AJPH editors September meeting.

Want fluoride in the water? Too bad. - High Country News Across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride.

All across the West, lawmakers are skipping over the will of voters and yanking fluoride from municipal water systems. My latest story for @highcountrynews.org takes a deep dive into the fight over fluoride in the age of MAHA.

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Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

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On Friday, federal agencies began posting on Bluesky. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

It was coordinated blitz with several other federal agencies that officials described as an effort to “reach all audiences.”

Dangerous idiots.

Is there a greater celebration of political violence than watching it unfold for three hours from the safety of your bunker and then pardoning the violent?

YouTube video by MSNBC Brazil delivers a lesson in democracy America can’t ignore

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Governo Trump pressiona 5 bancos brasileiros para aplicar Lei Magnitsky Com Bolsonaro às portas de receber uma condenação, Casa Branca volta à carga e acentua ataques ao país

Governo Trump pressiona 5 bancos brasileiros para aplicar Lei Magnitsky

Com Bolsonaro às portas de receber uma condenação, Casa Branca volta à carga e acentua ataques ao país

Pra quem assistiu à defesa dos milicos golpistas hoje, uma coisa ficou clara: nenhum dos advogados negou que houve uma tentativa de golpe de estado. Apenas negou q seu cliente esteve envolvido nesse golpe.

Florida wants to end all vaccine mandates, the first state to do so Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced an end to vaccine mandates for school children, leading to increased infectious diseases.

#Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has announced an end to #vaccine #mandates for school children, a controversial decision that could lead to increased hospitalizations and fatalities from infectious diseases. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

Os reais motivos do Trump atacar o STF brasileiro e parte da imprensa americana ficar dizendo que os juízes tem poder demais: um judiciário forte é o único poder que pode parar um aprendiz de Mussolini

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

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From the OfficeSpeak community on Reddit: tRump supporters question if a Navajo congressman belongs in the U.S. - let that sink in. Explore this post and more from the OfficeSpeak community

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Why has Latin American shifted to the right? | Ernesto Samper Pizano A market-centered model and growing inequality led to rightwing ascendance. This moment calls for a new regional solidarity

Good analysis:
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RFK Jr.’s reconstituted vaccine committee meets for the first time, and I can’t help but think of clowns…antivax clowns Last week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s reconstituted Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time. The proceedings reminded me, more than anything else, of an

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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Home - Open Letter Against the rise of Fascism in 2025 The 2025 letter has been signed by over 400 academics, including 31 Nobel Prize winners. Join them in defending democracy. Our goal The letter is a collective denunciation of the mounting threats to a...

We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
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Medicine on a Larger Scale Cambridge Core - Global History - Medicine on a Larger Scale

Open access ebook already available:
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