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"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

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Over one in four (27%) physicians and surgeons at U.S. hospitals, rising to one in three in FL (37%), CA (33%), NY (33%), and TX (31%), are immigrants. Policies aimed at restricting immigration could negatively impact the health and well-being of Americans. @kff.org www.kff.org/racial-equit...

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I’ve been in academic medicine for 45 years. This is the first time I’m seeing a perfect storm, as proposed federal funding cuts threaten our ability to provide patient care, train the next generation of doctors, and conduct life-saving research. More from my conversation with @cnn.com last week.

submitted 6 days ago • 78 comments

Sick fucks

submitted 9 days ago • 156 comments

Seeing RFK Jr.’s selections to replace the qualified scientists that he fired from ACIP, I very much doubt that the U.S. will have ready access to COVID19 and flu vaccines for 2025. And it could be even worse than that. Bill Cassidy is to blame for voting to confirm RFK Jr. He’s a disgrace.

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

ProPublica out here doing America's work while an outlet with 40x their budget scans social media for new pics of a 3 day old car fire.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

AMA Calls for Senate Investigation of RFK Jr. — "We do not want to be on the wrong side of history," one delegate said www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

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The bleach community (no, not the anime, but literal bleach) is really, really happy for RFK Jr. to be in a position of power. They think he can make their dreams of using toxic bleach as a solution to treat everything—from cancer to autism—come true. wrd.cm/3TnpMzb

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

Gun violence continues to be a public health crisis. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Reliably bad take — Nazi porn bars are also a bubble, fyi, though a fetid one — from a reliably tech ignorant columnist whose only salvation is that AI will never be able to replicate this nonsense www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 13 days ago • 96 comments

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

submitted 14 days ago • 323 comments

New from the Congressional Budget Office: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 10.9 million people through changes to Medicaid and the ACA. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Preventing 1 million foreign students from studying in the US will decimate universities (and with it a major export "industry"), lead to massive increases in tuition for domestic students, hamstring American competitiveness in science, and make a mockery of any claim to merit-based admissions.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

We need a frank assessment of how our system of so-called checks and balances works as a real-world set of democratic institutions. The conventional wisdom says that checks and balances forestall the abuse of power. But our particular system constrains the public far more than it constrains elites.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Harvard University is offering free online courses in the constitutional foundations of American government, as well as how the presidency, Congress, the judiciary and the bureaucracy is supposed to operate. Maybe the First Felon should sign up. pll.harvard.edu/catalog?keyw...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It’s stupidly damaging and a complete intended distraction from their grotesque tax giveaway, robbing the poor and young to pay the rich and old. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 57 comments

I’m sure RFK Jr. and MAHA will press Trump to veto this…right?

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This is a political purge of universities, a destruction of knowledge and expertise that will be felt for generations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Day 67: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a US resident with lawful status to remain here, is still imprisoned in El Salvadore. Despite SCOTUS order to return him for due process. Just this week, the US government sent a plane load of detainees to Sudan without due process and DEFYING court orders. @cnn.com

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 32 days ago • 956 comments

Celgene kept the drug’s price low when it was initially intended for AIDS patients. But once the drug could be used more widely for cancer patients, the CEO told investors there was now “plenty of room for very substantial increases” in price. ➡️ Read more: propub.li/43jfFQF

submitted 40 days ago • 61 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 40 days ago • 485 comments

Today is World Press Freedom Day. With an increasing number of journalists receiving threats or even facing detainment for simply doing their jobs and seeking the truth, WIRED is proud to support #OneFreePress Coalition in its efforts to protect press freedom. Read more here:

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

A new executive order stops short of martial law—but barely. It pushes military assets into local policing, guts reforms, shields officer misconduct, and targets DEI as criminal. This is how democracy erodes: not with a bang, but with a memo. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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The U.S. now has 800 measles cases, rising 12% in a week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Medical journal receives U.S. attorney letter seeking information about alleged bias www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/t... via @statnews.com

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Devastating, as expected. But numbers help us talk about the harm. 🙁 (NB: this article primarily quantifies DEATHS, & some pregnancy-associated outcomes. It doesn’t count disability, illness, emotional injury, malnutrition, etc. The full effect of these cuts will be so much larger 🛟)

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

The dismantling of our public health infrastructure continues to be mindboggling, and this article on CNN suggests we are reaching a point of not being able to trust any of the federal institutions who still exist. Academics and state agencies are all we have left. www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/h...

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Anti-vaxxers are blaming hospitals for medical errors, rather than attributing the deaths to measles itself. And RFK Jr. is also doubling down on the long-discredited link between vaccines and autism — thus contributing to rising rates of vaccine hesitancy. notadoctor.news/2025/04/11/t...

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

Anyone wanna bet there is some next level corruption and insider trading going on behind the scenes of these tariff moves? The SEC should…oh they’ve been cut? well they uh…should still look…well shit. Never mind.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

You may not think about #PublicHealth much unless the news mentions a disease outbreak or food recall. But public health affects your life — and your community — every day. Read our latest blog at medium.com/wadepthealth...

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A running list of senior FDA officials who have left the agency www.statnews.com/2025/04/03/f... via @statnews.com

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