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The Social Security Administration will withhold full benefits from seniors who received overpayments, a policy critics call "clawback cruelty"

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@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 66 days ago • 147 comments

Stand Up for Science Burlington, Vermont

submitted 66 days ago • 135 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 79 days ago • 767 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful. It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

submitted 80 days ago • 1437 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 80 days ago • 1037 comments

What we heard this week 🧵 #Medsky "We knew he was lying when he said he was not going to touch this group in particular." -- Georges Benjamin, MD, of @aphapublichealth.bsky.social, discussing the possibility that #RFK Jr. might remove some advisors on #ACIP. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Today marks 3 years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead of siding with our allies and long-standing values, this Administration is cozying up to Putin. It’s shameful. Freedom and democracy worldwide are at stake.

submitted 79 days ago • 26 comments

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

submitted 79 days ago • 225 comments

"How do you strategize around an unpredictable funding landscape?" #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4gPIkBz

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I haven’t seen this action by #SAEM posted for discussion yet. Are journals and societies also adjusting or retracting prior research to reflect an executive branch policy « to recognize two sexes, male and female »? Where does it stop? #medsky #emedsky #emergencymedicine #meded #acep #aaem

submitted 81 days ago • 5 comments

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 92 days ago • 314 comments

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

submitted 93 days ago • 220 comments

PLEASE SHARE.

submitted 93 days ago • 1068 comments

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

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Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

submitted 93 days ago • 840 comments

Trump's attack on NIH funding is a reckless attack on science, innovation, and the people who depend on them. It will gut critical research, kill jobs, and put lives at risk—especially in the #MA7, a global hub for cutting-edge research. My full statement:

submitted 92 days ago • 9 comments

Trump appeared completely unbothered by the massive intrusion on the privacy of U.S. citizens—in fact, he seemed to suggest it was the fault of government agencies for not better concealing this information from Musk’s goons.

submitted 93 days ago • 23 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams. They have cut off funding to the agency.

submitted 93 days ago • 497 comments

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

submitted 94 days ago • 960 comments

The world in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism. The top aide to the president of the United States supports it. apnews.com/article/germ...

submitted 94 days ago • 476 comments

At least $12 trillion from global oligarchs is hidden offshore in secret tax havens worldwide. And it is headquartered right here in the USA. Instead of cutting lifesaving programs like the VA, Medicaid, and food stamps, we should be cracking down on tax havens for the ultra-rich.

submitted 93 days ago • 287 comments

The least humane religionists are often those who've shelved their Bibles or Qurans. Christianity Today's editor-in-chief warns that US evangelical Christianity is lurching so far to the right that it's considering Jesus' teachings "weak." How can a Christian eschew Christ himself?

submitted 93 days ago • 40 comments

We help each other around here.🫶 youtube.com/@americanmed...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

This vote on RFK Jr just another proof that republicans don't care if your children will die from preventable diseases.

submitted 98 days ago • 19 comments

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

submitted 98 days ago • 1257 comments

Oh look, the former president of Russia and top Putin ally Dmitry Medevev is totally onboard with Musk and Trump’s plans for USAID.

submitted 100 days ago • 145 comments

Elon Musk has forced his way into the system that pays your Social Security checks and tax refunds. He likely now has access to your Social Security number.

submitted 100 days ago • 676 comments

Help Wanted. 👇

submitted 100 days ago • 484 comments

The Dumbest of Trade Wars enacted by the Dumbest Administration for these Dumbest of Times.

submitted 100 days ago • 866 comments

#medsky

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"People are afraid. This is a fearful time." Withdrawing from the WHO diminishes the influence of the U.S. on global health, and leaves the nation unprepared in the face of any future pandemics, public health officials told MedPage Today. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) did not go out as scheduled because of a communications pause at federal health agencies issued by the Trump administration. #medsky www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 111 days ago • 2426 comments

Suspending NIH study sections is a blow to science & innovation. Universities & scientists rely on NIH funding to pursue groundbreaking research on cancer, heart disease, & more. This decision halts progress & undermines the life’s work of countless experts. #ScienceMatters

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

The US president just attacked a female bishop for saying Christian things in a Christian sermon, calling her a "so-called bishop", not "smart", and "not very good at her job." And no one will blink an eye. It won't be a controversy or a big story. All normalized. Welcome to the next 4 years.

submitted 111 days ago • 384 comments

AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

submitted 111 days ago • 625 comments

This is how you do it...

submitted 112 days ago • 1029 comments

Trump likes the idea of a Second Gilded Age, perhaps because he himself is gilded: showy on the outside, empty on the inside.

submitted 112 days ago • 10 comments

January 12, 2025

submitted 121 days ago • 64 comments

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read. REPOST gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

submitted 122 days ago • 387 comments

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Make it make sense! Republicans are relentlessly attacking Medicare, ACA, & Social Security, while many of their own voters in non-coastal states are the very people who desperately need access to healthcare. These are communities with rampant 🚬+🍻 use, poor diets🍟, & overall unhealthy lifestyles.

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I have never lived in a world where polio was a disease people suffered from due to vaccines. Polio causes paralysis in 1 in 200 patients! Here we go folks. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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As a surgeon, I have some thoughts on this. 🧵

submitted 160 days ago • 33 comments