that one nurse epi

Your job now, as an American, is quite simple: For the entire summer, whenever you come across a republican congressman, you ask him the same question @laurenwindsor.bsky.social asked Matt Gaetz: "Are you a pedophile. You hide the Epstein file, is it because you're a pedophile?"

Saving this for when I teach on the ACA to my undergrads, who do not remember a time when people with preexisting conditions could not be covered.

He's a U.S. citizen, arrested by ICE anyway, so he gets fired from his job

Aw shucks! Thank you for the shout out.

In Spring 2022, we had a "return to campus." I sought a waiver & made my class remote. At multiple points in the semester, 30-75% of my class was out sick with COVID.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

Nurses are the unsung heroes of public health.

The leaked FY 2026 HHS budget could eliminate the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and most Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs, which support nursing research, education, and training.

www.nursingworld.org/news/news-re...

Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Rob...

Basic infection prevention & control - It is NEVER ok for a healthcare provider with measles to treat patients while infectious - this physician should’ve stayed home and not put his patients at risk.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

All of the myths and fantasies we’re hearing about protesters being terrorists, immigrants invading & fentanyl being a WMD should be understood in the context of a pending report from the DOD & DHS (due April 20) about whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people want martial law.

Yes. Let's fucking go.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is the first of what I think are going to be A LOT of primary challenges along these lines.

@bedoyaftc.bsky.social had me in tears. Not kidding. What kind of a top-level political appointee can write like this?

(Thank you, humanities education + his mama!)

His piece is like the antidote to anti-DEIA propaganda. It's pride-FULL just like what Irish Americans write about their history.

And more importantly, he wrote it down in an email he knew would be FOIA-able

Women in science: raise your hand if a man was ever given (or took) credit for an innovation you pioneered. So many of us🤚have stories. It causes harm.

Everybody in science: see this example of how it can be directly addressed. Congrats @clarerevans.bsky.social on a brilliant statistical invention.

In a 2nd email plea, this sharp lawyer properly told his bosses what they were doing was "anticipatory fraud" aimed at screwing workers. Like they've done in other agencies.

If Mr. Rillotta still has a job, I think it's just 1, 2, 3 countdown til he's gone.

(TIGTA is the IRS's Inspector General.)

Outright thuggery. A hearing has been scheduled in the USIP lawsuit as of 2:00 this afternoon on a motion for a TRO. Seems likely a lot of stuff will be destroyed just in the interim, because the DOGE folks know they can smash quickly before the pushback from the courts.

a) This is an important thread as yet another illustration of how harsh US immigration law has been for decades.

b) the angry replies on how OP is 'excusing' what happened show just how unaware most people are of that longstanding harshness. Dude's just accurately describing the law.

Why Do We Worry About Measles in the Newborn Nursery? Yes, this is about the Texas measles outbreak.

Do you know what is 100% preventable? #measles in a nursery.
Do you know why it’s so bad? Here is the answer:

stopantivaxpropaganda.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...
#vaccineswork #PedSky #Medsky #IDSky

as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech
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This is shameful.

What is Long COVID? A Beginner's Guide

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.

A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

I love ammonites thanks to a class I took with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

Answering Your Burning Questions We’re getting into the weeds of “personhood,” forcing people to serve the state’s interest, and more.

In a special Q&A episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani answer listener questions.

They cover everything from what could happen if fetal “personhood” becomes enshrined into law to whether abortion bans allow states to assert dominion over people’s bodies. rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/02/27/a...

Guess we are doing this again.
We’re not gonna abandon the red states we’re gonna build solidarity with the citizens inside the rightwing autocratic core.

In reading about Act Up, a key to success was people protesting with one goal in ways that matched their particular abilities. Some folks were great at creating public spectacle; some were researchers; some had personal connections in law, medicine, politics. The cumulative effect moved the needle

A bit of medieval manuscript in lovely, clear gothic script. In between one of the lines of text is something that looks a lot like an eel, except it is somewhat furry looking. By medieval marginalia standards, though, it's pretty clearly an eel. It's brown, and slithery, and knows that it's cool as fuck. Three lines below it is some sort of interlinear beast that looks like a sea cucumber with the head of a stork or heron. It's head it's pointed up towards the eel, with it's long beak reaching, but not quite grabbing, the fish. The eel, for it's part, is shying away from the cucumber-bird's hunger. Which shows good sense, really. The slug-stork, btw, is one of the ways you know that the eel is an eel. The connection between storks/herons/demiherons/etc. & eels is very well established in medieval English artwork. If you wonder if the thing you're looking at is a snake or an eel, look for a stork. Also, if the artwork was made in England, it's probably an eel. They LOVED their eels!

It's Friday! You made it through the week. Go ahead...take an interlinear eel. You deserve it.
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