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Join me iwth @maryroach.bsky.social on Wednesday, September 10 from noon to 1pm on the Substack app. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I'm stoked to get to chat with the incomparable Mary Roach (@maryroach.bsky.social) about her new book Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy! [link in 🧵]

The right does not like that Dr. Daskalakis is an outspoken gay man who has the audacity to promote love and acceptance for ALL. So they cast about for lies and Fox News viewers lap it up. www.politico.com/news/2022/09...

They’re walking back the Chicago rhetoric, which illustrates why it’s critical to respond immediately and forcefully against the administration like the public and Governor Pritzker did. We’ll see if it’s enough to keep the National Guard out.

The Disneyland measles outbreak lead to CA tightening up vaccine exemption laws. Florida: hold my beer!

This is all predictably a chaotic, uncoordinated mess, and shows why restricting vaccines to people with certain conditions when the vaccine is perfectly safe is so harmful to public health - it makes it unnecessarily complicated to make a vaccine appointment which decreases uptake.

Got to meet @glaucomflecken.bsky.social today at the Big Ideas in Medicine conference. I made him laugh, so I’ll be an insufferable unicorn all day. 🦄 🌈

Protecting children does not include rounding them up on a plane and sending them back to a country where the same children say they will be harmed.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Worried about the safety of the American transplant system? Watch out for Jim O’Neill’s dreams for down on their luck Americans to sell their kidneys.

There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused.” - Jim O’Neill, set to lead the CDC, said in 2009 at a Peter Thiel event.

We need an old school morbidity and mortality report for RFK Jr. We need every cranky, genius, retired former surgeon to coach Congress on how to do a proper takedown of the unqualified, unhinged, foolish decisions of this administration.

Don’t worry guys, we now have an investment banker/former political speech writer with no medical, scientific, or public health training heading the CDC. American will not get healthier with the clown car of unqualified bozos dismantling public health services. We are fucked.

I’ve been gifted with something I didn’t know I needed. In the last 24 hours, I’ve received texts from two colleagues about how much I helped them because of the way I approach my work.

We asked researchers across the country how federal funding changes have affected them and their labs. Their responses indicate a sense of doom and an existential crisis for science in the US: “The ship is going down and we are powerless.” Importantly, there’s still time to fix this. 1/2

👉14 Tips for Healthcare Workers when ICE shows up at the Hospital or Clinic

ICE was at Stanford hospital yesterday. As a healthcare worker, do you know your patient's rights and your own? Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗

defunding children's brain cancer research. @endpts.com

“Every time you ask Al to write a paper, remix a photo, or curate your dream playlist, something else is happening behind the screen. “For Black neighborhoods already battling unsafe drinking water and environmental neglect, this represents yet another invisible fight… in the name of ‘progress.’”

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

We need a Covid Education Now, and until the next C Everett Koop comes along, we will have to do it ourselves. #BackToSchool #cancer #aids #hiv #covid #longcovid gofund.me/5a53e2f9

Lol, we need the "AI" that is killing the environment and guzzling untold amounts of resources to save the environment. This is 1984 type of marketing, like "ministry of peace" that is actually the war department.

“American business retains its power over the working class through fear of destitution that would be weakened if the safety net were to actually become safe.” - Marta Russell & Ravi Malhotra

How many times and in how many different ways do we have to prove that giving people small amounts of money improves outcomes? Will policymakers ever listen?

I often have hospital ethics consults where I have to explain that 🏡 It’s unethical that we have do not have housing for everyone 🥗It’s unethical that our patients cannot afford the food they need 💊 It’s unethical our patients can’t afford

Saal was a “geneticist and dysmorphologist“ with 150,000 images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). US Attorney’s Office press release says “At this time, investigators have not located any evidence of child pornography involving patients…

Green New Deal v. Gentrification After *seven* years, @uprose.bsky.social and its allies have shut down plans for a massive rezoning project in Brooklyn And now the winning organizing, political, popular ed and comms strategy developed by @yeampierre.bsky.social and team will be featured on PBS!

Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Public servants are not the enemy. Attacks on them are attacks on America. Say it plainly. Say it loudly. Say it now." www.decaturish.com/public_safet...

GAY MARRIAGE 4 mos ago, V at @underthedesknews.bsky.social & @yourgaylawyer.bsky.social made an 8 min video to guide gay couples through finding & filing 9 documents they'll need to recreate all the rights inherent to marriage in a partnership document. Today they reupped bc here we go. Pls share.

4 new quick-guides to help you help your friends and fam STAND UP FOR SCIENCE and protect democracy www.standupforscience.net/activate-eng... www.standupforscience.net/inform-activ... www.standupforscience.net/team-science www.standupforscience.net/calling-values @standupforscience.bsky.social

More than 50 pardoned Capitol Rioters attended CPAC — including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Dozens of pardoned Capitol Rioters have been invited to speak or attended Republican Party events. Details on how you can support Pardon Tracker:

RFK Jr is intentionally lying when he says mRNA vaccines aren’t effective. The data aren’t hard to understand, but he lies about them daily. The most parsimonious explanation for this behavior is that he wants people to die. To state the obvious, that’s disqualifying for the head of HHS.

Don’t confuse individual perceptions of goodness with collective good.

Just dropped... On what would have been her 42nd birthday, I'm thinking of Virginia and wondering how joyful her life might have been, "had she not been forced to slay demons." www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/rememberin...

Whiplash anyone?

If only we had treated the “root cause” of a highly infectious disease by preventing infection with vaccination. I love how people believe pediatricians are the pharma shills.

It’s weird that people have a huge problem with tax dollars being used to subsidize part of the cost of someone’s soda with SNAP, and no problem with our tax dollars being used to subsidize the entire cost of a billionaire’s private jets and yachts with Trump’s tax cuts.

Today, Brandon Russell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for his involvement in a plot to destroy Baltimore area power plants. He encouraged others to do the same through a loose, violent neo-Nazi network, Terrorgram Read my coverage of his trial from earlier:

the libels against NIH funded research and researchers are infuriating grant review and award are rigorous, fair, and extremely competitive can’t say the same about the vast sums this Administration is spending with little transparency 99% of FDA approved drugs & 100+ Nobel Prizes don’t lie

January 6, 2026, Noelle Cook’s ‘The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging’ hits the stores! “Five years inside conspiracy culture — what draws people in, what it costs to leave…” Pre-order today at noellecook.com (new branding and design from yours truly) @noellecook.com

Thank you Dr. @alyssaburgart.com for the opportunity to talk about immigrant patients & medicine on the hottest Substack in #bioethics. We discuss what it means to be in the healing professions in our current toxic climate, check it out! #immigration www.poppiesandpropofol.com/p/sanctuary-...

As of 2024, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Texas by nearly 1.5 million voters Plus, the state used to be blue But the real story here is the arrogance of Texas Republicans They are "entitled" to nothing It's the VOTERS who decide elections NOT politicians

From The Tennessean: “"It's hurting so bad," Black said around 10:33 a.m. Every media witness reported hearing Black say those words, or something very similar.” Byron Black died by execution today.

We talk about the intersections of policing, poverty, and marginalization like they’re obvious. But what’s less often explored is what happens after the arrest—what violence looks like inside jails and prisons, especially for sex workers.

Nashville General Hospital says it never agreed to turn off 69-year-old Byron Brown’s defibrillator to facilitate his death by lethal injection. The state plans to kill Brown tomorrow, August 5 at 10am, regardless of his cardiac device.