Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There are no words to articulate the feeling of knowing what’s coming and seeing people gleefully drive us head first into it. Then to see it happen AGAIN AND AGAIN across so many different aspects of society that help keep people alive and safe… www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...
Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets
The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
npr.org
New reality: ICE agents are allowed to conduct raids in hospitals & clinics. ICE agents may pretend they're police to gain access to information or private spaces or lure people to public spaces, but they do not have the authority to do this or to bypass warrant requirements! Essential reading 👇🏾
Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making
Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.
statnews.com
1) Do something autocratic 2) Wait to see how people react 3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on 4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it 5) Illegally consolidate more power 6) Repeat
RFK Jr...'We're going to do 80% cuts & then we're going to have to reinstall 20% of them, because we'll make mistakes..' 'REINSTALL'? These are people you're talking about...lives & livelihoods & their emotional & mental health Stop treating people this way. abcnews.go.com/Politics/rfk...
RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake
On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut.
abcnews.go.com
As I watch people and organizations who have the power to resist fold, I keep thinking of the reflection from Helen Keller that "avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."
Dan Nexon@dhnexon.net · 2y agoWhile morally odious, cowardly, and textbook examples of getting divided-and-ruled... the deals being struck by unis and law firms don't seem on face particularly onerous. Is that the key here? Law elites and university presidents are like, "meh," even as they push the door open wider to autocracy?
I haven't seen reporting on this, but the staff that collects data to update findtreatment.gov has been RIFed
FindTreatment.gov
Find state-licensed treatment near you for addiction and substance use disorder.
findtreatment.gov
CDC and health departments keep Americans safe. These reckless cuts will leave us sicker and more vulnerable. As one CDC scientist said, ‘They are cutting off our arms and legs.’ Gutting public health isn’t efficiency—it’s sabotage. nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C. (Gift Article)
In addition to reductions in agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations.
nytimes.com
In a proper country it would be a crime to knowingly harm children by practicing medicine without a license (and willfully lying to further a grift)
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2y ago“A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.” www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the courage it takes to serve—and the courage it takes to live authentically. At VoteVets, we believe anyone willing and able to serve this country should have that right. Their service is real. Their sacrifice is equal. Their commitment is undeniable.
This is a do-or-die moment for the American labor movement. Invite everyone you know. On April 5th, we fight back.
A reminder that Bill Maher has long been an antivaxxer and AIDS denier and helped mainstream the “do your own research” culture now dismantling public health. He is also a good friend of RFK Jr. It’s time for the media to stop giving him a platform. You are not entitled to your own facts.
Why Is CNN Platforming Notorious Anti-Vaxxer Bill Maher?
In a desperate play for relevance, the flailing cable news network gave the neo-luddite comic a primetime slot. That’s a mistake for “the most trusted name in news.”
thedailybeast.com
Americans are going hungry under Trump. Food banks across the country — already strained by deep cuts to locally grown food programs — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is canceling $500 million in expected food deliveries, further disrupting aid as demand continues to grow.
“Like any self-important adolescent, I spent most of my high school history classes wondering what I would do in the moments before true horror or chaos or where my values were tested and demanded great sacrifice. I do not wonder anymore. I know who I am. I thought I knew who we all were.”
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2y agoYou can read Cohen's full statement here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...
As the Iron Curtain fall on American Science, we can learn much from the heroes of the past.
LSW@ltrip.altgov.info · 2y agoNoncompliance is a powerful weapon! Czechoslovakia’s velvet revolution, after Soviet invasion in ‘68 When a Soviet comes to you 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.
New Federal Law Mandates Women Talk With Baby Voice
New Federal Law Mandates Women Talk With Baby Voice
WASHINGTON—In a decisive victory for longtime champions of the cause, congressional leaders announced Wednesday the passage of a new federal law mandating that all women talk with a baby voice. “Under...
theonion.com
