Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS

This is absolutely absurd

DA demands ‘some accountability with our compassion’ as Portland camping ban begins Multnomah County District Attorney Nathan Vasquez says criminal charges, however, likely won’t be widespread.

Criminalizing homelessness DOES NOT WORK. We've been here before. We already have a tremendous backlog of cases here, and we do not have enough public defenders to process those cases. It's also far cheaper to house people and give them beds in rehab than it is to put them in jail.

9pm Halloween night I get an email from Target telling me all the things I NEED for Christmas. Why do people skip over the best Holiday of them all, Thanksgiving?! (Also I don’t even celebrate Christmas so there’s that too)

Most people are closer to one day needing food assistance than they are to ever becoming a billionaire. Show empathy.
4000 patients who utilize our RW clinic are SNAP benefit eligible. On the eve of funding expiring we are all thinking about contingency plans to support them through this time.

ICE detains 2 SUNY Upstate University Hospital workers Two SUNY Upstate Medical University employees were detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday.

ICE just detained two SUNY Upstate hospital cleaning staff on their way to court to finalize their legal status.

These unsung heroes help keep patients safe from infections.

Please tell me how this is making Americans heathy?

dailyorange.com/2025/10/ice-...

I am going to be that annoying friend. Get your #COVID & #flu shots. There is little downside to getting immunized and it will spare you from being out sick, having to go to the doctor's office, hospitalization and yes, death. Too many people aren't stepping up to get the shots. Do it this weekend.

Covid in pregnancy tied to autism, developmental issues, study says A study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology analyzed more than 18,100 births in Massachusetts of children born to women who contracted the virus starting in the early months of the pand...

1. Correlation does not equal causation
2. Another reason for pregnant women get vaccinated!! Don’t listen to RFk jr who removed the recommendation www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

John Roberts Is a Threat to the Health of Every American The Supreme Court chief is complicit in the destruction of the federal government’s public health infrastructure.

Individual justices may wobble but the Roberts' court as a whole is aiding and abetting the destruction of public health, biomedical research and healthcare in this country. This is John Roberts' legacy. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Oh good lord. Make it stop

Trump Admin Attempts To Ban Trans Youth Care Nationwide With New Federal Rules Three new rules pushed by the Trump administration may serve as the next wave of a federal crackdown on trans youth care.

Horrible attacks on #trans youth’s medical care from Trump detailed by @erininthemorning.com

www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-admi... #Medicaid

I think this is something to be proud of but I’m not sure: I’ve reached the stage of applying to jobs where folks are sending me job opportunities that I have already applied for- so am I ahead of the curve? Will this get me a job?😵‍💫

Opinion | Being Fired From CDC Is Like Losing a Patient A physician's reflections on being RIF'd

As physicians, we're trained to run toward the crisis. Our work is built on being present -- showing up, assessing, acting, steadying the room. Public health is no different. It's medicine for the body politic, built on vigilance and prevention.” www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I predict that at some point this idiocy will be fodder for a @DefendPublicHealth Whopper of the Week. It's all about kissing the big, fat behind of Donald Trump.

Vaccine Skepticism Comes for Pet Owners, Too

Sad story about antivaxxer pet owners. Let's make #rabies great again? Or let pets suffer from easily preventable diseases?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/s... 🎁 article

a man in a plaid shirt is holding a cup of coffee in front of a dart board Alt: a man with a mustache is wearing a plaid shirt and holding a cup of coffee while standing in front of a dart board. The camera zooms in on his expression, which is one of anger, confusion, and bemusement

No matter how your day went - good, bad, somewhere in between - just remember...

At least you didn't brag about having a high IQ because you thought a dementia test was easy

Good night and sleep tight 💚

Kennedy directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports (Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

A little confused why the EPA isn’t involved here

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

Another Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Found to be Serving Unlawfully, Federal Judge Rules Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.

It has been happening for months.

RFK Jr. May Oversee Special Education For Students With Disabilities Trump said he wants to move special ed from the Education Department to HHS, under RFK Jr., who has made controversial statements about autism. What might happen?

Good lord. Make it stop. 🤬

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Texas AG Paxton files Tylenol lawsuit, taking cues from Trump, Kennedy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican seeking election to the U.S. Senate, filed suit against Tylenol’s maker and its former parent company barely a month after President Donald Trump warned...

Scientific evidence has become meaningless in Trumps America
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril

The ACIP meeting planned for 22-23 October has been indefinitely postponed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some are mad because people are on SNAP and not working.

I’m mad because people are on SNAP even though they are working.

Woof. Just saw my first Christmas commercial. It’s the season indeed

This is demonstrably false. They literally hold the majority. MAKE THE STUPIDITY STOP!

This is an embarrassment and abomination- SNAP recipients are hard working Americans (yes, I said hard working) being used as pawns in this administrations sick regime fantasy.

I sure hope epidemiologists are examining associations and/or causes

I can’t un see these as norivirus vessels. Ew