Ann Dozier

Donald Trump is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

This is who he is.

And it is not necessarily the busiest airports. And not those who have experienced staffing issues.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Alan Sherman song: "One Hippopotami": A parody about English singulars and plurals. It contains the specific lines: "And what is half a pair of scissors? It's a single sciz! With someone you adore, if you should find romance, You'll pant, and pant once more, and that's a pair of pants!"

Magda Peck speaking of the Urgency of NOW at the MCH Town Hall. @APHA2025

And every November afterwards.

Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

Look around.
Every corner of this country is awake.
People flooding the streets not out of hate, but out of love—for each other, for freedom, for the idea that we still matter.
They want us to be afraid.
To stay home.
To be quiet.
We refuse.
This is what democracy looks like.

Allows them to declare they are making America Healthy again because there will be less and less data to refute their claims. Of course if the data collection etc processes were so concerning….. they ‘could’ work to improve them….. but no…

Let’s be clear—your rights don’t disappear because of your skin color, your accent, or your citizenship status. The Constitution doesn’t work like that, no matter how bad Republicans want it to. This Supreme Court ruling is dangerous and it’s only taking us backwards.

So wrong.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

This.

This.

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

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American,” nine former CDC directors write in a guest essay.

This.

Opinion | No Matter How Hopeless It Seems, We Should Press for Better, Stricter Gun Laws The prevalence of mass shootings in America is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, but we are not powerless to act.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Among the many tragedies of the Minneapolis school shooting is how commonplace a story like this has become,” German Lopez writes. But “the prevalence of this problem is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, and we are not powerless to act.”

It's officially Black Breastfeeding Week, so I'm reupping this thread. I'll be adding to it from now to the end of the month.

This.

Opinion | What It Really Means to Choose Life

"A decent society should do all it reasonably can to reduce human suffering. It should not, however, do so by extinguishing the lives of those who suffer or the lives of those whom we believe might suffer in the future."

Why we should choose life.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

I’d take an mRNA vaccine to boost my immunity against a virus over horse dewormer, bleach, bright light or chloroquine any day of the week.

An Avalanche of Autocracy But the backlash is brewing

open.substack.com/pub/elliotki...
Dispatches of despair flood my inbox, text chains, and social media feeds—friends, family, and global networks of reporters, lawyers, politicians, and everyday people sharing real-time accounts of a nation descending into despotism, an avalanche of autocracy.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Data Doesn’t Support Trump’s Justification for Deploying the National Guard Trump has taken over policing in D.C. and threatened to do the same in other cities. A Trace analysis shows that his claims of runaway violence are false.

President Donald Trump sent the National Guard and other feds to D.C. to combat what he claims is an out-of-control crime problem, and singled out five other cities where he said crime is “very bad”: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Baltimore, and Oakland.
Violence is falling in all of these cities.

Not a surprise

Hmmmmm

Let me start a list

Red state. Red state. Red state. Red state.

Blue state. Blue state. Blue state.