Andrew Yockey, PhD

@yockeyandrew.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Public Health at UIUC. Stats and Methods Editor, J Surgery Medicine and Public Health; Stats Editor, J of Addiction Medicine 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Views my own. He/him.

@meidastouch.comReposted by @yockeyandrew.bsky.social

NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.

A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
@maddow.bsky.socialReposted by @yockeyandrew.bsky.social

"Conservative Cuban Americans have long made S. Florida GOP-friendly.

But Trump has deported a record number of Cubans. Older Cubans who lived in the US for decades were deported to Mexico, where they've struggled to get by. Some have been deported to Africa..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.comHow Trump’s Deportation Policies Have Rocked a South Florida House RaceRepresentative María Elvira Salazar, a Republican, ran an ad criticizing the Trump administration. It may have jolted other Republicans — and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent.
@atrupar.comReposted by @yockeyandrew.bsky.social

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

@rbreich.bsky.socialReposted by @yockeyandrew.bsky.social

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

@elizabethjacobs.bsky.socialReposted by @yockeyandrew.bsky.social

Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.

inquirer.comThe CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. ShapiroHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.