trump’s government has caused the deaths of over 700,000 people worldwide in just its first year. they must be brought to justice for this. data: impactcounter.com

It sounds like this effort to change the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey being guided by OMB, eg Project 2025. Health economists, what would these changes mean? #Medsky #publichealth #healthcarecosts #healthpolicy #insurance #financialtoxicity #burdenofcare #economics

I’ve been off Bluesky for a few days and I return to RFK yelling about tortillas. 😫

Super low hanging safety fruit. US regulators have had a decade plus to get manufacturers to make safe door handles and still they haven’t. www.autoblog.com/news/china-i...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

“About a third of the staff at one Miami nursing home lost their jobs after the Trump administration ended the programs letting them work legally.”

Guess who was up at 6 AM to do a full day of #patient home visits in #freezingrain the day after Christmas - this #immigrant 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Hungarian composer Béla Bartók stopped giving concerts in Germany after Hitler came to power.

Photographer Danelle Manthey frames the practice of Christmas decoration as a kind of folk art in the book “American Christmas.” Peace on earth and installation art for all!

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

“This is so important — I can’t afford to get sick.” “I didn’t get the shot last year. I don’t want to miss it again.” “I’ve never gotten it, but my friends said I needed to.” …People weren’t doing this just for themselves. They were doing it for their castmates. For their crew. For the show.”

Lazy science that goes with our priors largely got a pass. The EBM literature from the 2010's critiquing evidence quality was low quality evidence that I really enjoyed at the time.

Roberto Bolle and Darcey Bussell as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince in The Nutcracker, Royal Opera House, December 1999 - Photos by Eleni Leoussi / ArenaPAL

i love how like a16z keeps trying to argue that they're "american dynamism" and then you look at what the VCs actually fund and it's basically shit like this

For an excellent study of medicalizing euphemisms please see Golfo Alexopolous’s history of the Gulag, entitled "Illness and Inhumanity."

Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities. - 800,000 consultations - 22,700 surgical operations - 700 million litres of water

This where we are: On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition. It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.

Bleuenn Battistoni in Balanchine's Theme and Variations Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris Photo by Maria-Helena Buckley

Enrollment by major in the UCSD remedial math course teaching “elementary and middle school math concepts”. Bad news for anybody planning on seeing a human doctor in 2060 and onwards:

Always v happy to catch a Nutcracker matinee. Joshua Junker danced a storm as Hans-Peter & I like James Hay's Drosselmeyer, imperious & a little tetchy. A good time, I hope, to flag that I've just embarked on a book for grown up lovers of Nutcracker. Xmas 2027 @royalballetandopera

Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

Be sure to watch Royal Ballet: #TheNutcracker 2025 this coming Mon 22-Dec at 6:15pm. Book now: www.windmillcinema.co.uk

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

They're lining up because the deals are weak... "“When you saw the lack of impact to earnings of the initial companies’ deals, for most coming after, it’s a no-brainer,” said Chris Meekins, a managing director at Raymond James.

This is very good reporting from @pattynieberg.bsky.social. This story is worth your time.

Mooi In Memoriam voor Hans van Manen van het Nationale Ballet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCS...

Hans van Manen, Celebrated Dutch Choreographer, Is Dead at 93 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...

Of note: three major prison healthcare companies have gone bankrupt in recent years, each time letting them avoid having to pay out lawsuits against them for insufficient care. Yes, private equity is playing a role here too. These issues, bad as they are in ICE detention, are not unique.

DID JANE AUSTEN WRITE A PIANO SONATA? www.instagram.com/reel/DSVXReN...

US sales of #antibiotics for livestock climbed 16% last year, FDA report shows Expert attributes the "troubling" increase to "a failure to put in place common-sense steps. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...#antibiotics Photo: Camelia Montoy / US Navy

Review⭐⭐⭐⭐: Contrasts – Paris Opera Ballet perform works by Trisha Brown, David Dawson, and Imre and Marne van Opstal – a dialogue of styles and executions that makes for a heady night. www.gramilano.com/2025/12/revi...

FDA will now accept deidentified and aggregate real world evidence for certain device submissions with plans to extend to drugs and biologics. This removes a major barrier to using EHRs registries and claims data in regulatory reviews www.fda.gov/news-events/...

This is horrifying. Making it a *felony* with a 10-year prison term? I don't even have words for this. And *six* Dems failed to oppose this? Three of them even supported it?

"I will show those doctors who say I'm killing children now by killing more children in the future"

Not sure if I've come across a better explanation of legal epi than this!

Without health care, private-sector job growth would be near zero.

This will absolutely certainly cause some primary care folks to be unwilling to prescribe SSRIs to pregnant people. There aren’t enough psychiatrists to take over all that prescribing. This is terrible for mothers and babies.

Antivaxxer Simon Goddek in a tweet from today (since deleted):

Started/going

Rival CDC in Avignon

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

These same dudes have firearms at home but zero fire extinguishers, so they are in fact NOT prepared to save their families

Guns don't kill people, SCOTUS' 2nd amendment jurisprudence kills people.

From the people who brought you the critically acclaimed season of Open Enrollment... ... you can now look forward to the thrilling new drama Your Provider's Contract With Your Insurer Will Expire On 31st December Unless They Strike a Deal!

Two immediate takeaways: 1) yes, the level of repression at Columbia is extraordinary, and these stories are only the tip of the iceberg; and 2) we are blessed to have students such as the journalists who are covering this and those who continue to organize www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/12...

@abovethelaw.com I'm hearing that NYC partners at some Biglaw firms are covering the ACA subsidy gap for their own non-firm household employees (nannies, etc) who buy health insurance on the exchanges, and that for those firms, this is a firm-wide policy. Any idea if this is widespread?

For more about Heart of Dinner, visit www.heartofdinner.org. A great org that provides groceries and meals to elders in need.