Cynthia Gilbert

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

5 things I’m watching closely in U.S. public health this fall/winter:

1. COVID & influenza trends
2. H5N1 spillover risk
3. Measles resurgence
4. Public Health workforce strain
5. Impacts of Medicaid unwinding and insurance premiums rising

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The most dangerous thing Trump is doing now is giving highly partisan political speeches to active duty military - repeatedly trashing Democrats. I can’t recall either him, Leavitt, or Reps ever being asked about the fact that it violates a foundational principle of our Republic.

Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid.

Which is an easily disproven lie.

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹

This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨

Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌
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Take a look! 'Reading Rainbow' is back Mychal Threets, a social media star librarian, is hosting the new iteration of the series. It's back for four episodes starting on Saturday.

Mychal Threets, a social media star librarian, is hosting the new iteration of the series. It's back for four episodes starting on Saturday. From @anastasiat.bsky.social

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

This is the dumbest poll question ever.

Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

I love this so much.

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year.

They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency.

Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

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ALA President Sam Helmick on today's vote: "ALA is both disappointed by the FCC’s takebacks and discouraged by the lack of due process, which left no opportunity for staff, patrons and library advocates to give input on the draft order."

Read more ⤵️ #ForOurLibraries

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome.
GIFT.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

More tariffs could hit Minnesota medtech companies Medical and optic equipment comprises Minnesota’s largest export category, and the state’s largest medtech companies have already reported tariffs costing millions of dollars.

Trump’s new tariffs will not only hit Minnesota’s medical technology companies, but they will hurt patients, reduce innovation, and increase costs. 
 
Enough is enough. 
 
www.startribune.com/medtech-tari...

ABC News’ Ginger Zee visits a ‘library of things’ Zee reports from Hoboken, New Jersey, where residents can go to their local library to rent everything from tools to yard games, board games and telescopes.

You don’t have to buy it or store it, just check it out at your library. Thanks to ABC News’ Ginger Zee for showing viewers the library of things at the Hoboken Public Library. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/video/abc-news-ginger-zee-visits-library-things-125923181
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth

❤️ the pants, and that little peek of pink shoes. Happy clothes!

Hospitals Lose $32 Billion If Congress Doesn’t Extend ACA Tax Credits Hospitals, physicians and other medical providers will lose more than $32 billion in revenue next year if Congress doesn’t extend tax credits for those with Obamacare.

Hospitals To Lose $32 Billion If Congress Doesn’t Extend ACA Tax Credits, Study Warns www.forbes.com/sites/brucej...

"At a time when our public square can feel fractured, libraries remain a rare space of connection and belonging. A library card is more than a pass to information, it is an invitation to shared growth." - ALA President Sam Helmick https://bit.ly/4nk1HqA

#LibraryCardSignUpMonth

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing.

Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence

Raising the H-1B visa fee to $100,000 risks shutting off the pipeline of highly trained physicians, especially in rural and underserved communities. The AMA stands ready to work with the administration and our partners in medicine to exempt health care workers from this policy.

What was I saying about never getting a moment of peace for wondering if this insane man is going to make his insanity real?

a crowded group of people holding up protest signs with text over the image saying "Everywhere all the time"

From Athens, GA ➡️ @indivisiblega10.bsky.social is doing amazing work! 👏🏼

Not only did they host @hcrichardson.bsky.social in a one-on-one discussion with Invisibles in #GA, they have created this amazing list of Acts of Non-Cooperation.

#resist #GAD10 #gapol #Georgia
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My ACIP recap: 🧵

1) MMRV combo vaccine no longer recommended for children <4y. That means vaccine will not be covered by insurance, so not an option for patients. The 2 shot MMR and chickenpox vaccines are still available. This removes access. Let’s see which vaccine they will go for next!