Irwin Redlener
@irwinredlener.bsky.social
Public health activist, co-founder Ukraine Children's Action Project, UCAP.help, Columbia University faculty; founding director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness; Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
This morning, US envoy Steve Witkoff called indicted war criminal and international pariah Vladimir Putin, "a humanitarian". Do we all understand that the Trump administration, having overtly abandoned our allies in Europe, including Ukraine, is fully and openly collaborating with Russia?
I'm not a lawyer, so I'm just asking: Does HHS Scty, RFK,Jr, the extraordinarily dishonest anti-science menace to the health & wellbeing of Americans, bear personal responsibility for the deaths of 5 unvaccinated people from measles in Pennsylvania? I hope the Dems are ready to impeach come 1/1/27
Russia's missile and drone attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine are unrelenting. In just the past two days, at least 14 Ukrainian children have been killed or injured, including 5 killed when a missile struck an apartment building in Pryluky. Three of those kids were babies. UCAP.help needs you!
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Help children in Ukraine during this devastating time with Ukraine Children's Action Project's Ukraine children relief fund. Visit our site to learn more.
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Russia has upgraded the intensity and sophistication of attacks on Ukraine's heat & power infrastructure. Ukraine's resolve and war fighting capabilities are extraordinary, but they urgently need way more anti-missile defenses & more operational F-16s.
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Help children in Ukraine during this devastating time with Ukraine Children's Action Project's Ukraine children relief fund. Visit our site to learn more.
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So, we saw a photo of AI billionaires hanging with Donald Trump & getting the green light to keep on developing & selling open AI models that can be operated with zero guardrails. Recklessness bordering on psychopathy barely begins to describe how irresponsible this is. Congress must stop them!
Two recently reported stories that tell you a lot about the grift & cruelty that define virtually every advisor person & agency in the era of Trump. 1st, health chief RFK, Jr & his snake oil sidekick, Mehmet Oz slashed health & food benefits for immigrant kids...
UCAP and @directrelief.org — brought together by @clintonglobal.bsky.social to help Ukraine’s children amid the ongoing devastation of war.
We are grateful for this partnership and for Direct Relief’s support of UCAP’s work providing critical assistance to children and families across Ukraine. Watch yesterday’s announcement: www.youtube.com/live/Ol765oK...
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Russia's on a warpath designed to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure before the winter. This will mean long periods without heat and electricity for many of Ukraine's families. But you can help!
After a long summer vacation and only 1 week of work, Speaker Johnson dismisses Congress until November 9 in order to avoid a vote on whether to impeach Pete Hegseth, the most incompetent and dangerous member of Trump's Cabinet of fools and sycophants!m.
Recently resigned Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has ignited a firestorm of media coverage over his warning that AI is out of control and the consequences of autonomous capabilities could literally result in civilization extinction. Jacob is correct...
Four days ago a massive attack on Kyiv killed 19, including a 12-year-old boy and his mother; 61 were injured, seven of them children. Separately, a Russian strike hit Chuhuiv (Kharkiv region), killing three people including an 11-year-old boy, and nearly wiping out one family.
RFK Jr.'s obsessive campaign to politicize HHS & CDC and sledge hammer medical science continues to cross lines that should deeply concern anyone who values scientific integrity & public health without politics.
Cutting Alzheimer’s research funding was just the beginning for the looney, unhinged HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. He also slashed support for cancer &mental health research. Kennedy has brought chaos, dishonesty and dishonor to America’s once world class public health & medical research institutions.
When UN agencies finish confirming August data, they’ll announce that some 4,000 Ukrainian children have been injured or killed by Russian missiles & drones since February 2022. Now massive attacks on infrastructure will leave millions of Ukrainian families without heat in a brutal coming winter.
Back to school in a country at war: As American children are returning to school in an annual ritual filled with excitement and anticipation, Ukraine's children, millions of whom have been displaced, return to learn with dread.
I repeat: Dr. Schwartz, where are you? You are the head of the CDC. You must publicly refute the vaccine misinformation put out by the president and Secretary Kennedy. You must not allow those guys, neither a physician, to reject science and put millions of children at risk. Please speak up!
Irwin Redlener@irwinredlener.bsky.social · 2mo agoPaging Dr. Erica Schwartz! So what does the newly confirmed CDC head think about that big bowl full of vaccine quackery served up by Bobby K & POTUS this week? She's smart & qualified- but she'll need to take a stand. For science or for dangerous medical BS?
Paging Dr. Erica Schwartz! So what does the newly confirmed CDC head think about that big bowl full of vaccine quackery served up by Bobby K & POTUS this week? She's smart & qualified- but she'll need to take a stand. For science or for dangerous medical BS?
After disastrous WH vaccine conference overflowing with ignorance and quackery, here's what I want to know: will newly appointed CDC director, Dr. Erica Schwartz, legit public health expert, step down on principle, be fired by unhinged RFK, Jr. or stay on in spite of her belief in science?
RFK, Jr. goes full-on crazy in an interview with Dana Bash! See my reaction in-studio with Alicia Menendez on @ms.now: youtu.be/UeHJ0fPYfj8?...
Dr. Redlener on RFK Jr.'s Dangerous Medical Misinformation | MS NOW
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Hard to believe that the Trump Administration actually agreed to put Saudi Arabia on a path that could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon! Isn't the concern about nuclear potential the main rationale for our war with Iran?
“...while governments negotiate macro-defenses, there are immediate, daily psychological survival, medical care, and education needs of these traumatized children that can – and must - be supported by civil society,” writes Irwin Redlener in this op-ed.
Russia's war of conquest and its war on civilians
The hotel where we like to stay in Lviv, one of Europe's most picturesque cities, sits on a small square, a block from City Hall. Cafes and cobblestones, church towers and small shops enchant visitors...
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Lviv, our “hometown” in Ukraine -a beautiful city in western part of the country was bombed yesterday. Two apartment buildings & a civilian power station were attacked. These are out and out horrendous war crimes. UCAP.help will be there for Ukraine’s children. Can you be with us?
Ukraine Children Support | Ukraine Children's Action Project
Help children in Ukraine during this devastating time with Ukraine Children's Action Project's Ukraine children relief fund. Visit our site to learn more.
ucap.help
Shame on Rand Paul for conducting this ignorant witch hunt in an attempt to prove made up misdeeds he attributes to Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of America’s most heroic public health scientists who has saved countless lives over his long career.
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So, let's get this straight. In the middle of an intensifying war in the Middle East, purportedly prosecuted by DJT to eliminate Iran's ability to develop nuclear capabilities, chaos master Trump wants to provide the Saudis with its very own "civilian" nuclear program.
RFK, Jr amps up his Make America Sick Again campaign, saying federal health officials should consider "'non-immunization strategies' such as healthy lifestyle & disease prevention initiatives; off-label, repurposed use of FDA-approved drugs; dietary supplements." Such dangerous, irresponsible BS...
I like Nicolle Wallace's description today: "In a series of bizarre press conferences, Trump ran the gamut of sounding merely uninformed to downright addled and crazy."
Here we go! Senate on the verge of passing S-1241, a bill that would impose severe economic pain on Russia - and on any country that does business with Russia while it's committing daily war crimes in Ukraine, our democratic ally who needs our help. Make sure your Senator signs on to S1241 today!
RFK,JR continues his Make America Sick Again (MASA) rampage. He spreads wild misinformation about public health, undermines vaccine confidence, devastates medical research & dangerously cuts programs that track disease outbreaks (like cyclospora) - and he's created chaos at HHS. He must step down!
