Science is good. We should fund it.

Doctor here 👋 -CDC's acting director delayed release of a publication showing that last winter, COVID vaccines cut the risk of ER visits & hospitalizations in HALF in healthy adults -An inconvenient truth... -This is politics winning out over evidence #publichealth #medsky #FixUShealthcare

Wow, great news: the CDC has a study proving COVID vaccines slashed hospitalizations by 55%. Bad news: RFK Jr.’s team killed it before publication because facts were inconvenient. They are literally hiding data that could save your life. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208886/...

My Democratic colleagues and I showed up on the House floor today to do our job and defend Congress’s Constitutional war powers. Republicans refused to even recognize our resolution. They’re choosing this war, and Trump’s violence and chaos.

Today, House Democrats tried to bring another War Powers Resolution to the floor. Republicans blocked us. As gas prices soar and troops are put in harm’s way, the GOP continues to be complicit in this reckless war.

This is so well done. 👌

The danger to all of us, and the world, from a madman in the White House makes invoking the 25th Amendment not just an option—but a necessity.

This is the way

Let’s be crystal clear: This war never should have started, and Congress cannot allow Trump to continue on this horrifying path of escalation. While we’re relieved Trump has walked back his threats of genocidal war crimes from this morning, words are not enough. 🧵

I’m glad there is a reported ceasefire deal with Iran. But we shouldn’t be in this illegal war in the first place. And Donald Trump can’t simply threaten war crimes with impunity. Congress needs to get back in session now to stop this war and remove Donald Trump.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

The US has a hard time believing women.

Update: In a profanity-laden post on Truth Social, President Trump lashed out at Iran and injected new volatility into the conflict, hours after U.S. forces carried out a high-risk rescue mission. n.pr/47FhH0G

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

KEEP ON REPOSTING. KEEP THE TRENDING HIGH. #EpsteinFiles #NoPedophiles #NoKings #NoPEDODENTS #NoTrump

@greenhousemd.bsky.social #medsky

🚨CDC HAN Alert🚨: A powerful animal sedative, Medetomidine, AKA ‘rhino tranq,' 'mede,' or 'dex’ is now increasing in the fentanyl supply. It can worsen overdoses, doesn’t respond to Narcan (because it’s not an opioid), and can cause severe withdrawal. Awareness & harm reduction can help save lives.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio in 2023

A graph summarizes one of the major points made by Neue Zürcher Zeitung's discussion of the collapse under Trump of the US dollar as a reserve currency. This will have adverse consequences for the US economy for decades, but major US media are seemingly oblivious to what is happening.

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran."

Organizers behind No Kings, a network of progressive groups, says protesters will stage demonstrations across the country and abroad to speak out against the Trump administration's actions. n.pr/41xKccV

Punchbowl confirms what I suspected in a post last night. Thune reached a deal with Dems to fund DHS except for ICE and Trump rejected it. DONALD TRUMP is to blame for airport chaos - not Democrats.

Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.

🚨 Pentagon officials told Congress that the war with Iran has cost the U.S. more than $11 billion in its first week

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

There are some fifty critical pages missing. It's a crime to cover up a crime.

Let's not forget: Trump's cuts to healthcare have cost you and millions of others. He's never cared about you getting sicker at the expense of himself and his billionaire donors getting richer

Prices up. Health insurance up. Violence and cruelty on our streets. This is the state of the union under Donald Trump. 2 hours of rambling and lies do not change that reality.

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

Philly!

"This systematic review has shown that the evidence does not support the proposition that saying the word ‘quiet’ has an effect on clinical workloads. Further study in this area is not recommended." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40451280/

“Against Medical Advice” offers no proven benefit and may increase stigma. Time to rethink AMA. 🔗: https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.2796 ✍️: David Alfandre, Jay Brenner, Eberechukwu Onukwugha 🖼️: #VisualAbstract by @ShaheenFatimaa #PatientCenteredCare #JHospMedicine #HealthEquity #TWDFNR

Epic has a new AI summary generating tool, and I noticed that it completely hallucinated a GI bleed for one of my patients last night.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

ICYMI

Howdy #MedEd friends and enemies, our MedEd game research group/community of practice is planning our first conference. If you are into that sort of thing let me know what you want to see and get notified when details are up. ohsu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The best thing to have is enough.

Important. There has not been a deescalation.