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College Professor, Cardiologist, Scientist.💙💙💙 I can't stand liars and con men who threaten the health of the public. Pro-women, Pro-Democracy, Pro-equality. Cambridge, MA, USA.
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I'm a practice physician. The reason the GOP wants to crash Medicaid is not to balance the budget. The GOP doesn't want poor people to have the same health care--it actually bothers them that poor people can see the same doctors as them.
Taking health care and food from poor people is their GOAL.
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It's hilarious that Charlie Kirk criticizes Ketanji Brown Jackson. I have nothing against community colleges, but Kirk's ignorance reflects his inability to learn new things.
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I understand why journalists fear comparing the US to 1943. But we cannot be afraid to compare Trump to 1933. In 1933, no one knew what would happen with the Nazi movement. But in 2025, we know what happened, and it’s happening in front of our eyes.
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Mark Carney is mature, thoughtful, decent and honest—all of the things Trump lacks. That is why Canada is now respected as the leader of North America, while the world laughs at the US.
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We should not think that Noem, Vought, Hegseth, Rubio, Vance, Musk, Thomas, Miller, Bondi are less dangerous than Heydrich, Himmler, Goebbels, Goring, Speer and Bormann. Trump's supporters will commit mass atrocities if allowed. Human nature does not change in 90 years.
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If Trump leaves White House in 2029, he risks prison. One possibility is that he uses domestic strife as a late excuse to stop elections with the military; LA was an audition. Another possibility is that he starts a war with Canada or Iran and orders elections paused "for national security"
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I'm sure Trump loved Hegseth at press conference because Hegseth acted like a toddler whose pacifier was taken away. Hegseth is an embarrassment to the US, his family and himself. Hegseth should resign and never speak again, unless he is pleading the 5th.
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Now that SCOTUS has limited the power of the judiciary, Trump will need The Night of the Long Knives to terrorize the US. This will include additional arrests of local politicians and a more violent turn of ICE. After that, Trump will corrupt elections and then stay in power indefinitely.
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We should now talk of Nazi Germany alongside of MAGA America because they are the same. One ended with the Holocaust and WWII. How will we end? Do you really think that Stephen Miller would not gas migrants, or that Trump would not invade Canada or start WWIII?
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Justice Jackson is completely correct. The 1933 roadmap is almost complete. All that remains is more deployment of armed forces in US cities and executive orders that prevent or corrupt elections.
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Trump supporters won't care that the US is now unprepared for hurricanes unless it affects them directly. But they will care about collapse of the health care system and inflation, and both of those are coming. The Big Bill will crush rural health centers FAST.
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Much of the 2025/1933 playbook has been accomplished, and Congress and SCOTUS have enabled it. Trump will now block elections, because he needs to stay in power to stay out of prison. Trump will do this in 2026, and we will be in Nazi America.
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With SCOTUS and Congress handing the US to Trump, Trump now wants to make Canada the enemy so that he can annex Canada. Trump wants Canadian land and white people.
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Definitely agree that AI is going to change the economic order of the US. Hopefully it will not exacerbate income inequality.
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AI might replace lots of workers, but I think there will always be jobs for responsible and honest people who can connect with others. That's my impression as a physician.
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I watched Pete Hegseth press conference today. Hegseth is like a mediocre 2nd grader having a temper tantrum. Talk about unprofessional and unqualified. The general embarrassed Hegseth, just by being an adult.
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I can't believe Emil Bove is at a confirmation hearing. He should be in prison for contempt. He's Eileen Cannon in reverse drag.
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As a doc, here's what I see: RFK's mind is going, and he is hanging on to his rigid beliefs as a self-defense mechanism. The problem is: you can't be grasping at your past beliefs when health of others is at stake. Reality eventually wins.
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I'm watching Trump speak at Hague. What an embarrassing buffoon. Everything is about his ego--nothing else matters to him. It's like Saturday Night Live, except he's real.
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History will remember Zelensky with George Washington. History will remember Donald Trump with Putin.
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There are plenty of lawyers who follow the rules, and they will report traitors like Emil Bove and Drew Ensign to their bars. Judges should start fining these DOJ criminals $100,000 for every intentional lie, too.
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Hopefully at least a few GOP Senators will grow a spine and realize that Emil Bove shouldn't even be employed. And Drew Ensign better come clean or he's going to have a long career picking up poop with his bare hands. DOJ has become an organized crime cabal.
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Based on the Reuveni document in NYT, Drew Ensign and Emil Bove should be disbarred. Drew Ensign may want to consider following the whistleblower example since he's about to lose his license to practice law.
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Painful reckoning for red states will occur VERY soon, as states will need to prepare for Work Requirement. That will sap state Medicaid resources immediately—even before the Medicaid cuts begin—because it will be FEDERAL LAW. Coming to everyone soon: 3 day waits in an ER.
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Absolutely true that John Roberts or Mitch McConnell could have stopped Trump, but they were cowards who betrayed their oaths to the US Constitution.
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It feels frustrating now, but resistance is forming. The tide won't turn on cultural issues and even corruption, though. Independents and even some GOPs will turn as it becomes clear that the GOP economic plan is stealing from working Americans. Inflation and erosion of health care will do that.
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Hi from Boston on a beautiful Saturday! We have lots of history, and a very international community of education and technology! We also have no MAGA hats because in Boston, a MAGA hat means "I support hatred"
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The Republican support for the Bill shows that the power of shared hatred is greater than self interest. And they think that poor people shouldn't have the same health care--even if it erodes their own health care.
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Trump's reaction to Iran nuclear program: "Hegseth, find me 3 Navy pilots named Rooster, Phoenix and Bob. And get Tom Cruise on the phone!"
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This Jerome Powell has some nerve speaking the truth about tariffs causing inflation. He should be forced to do 100 million dollars in pro bono work for Trump.
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Long before Trump, and long after Trump, there are people who don't care about others. What is most remarkable about Trump supporters is how they value Trump's warped view of culture more than their own lives. They are about to lose health care access, even if not on Medicaid, and that's nuts.
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When I go for a run, and I get tired, I think: "I have to be here to celebrate when that guy is gone". And then I keep running.
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Trump doesn't like being around decent, thoughtful, intelligent people, because they make Trump feel small. That is why he chooses Lutnick, Navarro, Hegseth, Habba, Bondi, McMahon, RFK. Third rate people hire 4th rate people.
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On Trump saying he will never take responsibility for anything: What a coward. He isn't strong, he isn't decent, he isn't even average. He's a sniveling coward.
Strong people admit when they are wrong and they LEARN from it.
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I agree, Trump fell asleep at his parade. He would be cute, except that he's disgusting and not cute in any way.
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If Kristi Noem weren’t a sociopath, we’d feel sorry for her. She’s so dumb that there should be a law to turn off the cameras when she speaks.
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History will record Trump as a dangerous fascist with evil intent, and the worst American ever. But we will also remember Trump for being a weak, small and pathetic man—an incredible coward.
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Trump definitely has anti-social personality disorder and also narcissistic PD. I think Trump’s eye closing is just cowardice. He can’t face the truth, and that’s why he surrounds himself with people who tell Trump that he is smart and great.
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Trump is such a coward that he closes his eyes when he doesn't like reality. He did it in court when he was being convicted, and he did it at his parade. When poor little Donnie doesn't like something, he has to close his eyes! What a TACO.
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Imagine throwing yourself a $45 million birthday parade, and you can't even stay awake for it. Trump is not just embarrassing the US, he's embarrassing himself. He wants to be a strongman, but he's a weak, pathetic child.
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I love EVs and have 2 of them. I will never buy a Tesla until they fire Musk and take away all of his stock. Never. Buy. Tesla. Ever.
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For Trump, staying out of jail, deploying military on US citizens, tariffs and annexing Canada are all part of the same thing. Trump thinks he is emperor, and no one can stop him. Certainly Roberts and Congress won’t do it.
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Trump is hoping they will catch the Minnesota assassin so that Trump can pardon him.
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Trump/RFK purge of CDC, NIH and US science is a disgrace, stupid and tragic. It's not just the attack on vaccines, it's an attack on truth and all Americans.
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When you have a violent sociopath as leader of the GOP, you get a society with increased violence. This is what Trump wants. Violence is never the answer.