Rosemary Farrell

If you call yourself a Republican in 2025, you align yourself with fascists and eugenicists Who are also bent on destroying libraries and all jobs within them.

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”

Dr Bill Foege

NRCC goes on attack after eighth Democrat enters Lawler race - Mid Hudson News WASHINGTON – The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has responded with a harsh barb for each Democratic candidate that has entered the Congressional Race in the 17th District against i...

More evidence.

When John Cappello registered his #NY17 campaign 2 weeks ago, THE VERY FIRST ARTICLE written about it was this local piece centered around the NRCC's response.

In other words:

THE GOP HAD A STATEMENT READY BEFORE DEMS EVEN KNEW ABOUT HIS CANDIDACY.
midhudsonnews.com/2025/08/09/n...

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Normally I welcome R-to-D party switchers, but for those familiar with Mike Lawler and #NY17 politics, this is VERY shady stuff.

A new candidate - John Cappello - has joined the Dem primary here.

The only problem: Until a few days ago he was a registered Republican.

www.lohud.com/story/news/p...

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

New Executive Order Gives Trump Greater Control Over Science Grants President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that will give him and his political appointees unprecedented control over grants from the NIH, NSF and other agencies.

⚠️📉 A new EO could let Trump control federal science funding, bypassing peer review & threatening public health research. #CUNYSPH Prof. @bruceylee.bsky.social explains the risks in his @forbes.com op-ed.
👉 cunysph.me/3JAW4Fg

Also look like they’re trying to claw their own eyes out. We had onesies with little fold- over “mittens” for both my kids.

Comfortable slip- on shoes

That library card burned hot in my little fist. I was a library kid in Roanoke VA. Could walk alone to the library, browse on my own, pick what I wanted to read (spoiler: there were animals in all my fave books). Changed my life. Ever grateful for libraries + librarians.

How are other people’s medical decisions any of your business?

They’re fans of petro-money.

More mailers alerting the voters of #NY17 that our GOP Rep. Mike Lawler voted to gut Medicaid and make life immeasurably worse for his non-rich constituents.

Wild.

Maybe I’ll be “personal angst”. Though I feel like engaging with my Catholic mother (an immigrant) who voted for Drump three times
has provided some insight into the psychology behind clinging to nonsense.

New tool measures fairness in NYC hospital care - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy A new study from CUNY SPH researchers puts forth a straightforward way to measure whether hospitals are providing fair access to care for low-income and uninsured patients. In the article, published…

🏥📊A new tool from #CUNYSPH PhD student Deirdre Flynn offers a simple way to assess fairness in NYC hospital care—measuring whether hospitals are equitably serving low-income and uninsured patients.
🔗cunysph.me/40SM7J8

House Republicans Grill CUNY Chief on Campus Antisemitism Claims Chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez became the latest university chief facing hostile questioners, where his non-responses did little to satisfy House Republicans while they also infuriated the union rep...

This "hearing" on higher ed today that called the CUNY Chancellor to testify on "antisemitism" was appalling, and Stefanik's questions clearly had it in for my faculty and staff union, the PSC. I'm grateful for PSC President James Davis's thoughtful responses, quoted in this article.

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CUNY SPH presents the 2025-26 Ferguson RISE fellows - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy CUNY SPH is delighted to present the Ferguson Rise fellows for the 2025-2026 school year. The Ferguson Fellowship Program, named for Dr. James A. Ferguson, provides educational and hands-on research…

🧪📈 Meet the 2025-26 Ferguson RISE Fellows! This year’s cohort continues a proud tradition of supporting public health students with a focus on infectious disease research, health promotion, and leadership development. #CUNYSPH #FutureLeaders
cunysph.me/FergusonRISE

Ending U.S.-global health research partnerships will cost America U.S. research on HIV, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mpox, and other fast-moving epidemics is under threat by a hastily announced NIH policy.

📉🌍 Ending US-global health partnerships could undermine decades of progress. In this op-ed for @statnews.com, #CUNYSPH Professor @denis-nash.bsky.social explains how the policy change may harm HIV, TB & COVID-19 research.
cunysph.me/45hDw5W

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been.

Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs.

That's it.

Cowards

Georgia Takes Brain-Dead Woman Off Life Support After Using Her Corpse as Incubator Adriana Smith's mother said her baby was delivered prematurely via emergency C-section on Friday and that Smith was taken off life support on Tuesday.

Adriana Smith's mother said her baby was delivered prematurely via emergency C-section on Friday and that Smith was taken off life support on Tuesday.
www.jezebel.com/georgia-take...

Grants at Columbia unfrozen at 9:30 this morning...

Refrozen at 2:30 this afternoon with instructions to undo all of the releases done earlier.

It like the 7th graders in detention broke into the Principal's Office...

Screenshot of a DM The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will undergo a “realignment” effective July 1. With 40% of staff positions eliminated, the remaining staff and services will focus on core library functions, including Collection Development and Health Data Standards (formerly Bibliographic Services). NCBI will continue operations but with reduced staff and services. Outreach will no longer be considered a core function. The Branch, which oversees NNLM, will be dissolved. NNLM will continue under the Office of Strategic Operations Traveling Exhibits and History Talks are suspended. Exhibits already on loan or scheduled will proceed, but no new programs or outreach initiatives will be offered. No new website curations will be created. MedlinePlus will be maintained as needed, but no new content will be developed.

Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus.

I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material.

#medlibs

In order to write well, one must read.

Alt NNLM An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the official NNLM YouTube. Not affiliated with NNLM or NLM.

"An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the officiaI NNLM YouTube."

#medlibs 📚

youtube.com/@altnnlm?si=...

I'm excited to share that some Kingsborough librarians are starting a journal, Humanities Methods in Librarianship! Our website is here: www.humanitiesmethods.org
My colleague Mark Eaton blogged about it: kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/06/10/n...
Will report more soon!

madness. complete and total derangement