The Monica
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Nurse|scientist|geek|wino|Editor in Chief - Health Equity
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My first OpEd as WHBE Board chair. "To be clear, access to health insurance is not a partisan issue â it helps people on all sides of the political spectrum. As bipartisan members of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board, we are Republicans and Democrats."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Health care and economic security of Washingtonians at risk
By Monica R. McLemore, Hiroshi Nakano and John Schapman
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/11/health-care-and-economic-security-of-washingtonian/
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Victor Ray
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Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
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A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-enough-for-bigots-but-too-small-for-critical-race-theory/
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-problem-with-palantirs-new-neurodivergent-fellowship/
5 days ago
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This đŠ game is giving me a meltdown. Good thing I have đ· on this flight đ
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âIf we are ever going to win against monsters I think we need to be more humanâ Huey, The Boys, Season 4 finale
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đ©The Epstein files are one reason of MANY I donât just POSE in photos with just anyone. I have photos Iâm in proximity with folx yâall know I hate. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. đ
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âThe guidance specifically cites âhealth equityâ and âstructural racismâ as terms that should be replaced with âwell-defined, scientific concepts that have objective and measurable variables.â đ€Ą
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NIH Pauses New Funding for Grants That Include âHealth Equity,â âStructural Racism,â Pending Review
New guidance to the agency dictates staff must use a âtext analysis toolâ to identify programs deemed âmisalignedâ with the administration.
https://www.notus.org/health-science/nih-funding-grants-review-terms-text-analysis-tool-health-equity-racism
10 days ago
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Letâs go yâall
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12/14/2010. Happy 15 year anniversary. Dr. Monica Rose McLemore PhD, MPH, BSN, RN, FADLN, FNYAM.
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My phone is blowing up. I'm going LIVE later on this & why folx who can, should be gearing up to sue. Cause this is straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. More Black women leaders being disappeared & scapegoated and no (once again) being an MD isn't protective
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Dismisses Director of FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard forced out the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights â another shakeup at a center whose programming on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been a flashpoint...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/10/fxb-center-director/
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That game was TRASH đ©đđđđŠ
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This Eagles game will have you drinking on a Monday night đđŠ
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Led this one in 2019.
#Receipts
No Deal: Providers Sound Off on Trump's Domestic Gag Rule
msmagazine.com/2019/02/26/n...
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No Deal: Providers Sound Off on Trump's Domestic Gag Rule
As midwives, nurses, physicians and public health practitioners, and as patients ourselves, we cannot accept the president's domestic gag ruleâwhich inserts politics into the patient-provider relation...
https://msmagazine.com/2019/02/26/no-deal-providers-sound-off-trumps-domestic-gag-rule/
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Reminder. This happened⊠đ
www.geekwire.com/2020/atul-ga...
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Atul Gawande steps down as CEO of Amazonâs health care venture with Berkshire and JPMorgan
Dr. Atul Gawande is stepping down as CEO of Haven Healthcare, a joint venture between Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway. Gawande will be
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/atul-gawande-steps-ceo-haven-healthcare-joint-venture/
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Publication post #5: New work out today⊠4 peer reviewed papers published 4 papers under review 3 Invited Commentaries accepted 1st EVER Health Equity Editorial published 2 Letters to the Editor published (one pending) 2 podcasts recorded Writing 11 papers with others
#ProfLife
#WriteEveryDAY
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wordinblack.com/2025/11/why-...
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Why the Targeting of Black Federal Workers Is Racist to its Core
The attack on Black workers is no accident.
https://wordinblack.com/2025/11/why-the-targeting-of-black-federal-workers-is-racist-to-its-core/
about 1 month ago
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This is going to be interesting and I have a lot of work planned with these folx given the AMA decision to close the AMA Ethics journal...
www.thehastingscenter.org/news/hasting...
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Hastings Center Welcomes 2025 Fellows
The Hastings Center for Bioethics is pleased to announce the election of the 2025 Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of about 300
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/news/hastings-center-welcomes-2025-fellows/
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This is sad.
www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...
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Dean Emerit of Nursing Linda D. Scott passes away at 69
Scott, the first Black dean of the Nursing school, stepped down just six days ago due to health reasons.
https://www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025/11/dean-emerit-of-nursing-linda-d-scott-passes-away-at-69
about 1 month ago
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Professional photos from
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Chyle. The stuff that happens in academia that folx donât understand pisses me off to no end.
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about 1 month ago
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RIP
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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â If enacted, it is estimated that up to one-third of people with coverage under ACA plans could lose their health insurance.
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Health care and economic security of Washingtonians at risk
By Monica R. McLemore, Hiroshi Nakano and John Schapman
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/11/health-care-and-economic-security-of-washingtonian/
about 2 months ago
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So. I spent the week with
@salzburgglobal.bsky.social
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@rwjf.org
to examine the knowledge production ecosystem. I met some of the coolest people from around the world. Formal photos coming but you may recognize some of these folx.
#SalzburgFellow
about 2 months ago
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Yup. And some folx here think housing data centers on other planets is a good idea đ
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about 2 months ago
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mclemoremr.medium.com/why-im-an-ai...
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Why Iâm an AI hater - A few reasons
My Top 10 list of why Iâm an AI HATER (despite being an early adopter to technology and I have many more): My brain works and I use it. AI makes already lazy folx more lazy. The environmental âŠ
https://mclemoremr.medium.com/why-im-an-ai-hater-a-few-reasons-5781833a8ab7
about 2 months ago
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Yâall.
#JasmineBurnett
said something so profound to me last week that I need to share it: AI will burn itself out if EVERYONE is using it and NO ONE is thinking up anything new đđż#LoveHer
#Brilliant
#AIhater
#GaveMeWordsforMyDiscomfort
#TruthTellers
about 2 months ago
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Thank you
@democracyforward.org
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Government Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits During Shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/31/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 2 months ago
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Katie Mack
6 months ago
Chatbots â LLMs â do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When theyâre ârightâ itâs because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. Thatâs all.
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www.thehastingscenter.org/midwives-are...
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Midwives Are Essential for Improving Mississippiâs Maternal and Infant Health : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
Mississippi is an important case study for understanding how limited access to midwifery care represents both a reproductive ethics and reproductive justice issue that warrants urgent attention and di...
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/midwives-are-essential-for-improving-mississippis-maternal-and-infant-health/
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1/2: Yâall. âWe are also dealing with a generation of college students that was born after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act. Critics at the time -- myself included -- predicted that the reorientation toward test-taking would be an educational disaster.
chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is...
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Knowledge is Worth Your Time
Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students...
https://chanda.bearblog.dev/knowledge-is-worth-your-time/
2 months ago
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Trash.
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2 months ago
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Omg. His sister at
@birthplacelab.bsky.social
is a collaborator. Wow. This is horrible.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam âSubuâ Vedam now faces deportation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312442984.html
2 months ago
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No one should have to deal with this AND those of us who work in repro begged yâall to listen.
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3 months ago
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Imani Gandy Cane đ đŸ
3 months ago
I think whatâs most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up. At some point the âthis isnât who we areâ and âI didnât have this on my bingo cardâ has to end and yâall will catch up, right? RIGHT? WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.
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So good to see her work being covered!
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3 months ago
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As someone who has endured active and credible death threats Iâm not interested in your opinion about how I choose to protect my safety.
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3 months ago
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Thinking of federal workers and military folx today. Respect and love for you. These were from
#CBCF2025
3 months ago
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Iâm so glad I took today off to see Superfine at the Met. Just got some seriously good work news. Omg!
#Vaguebook
3 months ago
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Thank you
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
for the heads up. I wrote to them and cussed them out.
#LinkedIn
#TRASH
3 months ago
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Come work with us
apply.interfolio.com/174442
3 months ago
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Desert Island Album Lyrics: 1 of 2: Five wasted decades of you and me I've found my haven across the sea Don't call me faithless, I've never been faithless Don't call me faithless I changed my life I won't be faithless When I'm waiting for the ship to arrive And take me to a place Far out in space
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I canât find words to state how deeply I love, admire and respect these folx
@oneillinstitute.bsky.social
@michelebgoodwin.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Erin R. Johnson, MPH, PhD
3 months ago
The first publication from my dissertation is now available from Health Equity! Using content analysis of 100 abortion fund websites and interviews with 22 fund leaders,
@mclemoremr.bsky.social
and I examine how place matters when getting help with an abortion.
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Place Matters: Geographic Distribution of Abortion Fund Services | Health Equity
Background: Where you live impacts your access to all forms of health care, but abortion in particular. In response to restrictions on abortion, communities have organized to support those seeking abo...
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/24731242251369612
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I took a pledge to serve and to protect others. I am a nurse. I believe in science.
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Yâall.
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Academics & Others Reflect on the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Academics and others from the legal and medical fields sit down for discussions on the ramifications of Hurricane Katrina 20 years later.
https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/academics-others-reflect-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-hurricane-katrina/665538
3 months ago
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Liberally Block folx who canât read the room. IDAGF about your relatives responses to what you post. Get your peeps. YOU ignoring them is how we got here.
3 months ago
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Did I mention I had dinner and watched the games at the bar with Henrietta Lacksâ grandson? Mr. Alfred Lacks-Carter is currently speaking đđŸ
3 months ago
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My current situation.
@oneillinstitute.bsky.social
@michelebgoodwin.bsky.social
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