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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

📷: Former Surgeon General Vice Adm. Vivek Murthy is sworn in in 2015. Photo by Damien Salas via NARA and DVIDS Public Domain Archive (bit.ly/3KCIthz).

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

Read the full warning in the Washington Post (bit.ly/formersurgeonsgeneral), and then sign Free Speech for People’s petition calling on Congress to impeach and remove Secretary Kennedy Jr. from office: bit.ly/impeachkennedy

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

They describe a culture of intimidation, where scientific findings are censored, evidence is disregarded and career officials are pressured to rubber stamp conclusions that are not backed by science.”

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

“He has silenced and sidelined hundreds of scientists, public health officials and medical professionals, creating an atmosphere of fear and distrust. Many of the nation's top public health professionals - people we have worked with during crises - have resigned or retired early.

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

“Kennedy removed every member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, replacing its scientific experts with individuals who often lacked basic qualifications, some of whom are vaccine conspiracy theorists.”

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

. . . second, as public servants who committed to protecting the health of all Americans.

Today, in keeping with those oaths, we are compelled to speak with one voice to say that the actions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are endangering the health of the nation.”

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 23h

“As former U.S. surgeons general appointed by every Republican and Democratic president since George H.W. Bush, we have collectively spent decades in service as the Nation's Doctor. We took two sacred oaths in our lifetimes: first, as physicians who swore to care for our patients and, . . .

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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 3d

Carl Sagan frequently spoke out against the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and advocated for nuclear disarmament and peace during his life. His words, decades old, still hold today.

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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 5d

In March, an EPA official told a Ford executive, “Although I am recused from Ford issues, you always have a friend here.” Then, Trump banned states from setting vehicle emissions standards.

In our latest FOIA request, we dive into which groups have the EPA's ear: sc.org/FOIA

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Back From The Brink @backfrombrink.bsky.social · 8d

No Kings.
No Nukes.

Simple as that.

Show up at tomorrow's No Kings rally near your neighborhood and raise your voice for justice, safety and peace.

www.nokings.org

#NoKings

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

📷: Maptela Day Care Centre in South Africa in 2010. The centre was supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which the Trump administration temporarily froze payments from. Photo by USAID Southern Africa via Flickr (bit.ly/3J3kdV7).

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Children at Maptela Day Care Centre, a USAID/PEPFAR-supported day care center for orphans and vulnerable children in Soweto

Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, visited the Mapetla Day Care Centre in Soweto. Supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through USAID, Mapet...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

We must prevent what we cannot cure, for everyone, everywhere.

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Children at Maptela Day Care Centre, a USAID/PEPFAR-supported day care center for orphans and vulnerable children in Soweto

Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, visited the Mapetla Day Care Centre in Soweto. Supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through USAID, Mapet...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

This was for one disease in one province.

Read more from the Washington Post here (bit.ly/wapostforeignaid), and then call your members of Congress and demand they restore and expand health and food aid to people in developing countries: usa.gov/elected-officials.

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

Some areas still have less medication than before the freeze, forcing doctors to ration care.

In one province of Congo, government figures show that 600 people died of malaria in the first half of this year, more than the number who died of the disease in all of 2024.

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

. . . but a Washington Post investigation found that the effects of the freeze severely disrupted supply chains for months.

Hundreds of shipments of HIV and malaria medication to more than 40 countries arrived late or never arrived.

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

US taxpayers help to pay for lifesaving HIV and malaria drugs in developing countries. Earlier this year, the Trump administration froze those payments. It later lifted the freeze on some lifesaving medications under public pressure . . .

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Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

Research at the University of Maryland shows that most Americans support spending 10% of our federal budget on foreign aid. (bit.ly/publicconsultationstudy)

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Large Bipartisan Majorities Oppose Deep Cuts to Foreign Aid

College Park, MD – An overwhelming majority of 89% of Americans say the US should spend at least one percent of the federal budget on foreign aid – the current amount the US spends on aid. This includ...

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Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility Action Fund @cpsraction.bsky.social · 8d

Did you know that before the Trump administration’s cuts this year, the US government spent about 1% of its budget on foreign aid? (pewrsr.ch/473xvcs)

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Chesapeake Climate @chesapeakeclimate.bsky.social · 10d

Join our partners @7directionsof.bsky.social service this Sunday for Bundle of Arrows, an activation of grassroots power to prevent new methane gas pipelines. Performances by Lumbee/Tuscarora singer-songwriter Charly Lowry, and more! RSVP: bit.ly/bundleofarrows
#EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice

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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 15d

In an unprecedented move, Senate Republicans just voted to erase public land plans in AK, MT, and ND, all to benefit corporate polluters. And they're not done yet: similar resolutions have already been introduced. Tell your members of Congress to choose the people over polluters: sc.org/LandsAction

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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · 22d

Trump just handed $625M to Big Coal + opened millions of acres for mining. Meanwhile, utilities are STILL clinging to expensive fossil fuels. Our 5th Dirty Truth report shows the cost is falling on families. #DirtyTruthReport sc.org/dirtytruth

The Dirty Truth Report

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Back From The Brink @backfrombrink.bsky.social · 19d

2 CA congressional members have signed H.Res. 317!

Thanks for your leadership @levin.house.gov & @mikethompson.house.gov

BIG shoutout to our CA activists who made this happen after months of advocacy work.

Let's keep it going: preventnuclearwar.org/bftb-congressional-resolutions

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CCAN Action Fund @ccanactionfund.bsky.social · 22d

Maryland is already paying the price of the climate crisis with flooded streets, deadly heat, and toxic smoke, while fossil fuel giants count record profits. Lawmakers must override the veto of the #RENEWAct.
marylandmatters.org/2025/10/03/a...

#ClimateJustice #MakePollutersPay

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The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health @docsforclimate.bsky.social · 23d

A new article out in @nejm.org analyzes the potential adverse health effects of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" and its energy-related provisions, concluding that Americans are likely to regard the bill as "sickening" as those consequences manifest.

Adverse Health Effects of Energy-Related Provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” | NEJM

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will dramatically increase U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, along with all their known adverse health consequences.

www.nejm.org

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Physicians for Social Responsibility - National @psr.org · 24d

All children deserve #CleanAir, #CleanWater, safe food & products, and healthy places to live, learn & play. Join us on 10/9 to celebrate all of the #ChildrensEnvironmentalHealth wins from this year & take action to #ProtectKidsHealth on #CEHday cehday.org

Children's Environmental Health Day

Healthy environments for all kids!

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