Jon Shaffer

As global health funding faces renewed threats in Washington D.C., join PIH for an urgent virtual discussion.

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probably won't be a problem at all for anybody.

An 8 year-old blog post on causal thinking in epidemiology that I'm sharing for no particular reason (ICYMI).

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ICE plans to boost its surveillance on social media using contractors in Vermont - VTDigger U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to hire a dozen contracted workers who would track down leads for potential deportations, among other efforts, at an office in Williston.

Well, this sucks a lot. vtdigger.org/2025/10/06/i...

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

I just ran the PDX half marathon and I can attest that it is not, in fact, burning to the ground.

It’s actually been a beautiful weekend in the Rose City!

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

From Evidence to Power: Organizing for Public Health with Jon Shaffer, PhD Sociologist–organizer Jon Shaffer, PhD, joins Infectious Dose to explain why organizing—not just evidence—wins public-health protections, how DPH is building state teams, and what you can do next.

How can the justice-oriented public health community build power to fight back & fight for health equity in an era of oligarchy & fascism?

I'm not sure, but here are some podcast reflections on how we at @defendpublichealth.bsky.social are trying our best:

www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev...

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

"Should Universities work together to fend off the administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech?" is a key question that rank-and-file faculty (i.e., @aaup.org) are answering in the affirmative and University administrators are mostly shrugging off. Time is running out.

Opinion | ‘TrumpRx’ may disappoint Americans hoping to save money on prescriptions For many Americans, a trip to the pharmacy means the stresses of figuring out which drugs are covered or how to afford those drugs at all.

My latest for @msnbc.com, on the recently announced policy of TrumpRx. While reducing prescription drug costs is vital, it's hard to square with other Trump policies that cut against that goal, on top of which the drugs they mentioned would still be too expensive. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Olúfẹ́mi is right. It'd be cool if we had a concept for coming up with what class you are based on like how you interact with the stuff that makes all the other stuff, and whether you own it or not.

I really despise everything to do with generative AI.

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong? Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

I spoke to parents who are letting their young kids play with generative AI and tried to sort through some of the questions they have about it.

"I don’t know what this is doing to their brains," one dad told me.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman says, "Kids love ChatGPT on voicemode."

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

Memorizing this

YES!!!!

Write a Letter to Senator Jon Husted to Defend Public Health in Ohio On October 15th the Ohio chapter of Defend Public Health will convene in Columbus to deliver as many cards from constituents as possible to Senator Jon Husted to "thank" him for threatening the health...

Folks in Ohio: there is a @defendpublichealth.bsky.social action on October 15th in Columbus to hand deliver notes to Sen. Jon Husted to *thank him* (derogatory) for all he is doing for Ohioan’s healthcare.

PLEASE fill out this form with your message to be printed on a pretty card & delivered!

This is called class/culture warfare. We need to do away with our capitalist experiment and move to democratic socialism so that we ALL benefit from the fruits of our hard earned labor and not just billionaires.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

If you read through the article what you'll learn is that these two locations were never licensed to perform abortions. What women are losing is STI testing, cancer screenings, and contraception.

The GOP is targeting every single one of those things.

“You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development

Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

What justified the security risk of bringing the entire military leadership in one room? To receive the following orders:

- Promotions will be based on Jim Crow-era criteria.
- Do not hesitate to kill, there are no rules of engagement.
- You will execute these orders in US cities against Americans.

Dude recalled military brass from around the globe in order to call them fat and let them know he’s resegregating the service.

Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

Capitalist ‘healthism’ is the culprit.

We should name in detail the profits made by the people who have led this individualized healthistic culture war — RFK Jr., rich CA white MAHA mom influencers, Battacharya, etc. — and name what that profit is: blood money.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

ruh roh

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

“Ezra Klein contends that living with one another on the basis of ‘social shame and cultural pressure’ cannot work and would not be worthwhile if it did: a nation where such things flourished would not be ‘a free country.’”

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on what this gets wrong:

Happy monday, friends.

Governor Phil Scott: Defend Public Health We are Vermonters who care about the health of our neighbors across our wonderful state. We are organizing alongside a new grassroots movement of public health practitioners, clinicians, patients, and...

Hey Vermonters:

We're calling on Gov. Phil Scott to stand up to the federal assaults on public health. (plz RT and share!)

Sign our open letter calling on Gov. Scott to do everything he can to defend public health.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/go...

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