“She said that without subsidies, the new costs could increase to as much as 50% of her family’s income.” https://www.ms.now/news/farmers-aca-health-care-costs

If we don’t use this moment to also call out that the supplements section of the Co-ops and Whole Foods as part if the larger continuum of pseudoscience that led to this moment, we have failed.

This is bad but ALSO: can we have this at conferences to keep people on time

Study: SARS-CoV-2 RNA found in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks, despite good ventilation Positive samples were significantly more common in the emergency department than in intensive care. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

CA3 issued a fascinating opinion last week on the interplay between the first amendment and computer code in the context of 3d printing firearms. Seems like a more competent lawyer could have put together a complaint that actually passed muster. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/233...

Trump tried, and failed, to ban abortion for migrant girls in U.S. detention during his first term. Now his administration has quietly and easily instituted a de facto ban by incarcerating vulnerable, pregnant children in Texas, an abortion ban state.

The disturbing thing about hospitals as a use case is there is no choice in any practical sense... most people in that building are going to have some of their most sensitive data vacuumed up without even knowing let alone asking I hate that your administration did this

"Americans are to a greater and lesser extent all psychologically traumatized from watching more than a million Americans die from COVID, and explain that general sense of malaise through economic sentiment" has always struck me as a parsimonious explanation.

Stephanie is a former colleague of mine at the Minnesota Orchestra, and I'm not surprised in the least that she would fearlessly take this stand against a feckless university administration.

used to be there were honorable jobs in Miami, like "strip mall plastic surgeon" and "anticommunist radio host". now everything is Fraud

Oh it wasn’t a concubine’s fault it was climate change

It still amazes me that only 3 US states (IL, TX, and WA) provide meaningful protection against this kind of use of biometrics. In those states it’s impractical to get consent to use the feature from people without Facebook/Instagram accounts. What are the other state legislatures waiting for?

Come for the live performance, more thrilling than the recording. Stay for the FANCY MUSTACHIO.

Never get high on your supply (and don’t hire those that do)

The court here draws on 2nd Am case law to support this holding

Republicans claim that people handing out pizza in lines at polling places is illegal, but Trump’s gestapo intimidating people is fine

I love being a labor economist, where null is interesting if your model is still convincing. Anytime a student tells me they are worried they didn't find statistically significant results, I remind them of David Card. Two Nobel winning papers had null results (NJ/PA minimum wage and Mariel Boatlift)

I had a pregnant client who was experiencing abdominal cramping for three days and was deprived of medical care. When we interceded, she was punished. A first grader snatched two days after surgery denied wound care. A client who developed a large painful cyst but was ignored. 25/

So what do you think happens to job growth in health when 3+ million people drop coverage?

I don’t think the current bottleneck to good research is our ability to generate code and text.

omfg I had sinus surgery in 2019 and none of this was a concern. also, teens and adults with cystic fibrosis have many sinus surgeries over their lives. It’s such a low risk surgery. wtf

It's just If Indiana's 76 operational data centers are already eating up HALF of the power in the whole state the what the fuck is gonna happen when there's 152 of them online and this mythical new Gen genAI nuclear scam is still a decade away

seems India will be going generic in March (and a much bigger market than Canada) www.cnn.com/2026/02/07/i... given that many generic suppliers worldwide are from India (eg Dr Reddy, Cipla etc) this looks like something clearly happening

Are you an US healthcare professional that has had enough of the regime? Are you looking for a safe landing for you, your family and career? British Columbia Canada is actively recruiting doctors and nurses and fast tracking credential recognition. See more here. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Illinois (following California) joins World Health Organization network, after Trump administration withdraws from group www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/03/i...

“Doctronic does not believe the prescription renewal bot qualifies as a medical device regulated by FDA because the practice of medicine is overseen by states. But nine policy and legal experts consulted by STAT disputed the certainty of that characterization.”

"After the passage of Trump’s 2025 tax law, the U.S. corporate marginal effective tax rate on investment in R&D became -47% overall and -146% if debt-financed. Yes, those are negative tax rates: every dollar Pharma spends on debt-financed research returns $1.46 in tax benefits to the companies."

Threading works better here than on LinkedIn, but if you are over there, I'm sorta LivePosting my interactions with the company that was hired as a navigator by the claims processor to manage my insurance, since they've declined to cover a test because the coverage policy company told them not to

Didn’t realize that while the Trump team wants to demote nursing and public health programs from their “professional” status as it relates to student loans that chiropractors get to keep their professional status….

I long for the day when our child prisons are measles free.

Our Patient Navigators across the nation meet on Monday for training and learning better ways to support patients, but they're only really focused on one thing...getting money back into households 📝🕵️‍♀️

an uncomfortable reality: functional democracy needs shared social virtues. once scoundrels take the tiller and theres no enforceable punishment mechanisms, the entire institutional project tips over like a house of cards. you can redesign institutions, but purging depravity from public service? oof

UCLA law professor Alex Wang has been studying one of the critical ways China has been making inroads around the world. The US has been ceding this ground.

Turns out dealmaking doesn't deter Trump attacks on law firms after all. Friday, FTC sent warning letters to 42 firms (incl Paul Weiss) of potential antitrust liability for participating in a popular program (based on NFL's Rooney rule) that encourages consideration of diverse candidates in hiring.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.

It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

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some days it to be like that

The last twenty years, damn near everything bad politically across the western world had been planned by evil child rapists. Im actually unsettled, these people need to be buried, now.

. SQUANDER is the word much on my mind these days…bc whatever currency the pols have, it was bought and paid for dearly by millions of ordinary ppl

LAPD won’t enforce California’s mask ban on ICE/CBP/DHS www.instagram.com/reel/DUHDeCJ...

Must read article from a Minnesota physician about why they care.

I’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.

the sheer lack of basic humanity triggering the judge having to specifically require this

"ICE is not a law unto itself," Judge Schiltz says, scolding it for violating 96 court orders. "ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve...The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In MN, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."

we are witnessing historic backpedaling here

Lest you think your individual senator voted no and is therefore fine, every single one of them fast tracked her nomination by unanimous consent. They got tired from having to work a Friday with Hegseth's nomination so they quickly wrapped hers up.

Canada, UK and soon the US All losing measles elimination status All failing children www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...