Sara Silverstein

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Our timeline: Trump posted an AI video of himself promising every American will have access to a miraculous cure (that figures in a conspiracy theory) called a "medbed," while in reality Trump and his people are shutting down the government rather than enable access to real healthcare for Americans.

Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

Are you a healthcare worker or scientist (or know someone who is)? #RFKJr is bragging that he has your support. Time to let Congress know HCWs and scientists do NOT support this man. Take a few minutes to send in a postcard. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/hel...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

Read this piece to face some of the people — the children — who have died preventable deaths this year because of irresponsible changes to US policy.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid).

Please bear with me.

Our timeline: Trump posted an AI video of himself promising every American will have access to a miraculous cure (that figures in a conspiracy theory) called a "medbed," while in reality Trump and his people are shutting down the government rather than enable access to real healthcare for Americans.

Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present Dr. Craig Spencer (Brown University SPH) looks back at the history of eugenics in medicine to explore how lessons from the past can teach us about ...

I'm delighted to host @craigspencer.bsky.social at the University of Connecticut next week for a conversation about "Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present."
October 7th, 12:30pm. Join us if you're in northeastern CT!
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

Yes. And I think about the better world we could be focused on building if we weren’t always reacting to the latest crisis and trying to salvage what we can.

Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present Dr. Craig Spencer (Brown University SPH) looks back at the history of eugenics in medicine to explore how lessons from the past can teach us about ...

I'm delighted to host @craigspencer.bsky.social at the University of Connecticut next week for a conversation about "Eugenics, Statistics, and AI: From Past to Present."
October 7th, 12:30pm. Join us if you're in northeastern CT!
events.uconn.edu/human-rights...

When people start rationing their healthcare bad things happen. Ask anyone who has to pay for insulin. Hell, people already literally die in this country because asthma inhalers still cost $50 with insurance because of corporate price manipulation.

We tried to warn you.

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.

Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.

Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT:

RFK Jr is a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Discover a Detention Facility Near You: A Community Exercise in Civic Awareness

Help build a learning community around detention data. Get hands-on with the newly updated facility numbers at DetentionReports.com and add your own findings and perspectives.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/discover-a...

The referenced headline is:
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Funding.

This is one of the primary groups studying childhood brain cancers- among the hardest to treat; they need more, not less.

Says a lot about this administration’s priorities

Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan.

"But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C

Even mild Covid may leave blood vessels five years older Researchers discovered that Covid accelerates blood vessel aging by about five years, especially in women. Even mild infections increased arterial stiffness, with vaccinated individuals showing less d...

A few notes:
Even mild cases of covid can age blood vessels by 5 years, increasing risk for heart disease and stroke.
Vaccines reduce the effect.
Other effects of long covid can strike anyone.
Vaccines reduce the risk.
Blocking access to vaccines makes us sicker.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions' words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues

When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.

Even mild Covid may leave blood vessels five years older Researchers discovered that Covid accelerates blood vessel aging by about five years, especially in women. Even mild infections increased arterial stiffness, with vaccinated individuals showing less d...

A few notes:
Even mild cases of covid can age blood vessels by 5 years, increasing risk for heart disease and stroke.
Vaccines reduce the effect.
Other effects of long covid can strike anyone.
Vaccines reduce the risk.
Blocking access to vaccines makes us sicker.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

"I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously- consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, l've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point."

Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching
@uoregon.bsky.social

I think everyone knows this will be bad because it’s going to mean less physicians, less scientists, less new advancements & missed cures for diseases like cancer that may end up killing us. But it’s also going to devastate all of us economically even sooner cause the ROI on these dollars was crazy.

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY!

For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!)

DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS)

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Historian here, I guess I have to stop teaching how bad slavery was.

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

As Zelensky travels to Washington for peace talks, Russia strikes Ukraine with ballistic missiles Russia launched a wave of missile attacks towards Ukrainian cities late on Aug. 17, mere hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet for peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump...

⚡️As Zelensky travels to Washington for peace talks, Russia strikes Ukraine with ballistic missiles.

Russia launched a wave of missile attacks towards Ukrainian cities on Aug. 17, mere hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet for peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.