Esther Choo

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Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

How America Got So Sick The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

“the withering of public health might not anticipate a future apocalypse so much as it recalls a previous America, one where lives were cheaper and shorter, where good health was the province of a privileged few…”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."

-Adam Serwer, in The Atlantic

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.

"Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

"No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor.

"Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave.

Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities..."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Black background with everything in white text, except [NationalShutdown.us] which it’s on top of a white box

No context needed

#generalstrike

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

So very sorry for this terrible loss

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

The heartbreak is that we all know those nurses: the ones who don’t compartmentalize to the hospital, but are always caring for the people around them.

“I don’t like established science,” he said, adding “science is what I observe.”

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

Homeland Security & @DHSgov X.com Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.

Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

In case anyone is still unclear, a tariff is a tax on imports and in practice American consumers pay most of it through higher prices

Please elaborate!

Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.” The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.

Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

I mean it wasn’t even one Scaramucci

Okay, now these SAMHSA grants are reinstated? I’m relieved, but how chaotic and inconstant and unprofessional is all this?

democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

The folks I work with are a small indigenous team providing a bridge to mental health care in a rural area. They squeeze lifesaving work out of every SAMHSA dollar while trying to stay intact week after week. There’s no money or time for lawyers.

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

I want it to be very clear that this doesn't just affect people with mental illness or addiction. It doesn't just affect their families, either. It will impact every single American with a decrease in quality of life, because the services that help people also buffer the community.

Amen

It’s fine! Just let everyone get to health crisis levels and have them go to the ER! Hahahahaha <laughs in unprecedented boarding>

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