When people start rationing their healthcare bad things happen. Ask anyone who has to pay for insulin. Hell, people already literally die in this country because asthma inhalers still cost $50 with insurance because of corporate price manipulation.

We tried to warn you.

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Discover a Detention Facility Near You: A Community Exercise in Civic Awareness Help build a learning community around detention data. Get hands-on with the newly updated facility numbers at DetentionReports.com and add your own findings and perspectives. austinkocher.substack.com/p/discover-a...

The referenced headline is: Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Funding. This is one of the primary groups studying childhood brain cancers- among the hardest to treat; they need more, not less. Says a lot about this administration’s priorities

Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

Graham Platner is blunt, even proud, about how he’s benefitted from government programs. He went to college on the GI Bill. His healthcare is free—paid for by four tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. "But watching your friends die as the bar to meet for decent healthcare is disgusting.” trib.al/ohYlK9C

A few notes: Even mild cases of covid can age blood vessels by 5 years, increasing risk for heart disease and stroke. Vaccines reduce the effect. Other effects of long covid can strike anyone. Vaccines reduce the risk. Blocking access to vaccines makes us sicker. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

When a top CDC scientist resigns citing eugenicist rhetoric from federal health agencies, everyone should absolutely be paying attention.

A few notes: Even mild cases of covid can age blood vessels by 5 years, increasing risk for heart disease and stroke. Vaccines reduce the effect. Other effects of long covid can strike anyone. Vaccines reduce the risk. Blocking access to vaccines makes us sicker. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social

I think everyone knows this will be bad because it’s going to mean less physicians, less scientists, less new advancements & missed cures for diseases like cancer that may end up killing us. But it’s also going to devastate all of us economically even sooner cause the ROI on these dollars was crazy.

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Historian here, I guess I have to stop teaching how bad slavery was.

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

⚡️As Zelensky travels to Washington for peace talks, Russia strikes Ukraine with ballistic missiles. Russia launched a wave of missile attacks towards Ukrainian cities on Aug. 17, mere hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to meet for peace talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“Trump cuts off Medical Visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer, the right-wing provocateur, freaked out over a video of children from Gaza coming to the U.S. for medical care…” Not pro-life. They don’t care about protecting kids. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

While Putin and Trump trade smiles, russian drones are attacking Ukraine! My blood boils at this vile hypocrisy!

The streets of Anchorage before the meeting between President Trump and Putin in #Alaska. 📷: Ostap Yarysh / Facebook

“this shift in American language puts the U.S. directly in alliance with China, whose diplomats have been campaigning for years to change the diplomatic discourse about human rights.”

“this shift in American language puts the U.S. directly in alliance with China, whose diplomats have been campaigning for years to change the diplomatic discourse about human rights.”

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

It is egregious that RFK Jr requested @annalsofim.bsky.social retraction of this paper because he didn't like the data www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The human rights violations cut from the Trump State Department Human Rights Report read like an admission of crimes.

Historian here this is exactly the Nazi playbook politicize and control the teaching of history and destroy academic freedom and institutions of higher learning.

From @the-independent.com: US cuts to #mRNA research may also stall research on deadly diseases & #cancer. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social shares it will have a profound chilling effect on innovative medical research, we’re being pushed back to a time when diseases devastated communities. More here 👇

The human rights violations cut from the Trump State Department Human Rights Report read like an admission of crimes.

As Trump prepares to meet Putin in Alaska, Kremlin propaganda revives decades-old claims the US state still belongs to Russia.

Trump says twice in this clip that he's going to see Putin in Russia, when they're meeting in Alaska. Is he planning to give Alaska back to Russia? youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?...

Trump says twice in this clip that he's going to see Putin in Russia, when they're meeting in Alaska. Is he planning to give Alaska back to Russia? youtu.be/9uF6wlwGo3U?...

Ru still demands Ukrainian demilitarization, which means Ru wants Ukraine to be a sitting duck for a third invasion. Ru wants all of Ukraine.

RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation

Current & fmr HHS employees have called for RFK Jr.'s resignation. "'Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC’s workforce... CDC offices...closed thru Monday. Employees have been asked to work remotely & **remove CDC stickers & other decor from their vehicles.**" 🛟 Medsky 😷🧪

This was an attack on a federal institution. An attack BECAUSE it is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This was domestic terrorism. Why isn’t it getting more press coverage? Some coverage, not enough. Domestic. Terrorism.

RFK Jr. must resign.

“The shooting was “just the perfect, terrible metaphor for what public health has endured these past six months — and the past six years,” said Katelyn Jetelina, a public health expert who has worked closely with the C.D.C.”

Just a reminder that this is the technology that RFK Jr. wants to crush.🧵

mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses & variants. RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

As starvation bites and famine takes hold, MSF nutrition clinics in Gaza are fast running out of RUTF stock, claims Berbain. But there are broader supply chain concerns. The shuttering of USAID has led to hundreds of thousands of boxes of sachets collecting dust in warehouses around the world.

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

This is evil

Instead of reading the recent piece in @theatlantic.com that misrepresents the history of public health, read this thoughtful and well-researched older piece from the same publication. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...