Notices by Bruce Mirken (brucemirken@mas.to), page 3

"Physicians and nurses in #Minneapolis say many patients are afraid to seek medical care because they're fearful of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) agents who have been seen inside and around city #hospitals

https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/119567

#health #AbolishICE

Even for the #TrumpAdministration, this is batshit crazy. They really want to Make Polio Great Again.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/vaccine-policy-adviser-kirk-milhoan-individual-rights-trump-public-health/

#vaccines #polio

"Not only are ICE's operations hiking up everyone’s grocery bills, they are also, contrary to administration claims, making the housing crisis worse by terrorizing the construction industry and making life unlivable in immigrant neighborhoods."

https://newrepublic.com/article/205319/democrats-ice-kitchen-table-issue?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

#ICE #AbolishICE

Time for the #25thAmendment https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-appalling-threat-leaves-no-doubt-its-time-for-the-25th-amendment/

#Wyoming copes with more and bigger #wildfires. Just don't say the words #ClimateChange https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19012026/wyoming-prepares-for-future-after-record-wildfire-season/

Oh look, more proof that #RFKJr is full of it about #acetaminophen and #autism. https://www.boston.com/news/health/2026/01/17/no-link-between-acetaminophen-in-pregnancy-and-autism-a-new-study-finds/

#ElizabethWarren tells #Democrats not “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone, especially the rich and powerful who might finance our candidates.… When Democrats water down their #economic platform to appeal to wealthy donors, whether the transaction is explicit or subtle, we squander trust with working people, and the money just isn’t worth it.” https://newrepublic.com/article/205365/elizabeth-warren-democrats-donor-class?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

"Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus adopted a policy of opposing new funding for #immigration enforcement within $DHS 'unless there are meaningful and significant reforms to immigration enforcement practices.'" Hey #Democrats, DO THIS. https://prospect.org/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=How%20to%20stop%20ICE&utm_campaign=Meyerson%20on%20TAP%201%2F13%2F2026

YES. "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the #TrumpAdministration’s efforts to remake #HeadStart, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-head-start-dei-56c3da1a1688a9195c709192e9708699

#DEI

@heidilifeldman Hmmm... kind of useful that everyone's talking about Venezuela, huh?

#Vaccination rates are dropping, but the U.S. Government would rather not know. “If CMS makes this change, it will become harder to understand gaps in vaccination that leave communities exposed to outbreaks of serious and even deadly infectious diseases.” https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/cms-stop-requiring-states-report-childhood-vaccination-levels

Dominion Energy sues #Trump over #WindPower. https://electrek.co/2025/12/31/trump-admin-sued-for-halting-work-on-the-us-largest-offshore-wind-farm/

#BariWeiss should be in the Guinness Book of World Records. I'm pretty sure no one has killed a major news organization so quickly. https://newrepublic.com/article/204723/bari-weiss-cbs-news-cecot?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

#CBSNews #60Minutes

"In a single weekend, #CBSNews’ new editorial director #BariWeiss has managed to damage the most successful and profitable #news broadcast in American history... what is now clear is that the last-minute act of #censorship carried out in the name of so-called context suggests Weiss is CBS’s answer to former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, practicing a 'catch and kill' philosophy to protect a petulant tyrant." https://www.salon.com/2025/12/22/bari-weiss-spiked-a-major-migrant-story-and-told-on-herself/

"#Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off #food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved." https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly-newsletter

In light of #RFKJr's announcement today of his plans to cut off life-saving #HealthCare for #trans youth, it seems appropriate to re-share this piece I wrote a couple of months ago. Real humans are going to be hurt by this, whether Kennedy and Trump understand them or not. https://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/we-must-stand-our-trans-neighbors

This is how you deal with bullying from #Trump: https://newrepublic.com/post/204475/pulitzer-board-trump-tax-psych-records-lawsuit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

"#Tesla has received a brutal reality check from Germany this week. The country’s closely watched TÜV Report 2026 has not only ranked the Tesla Model Y as the absolute worst car for reliability in its age group but noted that it has the highest defect rate of any vehicle tested in the last ten years." https://electrek.co/2025/12/03/tesla-model-y-named-worst-car-for-reliability-germany-major-tuv-report/

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115639865528247980

Congratulations, #Trump voters! You've completely screwed yourselves. And we DID warn you.

It's now official: #RFKJr ordered the #CDC to post disinformation about #vaccines and #autism on its website. To #impeachRFKJr is necessary but insufficient. Indict him for murder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccines-autism-website.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share