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Save & Improve Medicaid As Congress and the Trump administration look for ways to pay for continued tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy, "One of their prime targets is Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more t...

Demand your Illinois elected officials save and improve Medicaid! Sign this Alliance for Social Services letter now! #Solidarity #StopTrump #TeslaTakedown #DefendMedicaid
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Betar...a Jewish extreme right group, said on Monday that it had “been working on deportations and will continue to do so”...the effort would extend beyond immigrants. “Expect naturalized citizens to start being picked up within the month,” #FightNazisNotStudents www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE's arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is an extreme attack on free speech rights. We will see the Trump administration in court.

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What Is OSHA and Why Do Some Republicans Want to Disband It? A new bill is attempting to close the agency designed to keep Americans safe in the workplace.

This is a good time to remember why OSHA exists & the consequences of weakening or even abolishing it.

OSHA’s objective is to keep the nation's workers safe at work. Employers have the legal responsibility to provide their employees safe workplaces.

OSHA’s job is to ensure that employers do that.

Decapitated and ‘shredded’ bodies: Survivors recount Israeli attacks on Gaza schools Israel bombed a number of schools and shelters for displaced Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend. Witnesses say that the Israeli attacks, which came without warning, caused the bodies of men, women and children to be burned and torn to shreds.

Gaza may have dropped from the headlines but the genocide continues in all its brutality.

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The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930

Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.

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HHS picks, the House subcommittee report, and pandemic revisionism Questions are important and needed, but we must not resort to rewriting history.

This newsletter is always excellent. but this one, in particular, is timely and hits the mark, perfectly.

We can't let "pandemic revisionism" be the guiding light of the new administration.

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Israeli bombing kills World Central Kitchen workers and aid-seekers in Gaza Meanwhile, a former Israeli defence minister says the army is ethnically cleansing northern Gaza

Reports of another Israeli attack on a World Central Kitchen food convoy in Gaza, killing at least 10 people seeking aid & 3 humanitarian workers, but all were Palestinian, so this incident is unlikely to get widely reported. It’s long been normalized.

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Israel’s Policy of Deliberate Medical Neglect Aggravate Epidemics and Skin Diseases Among Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees

The situation for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons is dire. Aside from documented instances of torture (www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...), a "policy of deliberate medical neglect" has resulted in a health crisis, including outbreaks of painful skin diseases like scabies: mezan.org/en/post/46574

Walmart must pay $35 million to a truck driver it falsely accused of fraud, jury says A jury ruled that Walmart must pay a former employee almost $35 million after finding that the retailer defamed him.

Accusations that injured workers are engaging in workers' compensation fraud is a tactic commonly used by insurance carriers and self-insured employers to discourage injured workers from filing comp claims. The industry even runs PR campaigns shaming injured workers.

Occasionally it backfires. 1/

Jewish professor fired for anti-Zionist posts Maura Finkelstein encourages professors to keep talking about Palestine.

Electronic Intifada podcast with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, a tenured professor who anthropology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania for nine years who was fired in May 2024 over social media posts in support of Palestinian rights.

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Your State Better Be Ready to Protect Workers Under Trump Employees exposed to toxins, extreme heat and other hazards shouldn’t expect relief from the incoming administration.

Historically, state & local laws have often served as the basis for public health protections. Approached strategically, these laws can also influence national policies, esp. in environmental & workplace health, since regulated businesses want consistency across jurisdictions.
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Don't miss this post - some very useful thinking about what to expect for worker health and safety in the coming administration, and how we should respond.

New episode of ICHH Mia and Gare discuss the incalculable damage RFK Jr. will do if allowed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, home of the CDC, NIH, and other vital medical institutions. @miawong.bsky.social @hungrybowtie.bsky.social https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-death-of-public-health-under-240208479/

New episode of ICHH

Mia and Gare discuss the incalculable damage RFK Jr. will do if allowed to head the Department of Health and Human Services, home of the CDC, NIH, and other vital medical institutions.

@miawong.bsky.social @hungrybowtie.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

This report summarizes additional findings from a national survey investigating anti-Palestinian racism conducted in the United States (US) from March 1st through April 3rd, 2024.

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My memoir 'Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician' is out TODAY from New Village Press!

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