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All the National Guard troops — who are civilians temporarily pulled away from their lives, ostensibly to help with emergencies — should be home with their loved ones for Thanksgiving.

Soooooo a decimated media ecosystem that requires individual reporters to be their own publishers, editors, and distributors and forces us all to fight for the same shrinking pool of people willing to pay…well. It’s gonna reward some really bad actors.

I’ve long been in favor of Medicare for All or another single-payer health system, but agree that this is a concern. What might RFK Jr exclude if given the chance?

With so many regulations, I’m surprised SF doesn’t require less tacky signage for Powell Street & Union Square.

I’ll wait for more data on this. I can see tattoo ink having an effect on immune response, but if it was linked to serious health concerns, I think we’d know it by now.

WTF?

I was friends with @alexvitale.bsky.social doing student activism back in the ‘80s. With so much riding on their success, I trust Mamdani’s team will go beyond performative gestures & look at what’s worked — & what hasn’t — in other cities, including SF.

When I first met with RFK Jr. for this story, he told me his staff thought it was a bad idea. A few months later, he accused me of being a scorpion who had tricked him. But we kept talking. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Not too surprising — Alzheimer’s has been a hard nut to crack. But I bet incretin (GLP-1, GIP, amylin, etc) agonists with anti-inflammatory effects will prove to be good for the brain. www.statnews.com/2025/11/24/n...

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this: www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Interesting that this has become a meme. If I’m placing it correctly, there’s a large mixed-use development with hundreds of homes planned for right across the street. You don’t need to kick out current residents & demolish existing homes to build.

They complain about doctors providing gender-affirming interventions with limited data & they complain about research to get better data.

Too bad “GLP-1s” has become a catch-all term. New meds have other targets — including GIP, glucagon, amylin — in various combinations. Looking for a better term to use for my health journalism, since “weight-loss drugs” doesn’t begin to capture everything they do.

Brilliant footage…International Space Station passing in front of the Moon captured at day time a rare and perfect timing.😎💙😎

Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

NEW: Bird flu patient dies, marking second U.S. fatality in 2025. Washington state resident was older adult w underlying conditions. My story. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump likes people he views as political winners.

This is concerning…

Senator Bill Cassidy is concerned that the new non-expert ACIP, appointed by the anti-vaccine Secretary he voted for, may undermine access to hepatitis B vaccines. www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-ca... via @kaiahubbard.bsky.social @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy

This is flying under the radar, but to deflect from concerns about his enabling RFK Jr, Cassidy is focusing on restricting abortion medication.

Apparently RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t remove the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the CDC website. So what RFK Jr. did instead is spit in his face by leaving the statement there and adding this:

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Times are changing in SF. A few years ago, much of this story would have focused on local opposition. Here, most of the advocates are in favor with a few caveats. This is my local Safeway & I support this 💯

Makary’s gotta love being referred to as RFK’s “aide.”😆 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Both previous proper systematic reviews & DHHS’s review of reviews agree that evidence for youth gender medicine is limited. Whether you think this means “make it widely accessible & collect more data as we go along” or “ban it for everyone” is an ideological choice.

Simultaneous Christmas trees & basil plants doesn’t seem right…

An ABC News reporter asked about U.S. intelligence findings that MBS ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Trump interrupted, attacked the reporter, then defended MBS: "He knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking something like that."

I never tire of seeing the amazing success of HPV vaccination. We are seeing the elimination of a leading oncogenic virus pathogen in real time (Source: GAVI) www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

Do as the Pope says... deadline.com/2025/11/pope...

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

I keep up with the news more than most people & consider myself generally well-informed about current events, but today went right over my head…

Scheduling mifepristone largely invalidates the point of the schedule. Ostensibly, the schedule is meant to monitor drugs *which have the ability to form physical dependence*. This step makes the schedule a list of drugs that lawmakers dislike for feelings reasons. www.pbs.org/news-hour/sh...

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Reducing inflammation may be the key to GLP-1 benefits beyond weight loss & blood sugar. www.wired.com/story/weight...

My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is. So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise. If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

"Alice supported and took many people with Long COVID under her wing — I was honored to call her a colleague and friend." @mileswgriffis.bsky.social in @thesicktimes.org's obituary for the great Alice Wong: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

I love “honored to be your ancestor.”😢

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans. aspph.org/department-o...

I don’t get the rationale behind banning THC seltzers & gummies as long as they’re clearly labeled & have age restrictions like alcohol.

Keeping the price of brand-name GLP-1s out of reach has led many to explore alternative routes like compounders or mix-it-yourself. Same with restricting access to hormones for gender transition. Some people like the biohacking aspect & it’s not necessarily that risky. apnews.com/article/pept...

This is dumb. We're not going to curb homelessness without building a lot more affordable housing & cities don't have the budgets to do so o their own. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Once again, the U.K. reminds me to be ever so grateful for the First Amendment reason.com/2025/11/12/m... Let's do a brief thread about some of the crazy sex- and speech-related proposals in the country's new crime bill

I’ve been in Toronto at the #astmh meeting these past few days and last night some very good news was presented here: A new malaria drug has proven efficacious in a large trial and could soon be approved.🧪 My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come): www.science.org/content/arti...

Aurora photographers: How do I set iPhone 16 to take a 10-sec exposure? (I don't want to use a 3rd party app or edit a live shot after the fact). Can you force it to do 10 secs, or does it depend on the ambient light? With an overcast sky, I can't get it above 3 secs.

One virus after another being linked to autoimmune conditions & other chronic illnesses. Once you know what to look for… med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

I want to see the aurora under any circumstances, but especially from a plane. Twice I’ve routed trips via a more northerly route (SF>Detroit>Tampa) when good conditions were predicted, but no luck yet.