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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS

@prebeiro.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 Assoc. Prof. of Medicine & Biostatistics & Biomedical Informatics, Director of Epidemiology PhD Program, HIV/TB Epidemiologist @Vanderbilt. tinyurl.com/PeterRebeiro

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
bad news for fans of children www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
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Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
1). The US is in the middle of the worst flu season in a decade. 2). Pertussis cases are the highest they have been in 20 years. 3). Measles has rebounded and elimination status has been lost. RFK.Jr. has not recommended vaccination, instead he is aggressively rolling back vaccine policy.
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
No matter how some undermine and pervert and obscure the truth, it *remains*. The tragedy to mourn isn't *just* the loss of our anchor to reality, it's the entirely preventable suffering that will now be *promoted* because of it. www.nytimes.com/.../vaccine-....
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Acting with all the precision of a dull ax dissecting an earthworm...🙄 And what will the consequence be? My prediction: poorer outbreak response, poorer support for local health departments, poorer public health for Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h... www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Worth remembering in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder (when many of my *Catholic* HS classmates were eager to suspend the legal rights of "leftists"), that we've covered this ground before...& St. Thomas More was pretty clear about the illogic ~500 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBi...
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A Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
What’s that about waste,fraud, and abuse? THIS IS ABUSE
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CDC Inaction Stalls COVID Shots for Low-Income Kids
Meanwhile, vaccines for insured kids are already available
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Part III: There's still something missing; the *value* of truth-seeking motivates *how* we do good science...but what about *why*? There's a cultural *rot* prizing selfishness & control over other people, mixed with ignorance & pride, that we have to reckon with, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
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Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Part II: more to be said about how academics often miss the point, following Bloom's piece... {www.chronicle.com/article/why-arent…} But I think there's a lot more going on than what another academic (a sociologist) notes here: *values*... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
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Opinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Part I: *All* academics should read this & reflect, as I will. What's the role of academic culture in stifling healthy & necessary confrontation...and how do we shift it? #AcademicSky #MedSky www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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Why Aren’t Professors Braver?
Fear and self-censorship in academe.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
What is Pam Bondi actually doing in today’s “ending political violence against ICE” memo? I take you through it, tonight at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/a-rather-b...
Office of the Attorney General
Washington, DC 20530

September 29, 2025

MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES
THE DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. MARSHAL'S SERVICE 
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 
THE DIRECTOR OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS

FROM:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. 

SUBJECT:
ENDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST ICE
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If they can do it under far worse conditions than we have here, so can you. apnews.com/article/mold...  Moldova’s pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups
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Moldova’s pro-EU party wins clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups
Moldova’s pro-Western governing party has won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
WATCH: “They’re not strong. If you’re strong you don’t feel the need to do this level of suppression of dissent. When you’re confident in what you’re presenting you don’t need to do this stuff.” Hasan & @timheidecker.bsky.social on the Trump regime’s authoritarian crackdown
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...
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Are Childhood Vaccines ‘Overloading’ the Immune System? No.
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
There's a lot to say about the scientific illiteracy, hucksterism, & plain ol' predatory populism here...but before we can better educate the ill-informed, we have to have people who *want* to understand the science (& then, who are *capable* of understanding it). 🤷🏾‍♂️🙁 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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Trump Ignores Science by Linking Autism to Vaccines and a Common Painkiller
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Withdrawing from the War on Cancer: an extraordinarily successful scientific research system that took decades to build, saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits is being dismantled in short order. @jonathanmahler.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Kinda hilarious anyone wants to pretend these people are motivated by anything other than barbarous cruelty & violence. It's *grotesque*. America empowered the worst of its own in electing Trump, and in turn, he has empowered the worst of America. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
He should never have been confirmed by the Senate in the first place...& he's unlikely to resign or be fired...but that doesn't mean scientists shouldn't continue stating the facts & calling out this cult of disinformation & death. Thank you, @idsainfo.bsky.social www.idsociety.org/news--public...
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Joint statement calling for Secretary Kennedy resignation
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Whether Americans find the warnings persuasive or not, it doesn't change the terrible *reality* that we all face, or the knowledge, expertise, & credibility of these authors. It's important for scientists to keep speaking truth to power, if only to avoid complicity. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Politico @politico.com · 28/08/2025
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
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Monarez refused to fire top CDC leaders, ‘rubber-stamp’ vaccine changes, confidante says
The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign despite pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
To get a sense of how scientists/public health officials feel, think about what you felt when you saw Notre Dame burn. The collective history, heritage, & culture- the work of *generations*- being destroyed in the blink of an eye. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h... www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
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C.D.C. Standoff: Kennedy’s Push to Fire Director Devolves Into Chaos
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Even if many of us are still relatively insulated from the chaos...do we realize how far gone our society is? Whether you've noticed, the continued degradation of the rule of law here is no trivial thing... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
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Governor Pritzker Challenges Trump’s Threat to Send Troops to Chicago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/08/2025
Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A #DailyShow interview worth a watch & reflection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kX... Reputable organizations if you wish to donate: donate.wck.org/give/525879/... www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/our-r... Call your Representative/Senators & tell them what you think: www.congress.gov/contact-us
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Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is also why those who say *science* mustn't be "political" miss the point. Science itself isn't political. But its *implications* & the actions it informs or indicts *are*...because politics are how free societies act (or don't). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...
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Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Please remember, among the most destructive consequences of ripping public goods away & undermining institutional scientific integrity is the damage to our #publichealth. www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Path Forward for Vaccine Policy in the United States | NEJM
The former members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices consider paths forward for U.S. vaccine policy in the wake of their dismissal by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in...
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 15/07/2025
🗨️ “Vaccines have done more to improve public health than any other medical intervention.” A Viewpoint focuses on cancer vaccines & the future of immunotherapy—analysing trials & how the next generation of cancer vaccines can help improve patient outcomes & quality of life. tinyurl.com/n94jsbju
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Cancer vaccines and the future of immunotherapy
Vaccines have had a major impact on the control of infectious disease, most recently by helping to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Prophylactic cancer vaccines have prevented several malignancies by pro...
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I can't overstate how successful #USAID has been... & how *catastrophic* its discontinuation will be. *Tens of MILLIONS* of lives saved over 20 years...& MILLIONS of lives imperiled in the next few. Ending USAID is pure evil. 😔 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/o...
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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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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
If gutting healthcare for poor people & ensuring the uberwealthy don't see a tax increase reflects your values- well, you're not a good person. There's no point in sugarcoating it. 🤷🏾‍♂️ #OBBB If you don't approve, call your Representative: www.house.gov/representati... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What's in the Senate Version of Trump's Big Policy Bill?
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it would add more than $3 trillion to the national debt.
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Whether you understand the science of how scores of vaccines have been rigorously evaluated for safety, efficacy, & effectiveness, they *have* been. Everyone indulging RFKJ's outright *lies* has blood on their hands. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: This Virginia city has seen years of heated debate over criminal justice reform. Progressive officials moved to stop adult charges for kids, weed cases, mandatory minimums; it's all run into fierce opposition from other leaders. Then, the reform prosecutor won last week. I wrote about it:
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Norfolk Reelects its Reform Prosecutor, Capping Years of Heated Debate - Bolts
It’s a staple in political campaigns: Candidates bring up a criminal case that occurred on their opponent’s watch, and use it to attack them for being too lenient. Still, Michelle... Read More
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Progress...but so much damage has already been done. Still, it's important to speak the truth aloud, again and again, as often as we can. The fact that the message comes from a Reagan-appointed federal judge this time helps a bit, too. www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...
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Judge rules against NIH grant cuts — and calls them discriminatory
The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government is likely to appeal.
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In case you wondered what actual infectious diseases / #vaccinology experts think about DHHS's adventures in trying to erase sound science. #VaccinesWork www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Opinion | I’m a Vaccine Expert. Here’s What Keeps Me Up at Night About Kennedy’s Policies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025
“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing. Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle. Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop. (1 of 2)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My point is NOT that mass protests are meaningless. I believe they are critical and have participated in them for half a century. However, control of the military and the decisions of its leaders are also critical. And there is no magic 3.5% number, as the author of that research has said herself:
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Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule
The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addre...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/06/2025
At midday Eastern Time, we have a crowdsourced, unofficial estimate of just over 32,000 people attending No Kings Day protests around the U.S. so far. Please join us and add more data as more events get going. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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No Kings Day protests unofficial attendance crowdsourcing
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What to do after attending a conference with colleagues whose life’s work with vulnerable populations is under attack? Go to the NYC #NoKings rally.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We are just getting started. “American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating…” wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...
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American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Have a look and get ‘em done.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Where do I put on my CV that the NRA Institute for Legislative Action called our JAMA Pediatrics paper “political propaganda masquerading as scientific research?” I’m thinking Honors and Awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The US has been the scientific & academic envy of the *world* for decades now. Thanks to reckless ideologues, we're surrendering that position. Our brethren at the #NIH are speaking out & we must rise to their defense. The eyes of the world are upon us. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This substitution of demagoguery for scientific evidence will harm us all- but *especially* the medically vulnerable: children and the elderly. As morbidity/mortality from #vaccine-preventable diseases likely rise in the coming months, remember the root causes. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
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