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Kara Karlson

@karakarlson.bsky.social
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Mother. #DisabilityRights. #ElectionLaw attorney. 4th gen Arizonan. #Momvocate

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h
Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 13h
This is #MeToo going "too far."
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sounds like a "major question" that anyone *really* worried about admin overreach would care about. But they're the ones proposing it. I also note that this is a priority, but stopping for profit colleges from defrauding students isn't. Source: dailycal.org share.google/wa22c7u9Ciay...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There’s NO WAY anyone on earth thought that suddenly slashing resources for critical child/maternal health services, medicines, & control of TB, HIV, & malaria would cause zero sickness or death in low-income nations No sentient being could genuinely believe that Mass death/eugenics was the point👇
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Measles can be eliminated. There should be zero deaths.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Susan Collins, probably.
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Nick Miller: Do I Regret It? Yes.
Alt: Nick Miller telling Zoe Daschenelle in the show The New Girl: Do I Regret It? Yes. Would I do it again? Probably. He is wearing a white long sleeve button up shirt, with the top two buttons undone. Zoe is in a bright red shirt with a wide neck.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Despite Mr. Kennedy’s focus on chronic diseases and autism, the C.D.C. centers that aim to prevent chronic diseases and birth defects are at half their previous size" #MAHA!
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It was never, ever about "medical freedom." It's always been an antivaxx crusade to make us all sicker, and survival more precarious.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is a dire threat for the entire country. Anyone who purports to love the US needs to respond. And a reminder: This need not last until the end of his term. He can be removed at any time if sufficient # of Congress critters grow a spine.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"MAHA"
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Before that, humanity spent several thousand years asking Me to save their children from diseases which are now prevented by a jaunt to CVS." -God (probably)
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why antivaxx ideology is not about "freedom." It's about not harming others. Basic vaccinations SHOULD BE just part of living in society. Like paying taxes or not driving impaired/distracted. If these babies are infected (by the most infectious virus), it'd be shocking to have 0 deaths.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NOTHING in medicine has saved as many children's lives as vaccination. Absolutely nothing. To be giving oxygen to anti-vaxxers is helping to kill children. That may sound like hyperbole, but it 100% is not.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr, and he did so knowing the full history of RFK Jr’s decades of extreme anti-vaccine activism These 2 men—Cassidy and RFK Jr—have sealed their “terrible legacy” together. It’s all they will be remembered for: suffering, sickness, pain, & death.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What happened A study published in JAMA Network Open found that immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reduced 97% of intensive care admissions in infected infants.
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RSV vaccination reduced ICU admissions in babies by 97% - Sinaptica
What happened A study published in JAMA Network Open found that immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) reduced 97% of intensive care admissions
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Arizona's Law @arizonaslaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
P.S. TODAY'S THE DAY: Check to make sure that your voter registration is correct and current, that you will be receiving your early ballot, and sign up for text alerts about your ballot's status! Statewide: my.arizona.vote Maricopa County only: beballotready.vote
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Compare this change in methodology (which causes significant & dangerous delays to public health response) with the "data" RFK Jr & Co use to support their beliefs and you'll understand why the only accurate way to describe them is antivaxx & anti science.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants." How? How could this rule freeze everything forever?
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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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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What percentage of that 7% is on a GLP-1? It's not magic. It's not the brain worm. It's science.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is best. Whatever happened to merit? If this is his best, it's time to replace him with someone who can do better.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everybody*should be* accountable for violating judicial orders; almost everybody is actually held accountable.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So believe women, but *only* about vaccine injuries? Also, what about women like me? Believe me when I say we should listen to scientists and protect our kids against vaccine preventable disease? Does my position get more or less weight b/c I was in the placebo arm of the Moderna COVID trial?
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There was a time when this would have been a foregone conclusion. Nonetheless, I'm glad that, among other things, this means Missouri voters will get to have a say.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
sciencebasedmedicine.org
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Measles: “I Think I’ve Done My Best.”
As football coach Bill Parcells famously said, “you are what your record says you are”.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Last year, in office, RFK said the MMR kills kids.
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RFK lies about the MMR killing kids
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You shouldn't find common cause with people who want to prevent people from accessing basic public health tools like vaccines, as they've done. Or people who are fine with society's most vulnerable being put at risk to achieve their political aims.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Died from measles. Not just with measles.
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tell me an education in humanities is important without saying it...
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As the kids say... we're cooked.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.
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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Liar whose lies killed people lies about his past lies.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Children are people. Not properly. Not pets. We shouldn't get to decide when it's time to just let them go. Especially when we, as parents, haven't done our jobs.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
True American treasure.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Jungle, Part II We shouldn't have to relearn what is obvious, that deregulation leads to human suffering. But, here we are.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
thelancet.com
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Measles takes two months to clear the body, not two years. Outbreaks can't be the result of illegal immigration from the "prior administration."
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is a disease that can be eliminated; instead, the US measles outbreak is “accelerating” and the man leading the US health system is arguably the world’s most extreme & dangerous anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Once you build it, work is done. Those jobs evaporate. The power demand, the water needs, the noise pollution, and the region-altering heat all stay.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Giving $1.7B of children’s health funding to a guy whose current job is literally getting paid to lie that vaccines cause autism
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Antivaxx is not a legitimate “belief;” it is intentional science denial. There is no legitimate evidence for it or reason to support it. You wouldn’t coddle flat earthers, and flat rarthers aren’t harming children and trying to infect you with ancient plagues just to avoid admitting they’re wrong
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Diphtheria is scary, but most Americans don't have a clue what it is, much less how to spell it (thx vaccines!). When you go to an old graveyard and see a row of young kids from the same family who all died w/in a wk or 2, that was probably the strangling angel. This is bad.
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Kara Karlson @karakarlson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So...can we acknowledge the "platform & empower antivaxxers to bring 'trust' in vaccines back" for what it ALWAYS was? An unrepentant lie.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Important to remember that most if not all the antivaxxers you ever see or hear are vaccinated against things like measles. Their whole movement is forcing children to take the risks that they never do (because they think children are property)
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Powerful piece on the horrors of the MAGA/MAHA Administration “The disinformation coming from the Trump administration amounts to a dangerous experiment on our children. Americans deserve better than political ideology masquerading as medical science” www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Doctors Will Bear Witness to the Childhood Suffering
The consequences of Trump's order on vaccines will come back to bite us
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This will result in a dip in vaccination, which has no upside but will cause disease and death 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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