Opinion | I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way.

I Am a Drug Historian. Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy

Western States Issue Their Own Vaccine Recommendations to Counter Kennedy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/h...

The sudden dismissal of public records staff at health agencies threatens government accountability Public records requested under the Freedom of Information Act have helped shape health policy and keep the government accountable – but recent staff cuts may make this impossible.

RFK Jr. says he wants to be totally transparent, so naturally he fired federal workers who are responsible for responding to FOIA requests. Great piece by @reshmagar.bsky.social below. theconversation.com/the-sudden-d...

Screenshot of a poster that reads ADVOCACY ALERT CDC HIV Prevention Funding is at Risk! The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of HIV Prevention is facing severe funding cuts within the next 48-72 hours. These cuts threaten essential programs that provide HIV prevention, treatment, and education to our community-putting countless lives at risk. Call your U.S. Senators and Representatives and urge them to say NO to CDC HIV funding cuts! & U.S. Capitol Switchboard Senate: 202-224-3121 House: 202-225-3121

They won’t stop until they’ve destroyed the entire US Public Health infrastructure. Please call your representatives.

An open letter from an American-owned tour company to our Canadian travel buddies 🍁

No lie detected…

#usaid

Surviving an overdose can be excruciating. New research suggests it doesn’t have to be Naloxone is a fantastic tool in reducing opioid deaths, but gentler versions would be helpful for fighting overdose

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Even if you think you’re not perpetuating harmful stigma saying a former heroin user can’t be in charge of HHS (you are, and I know active heroin users who would do great), it’s lazy (and a logical fallacy) to attempt to discredit someone for using substances rather than for their actions and words.

Blaming the border for overdoses ignores the real crisis: a unregulated drug supply. The reality is that fentanyl meets demand from Americans, but it’s being produced and distributed in ways that make it far more dangerous. Criminalization won’t stop overdoses—public health and regulation will.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

This is so good.

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Health Resources Vanish Following D.E.I. and Gender Orders (Gift Article) Vague federal directives have led to frantic action, and perhaps overreaction, before a Friday deadline.

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Caroline Kennedy Urges Senators to Reject RFK Jr. for Health Secretary In a harsh letter to lawmakers considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health secretary, Ms. Kennedy called her cousin a “predator” who led other family members down the path of addiction.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

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James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.

Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.

Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:

In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."

The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.

So they refused to announce a winner🤡

Excellent post

Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, who inspired people of color and others to achieve their dreams.” Learn more about MSgt. Hill at www.singingtuskegeeairman.org

The Tuskegee Airmen cannot be erased.

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They have now passed it along to Devlin. So special to have this family story and this piece of American history from an American hero and Congressional Gold Medal awardee. The book is dedicated “To children everywhere who study hard to learn to read” and “in memory of…

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Seems like a good time to share this (from 2022)

#DevlinJames read a book about the #TuskegeeAirmen. Turns out my mom and stepdad met MSgt. Ezra M. Hill, Sr., “The Singing Tuskegee Airman,” at an airport in 2009. He autographed his children’s book, The Black Red Tail Angels, for them.
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If you do not live in one of these states, there are still things you can do:

Track down family, friends or colleagues in the states above to get them to call their Senators.

Call your own Senators to tell them to oppose the nomination in committee or on the Senate floor.

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Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Joni Ernst (R-IA)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Thom Tillis (R-NC)
James Lankford (R-OK)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
John Curtis (R-UT)
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)

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If you live in one of states represented by the Senators below, we need calls directly to their offices.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected.

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STOP RFK Jr.

The Finance Committee of the US Senate will meet starting at 10AM ET this Wednesday, January 29th to consider the nomination of RFK Jr. to be the Secretary of HHS.

It’s all-hands-on-deck now. We need to flood the Capitol with calls. Get friends, family, colleagues involved.

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Listen up.

Trump has always craved admiration and respect from those who he saw as smarter than him.

Manhattan wouldn’t give it to him, so he went to Silicon Valley.