This is all to say, the holidays can be so hard for folks - reach out if you need help, and check in on each other

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

As the only Democratic nurse in Congress, I remember how expensive pursuing my degree was. And now, Trump’s Education Department is moving to make it even more expensive. Here’s how you can help.

The lede to this story is poetry: It’s mostly been a bad year on Capitol Hill for the healthcare sector. But it’s been a good year for healthcare lobbyists.

I renamed a text chain with my midwife and palliative care NP friends "Womb to Tomb" and it's the best thing I've done recently for my mental health.

“Be realistic.” I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.

White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/

Congratulations to the UVM Catamounts men’s soccer team on an excellent season. I know you’re disappointed that you didn’t repeat as NCAA Division 1 Champs, but a 14-1 season ain’t bad. You made the entire state proud.

If you want to read “Why I Love the Vermont Green,” I’ve taken pictures of the little zine for you. Of course it’s nicer if you can hold it in your hands. But here’s the zine in full (1/2) #WILtVG

Weeeee - excited to share my lab: SAGE Lab! ✨️ Sexuality, Ability, Gender, and Embodiment ✨️ My RAs and I have some really awesome stuff cooking!

Are we political scientists now?

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

I'm grateful that the Vermont governor & legislators acted to prevent Vermont children & families from going hungry. Now Trump must obey the law & release $5 billion in emergency SNAP funding appropriated by Congress. The richest country on Earth shouldn't be facing a hunger crisis.

When teaching about medical aid in dying coincides with Halloweek.

The American people are enraged. Enraged while walking through their neighborhoods and watching on their screens seeing all the ways Trump is abusing power to empower, enrich, and protect himself while the rest of us suffer.

This book has officially launched! #GarlickBLT

Got to use my palliative care skills in my teaching role today! Urgently rounded up extra chairs before an activity so everyone could sit.

Thanks to @eliseconant.bsky.social for inviting me to her ethics class and the Vermont Conversation Lab to talk about my book and future health care policy research. The #GarlickBLT book tour continues.

If I go a full day in the hospital without talking to any patients about my cats, that’s not high-quality palliative care delivery.

I was also so fortunate to have @garlicksauce.bsky.social present as part of the #GarlickBLT this week in Public Health Nursing!

We're thrilled to kick off Season 4 of with a deeply moving and insightful conversation featuring Dr. Elise Tarbi. @eliseconant.bsky.social To read more and to access resources visit: radicalnursetalk.com

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade. We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration. History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.

In their reflection, a student hit me with "While I do not know who, or how, I do know that there will be brave nurses who will make change for the better and while some of us will be immortalized in history it is the actions of every nurse that will create change." Not me crying in bed grading it!

Current situation with COVID19 vaccines at CVS. ACIP is meeting September 18-19 so it will likely become available at pharmacies w/o a prescription then, unless ACIP pulls the rug out. Prescription requirement related to state laws requiring ACIP approval for pharmacist administration.

New academic year, new office decor.

ACOG No Longer Accepting Federal Funding, Citing Policy Disputes www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/genera...

Congratulations to the Vermont Green who just completed an undefeated season. This is a fantastic soccer team, with great management, that has generated enormous community support and pride.  Undefeated. Two overtime playoff wins. Now, national champions. Unbelievable.

UNDEFEATED NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! 🏆 THE INVINCIBLES! ✨ YOUR VERMONT GREEN FOOTBALL CLUB! 💚

One of my favourite articles to write, on a club I've wanted to write about for some time. A look at @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social ahead of their USL League Two final against Ballard FC. How a 'division four' club became the soccer team of the moment. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I love this match poster so much — a tribute to the thousand-plus folks like me who couldn’t get tickets are are watching the game tonight from all around the field, in whatever ad hoc seating they can manage

UPDATE we've raised $5,000 ($2,500 at our ZG event, $2,500 at last night's game) Thank you! And now through the end of the national semifinal tomorrow night, every donation will be matched (up to $2,500) Let's continues this amazing effort for Migrant Justice & Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund

Where flowers grow, so does hope. 💐 👏 @greenmountainbhoys.bsky.social

Thank you to Senator Bernie Sanders for being one of over 2,500 fans here tonight enjoying playoff soccer at Virtue Field—and thank you for everything you do for Vermonters! 💚

My new article in JAMA Network Open is out today! Let's take a quick look. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The cover for my book "Pre-Existing Conditions" has arrived, and the book ships in September. It's a ~fun~ read if you're interested in special interests remaking the American health care system. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Co-authored by my brilliant and fabulous colleague Lauren Hughes at the Farley Health Policy Center theconversation.com/rural-hospit...

Even if you personally never need Medicare or Medicaid, many hospitals and clinics do, and they will close without it. Private insurance doesn't mean much when there isn't anywhere to use it.

In addition to throwing 16 million people off their healthcare, cutting food assistance for 2 million hungry kids, and slashing taxes for billionaires, the Republican budget bill would punish states that adopt AI regulations at any point over the next decade.

🚨RFK jr. is currently testifying before the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee. We're keeping a close watch. Follow along for updates HERE ⬇️ (🧵):

To raise funds for the Vermont Immigration Legal Defense Fund, Vermont Green FC will raffle a signed, match-worn Sam Mewis USWNT kit this week. Read More:

The protest stories from my parents’ retirement communities are amazing. Budgets for sign making committee, transportation sign ups, walker brigade v mobility carts fracas. Fired up seniors are something to behold.

Who's the poli sci/theatre kid with 2,000 words on Trump going to Les Mis (that he commissioned himself) while currently sending the military to confront domestic protesters?

We should all be shocked by President Trump’s decision to federalize and deploy California’s National Guard without the consent of California’s governor. The President’s actions are illegal and unamerican. Yesterday I filed an amicus brief to clearly state that Vermont proudly stands with California

🚨 NIH head Bhattacharya is about to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee. We'll be keeping a close watch. Follow along for updates HERE⬇️ (🧵):

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

Where do I put on my CV that the NRA Institute for Legislative Action called our JAMA Pediatrics paper “political propaganda masquerading as scientific research?” I’m thinking Honors and Awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

This convoluted nonsense actually conveys a common lobbying argument from the hospitals, they need to price gouge to provide patients access to care.