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This is HORRIBLE. So much for democracy and a free press.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Overheard someone mention “brat summer” today and I was like, I have lived a thousand lifetimes since then

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in 🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over 🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s 🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day

submitted 18 days ago • 50 comments

Fuck fuck fuck

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 21 days ago • 336 comments

This by drboguslaw.bsky.social is pretty damning: prospect.org/health/2025-... “at $54 a month for top-class care with no other co-pays or deductibles, it’s a pretty good deal for the men and women who dictate what kind of options the rest of us have.”

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A new executive order gives DOGE sweeping powers www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

submitted 21 days ago • 158 comments

United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s “life-changing” inhaler, suit alleges.

submitted 22 days ago • 61 comments

I'd think people getting kicked off Medicaid would normally be a wake-up call, but it didn't seem to be when millions were kicked off of it in 2023, which included children.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 27 days ago • 1766 comments

Can’t imagine I’ll need to know how to say this

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 27 days ago • 311 comments

💔 www.berkeleyside.org/2025/02/05/p...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

as we’re seeing the endpoint of the anti-DEI hysteria is just opening the door to rampant employment discrimination

submitted 41 days ago • 212 comments

“He’s not going to actually do Project 2025”

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

"So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?" www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll be posting this today

submitted 44 days ago • 514 comments

I dunno, Trump already shut down the asylum registration app so forgive me for not cheering for the “girl power” moment.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It feels worth just, like, saying this, but every major social media company in the country is now frantically sucking up to Trump. I'm sure this won't have any particular consequences www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

I'm gonna be honest. I'm scared. These next four years fill me with resounding concern for the safety and well-being of myself and everyone dear to me. It's forced me to reevaluate a lot of my approach to things in the past. I refuse to appeal to tyrants or to leave people behind... but I'm stumped

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

“Not being the party of Trump is no longer enough. Then again, it never was.” newrepublic.com/article/1903...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Just called @kirstengilliland.bsky.social to implore she vote against this horrifying anti-immigration bill. Despite my problems w the Democrats, it’s unfathomable to me they would enable Trump on the eve of his inauguration, rather than do whatever they can before Monday to protect immigrants.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Straight men will literally start a war with a Latin American country rather than going to therapy

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

I’m sorry, what?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

i think it is great that the press is treating this like it’s just another proposal

submitted 55 days ago • 455 comments

Super down to the wire, I finished my 2024 roundup of my favorite shows, which includes "Say Nothing," "The Decameron," "My Lady Jane," and more. Check it out: open.substack.com/pub/smallscr...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Single-handedly upholding my mental health #colinfromaccounts

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Will telehealth be saved? The government's pared down continuing resolution makes the long-term outcome of this important medical service unclear. ICYMI, for @newrepublic.com: newrepublic.com/article/1893...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Powerful piece by my friend @lauralew105.bsky.social: newrepublic.com/article/1893.... Telemedicine is essential and lifesaving for disabled people!!

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Telemedicine for millions of Americans looked to be all set for a two year extension. Then Elon and Trump intervened, and now its fate remains in purgatory. After much ado, newrepublic.com/article/1893... @newrepublic.com @dceiver.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

California forcibly sterilized hundreds of women. Then, it 'allowed' them to apply for compensation. But only ≈15% of the affected women have gotten compensation so far. Many were denied. And the deadline to apply/appeal is in just 10 days, leading to an unfair rush many don't know about:

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

I’m watching the new comedy “Laid” on Peacock and it’s the first time I’ve heard long Covid mentioned in a scripted show. I can’t tell if it’s good or bad representation but it is… representation.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

“While healthcare spending has risen by 67% in the past decade, the earnings of UnitedHealth Group, Elevance and Cigna have shot up by 262% in the same time. These rates once tracked closely together until markedly diverging in 2016.”

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The Senate authorized funding for NIH pediatric cancer by unanimous consent tonight after it was stripped out of the House bill, though NBC specifies it's less money than the original package. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 74 days ago • 11 comments

New resources published on long Covid at @thesicktimes.bsky.social, providing important public education on the slew of symptoms it can cause -- all reviewed by medical experts. I hope folks find the section I wrote on over the counter meds and supplements helpful:

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 75 days ago • 2668 comments

"Many insured adults said they or a family member had delayed or skipped needed health care or prescription drugs because they couldn’t afford it in the past 12 months: 29% of those w/ employer coverage 37% covered by marketplace or individual-market plans 39% enrolled in Medicaid 42% with Medicare

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

So let me get this straight: the US government might shut down because the richest man in the world (not even from the US or in the government) decided sending aid to victims of a hurricane—and continuing countless other critical programs—is unnecessarily opulent.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Both my New York senators. Shameful and infuriating.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

She missed a court hearing due to c-section

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Really disturbing: With two days until federal government funding expires, Sen Mike Johnson is trying to pass a stopgap spending bill negotiated with Democrats. Now Musk and Ramaswamy are firing off tweets calling for a government shutdown that nobody wants or anticipated. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

submitted 77 days ago • 40 comments