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Janet Golden
@jgolden08.bsky.social
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Retired, mom, historian, political activist, perpetual piano student

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 1d
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social History of physicians and medical personnel called by HUAC in 50s for championing national health insurance, racial equality in health, and civil rights. “Freedom of Speech and the Viability of Science…”Oppenheimer & Tracy, NEJM 5 Feb 2026.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 6d
New post: history of safety net hospitals and their future andreasankar1.substack.com/p/saving-saf...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 7d
Just a reminder. We’ve seen this movie before.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 10d
Alex Pretti was a nurse to the end www.statnews.com/2026/01/27/a...
Alex Pretti was a nurse to the end
In his final moments, Alex Pretti did what nurses are educated to do, a nurse writes. He noticed, cared, and responded to an emergent threat.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
On January 7, 2026 ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good amid a sweeping immigration crackdown. On January 24, ICU Nurse and legal observer Alex Jeffrey Pretti was also shot and killed by ICE a...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
I repost because I believe people are moved by stories of individual others. There are many exceptions. We will defeat them this year @swingleftphl.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2026/01/preg...
A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks
Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
19thnews.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
What medical progress looked like in 1955: replacing Iron Lungs with prevention via vaccine.

What medical progress might look like if Kirk Milhoan has his way: replacing Iron Lung with positive pressure ventilator.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
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 Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
There is fecal contamination in US water systems. That is how polio can spread. And this is what happens when it does: collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:.... Old film. Same old virus.
Mission, measles: the story of a vaccine - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
There is fecal contamination in US water systems. That is how polio can spread. And this is what happens when it does: collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:.... Old film. Same old virus.
Mission, measles: the story of a vaccine - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine
collections.nlm.nih.gov

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
This is what happens:
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
www.salon.com/2026/01/19/m.... Amplifying this great piece
MLK would be appalled by America's health injustices
As the nation's health crumbles under Trump, King's words from 1966 remain more timely than ever
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
He never misses a chance to insult those who served. He never misses a chance to insult allies.
Starmer rebukes Trump over ‘frankly appalling’ remarks on Nato troops in Afghanistan
PM joins veterans in condemning claim that troops avoided frontlines and suggests US president should apologise
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Will Jennings, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 12 more

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16d
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article....
Boy, 5, with cancer & eating disorder has Bolivian dad detained by ICE
The five-year-old boy only accepted the food from his father, who would leave his job every day to take care of him.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
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New Restrictions on Foreign Aid Would Cost Lives | Defend Public Health
New foreign aid rules expected to be issued by the Trump administration that expand the “global gag rule,” also known as the Mexico City Policy, that prohibits organizations receiving U.S. funds from ...
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Reposted by Richard B. Aronson, Ramón López Facal, David S. Cohen , and 2 more

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?

[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
This girl and her father have gone to all their appointments, have an open asylum claim and a court date. That would mean something in a country of laws that would mean something in a country that doesn’t target children.

Reposted by Michael Kevane, Janet Golden, Dana Howard , and 1 more

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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 16d
NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father.

They remain in a Texas immigration detention center.

The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Border patrol detains 10-year-old Spokane girl and her dad, sends them to Texas detention center
Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Friday, Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.
www.spokesman.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 16d
Primary thehill.com/homenews/hou...
These Democrats voted for the DHS funding bill despite ICE furor
Several House Democrats joined with nearly all Republicans to approve a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday, as anger grows over the Trump administration’s immigratio…
thehill.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 17d
A Great Day for Polio. And this works in tandem with federal cuts to clean water funds, water monitoring. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 17d
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Whopper of the Week: RFK’s Obsession with Placebo Controlled Safety Trials is Dangerous | Defend Public Health
RFK has claimed for years that vaccines are not tested for safety, which is nonsense. Childhood vaccines are held to very high standards by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 22d
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Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 23d
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Shouldn’t any funding in the new budget have strict ICE guidelines and tracking of race, age, gender, etc. for violent interactions? Asking for a country
ICE violence against women is increasingly visible — and largely untracked
The killing of Renee Nicole Good — and the viral video that followed — underscores the forceful tactics long used against marginalized women.
19thnews.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 24d
@PublicHealth. @DefendPublicHealth
Attention RFK, Jr.: Why we pasteurize: circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2026/01/15/e...
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 25d
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When History Is Rewritten Before Our Eyes
The January 6 insurrection is no longer being merely debated. The facts of that day are being officially rewritten.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Jan 9
If I coerce you to give me your Nobel Peace Prize does that make me a Peace Prize winner? Asking for a certain person.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Jan 9
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Harvard’s Ouster of Mary Bassett Is a Revolting Act of Cowardice
The public health icon was brutally removed from her job for one reason: her opposition to genocide in Gaza.
www.thenation.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Jan 8
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. Cloaks Anti-vaxx Quackery in the Language of Informed Consent | Defend Public Health
On January 5, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the CDC will no longer recommend six of the seventeen vaccines previously on the United States (U.S.) childhood immunization sche...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Reposted by Janet Golden

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · Jan 8
This weeks Whopper is about how RFK Jr pretends to care about informed consent while actually promoting policies that reduce access to vaccines www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. Cloaks Anti-vaxx Quackery in the Language of Informed Consent | Defend Public Health
In 2024, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) concluded that over 70% of peanut allergies could be prevented through early consumption of peanut allergens by infants and c...
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Reposted by Janet Golden

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · Jan 7
The federal government’s new diet guidelines, released after months of unfounded political criticisms of earlier versions from RFKjr and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, must be approached with caution and a degree of skepticism

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Approach RFK Jr.’s New Diet Guidelines Skeptically, Defend Public Health Says | Defend Public Health
The federal government’s new diet guidelines, released after months of unfounded political criticisms of earlier versions from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture...
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