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Doctor posting about saving lives: following the science re #COVID, ending the wars, #ceasefirenow, preserving safe & legal abortions & #MedicareForAll.
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We know Donald Trump is far from the brightest president but a question as to whether he has to follow the Constitution should not have stumped him.

Two things to keep in mind about "centrist" Democrats like Clinton, Biden and Harris: Their rhetoric might be different but their outcome is Republican policies. They frequently lose to Republicans in elections.

Trump’s cuts to contraception will kill ‘tens of thousands’ of women #Medsky www.inkl.com/a/owbablTgZYW

Finally some worthwhile cuts in government from Trump, but too little and too slowly. Next cut the military. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

An in depth look at the false beliefs on science underlying many of RFK Jr's dangerous plans. #Medsky arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Virologists call for increased surveillance of avian flu due to risk of spread to humans. #Medsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Democratic Party's leadership promotes oligarchy, which besides being bad policy has repeatedly led to Republican victories (including two wins for Donald Trump). tomdispatch.com/whats-preven...

Good to see Sanders debunking Elissa Slotkin's opposition to speaking out against oligarchy. I wish he would also take on her support for militarism and the national security state. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Greenwald & Taibbi were great in the past when they defended Snowden, criticized Democrats from the left & debunked Russiagate. Now they often repeat right wing arguments. For me they jumped the shark (especially Taibbi) with falling for right wing claims re Covid & missed the real scandal...

Vaccine experts band together to counter misinformation from the Trump administration. #Medsky www.science.org/content/arti...

Measles likely to become endemic due to anti-vaxxers. #Medsky www.wired.com/story/scient...

How the Pentagon influences Hollywood to promote militarism and empire. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

5 Optimistic Long COVID Predictions for 2025 and Beyond #Medsky www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

As FDA delays Novavax' COVID vaccine approval, patients fight back #Medsky www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Trump administration's attack on scientific journals and research. RFK Jr has long supported censorship of scientific journals. www.science.org/content/arti...

The Uniparty's Autocracy: Much of what Trump is doing started with Bush and Cheney. Clinton and Biden supported much of this. Harris praised Dick Cheney, campaigned with Liz Cheney, and said she wouldn't have done anything different than Biden. tomdispatch.com/trump-harves...

If you ever wondered what would if the Pope meets a demon, we now have the answer.

I wouldnt normally wish death on someone but I hope Donald Trump dies of a disease which isn't cured because the person who would have cured it is someone he deported.

Review of Long Covid #Medsky ann-clinmicrob.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Bird flu poses growing risk to people as pathogen spreads, scientists warn. From 60 minutes. The Biden administration mishandled the problem and now Trump is firing many of the people needed to deal with it. #Medsky www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

Trump's cuts in health spending could result in 25 million deaths. #Medsky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump replaces government web sites with Covid information with previously debunked claims re lab leak theories. #Medsky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/s...

Studies show 25% to 30% rate of Long Covid. #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

For Democrats it is "Russia, Russia, Russia." There is a foreign government which is successfully tampering with our elections but it is not Russia. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Hopefully this leads to governments handling the next pandemic far better than the current one. I also hope that the United States gets new leaders who are far better than Trump and Biden on public health. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Democrats have violated their own rules for years in blocking progressive candidates. Now they object when someone in the DNC is instead intervening to try to reform the party. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Yes, while Democrats had been moving right for a while, 2015-6 was a key point. In addition to what is discussed in this thread, this is when the neocon wing took full control and when, with the way they cleared the field for Clinton, they went to essentially rigged primaries. This led to Trump.

George Clooney says there should have been a Democratic primary after Biden dropped out. He is right but there also should have been fair Democratic primaries in 2016, 2020 and in 2024 before making Biden the presumptive nominee. www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/p...

Whoever runs against Trump in 2028 should make an offer to El Salvador to swap Kilmar Abrego Garcia for Donald Trump if elected.

I miss the days of the blogosphere.

Cuts by Trump and RFK Jr to healthcare research will put millions of American lives at risk. (Op-ed in The Washington Post.) #Medsky wapo.st/43VrnTC

No, Trump cannot legally deport "homegrowns" and the courts have been quite clear on this. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A Democratic administration under Biden or Harris would be committing the same horrors as we are seeing under Trump, justifying it by claiming they use due process. Democrats would be defending them. The problem is the ruling duopoly, not just one party. forward.com/news/712297/...

Biden and others in both parties led us to the horrors under Trump

With his views on vaccines and fluoride, RFK Jr. is going to both kill children and cause teeth to rot in many others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...

With the chaos in the Trump administration it is possible they will seek a peace deal with Iran but also possible they will decide to attack. Hopefully those pushing for negotiations win out. www.axios.com/2025/04/16/t...

This is a consequence of both the anti-vax claims from the right (and some on the left) along with the misinformation spread by Democrats to justify Biden's failed Vax-and-Relax herd immunity approach to Covid. Dishonesty from both parties has created a dangerous distrust regarding vaccines.