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Also, for many, many reasons, home care is sometimes not an option. And facility space is already way, WAY too limited.

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?

This will, however, allow the senior memory home worker, the nurse administering mom's chemo, or the neonatologist or janitor working in the NICU w/your already critical newborn bring in diseases they can't fight off.

If successful, this will usher tragedies into the lives of all our families. 5/5

AND it's UNNECESSARY in Arizona for school children. We have medical exception (good), and "religious and personal beliefs" exceptions. You sign a paper that says you don't want your kids to be vaccinated, and the school has to let them in anyway, health of the other kids be damned. 4/

To be clear: medical ethics already prohibit medical professionals from TREATING a patient who is capable of making their own decisions against their will (or their caregiver). So this is not a "medical freedom" bill. Its *only* conceivable application is against vaccine requirements. 3/

Bill tracking in Arizona - HCR 2056 (57th-2nd-regular legislative session) - FastDemocracy medical mandates; right to refuse

Information on the proposed constitutional amendment, HCR's supporters, legislators who don't want more measles encephalitis (brain swelling) in babies, and news/opinion pieces are available here. 2/

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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.

Bill tracking in Arizona - HCR 2056 (57th-2nd-regular legislative session) - FastDemocracy medical mandates; right to refuse

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.

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

Letter to FTC: Investigate Casey Means' Potential Violations of Influencer Marketing Standards - Public Citizen February 4, 2026 Chris Mufarrige Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580…

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)

Opinion | Casey Means' Cringey Senate Hearing Should Sink Her Surgeon General Bid The nominee revealed her fundamental confusion between individual healthcare and public health

“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.

Fewer new moms are dying in Colorado – naloxone might be one reason why The opioid reversal drug is distributed directly to new moms at many of Colorado’s birthing hospitals.

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 )

Stephanie does such important public health reporting. Thank you @stephanieinnes.bsky.social