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Hint to @OregonDOT @OregonGovBrown to fix the blunder: #congestionpricing and ditch the multibillion I-5 widening project. #transportation Pro tip: it's better for the #climate In Extraordinary Hearing, ODOT Explains Billion-Dollar Budget Blunder www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...

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#Bezos' offering from the now castrated #Washington Post open.substack.com/pub/anntelna... Kudos to @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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ICYMI: Our last 2 stories have been about Trump’s NIH pick Jay Bhattacharya: 1) He left $250K from the Bradley Foundation off financial disclosure. www.importantcontext.news/p/oversight-... 2) He suggested vaccines may cause autism before he was nominated. www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-nih-...

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Every opinion piece in the Washington Post must now follow Bezos' new rightwing guidelines. Writers can say that they would have written the same thing anyway, but the fact remains: Their piece was only published because it met his new rightwing guidelines. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

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Just heard from a friend who is a true hero veteran. His company was destroyed in 30 days by the VA when they canceled 5 contracts without notice. 23 Americans mostly veterans out of work and a veteran owned small business destroyed. For nothing. They're dismantling the VA not "reforming" it.

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How was your #commute to #work? #PDX by #bike

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Making America Sick Again #MAGA #GOP #MASA The #health and #healthcare needs of our most vulnerable citizens are secondary to the needs of billionaires. How else would they afford their private jets and multiple homes? Or be able to buy and control newspapers? #Medicaid

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Democracy Dies in the Hands of Jeff Bezos

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Making America Sick Again #MAGA #MASA #EPA tells White House to strike down landmark #climate finding wapo.st/43bee8s

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Ohio’s J.D. #Vance rebuked by the #Pope, denounced by #NATO allies, ridiculed for bizarre rant ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/25/o...

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Advancing #HealthCare Professional Education and Training in Diagnostic Excellence: A Workshop www.nationalacademies.org/event/44094_... via @theNASEM #Medsky

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Old guard officials and pundits have gone from “We can’t swing at every pitch” to “Let’s strike out!” I better not get another single fundraising email signed by this guy. You don’t need my money to do nothing while I lose my rights and safety.

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🎶 This is a social revolution protest song, directed at a tyrant. Fitting they sang this. Lyrics below for total amusement as you listen. US Army Chorus…🎤

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UPDATE: #NIH reimposes "#DEI" funding freeze despite court order popular.info/p/update-nih... #health #healthcare #science #Medsky So much for the 'law and order' #GOP. New #MAGA version is 'whatever laws we agree with'

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At the infrastructure committee at PDX City council. Very informative, but, uh, living in a fantasy world

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And #Veterans #Health is our only fully integrated national health system, providing #hellthcare equal to and often better than private sector at almost half the cost. And a system that does groundbreaking research. Don’t screw it up #MAGA

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I'm a federal employee for ~25 years. I could have been paid 2-3x more in the private sector. I choose government service as a physician to take care of Veterans who are homeless & who have substance use disorders. Many colleagues have followed me into this service. I am a proud federal employee.

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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Great thread from ongoing hearing on #NIH cuts to indirect costs. Kudos to @scott-delaney.bsky.social

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There are going to be massive flood of #MAGA tears when they realize they were suckers for #Trump bait and switch. And they are taking down with them the most vulnerable members of our society.

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The amazing @anntelnaes.bsky.social captures in images the shameful legacy of Sen. Mitch #McConnell. This one man has done such harm to our country, including enabling #Trump return. open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

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VP Vance continues to show his patriarchal hubris at CPAC, talking about women only in the role of baby-makers and bemoaning that men aren't allowed to have a beer and tell jokes. (cartoon from the archives)

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MITCH McCONNELL WON'T SEEK ELECTION NEXT YEAR @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Further evidence that environment (aka, social drivers of health #SDOH)) has greater influence on health than #genetic code...#health #healthcare #Medsky Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of #aging and #mortality. Nat Med (2025) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

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These #Ipsos polling results tells us so much about the soul, character and values of the current #MAGA #Republican party. And it's not pretty...

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anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-russia...

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This is the #deepstate we need to fear 👇

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#Trump administration revokes approval of #NYC #congestion toll ($9) More #MAGA efforts to accelerate climate change, reduce livability, and extract vengeance on blue states and cities. The #tolls on GW bridge and Lincoln tunnel? $14-18 Parking? $3-13/hr. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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Combine #MUSK #MAGA mendacity with incompetence and this is what you get. #publichealth www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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The only '#weaponization' of the Government that #MAGA screamed about turns out to be #Trump and his #vengence tour... wapo.st/4b7Zw3V

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“The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney's office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by officials appointed by President Donald Trump's administration to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze.”

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One might have thought that #Providence would invest in their frontline #healthcare staff (as in settle fairly with the striking nurses) but appears it is #profit before #patients.. www.beckershospitalreview.com/digital-heal...

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The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.

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In botched #DODGE #MUSK DEI purge, #OSHA trashes workplace #safety guidelines open.substack.com/pub/populari...

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Road Expansion= Fundamental Cause of Growth in Vehicle Travel "Between 2000 and 2019, new and widened #freeways induced 14 billion miles of new #vehicle travel in CA, accounting for 41 percent of new freeway #traffic" @pbotinfo.bsky.social @oregonian.com escholarship.org/content/qt1x...

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What could possibly go wrong...#MAGA #MUSK #DODGE #FAA apnews.com/article/doge...

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Thought this was 'downward dog'...😉

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Congratulations "Health Care Reporting award goes to Bob Herman, @tarabannow.bsky.social Bannow, Casey Ross and Lizzy Lawrence of STAT for “Health Care’s Colossus,” a penetrating six-part series examining the massive reach of #UnitedHealth Group into every aspect of a broken #healthcare system"

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That #karma thing. 👇 I mean, how could anyone have guessed [snark alert]

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Self-explanatory #MAGA #GOP #Trump #MuskMuskholding

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"You wouldn’t think it possible that a Federalist Society member and former clerk for the archconservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would show more grit in the face of Trumpism than the entire leadership of the national Democratic Party, but here we are" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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And where is the front page investigative coverage by @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @MilitaryTimes who seem content to simply repeat the false reassurances that these cuts have no impact on veterans #healthcare #veterans #VA #Trump #Musk #MAGA

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Are you leading from "in the middle" - up, down and across? Use that position to lead change. 1st of @acgme.bsky.social #ripouts of #leadership series co-edited by @nancydspector.bsky.social - 2 pages with actionable ST + LT tasks. #MedEd #GME @pdxtom.bsky.social doi.org/10.4300/JGME...

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This is a perfectly fine hill for the AP to die on Utter failure of #WhiteHouse #press corps to defend #1A #boycott rather then be stenographers for their #MAGA mendacity www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Snow day #PDX #Urban green (sometimes white) spaces are essential for healthy communities. #urbanplanning #citiesforpeople

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Making America Sick Again....#Trump #Musk #RFKjr

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