Emma Golub
@emmagolub.bsky.social
Maternal-child health policy analyst in Philly. Protected bike lane lover, Tolkien fanatic, another Jew for a free Palestine. Opinions are mine only. She/Her
Michigan friends— get out there today or tomorrow and VOTE ABDUL FOR SENATE! As a former Michigander, a public health professional and a Jew, I simply could not be more supportive of Abdul!!!! Go Abdul, Go Blue 💙
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2d agoTomorrow is Election Day in Michigan. If you haven't voted yet, make sure you vote on Tuesday. Find your polling place at abdulforsenate.com/vote. Text your family and friends!
Head Start is the leading anti-poverty program for young children, and for decades it has had bipartisan support. It's a lifeline--and now President Trump, having failed to defund it, is trying to gut it another way.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5d agosolid sub-head - meaning, good lord:”failed to block funding” so contriving an alternate evil to inflict harm on poor children
Deportations are death sentences. "[The couple was] killed weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported last year. Their 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body. The child showed signs of dehydration." www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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A driver in Boston ran down and murdered a scooter rider because he felt "disrespected." Cars are weapons.
WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston@wcvb5.bsky.social · last wk.Man faces murder charges in fatal scooter crash, Boston police say | Click on the image to read the full story
There's dead and then there's mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. However in this case there's only one thing to do, which is to go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's been 39 days since anyone has publicly seen Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). I asked his office for any updates on his mysterious health condition or his plans to return to the Senate, and got... a statement from 11 days ago. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Ah, yes Andy. Because the Shire just sprouted out of the ground with the white people already there. It’s not like they’ve ever migrated and settled there. It *feels white* TO YOU. Because you’re a white, middle aged, racist man. And one who CLEARLY does not know the source material.
"The chemical, called 6PPD-Q, is formed when fine tire particles meet ozone. That happens anytime new chunks of tire are exposed to the air, meaning the particle may be nearly ubiquitous in car-heavy environments."
Learning What Substance Is Suspected of Causing Alzheimer's May Throw You Into an Existential Crisis
A surprisingly common substance was found to have a causal relationship with the kind of brain damage associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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These tragic deaths underscore the urgent need to do more to address traffic violence. Every vote against safer streets and every delay in implementing them puts more lives at risk.
“ […] dyadic care paid for as a mother-baby unit, is not new. Researchers and state Medicaid agencies have piloted versions of it for years […] The reason it has not scaled up is not a failure of imagination. It is a failure of payment.” (from a letter to the editor)
Opinion | The Postpartum Care That Mothers Need
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as a Philadelphian born in RI, i can doubly never support the Knicks, but I can respect this. @bennydoc.bsky.social
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2mo agoMY MAYOR IS MUSLIM MY BAGEL IS JEWISH CONGESTION PRICING IS ALIVE KNICKS IN FIVE
Here's what the pork industry doesn't want you to know about the way it sneaked a provision into the 2026 farm bill that would nullify ballot measures that improve animal welfare, while helping Chinese companies torture American pigs. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o... I welcome your comments.
Opinion | What the Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o... 2/3 of US pregnancy-related deaths happen in the year after giving birth and 80+% are preventable. This is why we need to fund and expand dyadic care models like @healthysteps.bsky.social Maternal health is child health.
Opinion | Nine Months of Medical Attention. Then Almost Nothing.
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Proud future constituent of Congressman Chris Rabb
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️@renzaro.com · 3mo agoSTOP THE PA-3 COUNT
Thank you @chomilomd.bsky.social for your moral leadership and courage
Nathan Chomilo, MD FACP@chomilomd.bsky.social · 3mo ago“The Board has affirmed its initial determination that you be removed as Chair of the Council of Health Equity, effective today, February 3, 2026" Check out my OpEd reflecting on this decision & how it's another sign of a larger issue within health care, public health & academia #MedSky #PedSky👇🏾✊🏾
Many policy changes don’t target children but they still shape young people’s access to care. We're launching a new series focused on these "blind spots." Radha Pennotti shares 4 priorities related to adolescent health we're watching and where we'll be diving in. youtube.com/shorts/Hdvpo...
Adolescent Health in 2026: Where We Are, What We're Watching
Adolescence is an exciting time of life—and one of rapid physical, mental and developmental change. And health and well-being in this period has a lasting impact into adulthood. This time last year,…
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Winter (SEPTA season for me) is over and I am back at it: Telling cars idling in Philly bike lanes to Please Get Out of the Bike Lane.
"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo agoHow Paris beat the car ft.trib.al/9wq8tu9 | opinion
1 week of war = 11 billion $ Next time we hear that there's no money for health, education, science, humanitarian aid, we remember this
Tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to treatment for H.I.V. as nearly 20 states impose restrictions on assistance programs and several others weigh such changes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...
States Move to Limit Access to H.I.V. Treatment
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May all Billionaires who unscrupulously name their companies after Tolkien's creations get what is coming to them: May Palantír burn in the fires of madness + destruction; May a dragon conquer + lay waste to Erebor; May Andúril be broken into shards once more; May Sauron be vanquished by hobbits.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 5mo agoThank you @brucelesley.bsky.social @firstfocus.bsky.social for illustrating where U.S. policy must go to cultivate true well-being for pregnant people, young children, and families, based on the evidence in our recent report at @policylabchop.bsky.social.
Bruce Lesley@brucelesley.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Evidence Is Not Neutral: Two Competing Paths for America’s Mothers and Babies open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
"Because TB is a disease of the poorest people in the poorest places, the systems to diagnose and care for them remain antiquated" @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports on the ground realities from Cameroon www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...
4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease
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“Alas for Saruman! It was his downfall … How long, I wonder, has he been constrained to come often to his glass for inspection & instruction, & the Orthanc-stone so bent towards Barad-dûr that, if any save a will of adamant now looks into it, it will bear his mind and sight swiftly thither?”-Gandalf
Benny@bennydoc.bsky.social · 6mo agoHonestly, I find palantir's nda offer v reasonable: "You can see *all* but... It will bind you to our side, alter who you can tell, and shape how you act upon the world."
