“The keenest observation in Mountainhead is that all of these men pose the same threat, which is that as the world changes rapidly and their power expands exponentially, they never learn anything. They can't.”

the average canadian can also go to the hospital without starting a gofundme campaign

Surprising myself to be quoting Reagan, but what an evolution: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people—our strength—from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation…

As someone who got to know a LOT of so-called conservative legal intellectuals, there are a bunch of people who claimed that they were just against tyranny and big government who are extremely silent in the moment.

We are so proud of our NYS ob-gyns who attended the #clc2025 in Washington, D.C.! They advocated for polices that improve the lives of all people seeking obstetric and gynecologic care, their families, and communities. Great work #TurningPurposeIntoPolicy! @acog-org.bsky.social

At least the tantrums are preventing Canadians from following in our stupid footsteps… 😩

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

I am not going to call this a Bluetorial, because I do not want to sully that term (which, at least I, find joyful). Let’s call it a Orwellial.

How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.

Every Republican Congressperson from Missouri voted to cut Medicaid. 30% of Missourians are on Medicaid.

Why haven't we seen more backlash against the GOP's proposed cuts to Medicaid? One reason is that people may not know they're on Medicaid, because Medicaid has different names in different states (see 🧵). Another is that some people may not realize that they (or their kids) could qualify.

From a colleague in Montana who diagnosed a miscarriage. Apparently this insurer is “pausing” all review/authorization of “abortion related procedures.” Unfortunately we don’t get to *pause* patients having pregnancy complications while this crap is sorted out. (Shared with patient permission)

Wait, what? Which part of making America healthy again is willful ignorance?

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So ProPublica Did #ReproSky 🩺 🛟

“They know what they are doing is deeply unpopular. They are offering a tax cut to the most wealthy that is 850 times larger than what they are offering working people.“

Scientists here disagreed on whether lockdowns, school closures etc would be worse than the counterfactual of uncontrolled COVID spread. The disagreement was on the latter not the former, for which everyone across the spectrum recognised and discussed the societal harms. 1/

If the goal of ‘DOGE’ were truly to expose corruption and save taxpayer money it wouldn’t have been preceded by the unlawful firing of 18 Inspectors General whose job it is to expose corruption and save taxpayer money.

I hadn’t heard this story before. Even tiny acts of resistance can make a difference.

You absolutely are not allowed to be in charge of science funding if you don’t know the difference between transgenic and transgender, and you should probably lose your $175/yr taxpayer job if you’re this bad at it

A good way to understand why wealth inequality is a problem is, if some idiot says "no regulations should exist" you just laugh at him, but if that idiot has $400 billion then it's an existential crisis for America.

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

Small good things...

Having conversations with CDC scientists having to scrub inclusive language from manuscripts, though of course all the reputable journals now require inclusive language, so yeah. #medsky

cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says

"We know you’re out of power. We understand you’re in the minority. We hear that, loud and clear. What we’re not hearing is your anger. We’re not hearing your outrage. We’re wondering whether or not you actually hear us." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advi...

Removing access to datasets we paid for is theft.

A cartoonishly bleak visual of how our values are being erased…

Like not to be glib here, but the answer to all of the "wait can he do this???" stuff is "no", with the remedy of impeachment. We're living through a constitutional failure not because the constitution permits this, but because it doesn't and congress will not do the thing it demands in response.

Passing along from a colleague with a trusted friend at the CDC... #medsky #obgynsky

All this. And if people leave science and academics because they need to find a paying job elsewhere, it’s not like they’ll just all come back after a “pause” ends. Programs shutter. Research halts. Pipelines divert.

How is anybody supposed to understand what’s going on with the administration if the media doesn’t delve in or explain anything? I read @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s newsletter this morning, then got the @nytimes.com daily newsletter, and it’s like two different universes.

I’m not particularly into football, but I love people who love the #BuffaloBills, so I find myself anxiously watching this game and getting VERY into it. Is this why people watch football every week?

I visited Bastogne two years ago and made the trek out to see the foxholes (still there). It was haunting. Never did I think living here in America would become just as chilling.

This is good energy.

Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.

This is horrifying. Science is a search for truth. When did support for facts become a partisan issue?? Even a short-term pause on grants will have devastating effects to careers and programs, not to mention the harm to the public of missing out on scientific advances and knowledge.

Trump rolled back the effort to lower Medicare, Medicaid drug costs. Trump’s Make Drug Prices High Again executive order rescinded the Biden-Harris order to lower drug costs — to cap the copayment for generic medications at $2 for Medicare beneficiaries. www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/tr...

I wrote about the course correction liberals should make in Trump’s second term newrepublic.com/post/190337/...

He's only been in office a few hours, but it's already been a gut punch of a first day for the Trump presidency. The TL;DR is that Trump has been focused on everything *except* making life better for working people. Get ready. It's time to fight. 🧵

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

10. But the point of Trump is impunity – for the law and custom, for values, decency and the bonds of trust, and for the forces of progress that are trying to make society better at the expense of the status quo.

He did this about Hurricane Helene and now he’s doing this about the LA wildfires. It’s hard to believe someone can lie so cruelly and brazenly, especially in the face of such suffering, but he can and does.

Mitch McConnell said things like: “If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is”. But at the end of the day, he delayed the Senate trial, refused to vote to convict, and opposed Senate involvement in a Jan. 6 investigation. He protected Trump, though he saw how dangerous Trump was.

Very late to this excellent Sophie Smith essay on the Pelicot case, which also doubles as a pretty damning critique of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels.

“I don’t want to do that” is a perfectly legitimate reason not to do most things, but treating off-work hours as if they should be billable time is a way to ruin almost anything.

Blue skies during our first ski outing of the year… Happy New Year everyone!

Tell me your Hanukkah hacks! Mine is that a flathead screwdriver is the best tool for removing old candle wax from a menorah. Share yours below. Bonus points if you have a great wax to remove moisture from shredded potatoes. 🕎🕯️🪛🥔 #happyhanukkah

Congratulations to Mike Johnson for trying to pressure the House Ethics Committee into burying a report that found the then-nominee for attorney general had engaged in sexual activity with a minor. Party of Family Values, am I right?