Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

For NYers in the performing arts having a tough time finding health insurance, here's a useful guide from the non-profit United Hospital Fund: A Guide for Dramatists (and Other Theater Workers) on Finding Affordable Health Coverage and Care uhfnyc.org/publications...

“History will see this as a huge mistake. The FDA as we’ve known it is finished.” Must-read by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social‬ on how the Trump Administration is dismantling the once gold-standard ‪@fda.gov‬ & endangering public health. 77mln people voted for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

I can't remember a more transparently, insultingly, and groaningly false pretext than idea that WH is attacking Harvard et all because the Trump guys are so deeply worried about antisemitism. GMAFB. Rather: tell it to Proud Boys, Nick Fuentes, Charlottesville "fine people," Pepe, etc.

When to call in the Marines

According to the CareScout survey, in 2024 the monthly median cost for assisted living nationally was $5,900/month, homemaker services cost $6,292/month, while a private nursing home room cost $10,646. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/b...

Medicaid expansion under the ACA reduced mortality of low-income adults by 2.5%, with direct budgetary costs of $5.4 million/life saved. Findings suggest lack of health insurance explains about 5 to 20% of the mortality disparity between high and low-income Americans. www.nber.org/papers/w33719

I agree with Jo-Ann Mort @jo-ann.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ by @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c... via @statnews.com

The cancellation of hundreds of grants is dismantling LGBTQ-focused health research, built out of nothing over a quarter-century. More than 270 grants have been eliminated. by @benryanwriter.bsky.social @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Thank Trump voters: Braun, shirtless, entered the room, pulled her onto her bed and put her into a headlock, she said. Then he pushed her hand over his bare genitals as he groped her breasts, telling her he had always wanted to have intercourse with her. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...

New analysis by @commonwealthfund.org shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in health care systems, even those that are top-rated www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/h... via @statnews.com

At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c... via @statnews.com

It was the fifth time that Mr. Braun had been arrested since Mr. Trump commuted his 10-year sentence just before leaving office in 2021...Mr. Braun’s sentence was commuted after his family used a connection with Charles Kushner, the father of Jared Kushner www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

In Arizona, @culdesac.bsky.social is what its developers call the country’s first neighborhood purposely built to be car free. by @carabuckley.bsky.social, part of 50 Fixes in 50 States series in the NY Times.. Worth following www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/c...

Must-read about the o-called medical freedom movement: "In the neat little narrative I had crafted in my head, Ms. Kali’s innate goodness meant that she would defy the odds stacked against her, indefinitely. Cancer is not like that." by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

More than a dozen people in the cancer field told STAT that government and congressional actions since Trump's inauguration are threatening treatment for cancer patients and the development of new therapies. by @angusrohan.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t... via @statnews.com

Now we are siding with the Taliban: At the Security Council this week, the US refused to join Denmark, France, Greece, Guyana, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and the UK in a joint statement condemning the Taliban’s treatment of women. via @markleongoldberg.bsky.social

For the past year, Willow Higgins and I have been looking into NY’s conviction integrity units. They promised justice for the wrongfully incarcerated. But our investigation, in collab w/ @nysfocus.bsky.social and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social Investigations, shows they have fallen short. 🧵

Five years after the pandemic began, public health officials say the entrenched politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools to respond and fresh challenges. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

New study in British Journal of Sports Medicine: "these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions that are not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research." via Lindsey Darvin @forbes.com @bmj.com www.forbes.com/sites/lindse...

Women’s health is finally receiving the attention it deserves from VCs. Over the past five years, investments in startups in the women’s health space have surged to unprecedented levels-Elizabeth Bailey, Foreground Capital www.statnews.com/2025/03/12/w... via @statnews.com

From leopards-ate-their-face dept: Investors believed Trump would follow through on the parts of his agenda that they liked and scale back the more disruptive policies like tariffs if financial markets started to get spooked. It is increasingly clear they were wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/b...

How so many of us are feeling. Thank you @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE?...

86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. 430,000 people were hospitalized. Expect those numbers to skyrocket next year. @fda.gov Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it. They did it for PEPFAR. Now Ebola. I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵