Public Health Baddie

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Zero surprise that the new GOP is manufacturing these horrible young men www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Yes I knew. Most Black people, especially older Black people knew. They had been trying to warn folks for 60 years when the GOP adopted the Southern Strategy.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

Ohio will pilot adding prior authorization requirements to Medicare Prior authorization could be more prevalent in Ohio Medicare, the federal insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities.

I've got nothing
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The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Yep. Y’all are exactly how we got more Trump.

Bad news: Anti-vaxxers have been given leadership positions at US health agencies and are doing everything they can to take away vaccines.

Good news: Despite all their spin, in reality they have been too incompetent to do anything effective to restrict vaccine access in any meaningful way so far.

Once Prisoners, Jackson Couple Expands Mission for 2nd Chances RECH Foundation, which supports Mississippi’s incarcerated individuals and their families, held an open house at their new offices in downtown Jackson.

“We are talking about human life here,” Mississippi House Rep. Justis Gibbs told the MFP on Sept. 25. “And I’m so glad that they are explicit with the reality of what has gone on in these facilities. Everyone should come in here and understand what we are putting our citizens through."

Anyone who may ever need assistance from FEMA should read this.

That's basically most of us.

Editor’s Note | Mississippi’s Evil Past Still Haunts Us News Editor Ashton Pittman writes about how the response to college student Trey Reed’s death illustrates how Mississippi’s past haunts its present.

OPINION: "Mississippi’s white leaders haven’t done nearly enough to reckon with our white supremacist past, nor its ongoing manifestations, to expect Black folks to live as if Jim Crow never was," MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

Speaking for all physicians and healthcare providers here. When we see patients in need of care especially in an emergency room we do not leave them for dead. We do not care about their immigration status, we treat them because that is what we took an oath to do and is also basic human decency.

Where’s that Kimmel energy for this?

Mississippi native here. These statistics always break my heart. It continues to worsen and lawmakers simply aren’t doing enough.

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

US health insurers reduce Medicare Advantage operations in 2026 (Reuters) -CVS Health, Humana and UnitedHealth Group will pull back on Medicare Advantage offerings next year, the companies said on Wednesday, as the health insurance industry braces for more decreas...

Health insurers that offer Medicare Advantage are pulling out of markets and reducing services on 2026 in anticipation of further cuts to government funding.

Defend Public Health recommended expanding health coverage to improve Americans’ health in our IHAT report MAHA is cutting it.

Pretty things

The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines.

An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears.

Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.

Image of protesters from the Hillsborough disaster demanding justice. Text: 25 YEARS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT

Did you know that for the past 25 years, there's a law that's been quietly defending your rights every day?

That's the Human Rights Act at work

Happy Birthday to the HRA 🎉

Low-income children lack access to Covid vaccines because of approval delay Two weeks after vaccine advisers approved new Covid recs, Kennedy still hasn’t given his approval, leaving states unable to order updated shots for low-income kids.

RFK Jr. still hasn’t signed off on the ACIP recommendations for COVID19 vaccines. It’s been almost 2 weeks.

The impact of his continued maliciousness is that these shots still aren’t available to families for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program, which about half of US kids use.

Black ppl in 2015:
*warns of impending doom*

White ppl in 2015:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

White ppl today:
“😳Who could’ve see this coming?!🤷🏼‍♂️”

This is a huge! Just amazing!

The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills:

Canada - 0

Australia- 0

France - 0

Sweden - 0

Norway - 0

Spain - 0

Portugal - 0

UK - 0

Finland - 0

Iceland - 0

Germany - 0

United States - 326,000

I'm suing to stop the Trump administration from withholding tens of millions of dollars in security funding for the MTA over New York's sanctuary policies.

These funds are meant to help the MTA prevent and respond to terrorist threats, cyberattacks, and other emergencies.

Always give service workers five stars. If you have to rate them, unless you literally died, give them five stars.

Their bosses don't view the rating system the same was as you. Just give them five stars.

President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising.

Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown.

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback.

When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?