When I worked in the House, our office once had back to back meetings with Goodall and Ted Turner. I'll never forget the booming southern drawl of Ted Turner yelling with delight, "oh my god, it's the monkey lady" when he walked in and saw Jane Goodall.

Wait, the White House withdrew its CFTC nominee because of opposition from the Winklevoss twins??

Absolute hellscape in Chicago.

A military flyover for golf. Wow, OK.

Over 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas. This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Raising the H-1B visa fee to $100,000 risks shutting off the pipeline of highly trained physicians, especially in rural and underserved communities. The AMA stands ready to work with the administration and our partners in medicine to exempt health care workers from this policy.

The New York Mets are an incredible brand.

#OurAMA is concerned that ACIP's new process and recommendations not only reduce parental choice, but also reflects ACIP’s reliance on selective data in forming its guidance. Read our full statement: spr.ly/63323AVMwb

DAWWWGGGGSSSS

Lol Tennessee

The AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, and urges Florida to reconsider. This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk. spr.ly/63328ABvBq

Jesus Christ

DAWGS

The removal of CDC Director Susan Monarez and the resignations of other senior CDC leaders are highly alarming at a challenging moment for public health. This comes at a time when CDC’s credibility & leadership are more essential than ever. Read our full statement: spr.ly/63329ffKFN

Incredible PR work

Interestingly, an intersection with a McDonald's

Oh I’m sorry is this not how reporters prefer to get paid??

Just 16% of the public say mRNA vaccines are unsafe. Even 59% of MAGA supporters say they “don’t know enough to say.” Confusion, not trust, is the vaccine issue. on.kff.org/3HlGRaF

They won. Somehow.

As hurricane season begins.

NEW: Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of last week's CDC shooting, as platforms such as X and Facebook have become much more permissive of vaccine-related false claims. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

New federal loan caps for professional programs could block aspiring physicians from affording medical school — worsening the nation’s doctor shortage. “This generation now faces a major new barrier,” says AMA President Bobby Mukkamala, MD.

AMA response to Jay Bhattacharya's Post op-ed on mRNA. "With another pandemic always just beyond the horizon, there is no medical reason to cease programs that empower us to develop vaccines more quickly to address viruses as they mutate." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Stephen Miller’s wife says mayonnaise is the only condiment he’ll eat, ‘period’

So much respect for Chopped Junior contestant Sarah for running with an *air quotes* “Jersey Fresh” style of cooking.

Why the hell is Chicago catching strays from this dipshit?

Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

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“The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized”

From the first moment I saw Sean Duffy on Real World: Boston, I knew that one day he'd accidentally blow up the moon.

Dude the Trade Deadline is wild

Excited to attend #AAJA25 this weekend with the AMA president. If you'll be in Seattle, I hope you attend his session at 10:30 on 8/1. All about his cancer diagnosis last year and what he learned about being a doctor from being a patient. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ7l...

Goddamn that’s awful. One of the best to ever do it. Fuck cancer.

“We’ll see how much longer Rich Hill can hang in there” A question about baseball or life?

“I love political humor, don’t get me wrong,” the veteran TV host told the 👀 Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in an interview 👀

After reports Sec. Kennedy intends to remove all members of the US Preventive Services Task Force, AMA sent the following letter urging him to retain current members and continue the task force’s regular meeting schedule. searchlf.ama-assn.org/letter/docum...

They just asked a Sox player in between innings what his first phone was, and he said “iPhone 5.” Just roll me into the grave.

Popping in briefly from vacation to share my latest: Here's how the ~$1 trillion in Medicaid cuts in Republicans' newly passed law could threaten the home- and community-based care that many Americans with disabilities rely on.

Why would this make him leave Westchester??

ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year

The most recent ratings from Nielsen show Colbert as winning his timeslot, with about 2.417 million viewers across 41 new episodes.

LUDA!

A cool thing about living in Chicago in the Age of Fox News is that every time I go to a red state and tell people where I live, they are SHOCKED. Shocked I'm alive, baffled that someone could and would live in a war zone. It's wild how far the propaganda has taken them from reality.

The big tell on whether reporters understand the current political climate is whether they still post to X.

There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago. cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/me...

I didn’t know this was where Andrew Giuliani landed! This World Cup is gonna be a mess.

Thank god Congress just lowered these people’s taxes.

AMA statement on the reconciliation bill and its massive Medicaid cuts. Quote is from a physician in Flint, Mich., whose patients rely on Medicaid to get the care they need.

Right? Has no one considered just turning up the growth??