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Reposted by Christina Ho

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*gestures in the direction of the literature on the link between hospital closures and reduced voter participation in affected communities*

Add in attacks on the VRA, it would seem that these outcomes are the desired outcomes.
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Reposted by Christina Ho, James Goodwin, Kate Jackson

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This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h
President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.
Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money
The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.
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by Víctor M. Montori — Reposted by Christina Ho

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𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐢𝐧-𝐭𝐡𝐞-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩

Clinicians, patients, teachers, students, families, communities. We are not the unpaid, unprogrammed, cost-saving, minimal-viable-product enabling bit. We are not your moral crumple zones, your accountability sinks, your scapegoats.
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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This study estimates the effect is responsible for about 1.5 years of US life expectancy - so an immigration ban would cause a drop roughly the same size as the Covid pandemic

Of course no one would necessarily actually be dying, they’d just be living in different countries
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Nandita Sharma, Joe R. Feagin , and 7 more

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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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Truly disgusting

ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass

Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him

How do these people live with themselves

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A Leominster family who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years said federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old daughter, who is a US-citizen and autistic, in custody outside their...
TikTok video by The Boston Globe
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by Christina Ho

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“Her father, a doctor and psychiatrist, gave her what she called her first lesson in dance. ‘Movement never lies,’ he told her.”
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Books and Tunes @booksandtunes.bsky.social · 3d
"As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?"
‘A certain bite’: how Martha Graham pushed dance in dazzling new directions
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?
www.theguardian.com
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"As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?"
‘A certain bite’: how Martha Graham pushed dance in dazzling new directions
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?
www.theguardian.com
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Eric J. Segall

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A decades-old problem (underrepresentation of all women, but especially pregnant women, in medical research) is getting worse.

Post-Dobbs, “fear of liability is a regularly cited obstacle” to enrolling pregnant women in medical studies, according to a 2024 @nationalacademies.org report.
RFK Jr.’s got advice for pregnant women. There’s limited data to support it.
Women of reproductive age have long been missing from clinical trials. It’s getting worse where abortion is banned.
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Amy Bruckman, Tom Clark , and 7 more

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“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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Foreign intelligence agencies almost certainly have a much clearer picture of Trump's health than the American public.
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It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Melanie C. Green

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I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 3 more

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Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."
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by Christina Ho

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“The new version of Copilot will draw on information from the Harvard Health Publishing arm to respond to queries about healthcare topics.”
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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 6d
Because when you “follow the money” it naturally leads to health care…
Exclusive | Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal
The company seeks to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot.
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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Because when you “follow the money” it naturally leads to health care…
Exclusive | Microsoft Tries to Catch Up in AI With Healthcare Push, Harvard Deal
The company seeks to move away from dependence on its partner OpenAI and build a consumer base for its Copilot chatbot.
www.wsj.com
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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Everything being done to Mark Bray is political violence.
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“What does real global health activism look like today?”
Join South African activist Zackie Achmat in Montréal (Nov 5) + Toronto (Nov 7) to find out.
🎟 Tickets: https://pihcanada.org/global-health-activism-we-need

#GlobalHealth #HealthEquity
@pih.org @zackieachmat.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Anna O. Law, Richard S.J. Tol , and 5 more

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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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by Christina Ho

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Prof. Jacob Bor, commented, “if the US simply performed at the average of our peers, one out of every two US deaths under 65 years is likely avoidable. Our failure to address this is a national scandal.”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 8d
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Caroline Krafft, Karen Benjamin Guzzo , and 2 more

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New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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Exactly! Health insurance coverage tied to a JOB is the modern method of SLAVERY!!
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Reposted by Christina Ho, Peter Bergman

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ICE is out of control in Chicago. Now just tossing tear gas canisters out of the car in the middle of one of our neighborhoods as kids are walking home from school, people out going grocery shopping.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...
News Masked federal agent throws chemical irritants outside Logan Square grocery store: 'My eyes are burning' Video taken by several witnesses captured the moments where the agent can be seen dropping a canister from a white SUV.
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by Christina Ho — Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

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Too many Mbembe quotes that are too on the nose: "The spirit of the time is not only about survival. It is also about a renewed will to kill as opposed to the will to care...to sever all relationships as opposed to the will to engage in the exacting labor of repairing the ties that have been broken"
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12d
Yes. I have a piece in the pipeline about "illness as policy" & it will be so behind the necropolitical times when it comes out. I know that's part of the point of the tactic of flooding the zone with death.
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by Lisa Diedrich — Reposted by Christina Ho

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Yes. I have a piece in the pipeline about "illness as policy" & it will be so behind the necropolitical times when it comes out. I know that's part of the point of the tactic of flooding the zone with death.
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Reposted by Christina Ho

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They are attacking farmers. Factory workers. Attorneys. Non profits. Science. Arts and culture. Small business. Federal government employees. The impact is going to be tragic. These are all interrelated and strategic plans. We were warned.
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by Ingrid Robeyns — Reposted by Christina Ho

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Thank you, New York Times. I like the word 'mighty', but the truth (as I see it) is that since writing it, my book has become pretty non-radical, given how events in the world are unfolding.
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