Wishing you all a HAPPY HAMILLWEEN !!! 🎃 👻 😱 💀 🧙‍♀️ 🐈‍⬛ My costume this year is from one of my favorite Disney movies: Pinocchio. How do you like me as Geppetto?

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has gotten himself into quite a pickle. His entire career and self-image depend on belittling, insulting, and tearing down the scientific “establishment”. But also. He is now the head of the largest scientific establishment in the U.S.

Ran across this old post while looking for something else, and it's an important point. The "old enough to need a colonoscopy but too young for Medicare" crowd is the group really getting hammered now.

Four days before he reported to prison, Epstein received an email from Wexner A spokesperson for Wexner declined to comment. A person close to Wexner said his email “expressed his strong disappointment that Epstein had breached his fiduciary duties and broken the family’s trust.”

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

📣📣📣 The 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Period launches TOMORROW, so here's my annual guide: 13 important things to know before you #GetCovered. It's gonna be ugly for most this year, but there are things you can do to mitigate the carnage & even some pleasant surprises: acasignups.net/25/10/27/slo...

The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.

"When I hear about Medicaid cuts, it feels like they’re threatening to kill my child, because they are," says Victoria Schiano. "It doesn’t feel like a policy change or improvement to the program, it feels like people personally attacking my child," littlelobbyists.org/coles-story-...

He did not drop the story

Reminder for Scottsdale Folks: A Charlie Kirk memorial is on the agenda for TUESDAY. ww2.scottsdaleaz.gov/Assets/Scott...

🔍 BIG NEW investigation: Zombie debt collectors are taking advantage of Russ Vought's decimation of the CFPB and going after homeowners who are now alone fighting to fend off massive interest charges in hopes of saving their homes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Out-of-pocket premiums for subsidized ACA enrollees will jump by an average of about 114% if enhanced tax credits are not extended. But, it varies a lot from person to person. Our calculator illustrates the change by income, age, family size, and zip code. www.kff.org/interactive/...

The donors with employees in Arizona include tech firms, the nation’s largest railroad and a prominent defense contractor.

As I’ve explained: one of the best ways to protect your heart health is to keep up with your Covid and flu vaccinations. Don’t listen to antivaccine activists they don’t care about you or your family www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

By the time the Louisiana state health department issued a press release, 42 people had been hospitalized and two infants had died in the outbreak. This is the future of public health in the US under RFK Jr.

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines. Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

I had muted "Charlie Kirk" for several weeks and actually forgot about this. Here's the transcript when he takes the 5th over and over and over again. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

SCOTTSDALE: The City Council will be discussing a proposed Charlie Kirk Memorial on TUESDAY. They are not officially taking public comments, but I still emailed the Mayor and City Council to let them know I do NOT support a monument for such a divisive figure. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Dear God. I’m never gonna have to come up with a NEW blog post again. I can just dust off the same ones I wrote 8 years ago and change the date.

Casey Means, a MAHA leader and RFK Jr. ally, is appearing before the Senate tomorrow for her confirmation hearing. Our podcast episode today starring @laurenweberhp.bsky.social dives deep into her history www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Governor Katie Hobbs (D, Queen) of Arizona is taking steps to help food banks as Republicans deny SNAP nutrition benefits to children. We still need to support our local food banks if we have the capacity to do so.

🚨The ACA Marketplace is open for window shopping, and as we feared, premiums skyrocketed. A couple in Dover, NH in their early 60s making $85,000 would be ineligible for ACA tax credits, raising their yearly premiums by an estimated 190% from just over $7,000 to almost $21,000.

Window shopping is now open on healthcare.gov.   Find your plan—and if you don’t think you can afford it anymore, tell Republicans to work with Democrats to reopen the government and address skyrocketing health care premiums.

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found. 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

We estimate the average ACA enrollee will see their out-of-pocket premium increase by 114%. But, it will vary a lot based on age, income, family size, and zip code. I'd be interested in what you're seeing if you're an ACA enrollee and log on to the marketplace. Please reply here.

📣 GOOD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is LIVE! BAD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is live. acasignups.net/25/10/29/goo...

Also, I've spent YEARS explaining to people how marginal tax rates work (no, earning $1 more putting you into the next higher tax bracket does NOT mean you *lose* money due to being taxed at the higher rate on your entire income)... ...only to have the Subsidy Cliff *actually* work that way.

‼️ the monkeys were maligned! ‼️

I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

*taps 2017 sign*

JFC. Scottsdale, Phoenix, Fountain Hills. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Casey Means is a wellness influencer & unqualified opportunist who will face the Senate on Thursday. She should be called out on her conflicts, pseudoscience, & extremism, along with her weird scammer brother. She should not be confirmed. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-means-to...

(sigh) It wasn't a lot of fun to put together this year, but here it is: My official 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment Period Tip Guide. Twelve important tips to keep in mind before you #GetCovered (some of which are even more important this year) acasignups.net/25/10/27/slo...

A vaccine schedule should be published by Jan 1, and Vaccines for Children – which provides vaccines to 52% of children in the US – depends on it, @kevinault.bsky.social said. “All the vaccines for children and to some extent adults are at risk if that job does not get done in the next 2.5 months."

RFK Jr. will eliminate as many vaccines as he can. Every step he takes at the CDC is in service of this aim, as well as undermining public health infrastructure overall. He cannot tolerate scientists who know more than he does, so they must go. Another great piece by @melodyschreiber.com.

The meaningful work:

Trumps policies will limit the number of foreign-born doctors coming to our country, while also limiting the number of American born people who can afford to go to med school, and limiting the amount of money med schools can make by cutting research dollars and limiting international students. MAHA?

In Chicago, a federal agent pointed a gun in a combat veteran's face and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal,” per court docs. It's another alleged violation of a federal judge's order Background www.allrisenews.com/p/gregory-bo... Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the greatest cons achieved by the “wellness” industry is convincing their marks that it’s a grassroots group that really, really cares about them. They don’t. They make fat stacks of cash by lying to their customers and selling them remedies that are at best useless and at worst harmful.

What was life really like before vaccines? The story of what happened to 8-year old George Williams in August 1852 gives us a glimpse. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

In 2012, my mom retired from being an early childcare teacher finally earning her goal salary, $25k. I remember my college costing $2,000 more a year than her annual salary. Trump's administration has taken away every single program I used to get out of poverty. www.uclawsf.edu/admissions/f...

Many of the people involved in groups pushing anti-science bills have built lucrative careers on their stance and benefited from the millions of dollars that flow through the movement.

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

Voice actors from Netflix's hit "K-pop Demon Hunters" stopped for a meal at a family-owned Korean restaurant in metro Phoenix in a "wild moment."

Many of the elements of the food safety and security OpEd I wrote and which was rejected can now be found in Defend Public Health’s IHAT report. “Improving the health of Americans together requires…expanding, not defunding, programs that increase access to healthy food, including SNAP…”