Allison Bailey

me every single day

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

USA has been at war for 232 out of its 250 years of existence. It is the only nation to use atomic weapons. For 93% of its existence the USA has waged war or been in some war or another.

And now in year 250 it wages more war. An illegal attack on Iran. And I fear we’ll soon see more atomic weapons.

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.

Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.

Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

My report:

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Trump’s DoJ joins this fight in Colorado over affordable prescription drugs on the side of

*checks notes*

the pharmaceutical company that’s suing to limit access to a federal drug affordability program.

One of the vaccines Makary, Hoeg, Kulldorff, Bhattacharya, and RFK want to get rid of...

A page from the 1900 US census in Cincinnati Ohio.

Family historians already know what happens without vaccines. The 1900 US census asked married women how many children they had and how many are living. I pulled this one up randomly. Household after household reports dead children. Vaccines, along with antibiotics, are miracles. #genealogy

Last night, Trump claimed he "took prescription drugs... from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest."

But AELP senior fellow, Ben Jolley, tells ABC "pharmacists have not seen sweeping day-to-day reductions at the counter clearly tied to executive actions during Trump's second term."

Don’t Buy Trump’s SOTU Claims on Drug Prices - Public Citizen In his State of the Union speech, President Trump is expected to tout progress from his administration on lowering drug prices for Americans, but the rhetoric will not match the reality. Here are the ...

No, Trump hasn't made a major dent in high U.S. drug prices:
www.citizen.org/article/dont...

Quiz - How Well Do You Understand Your Health Insurance? | KFF Health insurance is often complicated, but understanding the basics helps you make better decisions about your coverage and care. This 10-question quiz touches on some terms you may encounter.

We have a new quiz on how health insurance works. But, it's really a statement about how utterly complex health insurance is in the U.S.
www.kff.org/private-insu...

People in the U.S. are being charged up to 16x as much as peer countries for the same treatments.

This is absurd.

As generics manufacturers are expected to begin selling GLP-1s in Canada for less than $100 soon, we're calling on HHS to authorize generic competition for GLP-1 drugs.

The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...

New @plosmedicine.org

"eliminating all external funding for tuberculosis could lead to nearly 80 billion US dollars in additional household costs and more than 40 million extra households facing catastrophic costs"

journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

State-level progress in reducing cervical cancer incidence among US young women between the pre- and post-human papillomavirus vaccination eras AbstractBackground. Despite well-documented national declines in cervical cancer incidence among young women following human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine i

Vaccine vs cervical cancer in U.S.

Nationwide, cervical cancer incidence rates declined by 27%.

Every 10% increase in vaccination rates was associated with an 11.5% in risk for cervical cancer.

academic.oup.com/jnci/advance...

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots

Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

Health Savings Accounts Can Be a Bad Deal for Low-Income Marketplace Enrollees In the wake of their actions that have worsened health care affordability, President Trump and Republicans in Congress have pushed to expand health savings accounts (HSAs). But this doubles down on an...

Marketplace enrollees’ premiums have skyrocketed following the recent expiration of PTC enhancements. Some have suggested health savings accounts and less generous plans as a more affordable alternative to comprehensive coverage. Here’s why that line of reasoning is flawed: 🧵

Bear sploot, with toe beans

Bear sploot with a saucy over-the-shoulder look.

The lowest of bear sploots. Basically two dimensional.

You're never too old of a bear to get in some quality sploot time.

Weekend plans

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later

Photo of red Glenfiddich 12-year scotch case, with “twelve” banner, stag logo, the number 12, and th words “OUR AMONTILLADO SHERRY CASK FINISH” in gold, Glenfiddich name in red.

For Valentine’s, I got my spouse scotch finished in amontillado casks and didn’t even lure him to any catacombs to give it to him. Though to be fair, our area is sadly lacking in catacombs.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

New poll: 78% say political influence is affecting scientific decision-making in vaccine policy; 60% concerned that those who want to get vaccinated are no longer able to bec of changes in or confusion around reccs from federal government.

#IDsky #vaccines #pediatrics #publichealth

Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows

Remember last week how Dr. Oz called AI the best solution for rural healthcare shortages?

Well, a new study finds that when patients turn to chatbots for health advice, they end up taking the wrong steps and getting the wrong diagnosis more than half the time.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A photo of a gray kitten laying on his back on a striped bedspread, stretched out and reaching toward a small fuzzy yellow ball with his front right paw.

A photo of a gray kitten laying on his back and side on a striped bedspread, stretched out and reaching toward a small fuzzy yellow ball with his both paws.

A photo of a gray kitten laying on his back on a striped bedspread, reaching toward a small fuzzy yellow ball with both paws.

A photo of a gray kitten laying on his left side on a striped bedspread, reaching toward a small fuzzy yellow ball with his front left paw.

A #Caturday play-by-play of Puca and his yellow ball.

UPDATE - I found 20 or close to HALF of the drugs up there have generic options available. There are 43 drugs up on the site. One of the 43 is no longer made by Pfizer.

The People They Killed When the Trump administration destroyed USAID, people died. We know some of their names.

May their memory stir action.

timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-people...

Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.

A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care. n.pr/3MqmT0M

Millions of Americans lose health insurance as COVID-19 era subsidies end With the spike in Affordable Care Act health insurance costs, around 4·8 million people could lose coverage. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Millions of Americans lose health insurance as COVID-19 era subsidies end www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.