Andrew Goldstein

Healthcare Workers for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social let's go!

French fries, cooked in beef tallow vs. avocado oil, the true American culture war

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026 The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.

Fascism is killing public health.

Would love a great new candidate for my district! But a billionaire-supported Abundancebro with a thin resume and no real plans other than self-promotion seems like a terrible step down from Nadler.

Envisioning and Launching DPH State Community Organizing Teams The people's health is under direct assault by the Federal Government. If we do not defend the programs, policies, care, and communities, who will? Defend Public Health is standing up and fighting ba...

Defend Public Health (DPH) is standing up and fighting back.

Join DPH on August 5, at 5pm ET to discuss and co-design how we will build DPH State Teams.

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Plans to test prior authorization in traditional Medicare are deeply troubling Preauthorization is about to enter the lives of many seniors who have chosen traditional Medicare over MA, write former CMS Administrator Don Berwick and health policy expert Andrea Ducas.

Prior authorizations sound "rational" but are a bureaucratic mess.

They create frustration that reduces even care we all agree is appropriate.

And avoidance, delays, and interruptions of needed care is harmful and deadly.

From Don Berwick + @andreaducas.bsky.social:

If only there was a billionaire genius enough and hilarious enough to do this.

Projectors playing the South Park episode on buildings in every town across the country including on every federal and Trump building...

How states can mitigate Trump’s Medicaid cuts – and set their health care systems on a better path States are unlikely to fully neutralize the Medicaid cuts — but they have tools to scuttle the Trump administration's efforts.

"Although states cannot fully neutralize the impending Medicaid cuts, they have tools to scuttle the Trump administration’s efforts. Reining in excessive prices allows states to sustain Medicaid funding and even increase federal dollars flowing into the state."

Will you hire Colbert?

This far right, McCarthyism bullshit by Columbia is a new low from an already very low place.

As an alum, I tell anyone considering training or working at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social to stay away from this place of moral and academic rot.

Via @columbiabds.bsky.social

Oh no, alpha gal?

Not just young people!

I spoke with a few dozen of my Jewish neighbors in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who opposed Cuomo and supported Mamdani.

Some were moral clarity voters, others wanted a Democratic party that was fresh and energetic. Either way, it was great to see!

“I don’t want to be taxed $622 per year for roads. I want the freedom to pay twice that to profiteering private road companies, even if that means surprise bills and literal gatekeeping. No more communist roads!”

Stephen Colbert do a late show on @zeteo.com?

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

Cherish the people who can experience (and create!) beauty despite all the horror! www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...

When @corybooker.com did the longest filibuster in history, he said:

"This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right; it’s right or wrong”

Months later, here he is, doing a photo-op with a perpetrator of genocide.

Words and deeds matter, and when they don't align, we see you!

Why are dozens of state leaders calling for an investigation into the firing of 2 UH pediatricians? The story of the termination of two University Hospitals pediatricians has made its way to the State House.

Reinstate these pediatricians who were fired for union organizing!

An empire in decay?! Would an empire in decay have accomplishments like this!?! Heroes like this?!?!

Acts and omissions are morally equal.

So while I’m appalled by what Republicans just did cutting Medicaid and more, I’m actually equally appalled by the powerful people and orgs who could have won this very winnable fight, but who utterly failed to even mount the kind of response that was needed.

Medicaid cuts will hurt all American children — not just those publicly insured “Cutting Medicaid will affect all children through a large toll on pediatric health systems,” writes a pediatric ICU physician.

Not on Medicaid? These cuts could still affect you.

– Your hospital closes
– Your hospital closes some services
– Your hospital is understaffed
– Your nurses and doctors are burnt out
– Your wait time is longer
– Your insurance rates go up

Trump’s Budget Bill Is Most Unpopular Move Yet, New Poll Shows Donald Trump’s budget bill is underwater in voter approval polls.

This whole administration is “pump and dump” but for politics

NYT: "Should (or Could) Trump replace Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial?"

Biden, Harris, Walz, Martin, Jeffries, Schumer, and Pelosi, too.

Obama must endorse Zohran Mamdani if he cares about:
– party unity
– bringing in young voters
– bringing in working class voters
– winning against Trump and other fascists

Pictured is a filing from the National Labor Relations Board website showing a petition for certification of a labor organization as the representative of a collective bargaining unit. The employer is AHMC Whittier Hospital Medical Center located in Whittier, California. There are 115 employees in the proposed bargaining unit made up of All full-time, regular part-time and per diem Technical employees, including Cardio Tech I; Cardio Tech II; Cardio Technician Lead; Lead Cardio Tech l; CT Tech; GI Lab Tech; Lead Surgical Technician; Lead Ultrasound Tech; Licensed Vocational Nurse; Medical Laboratory Technician; Pediatrics Subacute LVN; Radiology Tech; Radiology Tech Lead; Radiology Tech/PACS Coord; Respiratory Tech Lead; Respiratory Technician; Special Procedures Tech; Surgery Technician 1; Surgery Technician 2; Lead MRI Tech; MRI Tech; and Ultrasound Tech, currently located at 9080 Colima Rd, Whittier, CA 90605

NEW: 115 healthcare workers in California are unionizing with @nuhw.org

Patients should ‘vote with their feet’ if UH continues punitive response to unionization efforts UH leadership needs to be held accountable for its shameful attempts to stifle physician unionization efforts. If UH does not change course, its tax-exempt status should be challenged, and its patient...

“Patients should ‘vote with their feet’ if UH continues punitive response to unionization efforts”

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god damn he's cooking

N.Y. Senator 'Misspoke' When She Falsely Claimed Zohran Mamdani Condoned 'Global Jihad' New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office walked back her suggestion that the New York mayoral nominee had supported “global jihad.”

You misspeak a word or a phrase or maybe a claim.

You don't misspeak a many minutes long rant.

That's you doing a bad thing which you now understand to be wrong and regrettable and you'd like to apologize.

Shame on you @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social

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