Jennifer Brass

This is a great speech, but its also completely insane that the Prime Minister of Canada needs to call for coordinated global resistance to American tyranny.

4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.

4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia, according to science www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

"Vaccines don’t just protect us from infectious diseases or lessen their effects. Some are also associated with a reduced risk for dementia, research shows."

#VaccinesWork!

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

"We cannot build bananas in America" is an all timer

Distributional justice and rapid green energy transitions: citizen experiences in Kenya - IOPscience Distributional justice and rapid green energy transitions: citizen experiences in Kenya, Gore, Christopher D, MacLean, Lauren M, Brass, Jennifer N, Baldwin, Elizabeth, Mitullah, Winnie V, Porisky, Alesha

Interested in #Kenya #GreenEnergyTransitions or how regular #citizens experience #electricity access? Read our Environmental Research Letters paper (coauthors @cgore13.bsky.social Lauren MacLean @aleshaporisky.bsky.social @lizbldwn.bsky.social and Winnie Mitullah): iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

How does access to electricity impact citizens in Kenya? - Futurum A team of international researchers is investigating the social, economic and political impacts of electricity access in Kenya

Attention middle school and high school teachers! With colleagues and the support of #SSHRC, I've created a teaching tool for learning about the experience of gaining access to #electricity in #Kenya. Learning docs at @futurumcareers.bsky.social Video coming soon!
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Just to repeat, the White House has provided *no evidence* to back up the President’s claim of widespread fraud in USAID. The evidence it has presented points in precisely the other direction.

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Letter from colleague fired from USAID, sharing devastating impact and chaos that this has wrought on her life and family.

From USAID colleague, with permission to share. It's not just chaos it is devastation and tearing apart of families and communities. Not to talk of systems that kept us safe. This is just one story, multiple this by 10,000.
Is this really making America great?

What executive orders are and aren't A primer for the Constitutionally confused

There's a lot of confusion about executive orders. POTUS is most confused of all. I clarified things here. open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Check out USAID’s Agriculture ties to by state

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Save USAID: The Greatest Agency You Never Knew

Again, share this far and wide. Do your part!

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 retweet AND CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES 📱📞☎️📱☎️

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LinkedIn post: On January 24th I formally resigned from my position with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I started at CDC in 2010, and I have spent 20 years in public service, including my 15 years in service at the federal level. Here is a little bit of what I wrote in my resignation, because I'm not sure that anyone is actually going to read it. "I feel honored to be among the public health professionals that have had the privilege to work at CDC. As I reflect on my own experiences and accomplishments during my time here, I am humbled by the magnitude and the importance of our work. To my colleagues: we have worked together through chaos and uncertainty, transition, reorganization, preparation, and response. You are the most selfless, dedicated, and passionate people I know. I have watched you work around the clock, take additional details, deployments, and responsibilities, try to balance work and family, forego self-care, and keep pushing and work together to protect the public’s health. I’ve seen your sacrifice. I want you to know that your support and guidance has been invaluable, and I am proud of the work we have accomplished together." While I was backing up files I found my oath that I signed in 2010. I believe in our work, and I am sad to be leaving federal service. But I have immense gratitude for all of the opportunities that I've had and the connections that I've made. I will continue to protect the public's health in a different capacity (stay tuned...) but for now, thank you for trusting me.

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned.

Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

Hearing that USAID will be decapitated w the number of people covering Asia reduced to 8 all in DC & those covering Africa down to 12.

There are apparently about 140 people in DC covering Asia & about 1400 in the field in the region. Let's see how we can counter China with 8 people.

Comparative Politics folks have been shouting about this for ~10 years. Many of our can and did and do imagine it, because we have been rigorously trained to do so.

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Worth keeping an eye on... contrarian.substack.com

Departing the New York Times I left to stay true to my byline

Paul Krugman, and worth reading. contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

Before making decisions, think about whether having done something will matter to you when you're close to dying - whether you will regret doing or not doing it, or whether you likely won't remember it. (Of course we never know for sure when we will die, so I guess "live fully," too.)

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

The most important job for the media over the next two to four years is to attribute all the horrible things happening in the world to Trump’s actions, much like they should connect extreme events to climate change and our abuse of fossil fuels.

Before you teach today, send a letter to (1) your college/university president, (2) provost, (3) both of your Senators, and (4) your House member

Contact your Senators. Phone is apparently better than writing, but both are better than nothing. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

We need to talk more explicitly & directly about how all of this authoritarian nonsense is going to kill people

Announcing in advance that everything will definitely continue to get more expensive monthly. I am sure that won't have any inflationary impacts.

Worth a read.

To put the OMB grant freeze in context, roughly 17.5% of Wisconsin’s revenue comes from federal grants in aid last I checked. Overall, federal grants account for roughly 36% of all state government budgets in US. In a number of states the federal share is even higher.

Honestly, if he was trying to crash the economy, how would it look different than what we’ve seen the past week?