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Jen Gorsegner, MPH, MS

@stress-sugar-salt.bsky.social
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This brought me to tears. 'Cause now we're great again. Dissolve the law and federal courts Defund the peer reviewed reports Retract the hand that feeds the poor The hungry ones can't speak. So raise a glass to business whores And autocrats and saboteurs And text your world about your wars...
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We Are Great Again
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents. www.aclum.org/en/know-your...
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"Know Your Protest Rights.
You don't need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don't need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings.When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police.If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries.If you get stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away.If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement office at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you'll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney-no matter your citizenship or immigration status.”Know Your Rights. White ACLU logo.
Dark blue background with text: "Know Your Rights When Interacting With Immigration Agents.
If you’re in a public space, you can ask if you're free to leave. If so, you can calmly walk away.You have the right to remain silent, even if you’re arrested. You do not have to discuss your immigration status with anyone. If you’re arrested, you can say that you wish to remain silent until speaking with a lawyer.You have the right to refuse consent to a search.If you have valid immigration documents, you’re required to show them. Never provide fake documents.You have the right to record your interaction with immigration agents as long as you do not interfere.If you’re at home, you do not have to open the door. ICE agents may not enter unless they have a warrant signed by a judge (have them slip it under the door). If they force their way in, do not resist, but you can remain silent."Know Your Rights. White ACLU logo.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“The results provide some of the strongest evidence yet that some viral infections can have effects on brain function years later and that preventing them can help stave off cognitive decline… “If you’re reducing the risk of dementia by 20 percent, that’s quite important in a public health context”
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Shingles Vaccine Can Decrease Risk of Dementia, Study Finds
A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.
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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).
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Graduating From Dead Mom University
In this op-ed, Lindsay Lee Wallace explores grief, and how no amount of success in school or work could protect her from it.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/03/2025
We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵
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ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 14/03/2025
#OR02 Cliff Bentz (R) ~4% of total population in #ACA exchange plans ~40% of total population in #Medicaid/CHIP ~27% of total population in #Medicare
#OR02 Cliff Bentz (R)

~4% of total population in #ACA exchange plans
~40% of total population in #Medicaid/CHIP
~27% of total population in #Medicare
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
God damnit. This makes me so angry given the fight we’ve had since 2020 to protect against airborne transmission in hospitals and other congregate settings. It’s the worst “I told you so” montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/12/q...
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Most of Quebec’s 36 measles cases contracted in health-care settings
The number of measles cases continues to rise in Quebec. A total of 36 cases have been confirmed, including 28 in the Laurentians. In addition to the Montreal, Laval, and Montérégie regions, which are...
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Missy Hubbard @missy-ubermom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'm here to make you uncomfortable again. Black and Brown folks have been watching white people fret since November without any real appreciable action to stop what was coming. Well, (1/14)
Rep Al Green stands up in congress, interrupting trump mid speech, to resist racism. He stood alone. He was escorted out.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
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U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Please read—this is becoming serious!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
These numbers seem important
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 28/02/2025
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
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Georgia Nonprofit That Produces Life-Saving Food For Kids Has Federal Contract Cut
An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Did you call your Republican House rep today to complain about Medicaid cuts? Did the staffer say “There are no plans to cut Medicaid!” They’re lying. Here’s how we know and also how you respond. #Medicaid #Medicare www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSuh...
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Republicans are lying to you about cutting Medicaid. Here’s what you can say to them.
YouTube video by Jessica Craven
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/02/2025
📣 OK, I've posted several threads with prototypes on this project, but this is the definitive one: I'm generating pie charts breaking out enrollment in ACA plans, Medicaid/CHIP & Medicare for the total populations of EVERY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT suitable for sharing: acasignups.net/25/02/26/pie...
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Pie Charts Galore! Medicaid! CHIP, ACA & Medicare enrollment by Congressional District
Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Measles outbreak in Ontario results in 18 kids hospitalized, including one who required intensive care. This was preventable. We had all but eradicated measles with an incredibly effective vaccine. Children are relying on the adults. When you choose not to vaccinate, you put their lives at risk
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Ontario reports 78 new measles cases, nearly doubling count in ongoing outbreak
Ontario is reporting 78 new measles cases over the last two weeks, nearly doubling the province’s total count since an outbreak started in the autumn.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
People assume they’ll be the exception. That disability, poverty, homelessness won’t befall them That if something “bad” happens, they will be able to “try harder” their way out of it. This false belief allows them to blame the ones who are suffering, instead of the oppressive systems that trap us
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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Washington King County infant with measles have visited 3 medical facilities and an Apple store. #Measles is highly contagious and airborne! #MaskTogetherAmerica washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/27/i...
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Infant in King County identified as first Washington measles case of the year • Washington State Standard
An infant in King County was identified as the first confirmed measles case in Washington in 2025, King County officials said.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Home and community-based services (HCBS) are already underfunded. The jobs don’t pay well, and so there’s a shortage of workers. Medicaid cuts could make that worse. Project 2025 bemoans the fact that Medicaid funds “nonmedical” services. That seems to signal that they want to cut HCBS.
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Cutting Medicaid and federal programs are among 4 key Trump administration policy changes that could make life harder for disabled people
Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 26/02/2025
Whenever a politician uses AI as a proposed health care solution that's a *flaming red flag* that they have no real plan. We're still faxing pieces of paper to one another's offices in 2025. We were supposed to leverage the power of the internet to fix that 20 YEARS AGO. But sure, go on about AI.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
MAGA Republicans just voted to harm my child. And yours. Never forget this day. 2026 is coming for these fuckers. 🗳️ Get engaged, America.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 26/02/2025
This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇 @housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the  expense of the middle class.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
All but one House Republican just voted to cut Medicaid.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Looks like tomorrow will bring votes on a Republican plan to fund tax cuts for the rich by slashing Medicaid. So this is a great time to contact your Member of Congress.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/02/2025
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...
You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.
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Jen Gorsegner, MPH, MS @stress-sugar-salt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
1. Lost sleep over threats to Medicaid and IDEA 2. Lost sleep over threats to and loss of civil, reproductive, and voting rights 3. Lost sleep over threats to and loss of federal workforce 4. Made emergency plans A-Z 5. Resisted, wrote, called anyway
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This will be devastating to the disability community Telehealth was a game changer for us. It was something people had begged to access for years, because healthcare settings are so inaccessible. Remote medicine allows us to save money, spoons and avoid hospital acquired infections.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Americans want universal healthcare, not a colony on Mars. And don’t tell me it’s about “innovation.” Making sure every American has housing, food, and healthcare is innovation, too.
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No Gods, No Girlbosses 🌹 @nogodsnogirlbosses.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Tapping the sign wearily
Tweeted September 23rd, 2020: I don't know how to say this gently: you should know, if you don't already, that infectious disease follows state failure every time. All those public health programs, whirring away over decades, mostly unseen, in the background of our lives --you will feel their absence.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/02/2025
I just met with Community Health Centers from Oregon that told me providers across our state are starting layoffs because of Trump's funding freeze. Donald Trump is already forcing kids and families to go without the health care they need.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Ulf R. Dahle @ulfdahle.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Marburg outbreaks need rapid detection, isolation, contact tracing, and infection control. With MSF, WHO, and the Tanzanian MoH involved, 2 deaths, 8 probable deaths, 64 suspected cases, and 281 contacts are being monitored to contain the spread. 🙏 www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/marbu...
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Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania: MSF responds
MSF is reinforcing case management capacities and implementing infection prevention and control measures in partnership with health authorities.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I oversaw global health programs at @USAID. They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide. What insanity and cruelty to break that.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You don't try to find a middle ground with tyrants. You don't try to appease people who are looking to take everything away from you. You don't attempt to placate those who are only looking to destroy. You oppose. You fight. You punch back. Loudly. Forcefully. Ruthlessly. Deviously.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is" Powerful
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Please listen to disabled & marginalized people We’ve been trying to warn you for years We’re in an unprecedented time. History is repeating itself & fascism is back. You may not see it because you’re not a “target”. You may not care because you think you’re safe. No one is safe. Fight with us
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/01/2025
Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/01/2025
All Los Angeles Public Library locations are providing free N95 masks. Libraries are essential!
N95 Masks are Available at all Los Angeles Public Library Locations
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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