open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. should apologize to parents for his inaction during this measles epidemic.

Yes! This is your power. This is your responsibility. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

Everyone should care about this. ED boarding leads to increased mortality & morbidity. ER docs know, unfortunately, how dangerous this is. We need to: 1. Measure and track this metric 2. Invest to solve the root causes* *the bottlenecks on throughput usually aren’t in the ER #WeAreAllPatients

Seems like Pete Hegseth thinks Pete Hegseth should resign.

Is Congress going to investigate this @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @morrison4mn.bsky.social? There is NO excuse for this. The convenience of the administration officials is not more important than the safety of our troops or national security.

This is open grift and corruption from the President of the United States. And if you can’t admit that it’s a problem, you’re in the grip of a cult. Every time he does this, he degrades our entire country. It’s also sad. Many Americans who trust him will lose their savings.

We are all patients. We are not fraud or waste.

Running a small independent family medicine office, it was incredibly stressful worrying about the health of my patients and my staff as well as trying to stay afloat financially

I have been seeing and hearing a lot of revisionist history about the pandemic from laptop-class types lately. Any physicians and healthcare workers interested in a project to document what actually happened on the front lines? #MedSky #EMedSky

Rural hospitals are a lifeline for millions of Americans, but proposed Medicaid reductions put them at risk. When hospitals struggle, entire communities suffer—maternity care and emergency services shouldn’t be on the chopping block. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Time to call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on another anti-vaxxer ideologue. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

One of many things that bothered me in the February employment report: Employment in restaurants contracted for second month in a row - fears of deportations are real and ICE raids having chilling effect on service sector employment.

Bhattacharya says we need good data to assuage vaccine hesitancy. Cassidy says we already have it & don't waste time reaffirming the earth is round to convince people who will never believe that to be true.

It’s a relief to see NE Representative Bacon openly break rank and take a principled stance in support of Ukraine and in defense against Russian aggression. We need more Republicans to take principled stances. Kudos to him. We need a big tent to turn this around. x.com/repdonbacon/...

You know what would be really cool? A system of government where the whims of the head of state could be constrained by some kind of parliament or legislature, or there were some kinds of “checks” or “balances” that ensured that one person didn’t simply get to dictate how the government worked

RFK Jr continues his role as a merchant of doubt grifter

This is awesome! Can’t wait to tell my amazing Third Grader about her special day. ❤️ Thanks @governorwalz.mn.gov

Laughed so hard I cried. Or maybe I was crying already and it made me laugh. Either way… youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU

Why are we not seeing a million ads now like in election season showing Musk/Trump/Vance for what they are and what they are doing? Use your campaign money to educate the public and win hearts and minds. The majority don’t know and aren’t MAGA. Help ensure that we actually have elections again.

Very useful framing for those of us still struggling to believe what is happening. Depressing but helpful.

“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

I’m so ashamed for my country right now. We should be so much better than this. Being an American used to mean more than “cutting deals” and berating victims of aggression to feel tough. We are losing what so many patriots before us have built and defended in blood and treasure. Very sad.

If you didn’t find today to be an absolute disgrace to the United States, I don’t recognize the country you want us to be.

Can our Congress help? Nonpartisan previously scheduled CDC vaccine advisory meeting was cancelled. Per RFKJr anti-vax website it’s to “shake it up”. Can legislators help it take place as scheduled? @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @morrison4mn.bsky.social @repraulruizmd.bsky.social

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-mi... RFK Jr.'s actual agenda for HHS

He’s BOTH.

A plan that would close the billionaire tax loophole. Not sure why any Congressional representative would vote against this. equitablegrowth.org/closing-the-....

Installing people whose main qualification is their allegiance to the authoritarian and their willingness to exact revenge and destroy public goods will actually kill people. In medicine we look to the #cultureofsafety that was pioneered by the FAA. The arrogance of these people is breathtaking.

So #influenzaA finally seemed to be dying down around here (MN). Worked over the weekend and saw #influenzaB positives every shift. I hadn’t seen any positive for B since summer when travelers returning from southern hemisphere tested positive. Preparing for the second wave. Hate that virus.

And please use some of your campaign funds for ads/PR to educate voters in R districts about what Musk is doing. Constituents complaining to their R reps is what will make a difference. These people aren’t on X and don’t see his unhinged behavior. @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov

Do our D leaders realize that the vast majority of Americans don’t use X and have no idea what Musk is doing or how unhinged he is? Why aren’t there a ton of commercials on right now showing the Republican voters what Musk is doing. With his own words. They won’t like it. I would donate.

I get it that Xitter has been effective in past, Musk is compelling folks to use it for official communiques and to monitor his unhinged behaviors. And his baby mamas are using it to talk with him. But it cannot be the town square any longer. WHY are the rest of us posting on Xitter?

Can the Senate do anything about this? He lied to you. Flat out lied. And will directly profit. @sanders.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

Such a grifter. Disgusting. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

“ASMR” on the White House post means “autonomous sensory meridian response”…a subjective experience of "low-grade euphoria" characterized by "a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin".

The limbic system is more basic, and once it is involved, I think more cerebral arguments are largely pointless. I see no way that a fact-based democracy can survive in this free flow contaminated information ecosystem. This destabilization has an end state and it's not pretty.

For too long violence against healthcare workers has been minimized as "part of the job." Every state needs to pass legislation to make assaulting a healthcare worker a felony. Period.

Retribution and implementation of ideologic purges. It’s what the alt-right Twitter anons who never got over their Ayn Rand phase talked about years ago. www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04...

How about @amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov? Let all the people of MN know what is happening to our constitutional democracy. Don’t make it partisan. Show them how our constitutional democracy is being co-opted and the real risk that that this will be the end of our great 250 year experiment.

I assume this means every employee has the right to bring their kids to work with them. I guess that’s one way to solve the childcare problem.

This says it all

Not too long ago, it was my honor to once again raise my right hand and recite this oath: “I (name) do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; 1/2 (next)

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

✅ New @wired.com subscriber here

Proud to be a constituent. “I have never seen a more important moment for the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Congress. We have a close margin in the House that gives members of both parties … the opportunity to show they are fulfilling their constitutional duty. This is our moment in time.”

Yes!

Absolutely. Read or listen to Bannon’s interview to better understand. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...