@mjpmd.bsky.social
physician appalled at this timeline and seeking community
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2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
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If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’
From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.
Gift link:
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Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.
Gift link:
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Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists: Reminder: Misrepresenting VAERS reports is an old anti-vaccine trope. Secretary Kennedy's team is trying to hide the lack of good data behind denying people covid-19 vaccines. wapo.st/47IvcNM
Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists
The move to link coronavirus vaccines to 25 child deaths has alarmed career scientists who say the shots have been extensively studied.
wapo.st
September 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Trump officials to link covid shots to child deaths, alarming career scientists: Reminder: Misrepresenting VAERS reports is an old anti-vaccine trope. Secretary Kennedy's team is trying to hide the lack of good data behind denying people covid-19 vaccines. wapo.st/47IvcNM
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US public health, global health sec, & science is facing unprecedented threats & intentional erosion. During COVID-19, I think so many of us felt that this horrific global event would bring us together - a pandemic requiring community partnership & trust in science. (1/5)
August 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
US public health, global health sec, & science is facing unprecedented threats & intentional erosion. During COVID-19, I think so many of us felt that this horrific global event would bring us together - a pandemic requiring community partnership & trust in science. (1/5)
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This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s J.B. Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
newrepublic.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me.
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Dem govs must step up and fill the void.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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The loss of highly experienced CDC leadership is the latest devastating result of the Administration’s sustained attacks on public health, and it absolutely must be the last.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/41XOkU7
Our statement: https://bit.ly/41XOkU7
August 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The loss of highly experienced CDC leadership is the latest devastating result of the Administration’s sustained attacks on public health, and it absolutely must be the last.
Our statement: https://bit.ly/41XOkU7
Our statement: https://bit.ly/41XOkU7
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On the one hand, having the CDC crumble the same day the COVID vaccine is restricted & there was another mass shooting of children is pretty bad.
On the other hand, 10-12 million people are about to be priced out of their healthcare coverage and another 12-14 million will have to downgrade theirs.
On the other hand, 10-12 million people are about to be priced out of their healthcare coverage and another 12-14 million will have to downgrade theirs.
🚨🚨🚨 OK, it's the final stretch.
There's 7 more states to go. I'm gonna post them all in one thread.
4 of them have massive numbers of enrollees.
3 only have a small number of enrollees but the rate hikes for some enrollees are TRULY jaw-dropping.
First up: The Million Plus Enrollee Club:
There's 7 more states to go. I'm gonna post them all in one thread.
4 of them have massive numbers of enrollees.
3 only have a small number of enrollees but the rate hikes for some enrollees are TRULY jaw-dropping.
First up: The Million Plus Enrollee Club:
August 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
On the one hand, having the CDC crumble the same day the COVID vaccine is restricted & there was another mass shooting of children is pretty bad.
On the other hand, 10-12 million people are about to be priced out of their healthcare coverage and another 12-14 million will have to downgrade theirs.
On the other hand, 10-12 million people are about to be priced out of their healthcare coverage and another 12-14 million will have to downgrade theirs.
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New @nature.com
The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses
nature.com/articles/s41...
The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses
nature.com/articles/s41...
Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease - Nature
Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level.
nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
New @nature.com
The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses
nature.com/articles/s41...
The possibility that lithium deficiency is a driver of Alzheimer's disease. Experimental model shows Li depletion impedes amyloid clearance, and repletion in humans could be achieved with low doses
nature.com/articles/s41...
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More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
August 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.
“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
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Brains aged faster during the #COVID pandemic—even among the uninfected, data suggest
The greatest accelerated brain aging was seen in older people, men, and those from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The greatest accelerated brain aging was seen in older people, men, and those from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
July 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Brains aged faster during the #COVID pandemic—even among the uninfected, data suggest
The greatest accelerated brain aging was seen in older people, men, and those from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The greatest accelerated brain aging was seen in older people, men, and those from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
As always, the words of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social are a balm in these weary times
And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
As always, the words of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social are a balm in these weary times
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And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
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Gutting government services kills people www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Gutting government services kills people www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...