It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.
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I sometimes feel that way too. And yet sick kids crave normalcy and are sacred by hospitals. when we provide music, art, school, holiday decorations its dignity for kids. It’s not denial of the gravity. older teens/young adults may bristle. But they are no less in need of (age appropriate) beauty.
It’s like she’s a dem decoy.
Mother and daughter smiling while holding a book titled "Sam is my Sister"
🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated
Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of
1️⃣ my career (as I know it)
2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social
3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work
Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.
I guess I should no longer care for a severely injured *trauma* patient - in partnership with *trauma* surgeons - using Advanced *Trauma* Life Support principles and training. 🤦♀️
CDC plans to study autism, vaccines Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them. By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
What Trump isn't talking about tonight...
His approval ratings are plummeting
The economy is showing major signs of strain due to his policies
DOGE looks more and more like a giant hoax
The GOP is trying to gut Social Security and Medicaid to pave the way for big tax cuts for the rich
Hello?
A lot of people are going to die from this
Donald Trump is not fit to be President of the United States of America. His presence in the Oval Office is a stain on the legacy of this country.
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.
Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
I’m in NY. Would prob drive to Ontario or Quebec. New campaign “Come for the flu shot. Stay for the universal healthcare”
Ok so what time of year is it released there and does it coincide with at least a long weekend to make the road trip. Sadly gaming this out.
Starting to feel like peak covid times (no vax, isolation, masking, financial collapse, mutual aid, mass unrest) was just a warm up for what’s to come.
This news truly breaks my heart.
We are calling on HHS to take immediate action. Secretary Kennedy needs to bring back weekly measles tracking from the CDC, rehire the health experts, and roll out a serious vaccine campaign. Our kids' safety is on the line!
abcnews.go.com/Health/1st-m...
How do we live in a world where this monster leads HHS
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:
* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized
* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia
* 1 to 3 in 1000 die
If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
This is so terrifying.
19k have died. Almost 100 kids died. This season.
ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
this winter morning
light spilling everywhere
into the silence
(photo by josh)
How. Why. How.
By the time I finished residency, I was so good at lumbar punctures. Squeezing down on a crying infants head and pushing them into a ball and then slipping in the spinal needle. On a typical admission night I might do 2 or 3. All gone now. I haven’t done one in years. They want to bring this back.