Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

This week, Australia became the first country to ban children aged under 16 from using most social media platforms go.nature.com/4pXa8Je

As we all get bombarded with emails and texts about holiday sales, a reminder that there is a blackout happening from today through Monday. Pls consider at least not buying from major corporations during this time unless you think things are hunky dory.

www.boston25news.com/news/local/m... Here’s a piece about a patient who got relief from depression with neuromodulation. There are many effective treatments for depression! #psych #psychsky #tms

Remarkable, groundbreaking progress for cardiometabolic science and medicine!!! #FGF21R #GLP1 #APOC3 #ANGPTL3 #PCSK9 #mAb #siRNA #ASO #CRISPRCas9 Shoutout to ♥️ basic and clinical scientists moving this forward for our patients! @ahascience.bsky.social #AHA25 #PrevCards #Lipidology

Happening NOW! Crosstalk 🤔

Did you know? About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5. About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development. The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia. But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.

Let me get this straight. Men in their 30s and 40s are kids who deserve a break but 12-13 year old girls are old enough to experience the consequences of the actions of their abusers (who also happen to be grown ass men). apnews.com/article/vanc...

Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

Can all the folk who believe in the Rapture just hurry up and get raptured so the rest of us can take paracetamol when it's indicated, eliminate cancers with vaccines and reinstate human rights like food and medical care in conflict zones? Please and thank you 🙏.

If you’re canceling subscription services with giant companies with ties to terrible people, you should think about replacing them with a library card. Many library systems give you access to physical media (some of which you can’t find on streaming!) as well as other great stuff.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail

Gee, I wonder why the birth rate is in decline…

Sounds like they're telling the pregnant people to calm down because they're too hysterical. Reminds of of something....can't quite place it

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Doctor here 👋 -RFK Jr. is telling American medical schools they must offer #nutrition courses to students or lose federal funding -Literally every med school offers it already -But our patients can't afford the foods we recommend because the his administration is cutting SNAP benefits #medsky

Transphobia harms all women

I’ll be collecting photos all week. And if you don’t want to share a photo of yourself then perhaps an icon or other non-identifying photo, with the text, “I Stand With You.” This is an easy way to show support for trans military members (and me). Please share and spread the word!

In honor of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, I’d like to remind you that your body NEEDS IRON to make serotonin and dopamine and ~40% of 12-21 yo females are deficient and most don’t even know it. tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Absolutely this, @markey.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov. You have some of the best staff in the country. Have them prep you and then be ready to step in. Grind the Senate to a halt until there's accountability.

My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.

Canada is home to world-class scientists and researchers. We have a unique opportunity to recruit top US talent amid their recent major research cuts. What's our plan? 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

We can do better

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable streets.

Speaking as a rural Democrat, the strategists’ push to the move Dems to the center is ill-advised. No one needs Republican lite when there’s a Republican already on the ballot.

You know what? Giving up shopping at target and on amazon for lent is not a bad idea. I actually think it may be healthy for the soul, mind and body regardless of whether you believe or not. Something to consider. www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/b...

“Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.”

Wake up

The definition of woke.

I commend every parent who is choosing to do the right thing by vaccinating their child as the measles outbreak spreads. There's no shame in changing your mind on a stance you were wrong about. Especially when it concerns protecting children from disease. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This announcement is from 2022. Additional libraries have joined the Books Unbanned project. booksunbanned.com

Not just Brooklyn. The program now includes Brooklyn, Boston, LA county, San Diego, and Seattle public libraries. booksunbanned.com

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

4. When you do a clinical trial, you generally need to have evidence to support your hypothesis. There is no credible evidence in the scientific literature indicating that vaccines cause chronic disease. In fact, if anything, prior research shows the opposite.

3. There have already been randomized controlled trials of every vaccine on the schedule. The people receiving these vaccines were undoubtedly vaccinated against other diseases already. So the claims that there may be some weird interactions are nonsense.

I want to be clear once more that every single vaccine on the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States has already been subjected to a randomized clinical trial. There is no evidence that giving more than one of these vaccines within the time period specified by the schedule poses any risk.