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Treatment Action Group's Basic Science, Vaccines & Cure Project, by Richard Jefferys. 🏳️‍⚧️ Primary Treatment Action Group account: bsky.app/profile/treatmentactiongro… TAG website: www.treatmentactiongroup.org

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Ariel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
NEW: A New Jersey GOP official allegedly targeted Democratic voters' eligibility over residency discrepancies while leaving Republicans untouched. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue unless election officials stop the effort — which risks disenfranchising those voters before the midterms.
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New Jersey GOP operative, pardoned by Trump, accused of scheming to purge Democratic voters ahead of midterms
At the center of the controversy is George Gilmore, who holds two influential positions in Ocean County. He chairs both the county Board of Elections and the Ocean County GOP.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h
“Spivey said he was given an emergency number for the Tennessee Supreme Court to call if something went wrong with the execution, but that when he called it, it went to voicemail.”
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 8h
Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...
According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."
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amfAR @amfarofficial.bsky.social · 8h
HIV research doesn’t stop at HIV.   Discoveries made through amfAR funded HIV/AIDS research have helped advance science across areas like cancer, hepatitis, COVID-19, and other medical breakthroughs.   Learn more: www.amfar.org/news/taking-...
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Dr. D Boulware, MD MPH @drboulware.bsky.social · 9h
NIH Funding rate of Early Stage Investigators (ESI). 2025 was a major drop. 2026 will be worse.
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Michelle R. Smith @bymichellersmith.com · 09/09/2026
Thanks @sidneyhillman.bsky.social for recognizing our reporting on RFK Jr, his trip to Samoa and his testimony before the US Senate @aliswenson.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com @apnews.com #FOIA
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The Guardian and AP win September Sidney Award for proving RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccination agenda for Samoa trip
NEW YORK — Michelle Smith of the Guardian and Ali Swenson of the Associated Press win the September Sidney Award for proving that the future Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy J...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 9h
A Population-Based #HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trial Design: Statistical Framework and Design Considerations www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/14... (open access)
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 10h
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. told a MAHA summit that AI could provide a medical “second opinion” better informed than any doctor and could “free us from medical tyranny.” He encouraged Americans to use AI to challenge public-heal... TAT: [Attacking science | Controlling information]
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RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
RFK Jr. said that AI models are now better informed than any doctor, proclaiming the tech will "free us from medical tyranny."
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 10h
And of course this will never be reported in the newspapers and on the tv news stations which turned this monster into a martyr for free speech
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11h
Great piece from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social on Russ Vought’s most recent illegal budgetary action with some quotes from me and others.
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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say
Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12h
As more people die of measles, I’m reminded of this quote from RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan: “What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles. What is the new incidence of hospitalization…of death?” They are running their experiment.
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US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations
Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he dislikes the term ‘established science’
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h
“Ronaldo visits the site where his father was killed at least once a day, and every day he finds someone there who wants to talk,” TIME reported. “Sometimes it’s a neighbor, but often it’s a traveler from other parts of Texas, from Arizona, from New Mexico, from Minnesota.”
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11h
Here are the election deniers who have spent last year & this year championing online a national emergency declaration. If Trump tries to declare one, these are the figures you'd need to know about who likely played a role in making it happen.
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Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 11h
Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 14h
Policy research is health research. Understanding health effects of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it. Read the warning against funding cuts from leading researchers in Health Affairs Forefront: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... @appam.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social
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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront
Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 13h
Terrific piece just out by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and numerous other luminaries in social epi and public health. "Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it."
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Policy Research At The National Institutes Of Health: An Imperative In Peril | Health Affairs Forefront
Understanding the health consequences of policy is not peripheral to NIH’s mission. It is central to it.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 13h
As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 11h
Psychedelic-assisted therapy research for people with #HIV www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (subscription req for full text)
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Psychedelic-assisted therapy research for people with HIV
The success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed HIV from a fatal disease into a chronic, manageable condition. Yet for many people with HIV, viral suppression does not equate to health. De...
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TAGHIVscience @taghivscience.bsky.social · 12h
Worth bearing in mind that the administration violated these protections when they callously cut funding for clinical trials that were ongoing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order (Published 2025)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12h
I'm having flashbacks to March 2020, when Trump 1.0 stopped CDC briefings and undermined efforts to contain Covid. Measles isn't Covid, but the suppression of public health info is the same. The piece below is from 2020 but the headline works today. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
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Perspective | We ran the CDC. No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has.
The administration is undermining public health.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12h
*The CDC has clearly been compromised. Typically, we'd have had several press briefings given the alarming comeback of this preventable disease. Crickets. The CDC dashboard lists 2 deaths this yr, not 5, since they're trying to argue that those with measles died were going to die, anyways.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 12h
Absolutely stunning/horrifying to see a 5th measles death in PA. This means the outbreak is probably far higher than numbers count, seeing as roughly 1-3 people die per 1,000. Many people aren't being tested. Also: I'm going to states now for info, not the CDC* app.powerbigov.us/view?r=eyJrI...
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STAT @statnews.com · 12h
A proposed redesign of the federal government’s annual health survey would result in significant undercounting of Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/cdc-hea…
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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The Ohainle Lab @ohainlelab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very excited to share the first preprint from the Ohainle Lab at UC Berkeley! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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CypA is a molecular barrier to HIV emergence from Eastern chimpanzees
Of the two lineages of lentivirus that endemically infect chimpanzees, only one has served as a source of infections in hu-mans. Using HIV-CRISPR screening, we identify factors that limit the replicat...
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Plasma Proteomic Profiling Identifies a Subset of HIV Elite Controllers with Inflammatory Profiles Resembling People Without HIV www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 28/09/2026
Out Now! Prophylactic treatment with broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 selects for escape mutants after infection in Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials #MicroSky
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Prophylactic treatment with broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 selects for escape mutants after infection in Antibody-Mediated Prevention trials
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 28 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02467-4Prophylactic bnAb VRC01 selected for escape mutations in 31% of HIV breakthrough infections, but these mutations were rare in circulating viruses suggesting a fitness cost. More potent bnAbs such as N6 and 1-18 largely retained activity against escape variants.
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AVAC @avac.org · 13h
Another important read by @bhekisisa.org, bhekisisa.org/opinion/2026.... "South Africa helped prove that #LEN works. The next question is whether we can make it affordable and widely available, while also strengthening our ability to make medicines in Africa." #PrEP #HIV #lenacapavir
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Would homegrown LEN cost more? Why SA should still make the HIV prevention jab - Bhekisisa
South Africa wants to make the six-monthly HIV prevention injection lenacapavir locally. But cheaper generics made elsewhere are expected from 2027. Vinodh Aroon Edward explains why getting the jab to...
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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h
Judge Strikes Down Latest Version Of $100,000 H-1B Immigration Fee www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Judge Strikes Down Latest Version Of $100,000 H-1B Immigration Fee
A federal judge has struck down the $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa holders and invalidated the Sept. proclamation that renewed it.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/10/2026
President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.
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Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law
“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 14h
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan..."
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
This is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I literally said to Portia this morning, there's gonna be a shield law lawsuit soon. I didn't think it would be TODAY. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a bill of complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California. Hold on to your butts.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
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HIV Is Not Done With Us
Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening
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Dr Kathleen Millen @neurodevkathy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NIH funding is now based on politics not science 💔🧪Just heard that an excellent lab with whom I have collaborated for years is closing 😡. Highly skilled specialized technical staff laid off & accumulated rare expertise lost probably never to be rebuilt. Hope & future cures lost. I'm so angry & sad.
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Bugs Bunny Crying Scene
Alt: Bugs Bunny Crying Scene
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Stunningly, the Court acquiesces.”
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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three of NYC's largest hospitals have been targeted by a fascist inquisition seeking to eliminate gender affirming care for trans youth. Two have capitulated. Tomorrow, we visit the final hold out. Join us in demanding that they stand strong.
A flyer titled, "Restart care! No DOJ Settlement!" for a picket at New York Presbyterian Hospital organized by Gender Liberation Movement.

In the background is local NYC activist Jay Walker yelling into a megaphone.

The picket is Thursday, Oct 1 at 4:30 PM. The location is 525 E 68th St, New York, NY 10065.
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Early results show people losing coverage due to early implementation of a Medicaid work requirement in Nebraska, with signs that they're being caught up in administrative barriers. www.kff.org/medicaid/ear...
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Early Medicaid Work Requirement Insights From Nebraska | KFF
This brief describes the verification process for Medicaid work requirements in Nebraska and examines early data on outcomes for individuals subject to work requirements.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Washington Sun: RFK Jr. Just Exposed a Fraudster — And It Is Him He said he would end “corporate capture.” Now his MAHA movement is for sale. by Dana Milbank @washingtonsun.bsky.social @danamilbank.bsky.social ▶️ bit.ly/4z6JUbN
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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social has the most interesting review of the MAHA Summit. She asks who organized the event, who attended, and where the money goes. Kennedy likes to keep his grift in the family. Zadrozny notes: "Finn was the summit’s first speaker." www.ms.now/news/maha-su...
If the divergent, often competing pet interests of the activists within MAHA made the movement hard to define, the structure behind the business of MAHA is murkier still. The summit was presented by MAHA Center, a nonprofit helmed by Tony Lyons, publisher of Kennedy’s books and other contrarian works. Lyons also runs MAHA Action, a separate nonprofit, and MAHA PAC, the rebranded super PAC that bankrolled Kennedy’s presidential bid and is now backing Republican candidates in the midterms. Tickets to the summit went to “MAHA members” who enrolled at the $6,000-a-year tier — a membership advertised and presented by Lyons’ MAHA Action but whose agreement is with MAHA Holdings, a separate entity with no public-facing website, about which little is known beyond its CEO, former tech entrepreneur Alex Hardy, and one board member: Kennedy’s 29-year-old son, Finn.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cheryl Hines is a paid consultant to MAHA! So much grifting
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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
#RFKJr lies about #food safety and the recent cyclosporiasis outbreak. The latest Whopper of the Week from Defend Public Health: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/… #ImpeachRFKJr
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Doesn't Care if Your Dinner Makes You Sick | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. prematurely declared the cyclosporiasis outbreak under control in July 2026. The outbreak was not over before mid September. The lack of clear and truthful communication from HHS Secretary created public confusion and helped to spread misinformation about the outbreak.
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