After more than three decades as a family physician in Maine, Dr. Scott Schiff-Slater said he struggles to make sense of the public's eroding trust in medicine. He's frustrated and worried: about his patients' health and the misinformation that drives these decisions.

Earning nowhere near the average salary for a family med physician in Maine and I’m still chipping away at student loans after many years. I drive a car with 225k miles and shop thrift stores. That may not work for a new grad dentist with 300k in debt and different needs.

With a $100k H1b visa fee, it has been pointed out that rural hospitals can't afford that to bring in a doctor. And NPR had a story today: "New policies make U.S. less appealing to foreign-born physicians." High-poverty and rural areas have the highest percentage of foreign born doctors.

Don’t worry; they’re also making it hard for Americans to become doctors, nurses etc by gutting grad plus loans and downgrading med careers! End goal appears to be (checks notes) rich white doctors exist to treat rich white people…everyone else can live sick and die young. Excellent. /s

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. n.pr/4pt2A0r

#BrokenTimes credulity: The Supreme Court is illegitimate and stacked with extremists but The Times is just wowed about the White House's success before them. Despite Supreme Court Wins, Elite D.O.J. Unit Has Seen Mass Turnover www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/u...

@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky #WorldAIDSDay

Fraud Alert from Tesla dumping fake registry in Norway just after the Norway wealth fund said No to Musk !

Shouldn’t be, but it the Tesla CyberTruck is legal under an exemption rule for «am car import» in Norway: Let’s hope you never see one;-)

Yeah, sorry to say, but there’s a bunch of Tesla CyberTrucks in Norway. I actually believe all the incel caminos registered here are for sale, but IDK for sure… May they all rust in silence and cause nothing but endless debt and bottomless embarrassment for their idiot owners. $TSLAQ

www.sydsvenskan.se/lund/hakkors... Why is it that Norway seems to still be OK with Tesla when just over the border in Sweden, they are despised?

Yes, an $848.55 invested in the Melania Trump coin near the beginning of this year is now worth $1.16. Everyone in the family knows how to do a classic Trump rip-off scam of especially the culties infatuated by this immoral clan. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

The most vile people on earth are the parents that refuse to vaccinate their children. Just utterly shameful and disgusting. The dumbest morons on the planet.

I’m going to get an engineering degree from OU by saying bridges can only be measured in cubits and shekels www.oudaily.com/news/ou-stat...

November 30, 2025

They aren't working on behalf of Americans, just for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

People say they want to manufacture real things in America again BUT they complain that it’s “inappropriate” and “not productive” to talk about how we need lots of guillotines. Like make up your minds!

Ukraine hits two Russian 'shadow fleet' oil tankers with naval drones reut.rs/48bPNKc

A must read account of Trump’s historic betrayal of Ukraine, Europe and America from the WSJ….

⚡️Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds. A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.

Ukraine has not surrendered but the US in the form of Witkoff and Trump has.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

“.. At the center of President Trump’s contentious plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war isn’t peace: it’s profit.” @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-2-tri...

⚡️ Ukrainian naval drones behind 'successful' strike on 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers, source says. The operation targeted ships that, according to the source, could have transported nearly $70 million worth of oil and helped Moscow bypass international sanctions.

Day 1275 of my 3 day war. Ukraine seems to carrying out its own sanctions on my shadow fleet.

Ukraine has sunk a third Russian shadow fleet tanker, this time off the coast of Senegal. #explodey

"… in the present instance, it was perfectly clear to the accused that killing defenceless people in the life-boats could be nothing else but a breach of the law. As naval officers by profession they were well aware …."

Whooping cough is such a horrible disease. This breaks my heart.

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Also: Ukrainian sea drones disabled one of Russia's most important oil terminals www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

According live maps from web portal "Marine Traffic" not a single oiler is currently docked in the most import Russian port of Novorossiysk. A few tanker are cruising outside the port but refrain from getting any closer for now.

Ukraine has currently imposed 100% sanctions on Russia's most important sea terminal in south Russia.

It's Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Mainers! Chance of snow, then rain, high 42º, gusts up to 20. =============== MAINE RESISTANCE SUN, NOV 30, 2025 =============== Very interesting events around Maine today! #ORGANIZE, #OPPOSE, & #RESIST! REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 30, 6:15AM #Maine #MEpolitics p1/3

Bland/boilerplate pro-Susan Collins LTE gives no indication that its author seems to be state director of the radical, fervently anti-abortion Concerned Women of America -- a SPLC-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group. Collins's biggest supporters won't admit the real reasons they like her. #MEpolitics

The enhanced ACA premium credits particularly help small businesses owners and people who work for them In Maine, this also means they’re especially used by a lot of folks in the most rural parts of the state #mepolitics. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/30/s...

If you haven't already seen this story, take a few minutes to check it out. One wonders if the student would also be allowed to use (never cited, though) her religious text and beliefs as "proof" in a science course. #MEschools #MEpolitics

"The latest plan, which officials said was still preliminary, calls for a ballroom much larger than the West Wing and the Executive Mansion. Mr. Trump has said publicly that he would like a ballroom big enough to hold a crowd for a presidential inauguration." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

‘Black’ isn’t the original main English word for this colour. In Old English, that was ‘sweart’. It’s the ancestor of ‘swart’, the now archaic cognate of German ‘schwarz’, Dutch ‘zwart’, and Swedish ‘svart’. ‘Black’ gradually displaced ‘swart’ during the late Middle Ages. Zoom in for more: 1/

Water bills are shooting up in rural Maine

Alongside armored vehicles, local police are getting surveillance technology with help from the federal government. Learn what tech law enforcement have in your area with EFF's Atlas of Surveillance, where we’ve documented thousands of examples: atlasofsurveillance.org/

The president has now blocked three economic data reports. Does he think this is somehow a *good* sign for the economy? trib.al/MnLQHPV

A winter storm watch has been issued from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning for a wide stretch of the region.

Another Russian shadow fleet oiler has been target. It is the M/T Mersin currently sinking off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, in Western Africa. This is getting now absolutely threatening for the Russian oil flow. Russian oil has become quite toxic, far more than sanctions alone.

New at Media Nation: A New York Times gift-link bacchanalia, from the hazards of AI to an aging Trump to chatty cats. dankennedy.net/2025/11/30/a...

@profanity.accountant Please tell me how much fucking profanity I've used in the past year.

Vladimir Putin should be drawn, quartered and his lifeless body hung upside down in Red Square.