The false idea that Democrats, in pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts, are advocating for an expansion of health care for undocumented immigrants is maybe the biggest health policy distortion since the supposed "death panels" in Obamacare.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Bad for science, bad for fairness

"Maryland groups targeting Avelo have collected more than 8,000 petition signatures, urging [Gov. Wes] Moore to cancel the state contract with the airline." "Avelo operated about 20% of the deportation flights in the U.S. in August." #Maryland #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

More kids died from flu last season than in any non-pandemic season since monitored began 20 years ago. Almost 90% were unvaccinated. Parents: talk to your doctor about getting your kids vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

This is the analysis that I was hoping to find - people receiving H1B's absolutely are a core part of the US healthcare system (in training and beyond). Especially in rural areas. The US does not train enough people to meet the need of the number of physicians our country needs.

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

The notion that a media outlet has to be nice to One Special Boy in order to exist is so fundamentally un-American it is almost beyond belief. The fact that ABC/Disney backed down is evidence that the corporate consolidation of the media is a huge problem.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams pulls no punches in his assessment of health secretary Kennedy and the risk he poses to vaccine policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

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the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Breaking: A federal judge on in Rhode Island blocked the Trump administration from barring migrants living in the U.S. illegally from accessing numerous federally-funded services, including Head Start preschools, health clinics and food banks. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

Lemme fix this for you: Proponents claimed school vouchers would save taxpayers money, but their real goal was to dismantle public education while generating massive profits for private companies. And since people believed the lies they told upfront, they've now succeeded in achieving that goal.

What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...

We spent years having an overheated moral panic about some left-wing undergrads protesting speakers or asking for trigger warnings on syllabi, while right-wing students have the power to shut down academic freedom for an entire major American university.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

This is criminal. Arrest and prosecute. Extra-judicial killings are abhorrent to the rule of law.

A decline like this would be huge news just in general. But given JUST how rapidly this drop happened makes it extra-newsworthy. Given it happened while Trump yells abt “crime!” to justify authoritarianism makes it even MORE newsworthy. Yet… mostly crickets and “ppl still think crime’s up.”

This is a joke, but then on the other hand New Haven's own Karen Carpenter *was* an amazing drummer & could have been a session musician...

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...

Kulldorff calls for the establishment of a CDC work group examining whether or not children today get too many vaccines and cumulative harms of that. This is explicitly anti-vaccine propaganda and senseless. When new vaccines are evaluated in prelicensure clinical trials, you do not...

public sector employment has historically been a more reliable path to the middle class for Black workers, especially Black women, than the private sector where discrimination is rampant, and this is another important reason why the Right wants to destroy the federal government

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assault may have dealt lasting damage to the CDC, experts fear, with harsh consequences for public health. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

Had to explain to a patient that Medi-Cal actually IS the same thing as Medicaid. And that cuts to Medicaid are likely going to impact the ability of Medi-Cal to continue to cover him and people like him. I don't think we are collectively having enough conversations about this issue.

There are already concerns that the program, which allows opioid-use disorder medications to be covered by Medicaid, won’t go far enough to help a population that's at a dangerously high risk of fatally overdosing upon release. Read my latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social 🔽

*monkey-like shrieking* I CANNOT. The PROGRESS we've made in finally getting cash bail removed from the criminal justice systems in some places, only to have---- I'mma shut up before I end up on a list but UGH. Cash. Bail. Makes. No. Sense. And. Is. Unfair. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Budget Reconciliation Law "will increase the number of people without health insurance in 2034 by 10 million, because of changes to Medicaid (7.5 million), the ACA Marketplaces (2.1 million) & other policies and interactions among different provisions (0.4 million)." www.kff.org/uninsured/ho...

I would say that the MSM isn't looking for large marches. They barely cover them. What they want to cover are burning trash cans.

Want to see the impact of #NIH, #NSF and #EPA grant cuts in your community? Check out @noamross.net, @scott-delaney.bsky.social and colleagues' project here. Tell your friends and neighbors about what is happening. grant-witness.us

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

I would be pumped if a dem candidate really pushed hard on an anti-corruption platform given the amount of self-dealing, grift and corruption that permeates the admin, but I worry about the malleability of anti-corruption framing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/w...

Biomedical research isn't a YouTube video, you cannot hit pause for an indefinite period of time and then hit play whenever the regime wants. Samples are destroyed, labs dismantled, scientists leave...

Ruby Sales, who Daniels saved, went on to get degrees at Tuskegee Institute, Manhattanville College, and Princeton University. She's still alive Daniels' murderer, who killed Daniels and wounded another activist (a Catholic priest), was never convicted and died peacefully in his late 80s

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

The Washington Post Editorial Board used to recognize the Texas GOP's extreme gerrymandering (which was just made much more extreme) is a threat to democracy. That was before the page started advocating solely for the Bezos version of "liberty" and "freedom."

If pundits would like to talk about violence, a terrorist recently shot up the CDC and another assassinated Democratic officials in Minnesota but they sort of let both stories disappear Not as threatening as motorbikes in DC I know but maybe we could circle back?

I've been saying this for a while now, but anti-immigration fascism is providing a spatial fix for the slow decay of the traditional carceral state. apnews.com/article/tenn...

Bluey dropping the Gallipoli reference in S3E2. Not bad.

In a recent piece for Health Affairs Forefront, Drs. Ben Howell, Lisa Puglisi, and colleagues discuss urine drug testing pitfalls and best practices in the context of parole and probation. Read more:

Very glad that a colleague happened to see this piece this morning. I have several projects right now relating to removing drug testing as a blanket condition of supervision. Looking forward to being able to share those results eventually! www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Comparing per-person rates over different cities that have wildly different denominators is crazy-making. Whatever inner-city, poverty-driven problem yr measuring - it's going to be *higher* in a city like Washington, DC that doesn't have the sub-urban, richer neighborhoods within city limits.

“using real concerns to put reactionary political views in the mouths of people i am not actually going to speak to or give the dignity of their own voices” is a classic move for this clique

Misuse & misinterpretation of urine drug tests combined with the discretionary power of probation & parole officers is a mix that drives re-incarceration and creates harm. We need to rethink these systems. @seicheyale.bsky.social @yaleadm.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

We urgently need political education about involuntary commitment, because I am terrified by its increasingly consensus position in NYC political discourse.