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes. www.importantcontext.news/p/nih-worker...
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NIH Workers Demand Changes In New ‘Bethesda Declaration’
The public letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya was signed by hundreds of agency personnel.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Sign on in support of the #BethesdaDeclaration actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... 2/2
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ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff
Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/06/2025
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals.  Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations — But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve. I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots. Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard? One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended. Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Some folks just thought it was trite when people warned if they come for the most marginalized, sooner or later they are coming for you.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025
Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2025
this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...
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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Donald Trump’s Corruption Reaches New Heights
Only a “stupid” person, the president said on Monday, would turn down such an offer.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025
this guy is out here proudly being a eugenicist freak while people at mainstream and "respectable publications" make excuses for him or even muse about whether he has a "few good points"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 11/05/2025
NOAA announced Thursday that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. cbsn.ws/4iUkkyp
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NOAA ending its "billion-dollar disasters" database
NOAA announced that it is decommissioning several databases, including its widely reported annual compilation of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Scenes are repeating across the United States, passersby and local residents confront & resist Trump's ICE regime troops as they’re spotted kidnapping their neighbours. The regime continues its campaign of ethnic cleansing, appearing at homes and businesses masked and without warrants. #3E #StopICE
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⭐️Angela 🐿️ McEwen⭐️ @angelamcewen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
This is what ICE does: just like they stalked the family’s car and smashed the windows in to kidnap them. They attack people on the streets grab them and take them to concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods gather to protect little babies & their moms from being separated & kidnapped.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time.
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
FOTUS has banned over 350 WORDS, they’re being scrubbed from Federal documents. Words like “breastfeed,” “autism,” “discrimination, “immigrants.” Every American should be concerned…we have an authoritarian destroying the USA. Speak up if you’ve been silent #Voices4Victory pen.org/banned-words...
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Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵
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Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/05/2025
Not only are they ignoring climate change—they’re trying to cover up the cost. Shutting down NOAA’s disaster tracking so we can’t see the BILLIONS it’s costing us? This ain’t solving the crisis—it’s hiding it.
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US will stop tracking the costs of extreme weather fueled by climate change
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more
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NPR @npr.org · 08/05/2025
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
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RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
This will surely help American's health status. Not. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
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National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/05/2025
seems like the administration is objectively pro plane crash www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
A picture of an incredibly grim room, filed with depressed-looking African men, in filthy clothes laying on filthy mattresses in a filthy detention center with bars on the window. Everyone looks like the life has gone out of them.Global development
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Fresh evidence of violence at Libyan detention centres as boats turned back
This article is more than 3 years old
Amnesty International says sexual abuse and beatings rife at camps for those forcibly returned after trying to cross the Med
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
RFK Jr. went on Fox News and lied through his teeth. He said they weren’t cutting critical research. Terminated grants so far have included studies on cancer, Alzheimer’s, HIV, and tuberculosis. Ohio researchers lost funding for kidney disease and TB projects. This guy doesn’t care about health.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Read this excerpt of an interview with Jay Bhattacharya, new NIH director. And do not miss the last graf. Via @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
On a Nature news article reporting that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborations:
"No, that's false. There's going to be a policy on tracking subawards. The NIH and the government should be able to see where the money's going."
"I'm really uncomfortable with this conversation, because you're like, actually spreading rumors that you don't know anything about. ... Nature also is spreading rumors. Halt foreign collaborations, that's not true."
"We're working on the policy, Jocelyn. You shouldn't be reporting rumors. I know there's leaks all over here, but the leaks don't actually reflect what's happening.
Don't write about rumors. It actually makes the things that you and I care about worse.
Like it spreads panic."
Later that day, NIH released a policy that halted future subawards to foreign scientists and said they will need to apply directly for money under a system still in development.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
FWIW, NIH had already silently barred Harvard and four other schools from receiving funds — and agency staff were forbidden from telling applicants and grantees about it. bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This weekend, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya praised the Trump admin for "bringing back academic freedom," saying researchers at NIH who disagree w him are still free to publish. Kevin Hall resigned due to censorship at NIH, incl being told to remove his name from a paper mentioning health equity.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.
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Trump cuts baby 'Safe to Sleep' team. Here's what parents should know
For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NIH laying off hundreds more staff, including the cancer research institute. The US is now a country in full self-harm mode. www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
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National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute
The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
White House official confirms Trump had conversation last night with Enrique Tarrio at Mar-a-Lago last night as Trump was walking to his dinner table On social media, Tarrio said Trump told him to thank the J6ers
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This is kinda hilarious: Trump officials are stocking up on toilet paper and food in anticipation of shortages caused by Trump’s own trade wars. I only wish they’d tell their boss about their newfound hoarding instead of only leaking to @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: 'It Would Be Stupid Not To!'
Donald Trump’s aides and administration officials are hoarding toilet paper, food, and household supplies before his tariffs cause prices to spike.
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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