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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 24m

This is a very important piece if you want to understand how Trump and RFK are undermining what has made our public health institutions strong.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1h

Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function.

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

www.statnews.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 42m

“It seems like they just took a sledgehammer to the agency versus a scalpel,” said @drdebhoury.bsky.social.

She believes the unRIFed jobs may have been reinstated after public outcry. HHS did not provide documentation of an error by press time.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Entire offices erased at health agency in Friday move before Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error

www.theguardian.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 9h

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a chubby, plush tux cat on her side in my lap looking playful

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 1h

A Prelude to Violence

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

A Prelude to Violence

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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 8h

it’s tummy tuesday

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my little ham-let

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 10h

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10h

The first school to volunteer for this will be making an unambiguous statement: we would be the first to resegregate our university if we could. Sure would hate to see any school I’ve been affiliated with go down in history as that kind of scum

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10h

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run.

They have now come for all of us.

And each of us, and all of us, should say no.

Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11h

A Prelude to Violence

Photo of windowsill behind the headboard of my bed. On the left is Birdie a smaller orange brown and white cat who looks a little scared and has backed into a sheer gray curtain. She was there first. On the right is Nala, a voluptuous fluffy brown tabby cat, looking directly at the camera with her ears pressed out to the side in annoyance and caught with one eye closed. She jumped back there not knowing it was occupied by her nemesis

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

A Prelude to Violence

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did someone say hams

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 13h

Here's the big open secret: biosecurity isn't bipartisan. Joe Lieberman was an egotistical Democrat and is dead. Health security is a negotiated compromise on the speed of progress on the root problems at the heart of public health versus the state's interest in economic security and sovereignty.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13h

these are helpful free roundups

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 13h

Our latest weekly roundup is out, with news about multiple attacks on medication abortion, a whole lot of garbage emanating from Missouri and Texas, and some good news in Colorado:

Louisiana Sues FDA Over Abortion Pills, Texas Healthcare Workers Arrested, and More: October 13 News Roundup

Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

www.autonomynews.co

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19h

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

that last line

Under Dr. Mermin’s leadership, new H.I.V. infections in the nation dropped by 36 percent, and resurgent sexually transmitted infections showed the first signs of a plateau nationwide.

He also directed health departments to spend the bulk of their money on prevention. It was “a very precise and scientific and logical approach” to make the biggest impact for the least money, said Greg Millett, who worked as a deputy for the Office of National AIDS Policy in the Obama White House.

Now, however, Dr. Mermin is spending his days at home with his chickens and his misbehaving cat. The fate of the H.I.V. division hangs in the balance, and he worries that lawmakers may not realize its importance. “What if no one cares?” he said.

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@joshuajfriedman.com this might be the smallest one yet