Sarah B. Andrea

I've had my hands full & totally dropped the ball last year. But we are coming up on the time when I would typically launch the annual #EpiCookieChallenge & perhaps we could all use some joy. What are vibes @epiellie.bsky.social @lucystats.bsky.social @societyforepi.bsky.social #episky #epitwitter?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

“In 38 states, health care is now the biggest employer. Some former manufacturing hubs, like Cleveland and Pittsburgh, have transitioned to health care as a core driver of the local economy. And hospitals are often the largest employers in small towns and rural places”

A screenshot from the CDC website showing that the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer is closed

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr.

NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

Some day out time will come to exchange again. Any chance you are going to IAPHS this year?

I want to! But timing is rough - I'm teaching spring/summer this year and this falls right between the two. I will be probs in New England at the same time helping with my mom for a bit though.

BEEM is a powerful study on #guaranteedincome & Black young adult health that unjustly received notice of #NIH terminations. This project matters to our participants, #healthequity, & the future of evidence-based policy. We’re not giving up but need your help! tinyurl.com/yc4v8ah8

Come on down, folks!!

#pdx #nphw #publichealth

Happy National Public Health Week

I'm heading down to check out some of the important #publichealth work our awesome students in the #OHSU #PSU school of public health have been up to!

We need public health now more than ever!

#pdx #episky #nphw

📢 Update!📢

I'm sharing my recent op-ed in @thehill.com, a platform I chose to reach policymakers, judges, & key decision-makers 🌟

I explain the reasons behind my lawsuit against #RFKJr at #HHS for the reckless &—I believe—illegal terminations of #NIH research contracts

🔗 👇

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Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Showing up in Portland, Or! #handsoff #handsoff2025

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

Mt Hood was at the #handsoff March in solidarity

Huge turn out at the #handsoff protest in Portland, Oregon!

We are saving as much public data as we can. The other thing you can do is speak out. Tell everyone you know about what is happening (here, IRL, everywhere). We need people to know the consequences of these actions.

For the people who used to ask 'Why do you have to be so political?' I hope that it's now obvious why.

Healthcare is political. Housing is political. Education is political. The air we breathe, the water we drink —it's all shaped by policy and power.

Ignoring that is a political choice.

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🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇

Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍

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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth

These contracts, constitutionally grounded, are binding agreements between scientists & government

Their cancellation risks making scientific inquiry vulnerable to political influence, threatening public health policy & the well-being of vulnerable communities

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🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸

Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social

Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇

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The New Deal and Reconstruction were both born of a nation fallen to chaos and misery because of evil shitheads seeking to enrich themselves through human suffering. This is our chance to take that torch and run with it in a way that *endures*, and that can be our legacy.

I've created a shareable document with a list of the HHS offices gutted today that I'll be updating as often as possible. Have something to add? Message marisakabas.04 on Signal or email MKwrites4000@proton.me
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Aside from limited materials, corporations manufacture abroad because of child labor and worker rights laws, as well as OSHA and the federal minimum wage. As poorly conceived as it is, the tariff plan would never have been proposed at all if it didn't also include a plan to repeal those protections.

As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health.

If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?

it was never about money, this was always an ideological battle following fascist playbooks

Who was fired?
HIV office? Gone.
Environmental health (like heat risk to children with asthma)? Gone.
Gun violence office? Gone.
Injury prevention? Gone.
Communications? Gone.
Worker safety? Gone.
Division of reproductive health? Gone.
Disability health? Gone.
TB prevention? Gone.

Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...

Less than 1% of the US budget.

Liquidating federal health agencies is not about saving money.

Dismissing these workers will dismantle these agencies and cost American lives and our economy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

This is a pre-meditated intentional assault on, and in many cases the murder of, hundreds of millions of innocents.
Look at it that way, and you’ll see who RFKjr really is.