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lizseegert.bsky.social
health journalist. Focus on aging, caregiving, policy, and more. Grandma. Dog mom. Partial to strong coffee, dark chocolate, red wine. AHCJ, ASJA, JAWS.
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Bruce!

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

Bezos just made a multi billion $ deal with the killers who murdered a journalist at the paper he owns. I hope the entire staff of The Washington Post goes on strike in solidarity w/ their fellow journalist Jamal #Khashoggi, who was cut apart with hacksaws at the command of the Saudi government.

any MDs here willing to discuss concerns w/anti-amyloid drugs for a story for a major publication? Would need to talk this week. pls DM or email [email protected] #alzheimer's #amyloid #geriatrics #dementia

Very happy to share my latest for Humanitas, UC Irvine School of Nursing's Alumni pub. Nurses rock. #nursing nursing.uci.edu/news-events/...

Checks 💰🔴 & Balances🔵 🖼️🖌️ Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social R. J. Matson @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social 🔵Cory Booker Vs 🔴Mike Johnson

Lawler needs to go. Signed, a very unhappy constituent

For an upcoming story, I'm looking to interview physicians who decided to/not to prescribe anti-amyloid therapy. Please DM or email [email protected] if willing to discuss. Also seeing patients/caregivers to discuss taking therapy or deciding not to. 5/12 deadline #Alzheimer's #Dementia #amyloid

Every journalist knows that if they stand against Trump, they could get fired, sued, their loved ones could lose funding or get deported, and in the future they could be prosecuted and sent to jail. The chilling effect has already started. Pay attention to the journalists who stand up anyway.

Reminder: we don’t have the FDA and CDC for funsies. We have these agencies because we have decades of experience of how bad things get when no one looks at food safety, drug safety, and works to prevent diseases.

@mealsonwheelsmn.bsky.social and other safety net programs for older adults are at risk thanks to the dismantling of the Administration for Community Living, looming budget cuts and higher costs. My latest for @healthjournalism.org looks at what's at stake: healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/04...

This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

@maddow.msnbc.com doing vital interview on DOGE access to secure NLRB secure database and potential access by Russia. Based on @npr.org reporting www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n.... Congress asked to investigate. Whistleblower got threatened #journalism matters. Now more than ever.

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

Our crackerjack education secretary thinks AI is steak sauce. As @maddow.msnbc.com said…I can’t even 🤦‍♀️

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

Trump bears the bulk of the blame for the unprecedented global economic crisis now unfolding. But let’s not ignore the role played by the hideously bad judgment of the business and financial leaders who supported Trump and didn’t realize this was an inevitable outcome.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com called the feud between Muskrat and Navarro over tariffs “the Bonfire of the Stupidities”. How perfect.

I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.

Sad news for journalism: www.cjr.org/news/center-...

Hey Senator Cassidy, how's that deal with RFK Jr going now? You are partly responsible for this debacle and ultimately, the deaths that will follow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Looking forward to the Washington Post editorial board’s take on those free market values 💸💸

Former FDA commissioner David Kessler on @maddow.msnbc.com laying out just how dire these cuts and loss of institutional knowledge is. Bird flu, vaccine safety, food safety, pharmaceutical safety…”we have maybe a week before this becomes beyond fixable”

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Thank you @booker.senate.gov for your leadership and tenacity. You’re the kind of leader we need right now. @schumer.senate.gov take note.

I realize races are closer than usual, but I'm still flabbergasted Floridians who about to lose their Social Security are still fucking voting for maga fucking Republicans what the fuck.

This is horrifying

@msnbc.com why am I seeing ads in Spanish during breaks when I view on my iPad? Weird. Been going on for. Couple of weeks.

Breaking: A New York court just shut down Texas's attempt to go after a NY doctor who prescribed and mailed abortion pills to a woman in Texas.. a major win for state sovereignty...and reproductive rights. Ken Paxton is pissed off. You know something good for the country has happened when he's mad.

What's at stake for older adults if Medicaid cuts are enacted? In my latest for @healthjournalism.org I recap what some some experts predict: healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/03...

Here to tell you the stage we're at now is DISOBEY IN ADVANCE.

@barackobama.bsky.social now on @bsky.app

Oopsie

"When strange things happen and no one reacts, then everybody normalizes." @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why public protests of Donald Trump's policies are "of the first importance."

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.