Niki Messmore

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Vivek Murthy

Really loving the opening talk at #aamc25.

Friend:
Can you recommend any great graphic novels I should read?

Me: *lists loads of amazing graphic novels my friend would absolutely love*

Friend:
They sound perfect. Which ones can I borrow first?

Me:… you can come over and look at them whilst wearing gloves in a controlled environment

Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting

This week: #AAMC25 begins in San Antonio. Peers presenting to peers. Plenaries with changemakers. Voices of Medicine and Society on challenges shaping health + education. We’ll share highlights all week — stay tuned.

A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...

"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky...

$28,000 for a plan in Oregon...

$44,000 for a plan in Vermont..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

*looks directly at camera*

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians “I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new.

They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational.

It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.

This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid “It's just a way of cutting people off of coverage and then blaming them for it.”

It’s up to the discretion of RFK Jr to define what ”medically frail” is when it comes to potential Medicaid work requirement exemptions—which may play a huge role in deciding which chronically ill and disabled people could qualify. My latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Sometimes it's hard to grasp the scale of data center projects and the amount of power they might use. Here's one attempt to explain that for a proposed project in a rural community 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. There's a public hearing on it Tuesday www.desmog.com/2025/08/18/a...

Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas. 

So don't tell me this isn't about race…

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:

*foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)

Do you feel safer?

We asked, you answered! In our recent survey & focus groups, people shared their concerns about water fluoridation, including questions about safety, thyroid health, cancer risk, & child development. We've compiled evidence-based info to explain why fluoride is a safe & effective public health tool.

Text says: Suicide and abuse at fashion factory supplying Under Armour and Columbia INVESTIGATION A young woman allegedly in forced labour at a clothes factory in Jordan killed herself while making products for the global fashion brands, i has discovered The sportswear giants Under Armour and Columbia have been hit by claims of forced labour in a factory making their clothes, after systemic abuse and exploitation allegedly led to a worker’s death by suicide, i can exclusively reveal. The two companies have launched urgent inquiries over the death of a young Bangladeshi woman at a major supplier’s facility in Jordan, uncovered by a months-long investigation. American Eagle, a major retailer with more than 1,000 stores in the US, admitted that it also uses the site and is taking remedial action. Tureza Akter, 21, died in her dormitory in November last year, just over a month after arriving at the Fine Apparel site in the city of Zarqa, about 10 miles north-east of the capital, Amman. It is run by Needle Craft, a major Jordan-based clothes manufacturing company. Ms Akter is said to have been fined many times for missing excessive targets. She was abused by a supervisor hours before she died, an official report states. Sources say that migrant labourers are tricked into “dehumanising” 16-hour days in the factory for less money than promised, while bosses intimidate them and withhold their passports. Sexual harassment is also said to be common. Members of the largely female workforce are apparently solicited by staff for sex and made to strip in front of managers. The factory owners have launched an independent review and say they are supporting Ms Akter’s family after her “tragic” death. i began its investigation after being alerted by Labour Behind the Label. The British campaign group, which lobbies for workers’ rights in the fashion industry, called the findings “horrifying and shameful”. Confronted with the evidence, the factory and companies it s…

Photo of an American Eagle ad showing Sydney Sweeney. It says "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans."

A screenshot of American Eagle's mens jeans. They retail for $50 but have been discounted to $35. These are cotton-poly blended stretch jeans in various cuts, colors, and washes.

We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.

Worth noting this is backed up by a large-scale randomized control trial testing this hypothesis in Chicago, published in 2014:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extorting foreign powers to place a regressive tax on American consumers is an excellent way to deepen inequalities that create the conditions for a stable autocracy, backed by a coalition of oligarchs.

Still seeing *wayyyyy* too many scientists trying to keep their heads down and stay out of the fray.

1. This isn’t going away!

2. Science *IS* political!

3. It’s not too late to step up and take action!

4. You’ll feel so much better if you take action w/ others!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

The first rule of homelessness policy is that it must be cruel.

The second rule is that it must be expensive.

The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail."

God forbid we just provide basic shelter.

I am a nurse scientist begging nurse scientists to stop researching resilience in nursing. We know the problem. It’s not resilience. Please stop. Research why employers and health systems continue to cause moral, physical, and psychological harm despite having evidence that they are the problem.

Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.