??? why is RFK Jr. going to the doctor for a surgery when he could simply eat a variety of weird meats at his injury

Schrodingers war. Simultaneously very complete and just beginning. Fine for a thought experiment. Not ok for actual war 🤦🏻‍♂️

It's all so clear

Green energy is too expensive, amirite

Not 4D chess...

So, it wasn't "immunity debt" after all! Whodathunkit? (I did. We knew from measles that this was a predictable result from viral infection, and the US had very little resembling true lockdowns).

The GOP would rather spend trillions in an unnecessary and unpopular foreign war than a penny on people like us. And I use "like us" liberally. It describes the 99% of us who don't have billions to throw around to keep them in power.

@terrysimpson.bsky.social #medsky

Tired of unqualified hacks running the U.S. public health system? I sure am. Sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do to fight this. But right now, we can write letters to our Senators to oppose Casey Means as Surgeon General to prevent yet another quack from gaining power.

KRAS is the key to defeating not just pancreatic cancer, but also many other fatal adenocarcinomas with origins in many other organs. This is truly groundbreaking stuff that has the power to change and save lives.

This is *really* cool. But PLEASE do not handle bats! Especially if the bat appears sick/is not flying away. There are too many cases of people handling sick bats and then getting, worst case, rabies which is 99.999% fatal.

What a stain on UCSF. High pick me energy from what should be a premiere institution of higher learning.

Man who never had to listen to "no" faces consequences of his choices.

There's a reason we have the vaccines we do folks! It's because the diseases they prevent are actually PRETTY TERRIBLE. Much harder to communicate, get info back then, but these were the diseases out of all of them scientists chose to prevent. It's because they're supremely unpleasant!

Our 1st family vacation was Disneyland last October. It was ONLY possible b/c of the Disability Access Pass. I really hope they don't change the current policy. It's the only way some ppl will get to be a princess & meet Mickey. When you're little, that matters a lot! share.google/xZS6yJ4hnsWj...

Please think carefully before you deploy “home care is less expensive than a facility/institution“ messaging in this moment because the fairly obvious next move from Paragon/HHS/CMS is to say “that’s absolutely right, which is why we have to crack down on facility reimbursement rates”

Is he antivaxx enough *now* for the media to drop the pretense and just call him antivaxx?

AZ's "Freedom to get Sick and Die" HCR 2056 can still be stopped. Write and call your state senators. Let them know that you are pro science, anti disease. 🧵 Contact info is available here: www.azleg.gov/findmylegisl.... 1/

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

I had friends whose parents were in NYC, & we all got updates on the towers falling in an all-school auditorium. And we went back to class. Gen Z and alpha are raised with lockdown drills, and too many have experienced one (or more) shoptings. It's not just hypothetical for the "woke" generations.

This #WomensHistoryMonth, it's important to remember that the disability rights movement would not be where it is today without so many women, ranging from Pat Wright to Judith Heumann to Marca Bristo to Chai Feldblum.

The AZ House passed (by 1 vote) HCR 2056. It now goes to the Senate. If passed, it will go straight to the ballot, so veto. It's an antivaxx provision masquerading as "freedom." The only freedom it protects is the freedom to get preventable disease. fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/...

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

Our Surgeon General nominee doesn’t have a license to practice medicine but does have a pending FTC complaint for failing to disclose her financial relationships the majority of times she promoted (woo) products during the period between Jan 1, 2024-Aug 8, 2025 (from her own financial disclosures)

“Before even getting to her views on public health issues, there is absolutely nothing in Means' background to suggest she would be qualified to serve as surgeon general. No clinical experience, no public health training - just a large social media presence with a sketchy business background”

This. 100%. Their licenses must all be revoked. Forever. They cannot be trusted around patients. This is *not* a close call.

The district courts are putting in the work to make the record. This is really incredible.

What happens when you put vaccine "skeptics" (ANTIVAXXERS) in charge of public health? The reemergence of previously eradicated vaccine preventable diseases. This was ABSOLUTELY foreseeable. Shame on *anyone* not actively speaking out against this. #Momvocate

"It noted that the self-service option includes 10 languages and runs on a newer, AI-driven technology." Brought to you by Amazon. I'm glad we are going to fire a bunch of humans to replace them with robots that can't even use the LLMs they have to use the right language.

AZ representatives, under the lie that it's medical "freedom" would exempt everyone except prisoners and the mentally ill from medical "treatment." They want you to approve it. Don't. #NoHCR2056

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Maternal overdose deaths have dropped 60% in a year — and wider access to naloxone may be the reason. Why doctors say the overdose-reversal drug belongs in every home:

State official absolutely must use the power they have under the Constitution — the power that the framers intended them to have — to prosecute these crimes.

This. Is. Serious.

Judge Bryan in Minnesota has scheduled a combined contempt hearing in morethan two dozen immigration cases for what he says has been widespread defiance of his orders to ensure released detainees are given their confiscated property. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If possible, do *not* go to a Catholic hospital. For anything. Don't give your money to a hospital that bases its procedures on beliefs rather than evidence. And especially don't go there for women's health. (But too many can't avoid it).

Casey Means has never had a license to practice medicine. In addition to not completing her own medical training, she does not have any specialized training in women’s health, endocrinology, pharmacology or toxicology. If she has concerns why hasn’t she done anything besides grift on Instagram?

JJ HOLMES (disability & healthcare advocate): “I asked why Rep. Corey Mills voted for nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts while scoring himself a mega tax break — Fraud isn't my wheelchair, fraud isn't the services that keep me out of an institution at 22." (H/T @maxwellfrost.bsky.social )

This is a horrible Trojan horse of a constitutional amendment to prohibit vaccine requirements for school. It will kill children. If it makes it on the ballot, it'll be on a purely party line vote. Don't fall for it in November. #Momvocate 1/? www.azleg.gov/legtext/57le...

"[Rep.] Gonzales and the rest of the staff then began to ostracize her to try to get her to quit, Aviles told the newspaper. A former staffer confirmed there was a shift in how she was treated." From the same guys who say #MeToo went too far. 🙄

Thanks RFK, Jr. #medsky wapo.st/3ZVEIIl

Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."

Don't vaccinate! Hit yourself in the face with a hammer instead?!?! We live in the dumbest possible timeline.

Of course, it would help if the feds weren't making it harder for professional degrees to get student loans. And if we invested in higher education so people could go into med school w/o being rich, legacy, or up to eyeballs in student loan debt (esp when pedes gets paid much less).

The most "open and transparent" HHS administration in history continues to release information via paywalled news sites. www.wsj.com/opinion/fda-...

One thing to understand is that jackasses like me graduated from law school basically believing that, while nothing like <all this> was realistic in our lifetimes, if it did happen, then our Supreme Court with all its flaws would respond roughly like this judge did, maybe 9-0.

This is not an "unusual" route to CDC approval. It was completely unethical.

This is so important, especially for non speakers. It does NOT mean they don't feel pain or have a higher "pain tolerance."