Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

You just know these quiet heroes at the Oregon Department of Human Services hustled to get the payments out the door knowing families depend on them

Hey look👀 Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?

“an economy that works great for those at the very top and leaves everyone else hanging on by their fingernails” www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/rese...

Governors have never mattered more - @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

“just as the gov’t stops addressing food insecurity & as healthcare costs skyrocket, the admin permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores…” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-29... - Heather Cox Richardson, continuing to witness this disaster

Sometimes the primary relevant diagnoses are cruelty and greed.

POV: YOU’RE ASIAN You call every woman too old to be your sibling and too young to be your grandmother “Auntie,” this is just reality, neither I nor Zohran Mamdani makes the rules

Local #NoKings First Aid team = Ready

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

Just our dipshit vice president literally advocating that undocumented people — who pay taxes — should bleed out on the sidewalk instead of going to the ER. Wait till he sees how crowded the ERs get when hospitals close due to his & Trump’s massive Medicaid cuts.

Wait until he hears that the rule is that we see people in order of acuity and time in department. Period.

Bin-go

If you get shot your assailant’s gun was a right If you come to the ER afterwards, your healthcare for that visit is a privilege

Update from the Portland suburbs. Yesterday went to a peaceful rally where there were adorable little girls dressed as princesses holding signs that read, “NO KINGS ONLY PRINCESSES.”

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Visit... War-Ravaged Portland

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Here are some heroes for today: Idaho physicians fighting for women’s health in a heartbreaking practice environment (35% of the ob/gyn workforce have left since Dobbs) after realizing that there was no cavalry coming #WIMS

Oregon will allow pharmacists to administer Covid and other vaccines, starting TODAY. Whew! Thank you Gov. Kotek, West coast Gov’s, Oregon BOP. Get ‘em now, folks! www.oregon.gov/pharmacy/Doc... #covid19 #medsky #pharmsky @choo.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social

Sickening. I’m sick of it and we all should be.

“And so my state of Oregon, along with Washington, California and Hawaii, wisely decided to step away from a dysfunctional enterprise and establish its own evidence-based health alliance.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

We are excited to launch our new talk series: Care, Outcomes, and Reform of Emergency Systems (CORE) Talks. Free Zoom seminars on policy-relevant evidence about EDs, telemedicine, and urgent care. www.coretalks.org Today at 11a EST, Dr. Jesse Pines, “How AI May Transform Emergency Care.”

From nine former CDC directors, who collectively worked at the agency for more than 100 years: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... Read every word.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

I’ve been an ER doc in trauma centers all my career. You get used to a lot. But never, ever, the deaths of children— especially from preventable causes.

"Here's the thing... vaccines only work if you give them." @repkimschrier.bsky.social crushes RFK Jr. What a time to have pediatricians in public office. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Py...

JUST IN: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and other major national public health groups just filed a lawsuit against RFK Jr. to defend science-backed vaccine policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

As a nurse in developmental disability services I am beyond livid. Our system alone serves over 400,000 people. It’s impossible to overstate the scorched earth impact the Medicaid cuts will have. This is a fucking crime against humanity.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

“Rep. Valadao, R-Calif, led a June 24 letter from 16 Republicans vowing to oppose the Senate bill… ‘Protecting Medicaid is essential for the vulnerable constituents we were elected to represent’ The following week, all 16 of them voted for the bill anyway.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The rage is appropriate and needed.

I have a lot of issues with people getting information solely through short-form video content (cue the Gen-Z hate), but it doesn’t seem like that trend is stopping anytime soon. I am going to try to reach people over on TikTok. Here are the first 3 minutes of one I just made. 🧪 #MedSky #BlackMedSky

"Addressing disparities entails figuring out why there’s a failure in health or health care and how to fix it." @choo.bsky.social ‬ The NIH says health disparity research is discriminatory. That's beyond ignorant. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... via @msnbc.com CC: @britshmit.bsky.social

The rushed & reckless budget bill moving through the Senate would terminate health coverage for 100,000's of Oregonians. That's why 700+ health care professionals & allies are calling on our federal and state representatives to protect Medicaid & keep Oregon covered. Join us! bit.ly/protect-ohp

OREGON HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WARN: MEDICAID CUTS WILL TERMINATE CARE, RAISE COSTS, AND SHUTTER RURAL HOSPITALS • 600+ doctors, nurses, and health workers urge Oregon lawmakers to stop GOP plan to slash health coverage and hospital funding • Follow Link to co-sign bit.ly/protect-ohp #SaveMedicaid

An "America First" Christian Nationalist preacher who believes God gave the US to white Christians & that Communism is a conspiracy funded by culturally alien Jewish/Marxist intellectuals who want to destroy traditional American society is giving a lecture on the Roman Empire. The date is May 1940.

We put together our thoughts on why abortion didn’t define the federal election as folks thought it would.

Excellent, thorough, and necessary reflections on how abortion has moved as a political issue. A must read if you care about reproductive freedom.

Some people thought the attacks on abortion access would galvanize the U.S. and help secure the last election. We reflect on that optimism in this BMJ piece: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):