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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
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u.... He ordered the change in font to make it harder for people with low vision to read state department materials.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 3d
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i.... Top marginal tax rate when I was born: 91%. Top marginal, tax rate next year: 37%. It is not a problem if money can solve it. It is a choice by those in power.
It’s still not OK boomer: younger Americans are flailing – and mad as hell | J Oliver Conroy
For young Americans, not being able to buy a house is more than a sob story. It’s the symbol of a broken social contract and a generational betrayal
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 6d
If you are a big fan of Liver Cancer, today is your day. RFK, Jr. stands up FOR cancer: www.ksbw.com/article/cdc-...
CDC vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth
A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 7d
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
ACIP Meeting Turns into “Epidemiological Crime Scene” | Defend Public Health
Health experts with Defend Public Health expressed shock at the flood of antivaxxer disinformation that dominated the first day of the December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practi...
www.defendpublichealth.org

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 7d
Hepatitis B vaccines are safe, and a successful public health measure we've used for decades.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/d...
Do studies show that vaccines are safe?
Explore the truth behind vaccine safety as we debunk claims that Hepatitis B clinical trials lacked thorough monitoring, emphasizing vaccines’ proven benefits.
www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 8d
Join us Tues, Dec 9th, 5-6 p.m. ET, to learn more about legislative and other gov't attacks on trans individuals& loved ones. We will be talking about ways to take action to fight these attacks and be in solidarity with their community
DPH December General Assembly: Fighting for Trans Health and Rights
Please join the Defend Public Health community on Tuesday, December 9th at 5-6pm ET to learn more about legislative and other government attacks on our trans colleagues’, loved-ones’, and communities’...
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 8d
Whopper of the Week: RFK Wants You to Fortify Your Immune System So He Can Deprive You of Modern Medicine
Whopper of the Week: RFK Wants You to Fortify Your Immune System So He Can Deprive You of Modern Medicine | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. believes that with a healthy diet, exercise, and the avoidance of environmental toxins and stresses alone, an individual can prevent disease. While these are good health practices, they are no...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 9d
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social new essay on administration’s attacks on public health and all of us
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“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”: FREEZING IMMIGRANT HEALTHCARE
“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”:
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 9d
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“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”: FREEZING IMMIGRANT HEALTHCARE
“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”:
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 12d
After Marty Makary claimed, with no evidence, that COVID19 vaccines killed children, Defend Public Health published this report on the topic.

Now Prasad is making the same claims.
These are not “unbiased” people. We don’t trust them & neither should you.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Scientific evidence shows no link between COVID19 vaccines and child deaths | Defend Public Health
In response to claims by the Trump administration that COVID19 vaccines caused 25 pediatric deaths, Defend Public Health reviewed the scientific evidence from rigorous vaccine safety surveillance syst...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.
denisedwheeler.bsky.social Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 13d
Hegseth issued an illegal Caribbean strike order: “Kill them all.”

SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.

Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.

Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.

#WarCrimes
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 13d
Hegseth issued an illegal Caribbean strike order: “Kill them all.”

SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.

Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.

Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.

#WarCrimes
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 13d
A brain injury specialist on science denialism and anosognosia (brain injury). Similar presentations, different causes and responses: elizabethsandelmd.com/insights/fly...
Flying in the Face of Facts: Denialism, Anosognosia, and the Human Brain - Elizabeth Sandel, M.D.
When someone refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality, they call upon irrational thought processes and behaviors that produce denialism. People sometimes process information to reach conclu...
elizabethsandelmd.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Has Plainly Stated His Belief in the Falsehoods of AIDS Denialism | Defend Public Health
In June 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told New York Magazine, "There are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS." This is blatantly false, contradicted by mountains of data and real-world ...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 15d
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A perfect takedown of Nuzzi’s normalization of RFK, Jr from a vaccine historian, who knows the consequences
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
newrepublic.com

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Amy Fitzgerald @amyarielfitz.bsky.social · 15d
This is it for me. I'm not interested in whether she's a good writer (she's not) or *why* she's a trainwreck (yes, sketchy older men conditioned this behavior, sure; also she was 31 in 2024) or what she *thought* she was doing ($). This is the actual impact.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 17d
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/andreasa...
“WE WERE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER"
ERADICATING SMALLPOX
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 21d
Ministry of Truth strikes again.

Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89

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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 22d
For this week’s Whopper of the Week, we have a look at RFK Jr.’s appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and their ties to the anti-vaccine movement.

You can read it below.
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy's “Unbiased” Vaccine Panel is actually packed with Anti-vaxxers | Defend Public Health
ACIP will meet in December and is considering some major changes to childhood vaccines. In June Secretary Kennedy fired the panel of experts and installed a group of vaccine cynics. To justify this ch...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 22d
How to increase HIV deaths through budget cuts: billypenn.com/2025/11/18/h...

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
Funding cuts threaten people in Philly living with HIV
Organizations that provide services like HIV education and living recommendations are being forced to cut programming after funding cuts
billypenn.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 23d
My cousin had this board game. It did not have squares for “buy a pardon,” “bypass Congress,” or “answer to billionaire donors.” Needs updating.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 24d
apnews.com/article/nih-...? NIH cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 24d
apnews.com/article/abor...? South Carolina’s war on women: the most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits.
South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
apnews.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 24d
Every single person who failed to report the criminal activity that they knew about should be prosecuted for aiding his crimes. And the man who participated in these crimes should be punished even more. Everyone around him had a duty to report him and stop him.
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · 29d
I had to put the word out to people who were here for a conference this weekend and although immunized and/or had measles, are now immune compromised. Not something I ever expected to do. #GetVaccinated
Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Nov 11
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/... African-American soldiers removed from exhibit at US cemetery in the Netherlands.
The Quiet Export of American Historical Erasure
Earlier this year, visitors to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg, noticed something missing. Two panels honoring Black American soldiers who fought and served in World War ...
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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Nov 8
I want to live in a country whose leaders and jurists don’t agree to deny food to the hungry, and a lot of other things. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · Nov 6
Enjoy this piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social that was a speech he gave at this years APHA!
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Nov 5
www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Wants to Remove Aluminum from Vaccines and Endanger Americans' Health | Defend Public Health
Aluminum, found naturally in many foods, is sometimes added as a salt in tiny quantities to vaccines as an immune booster. For years, Robert F. Kennedy has said that aluminum-containing vaccines cause...
www.defendpublichealth.org

Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Nov 5
@swingleft.bsky.social @swingleftphl.bsky.social A heartfelt thank you to everyone who knocked doors, called, donated, wrote letters, week after week, this was your reward. And now we have to do it again, and again, and again!