Laurie Schowalter
Public health, equity, justice / 🇺🇸🇿🇦
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterIf you are in the Austin area next month I’ll be around talking about voting rights at the LBJ Library! Put it on your calendars!
- Reposted by Laurie Schowalter"power holds no value unless it is exercised"
- I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterHHS announcing $100 mill in substance use grants: harm reduction and housing first "enabled future drug use and were never intended to support people in their recovery to lead productive lives in their communities." #Psychsky #opioids #addiction #mentalhealth #homelessness
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterUS Health Secretary #RFKJr is jeopardising the #immunisation of hundreds of thousands of children in poor countries by refusing to contribute to #Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, unless it removes a preservative he deems dangerous, without any science to back him. ⬇️
- 💉🌍 The US has frozen all funding to Gavi over demands to phase out thimerosal, a vaccine preservative widely considered safe. The move puts hundreds of millions for global immunisation at risk and raises questions about vaccine access. ✍ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @who.int @gavi.org
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThe Trump project is sometimes described as un-American when in fact it is anti-American: a total violent assault on the ideas and institutions, laws and customs, values and practices, domestic and international interests, economy and defenses of the United States with intent to destroy irreparably.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterSorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterInstead of endlessly writing about the dangers of wokeness (ie not being an asshole), the media could spend that time talking about the crisis of elite depravity and impunity, as exhibited in the Epstein files. The latter is an actual threat to our culture and society.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThe claim Jay makes that he's one of the regular people, not an elite, is hilarious! Dude went to Stanford to do a BA/MA, was a Phi Beta Kappa member, then got an MD degree & a PhD in economics at Stanford, worked at RAND & NBER, & was a Stanford prof & Hoover Institution researcher. Not elite! 😀
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterMinneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterRight now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterSome of us been saying ICE is waging war on Americans and now this blob calls MSP 'In Theater' and Chuck and Hakeem are gonna get us all killed. Wake up. Here's your off ramp. If you don't support abolish, you support the continued attack on Americans. Pretty simple.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterMore than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterI know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterI am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterIt's the end of the month. Lots of folks haven't been able to work all month because of ICE. They will be evicted in a few days. @governorwalz.mn.gov could stop this right now.
- i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterJust a reminder that hundreds of people were literally fired from their jobs for not grieving appropriately after the death of Charlie Kirk
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterJust a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week. No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media. Now imagine if this were done to Republicans. The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterBREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration on behalf of the family members of 2 Trinidadian men killed by a U.S. missile strike while traveling home from Venezuela by boat. The government must be held accountable.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterCBP defines 'border' as 100 miles from a coast. Two-thirds of the US population live in the 'border zone.' And we literally have viral footage of them executing people. So keeping CBP 'at the border' and bodycams would mean much of the country can still be terrorized by CBP and executed on film
- Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterKenya plans to spend 100-million shillings ($775,000) paying influencers and bloggers to push its narrative in a bid to formalise long-reported, co-ordinated online campaigns to counter youth-led protests.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterNEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterICYMI | Why are so many people in South Africa unaware and seemingly unconcerned about the extraordinarily high numbers of people infected with TB in our country? Could we take TB more seriously as a country? www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2026/01/13/i...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterA lot of good Mutual Aid work often looks similar to a lot of Public Health work: Often it's quiet, mundane, but absolutely foundational to success. When you start hearing about everything going on (and you aren't already directly involved), that's when things are getting very messy.
- Reposted by Laurie Schowaltertomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.
- Reposted by Laurie Schowalter“Today is a dark day. You may feel afraid. You may ask yourself: could I be next? And if you have to ask, the answer is yes So relieve yourself from the slow-motion uncertaintly of the inevitable. And join together in a collective rage To stop these motherfuckers.” kevinjamesthornton.bsky.social
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterSpeaking of the Civil War, there are active legal clashes over blue states’ rights to protect abortion providers and red states seeking to prosecute them. Conservative plaintiffs are also suing said doctors for wrongful death—modern-day bounty hunters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterIt seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Laurie SchowalterLots of local businesses are refusing to cooperate with ICE, but the following are some that *are cooperating with ICE*, and should be boycotted on a national level: - Hilton Hotels - Enterprise Rentals - Best Buy - Home Depot - Target
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterImmigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThis weekend, I just wanted to give a shout out and thank these wonderful colleagues who are doing everything they can, to stand up for science, public health and human rights @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social @boghuma.bsky.social ...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThis is what love looks like.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterImpeach RFK, Jr. We need to treat this infection urgently. @standupforscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThis is the chair of ACIP. Experimenting on America's kids. HE'S GOT TO GO. “What we’re going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles,” he said. “What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What’s the incidence of death?” www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v....
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- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterQ: Why's the Supreme Court reluctant to let Trump fire Lisa Cook from the Fed when it has greenlit so many other illegal firings? A: The other firings were at agencies charged with protecting workers and consumers. The Fed is charged with protecting the economy ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterThinking of this photo for some reason.
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterNEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox. In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."
- Reposted by Laurie SchowalterA third undocumented immigrant detained at a sprawling concentration camp run by DHS in the Texas desert has died, ICE announced Sunday. It is the third such death in 44 days. ICE is systematically blocking efforts by members of Congress to inspect the facility.
