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Janet Golden
@jgolden08.bsky.social
Retired, mom, historian, political activist, perpetual piano student
I peeked at the new Republican health plan. They are going to send you a bottle of RFK Jr endorsed supplements and by saving $$ will lower tax rates on the rich even more. #IfTheOnionWon’tSayItIWill
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A moment of history: The 1945 National HealthCare plan.
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Senator Ossoff: “Imagine losing health insurance in the middle of chemotherapy because rich and powerful politicians refuse to help you.”
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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.
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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.
www.ksbw.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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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
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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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
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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’...
actionnetwork.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social new essay on administration’s attacks on public health and all of us
open.substack.com/pub/andreasa...
“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”: FREEZING IMMIGRANT HEALTHCARE
“IT’S HARD TO SEE THE HUMANITY”:
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Secretary of Defense is a war criminal.
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
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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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.
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
newrepublic.com/article/2035....
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
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ministry of Truth strikes again.

Data-derived information can be found here: www.immunize.ca/resources/89
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM