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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 1d

Now my phone is showing me all the terrifying headlines abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Researchers find methane leaking out of cracks in Antarctic seabed

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, researchers have found.

abcnews.go.com

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 1d

When are we going to stop saying "might" and "could" when it comes to climate change. An Inconvient Truth is calling and it wants its optimism back. It has been clear catastrophe is inevitable for a while, even if we stopped for good in 2020 instead of ramping up www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

www.cnn.com

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

I have a masters in public health; I know the system. If I can't navigate it, the vast majority of people can't. Covid vax for kids was already too low and should have been higher under the Biden admin. Now under Trump, it will be virtually 0, especially for babies under 18 months for their 1st shot

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

@maggieastor.bsky.social I'm still having trouble, it's you're still writing an article

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to HHS, Trump and RFK Jr., babies are the 2nd highest cohort vulnerable to covid hospitalizations and death. They do not deserve this when we have safe and effective vaccines, but HHS has succeeded on their goal of preventing access.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

For my baby to be fully vaccinated for Covid in time for xmas like it's 2025 and not 2020, she needs shot 1/3 TODAY. But NO WHERE has it for a 6 mo. old thanks to RFK Jr., who is doing his best to increase his child murder bodycount and covid morbidity and mortality.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

Except that you can't find them anywhere for babies under 18 months.

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 2d

I take it back, the clinic in NJ took me in, had me wait 45 minutes with a screaming baby and only then TOLD ME THEY DON'T HAVE THE COVID SHOT I MADE THE APPT FOR. Healthcare in this country is fucked. Thanks for exposing my unvaccinated infant to a guy coughing up a storm @govmurphy.bsky.social

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 3d

James Woods is well known for being a right wing lunatic (much more so than for his acting nowadays). He believes this ridiculous shit.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 3d

James Woods uses a lot of words to say he's a nazi.

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 3d

Why do I feel like a ceasefire is just another way to move people around to genocide them better...oh because that's what's been happening. Please let me be overly pessimistic and wrong.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 3d

There goes my kid's IEP

Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 3d

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 3d

"Now, instead of scientific rigor and public health, we have panels designed to rubber stamp pet projects." Yep. It reminds me of the todo of "meeting people where they're at," which is unfortunately where money and influence(rs) are. vajenda.substack.com/p/menopause-...

Menopause Hormone Therapy: Politics and Personal Agendas are Threatening Science

The WHI Steering Committee Responds to the FDA Panel on MHT

vajenda.substack.com

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 4d

I've been thinking a lot about how capitulation to fascism and anti-science views in the Biden admin has only led to more of those things, to devaststing outcomes in the Trump admin. There's a direct line from "just wash your hands" to gutting the CDC now, and it's been tragic since 2021/Omicron.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 9d

Well, thanks again to NJ, where I can get my baby vaccinated at a clinic even though we don't live there. PA sucks. @governor.pa.gov where are the covid vaccines for children, VFC or just at the pediatrician???

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 9d

It's really a shame Shapiro is such a genocide-loving monster. He really could have been decent. But sure, let's demonize the guy for mayor in the other adjacent state because he seems to value humanity. That makes sense.

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 9d

I only lived in NJ for 4 years, but I'm constantly plotting to move back. Pa is only just livable in the largest metro area. The rest of it is...not. This is the stupidest article I've ever seen. Also, go Mamdani.

Politicos headline that says, "Josh Shapiro is dominating the race for governor of … New Jersey
Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli often point to Pennsylvania as an example of good governance they’d like to emulate."

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 12d

This is fucked up. And no, kids with private insurance can't necessarily access the covid vaccine either. Pharmacies won't under 18 months, and our ped. still didn't get a shipment either, so my unvaccinated 6 month old is left vulnerable to RFK's bloodlust. www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/c...

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay

Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

www.statnews.com

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 13d

I can forward you my emails from my county's VFC coordinator. She says PA still hasn't received their shipments. My pediatrician says they ordered them weeks ago and they're still not in.

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 13d

Where are the pediatric covid vaccines? My county's VFC program says the PA dept of PH hasn't gotten what they ordered yet. My ped. ordered weeks ago and still doesn't have them. Wtf is going on. Is Moderna not shipping them?

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 15d

Ah, so here's why a Harvard dean ignores legit peer reviewed and current research www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump admini...

www.thecrimson.com

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 19d

Remember when we were horrified that a supposedly civilized country "accidentally" bombed a hospital.

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 19d

This i dated today?? That's what this man, who I would argue we have to thank for RFK torching HHS, chooses to talk about right now? Ashish Jha is a monster.

cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 19d

That's going to help with medication shortages. People with cancer can wait, right

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cake and bread, MPH @ashleycakes.bsky.social · 21d

Who buys a 9 year old with ADHD a motherfucking recorder with an infant in the house???

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