Megan Velasco Schwartz MS, PhD

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Trans rights are human rights.

I’m a former CDC director. I’m deeply concerned about the future of vaccines in the U.S. “I am deeply saddened for the agency I was honored to lead, for colleagues put in harm’s way, and for the quiet heroism of public health workers who are derided for political gain,” Rochelle Walensky ...

Broad access to vaccines of all sorts is in jeopardy, former CDC director Rochelle Walensky warns in an Op Ed in @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2025/09/16/r...

Disgusting

Florida’s surgeon general said he didn’t calculate the costs of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists have. | CNN Florida’s surgeon general said Sunday that he had not weighed the cost – in terms of infections, hospitalizations or deaths – of ending vaccine mandates in the state. But scientists who have done thos...

In Florida alone, a 15% decline in vaccinations against measles over 25 years would lead to 1 million measles cases. www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/h...

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Chicago, protesters have gathered outside the ICE facility where detainees will be "processed" throughout the upcoming DHS surge. A vehicle with a masked agent inside arriving for work reversed and turned around after activists and clergy planted themselves across the driveway.

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US

Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

ICE kidnapping a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her.
Heartbreaking 💔 😢

hey hey rfk
how many kids did you kill today

Newsom: "We're doing this in reaction to a president that called the governor of the state of Texas and said 'find me 5 seats' ... we cannot unilaterally disarm ... other blue states need to stand up"

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just feel a need to scream into the void about the news every day. WTF.

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have

Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...

FOUR TT positions in ecosystem ecology at Odum School of Ecology, 2 aquatic 2 terrestrial, over next 2 years! visit www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/439... for more info.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Disgusting Nazis

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

🔊 Listen Now: Leaders from coastal cities discuss rising sea levels at a U.N. conference in Nice Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR One | 3:57

Leaders from coastal cities discuss rising sea levels at a U.N. conference in Nice one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5425...

NOAA and NASA are banned from attending by trump. What a bunch of BS.

You can argue the merits of deporting Marcelo—a young man brought here at age 5—if you want to. But this is someone we should be proud to call American. He’s solid on every level. And if you’re really a Christian, you should be lifting him up, not casting him out.

Listen w/an open mind—and heart.

That was great. Time has gone too fast!

Good!!!

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

☹️ sorry to miss you!!!

I’m so glad to know that you are there! See you next weekend!

The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!