Travis Joesph

Happy #WorldAIDSDay2025 to everyone fighting, surviving, and showing up…even if this administration refuses to. My Thanksgiving story from last week feels relevant today too.
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MAY TRANIANS, WHO MOSTLY HATE THEIR LEADERS, BE SAFE. MAY PALESTINIANS, WHO MOSTLY HATE THEIR LEADERS, BE SAFE. MAY ISRAELIS, WHO MOSTLY HATE THEIR LEADERS, BE SAFE. MAY U.S. CITIZENS, WHO MOSTLY HATE THEIR LEADERS, BE SAFE. MAY ALL THE WAR-MONGERING AUTHORITARIANS BE DEPOSED, AND MAY THEY ONE DAY EXPERIENCE REAL JUSTICE FOR ALL THE SUFFERING AND DEATH THEY CAUSE. RABBI MARISA JAMES (adapted)

Trump deploying the National Guard in LA—something we haven’t seen since Selma. But in ‘65, troops protected civil rights marchers. History doesn’t repeat, it mutates. If you're still calling this “law and order,” you’ve missed the part where the Constitution was lit on fire.
#Resist

Ernest Manint Memorial Fund | Supporting At-Risk Youth Through One Way Love Honor the memory of Ernest Manint, beloved husband, father, and New Orleans native, through the Ernest Manint Memorial Fund. Supporting One Way Love's mission to help at-risk youth in St. Tammany Pari...

My dad passed Tuesday. He was loud, loyal, flawed, and full of life. A provider. A hell of a dancer. He loved his family, the Saints, and the water.

We’re asking folks to donate to One Way Love in his honor: The Ernest Manint Memorial Fund.

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Spoke on PhRMA’s 2025 PRIDE panel with Evan Low & Tekla Taylor—grateful for the convo and the community.

I said: Policy is the tool. Advocacy is the pressure. Allyship is the commitment.

It’s not enough to care quietly—we have to show up, speak up, and push back.

#QueerVoices #LGBTQHealth

My latest analysis for CANN

RFK Jr's Budget Testimony Reveals Concerning Vision for America's Healthcare Safety Net RFK Jr's congressional testimony on the proposed 2026 HHS budget reveals a concerning vision for healthcare that could leave millions without coverage - here's what patient advocates need to know.

RFK Jr’s budget would slash $33B from HHS, impose Medicaid work rules, and shut down critical agencies. It’s not about “waste”—it’s about gutting public health. Read why this matters now: tjoe.co/ont5p6 #HealthPolicy #Medicaid #HHSbudget #HealthcareCrisis

The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.

This isn’t policy theory—it’s personal. I work with teens who are hungry, unhoused, and uninsured. These cuts will hurt them on purpose. If you claim to follow Jesus, maybe ask why your politics betray the people He told us to protect.

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Antibiotic Crisis: Hope Amid Institutional Decline Antibiotic-resistant STIs are outpacing new treatments. But even our best breakthroughs can’t outrun political sabotage.

New antibiotics for STIs are here—but so is the chaos. Public health labs are closing, resistance is rising, and vulnerable communities are on the frontlines. We’re sabotaging our own fight. Read my latest analysis: tjoe.co/gihjsg
#PublicHealth #STIsky #HealthPolicy #AntibioticResistance

As a former brand marketer, all I can say is the leadership at WarnerMedia are idiots. But glad they realized that their most valuable brand asset really was their most valuable brand asset. Nice to see you again, Home Box Office.

The High Cost of Middlemen Medicine Why patients pay more while hospital systems and middlemen cash in on America’s broken drug market.

Patients are paying more for life-saving meds, but manufacturers aren’t getting richer—middlemen are. My latest article breaks down how PBMs and hospital systems pocket the difference while patients suffer. #healthpolicy #pharmsky #medsky tjoe.co/wv2j1f

Mapping Injustice: Redlining's Legacy in HIV Treatment Delays As political attacks target health equity research, new evidence shows discrimination from the past continues to shape treatment outcomes today

New Tulane study shows PLWH in redlined areas face 15% longer delays in care—193 days vs. 164. The past is still prescribing outcomes.

The map may have changed, but the realities haven’t.

Read more: tjoe.co/ohot90

#HIVsky #PublicHealth #EpiSky #HealthPolicy

It’s time to clean house. If you’re over 65, it’s time to retire from congress. If you’re too scared to lead in this moment, then sit the fuck down. Chuck, go write your books and get out of congress, you’re done. Bernie, go rally troops and retire, you’re useless in the senate.

Can confirm. 😭 #ADHD

Also, fuck you #RFKJr (for good measure)

National Fentanyl Awareness Day A day of action to raise public awareness about an urgent problem: illegally made fentanyl. Join our effort.

Today is National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Naloxone is available over the counter and can reverse a fentanyl overdose. Learn where to get it and how to use it at fentanylawarenessday.org. #NFAD2025

Also what’s the makeup budget in this administration? He’s painting his face like Trump.

Leaked HHS budget proposes gutting HIV prevention, mental health care, and public health infrastructure. A 33% slash that puts lives—and decades of progress—at risk.

Full breakdown: tjoe.co/ri2vcv

#HIVsky #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #PoliSky

The Pitt is seriously the most intense tv show I’ve ever seen. Jesus. Really fantastic writing and acting. But damn.

US at tipping point for return of endemic measles At current U.S. childhood vaccination rates, measles could return to spreading regularly at high levels, with an estimated 851,300 cases over the next 25 years, computer models used by the researchers suggest.

Measles—the disease we fought so hard to eliminate—is making a comeback in the U.S. thanks to falling vaccination rates. We’re nearing the tipping point for endemic measles again. This didn’t have to happen.

#PublicHealth #VaccinesWork #IDSky #MedSky

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Y’all need to stop 😭💀

Tesla Profits Drop 71% Amid Backlash to Elon Musk’s Role Under Trump The carmaker reported the sharp decline in quarterly earnings after Tesla’s brand suffered because of its chief executive’s role in the Trump administration.

Awwww.

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Trump - Penn
Vance - Yale
Cruz - Harvard
Hegseth - Harvard
RFK Jr - Harvard
Dr Oz - Harvard
Ratcliffe - Notre Dame
Stefanik - Harvard

We clearly need to re-evaluate the value and product of “elite” higher education institutions in this country.

System Failure: Inside the Collapse of HIV Data Protections A sweeping purge of federal IT staff and unchecked data grabs are unraveling HIV privacy protections—threatening care, safety, and public trust.

The HIV data systems built to protect us are being gutted in real time—by design. This isn’t modernization. It’s demolition. Read why it matters before it’s too late. tjoe.co/b1ljh3 #HIV #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #Privacy #HealthcareIT

7/7
The lab leak site isn’t about Covid.
It’s about justifying power grabs, erasing history, and building a permission structure for whatever he does next.
Don’t get distracted by Fauci.
Watch the empire being assembled.
#CovidSky #PoliSky #StayLoud

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak

6/7
When Trump talks about “economic security,” what he really means is authoritarian control of markets, media, memory, and minds.
Replacing Covid.gov with propaganda isn’t just cynical. It’s a blueprint.
#FascismWatch #DigitalCoup

5/7
The NYT reporting makes clear:

-- No new evidence
-- Misleading claims
-- Old conspiracy theories rebranded as fact

This is how the regime manufactures truth.
One deletion, one domain, one redirection at a time.

#MediaLiteracy #CovidSky

4/7
Yesterday it was an op-ed.
Tonight it’s policy.
They erased public health infrastructure and replaced it with a disinformation hub.
What’s next?
A new Department of Retcon?
#CovidCon #LabLeakLies #HealthDisinfo

3/7
Covid is now a justification engine.
For tariffs. For sanctions. For nationalizing tech. For framing economic collapse as patriotic necessity.
It’s not about public health—it’s about political economy and power.
#EconSky #China

2/7
This is not about Fauci. It never was.
He’s just convenient collateral. The real move is escalating a trade war with China—backed by conspiracies, state-controlled messaging, and the rebranding of a global tragedy into a conspiratorial fever dream.
#TradeWar #Authoritarianism

Trump Declares Lab Leak as ‘True Origins’ of Covid on New Website Government websites that once provided basic information about the virus now redirect to a page citing a number of misleading or heavily contested claims.

1/7
Follow-up to last night’s thread on the @wsj.com op-ed:
It wasn’t just an isolated rant. It was the prelude.
Tonight, @nytimes.com reports the Trump admin nuked Covid.gov and replaced it with a full-blown propaganda site declaring “lab leak” the true origin of Covid.
#IDSky #PoliSky