Savannah O’Neill

THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE. Spread the word of today’s dangerous actions! What in the Health?! 4/1/25

Today was absolutely disastrous for the health and welfare of Americans. 🚨Spread the word.📢 Don’t let this destruction fade into the background—our lives depend on it, literally. 🚨

Read more to see exactly what this means (spoiler alert: it's very bad news):
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Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align the military with Trump’s agenda.

One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

An NYC nonprofit has reversed 1,700 overdoses since 2021. Under Trump, it faces an uncertain future OnPoint NYC’s supervised consumption site offers lifesaving harm reduction services, reversing 1,700 overdoses since 2021, but faces political headwinds.

“Inside (OnPoint), such scenes play out hundreds of times per day, representing acts of compassion that, today, may have saved Shawn’s life — and that he says may soon allow him to leave fentanyl in the past.”

The least cool possible timeline is the one where we have to smuggle in SSRIs instead of anything fun

Federal judge pauses President Trump's order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.

apnews.com/article/judg...

Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, HIV groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children.

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block its executive order attempting to restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19 nationwide.

Los Angeles, thank you.

#FuckICE #daywithoutaimmigrant

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.

It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.

Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...

I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...

Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

I cannot believe this 💔💔💔