Dr. Rachel J. Wechsler

Excited to see this important work from @jdahlstrom765.bsky.social in print!

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It. Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

It’s not too late to submit an abstract or proposal for the Feminist Legal Theory CRN’s programming @ LSA conference in SF from May 28-31 2026! The deadline for abstracts and proposals for roundtables, etc. is October 8th, and you can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting. USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

The real-life impact of Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAID

Drugs and food, intended for global aid, instead languished and rotted in warehouses — and some children withered and died.

Sweeping, damning investigation by my @washingtonpost.com colleagues.

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

Holy sh*t! A reminder about pre and post vaccine preventable deaths. In addition to eliminating small pox, vaccines reduced deaths for mumps, rubella, hepatitis, tetanus, and diphtheria by 80-99%. By 2007 measles was no longer endemic, but of course that's no longer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“A close look at the so-called data reveals that the vast majority of the cited papers — all but about 40 — have little or nothing to do with the vaccines. They concern the consequences of COVID-19 infection, not the shots.”

*screams into the void*

@tommybennett.com should they break Kayfabe?

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

By Anas Baba

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

Another horrific story about the Trump administration killing a ton of people—including many children—for absolutely no reason.

The food that would save these people's lives is sitting in a warehouse in Rhode Island. The government wouldn't let it be shipped. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

And so glad he’s ok and recovering well!

Now he’s got street cred 😂

58 million acres.

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

Congrats, Dan! 🎉

Well that took longer than expected.

Boasberg:

"Absent this relief, the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action."

An unassailable point.

The fact that the U.S. government is fighting this tells you what you need to know.

That's why.

Despite Constitutional Amendment, Abortion Still Out of Reach in Missouri The Missouri Supreme Court reinstated restrictions on abortion this week, effectively making the procedure impossible to access in the state.

NEW: In 2024, Missouri voters amended the state's constitution to legalize abortion until fetal viability. But this week, as @maryrziegler.bsky.social explains, the MO Supreme Court reinstated abortion restrictions that effectively make the procedure impossible to access in the state.

Thanks @oxhrh.bsky.social for publishing our commentary on the implications of Trump’s executive actions for human trafficking @jdahlstrom765.bsky.social

Congrats, Ben! 🎉 So well-deserved!

The west’s shameful silence on Gaza The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

'The global tumult triggered by Trump has already distracted attention from the catastrophe in Gaza. Yet the longer it goes on, the more those who remain silent or cowed from speaking out will be complicit.'

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The intentional cruelty seemingly has no limits.

Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

Mahmoud Khalil's statement from detention. I suppose he's now our most prominent political prisoner

www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Essential reading. We should be ashamed.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...