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Lost my CDC contract after a visit from DOGE. I feel like I’m in the dirt (or TBH eating a pint of ice cream on a couch crying). But here’s the thing: Pushing people down—especially those with heart, purpose, and love for public service—doesn’t mean they stay down. It’s literally against their DNA.

NYTimes adding insult to injury in this tragedy. The “treatment” was for autism, which isn’t a thing, and was being done by someone with no medical training who charges cash for expensive bogus therapies. And now a 5-year-old is dead because of the grift.

USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.

Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

RFK Jr’s long history of conspiracy theories, reckless disregard for public health, and racist, crazy ideology make him among the most dangerous of Trump's cabinet picks. He is unfit to lead our HHS.

I don’t think it’s a refusal. You are correct in that we truly don’t know.

Except… physicians employed by hospitals and IDNs (which is now the majority of physicians) don’t know how much anything costs. We are paid by RVUs earned per patient seen. I absolutely agree that healthcare is too expensive and needs an overhaul, but let’s direct the outrage appropriately.

(This was the actual cover for the May 29, 2017 issue.)

Can @theonion.com please just buy Oklahoma, too?

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

I love this update so much. To alleviate my pre-election anxiety, in late October I wrote 400 postcards to voters in #CA13 to help flip this seat. All the way from deep red Oklahoma to California…

🙋🏻‍♀️ please!

"The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i."

#Measles in Samoa in 2019 - #IDSky + #MedSky. Eighty three children died.

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Hey Ted! 👋🏻

Today, November 25th 2024 is the day we officially learned that justice in America, in fact, does NOT matter. #sad

That’s why yall need to help us out!!

Caroline Kennedy on her cousin Robert Kennedy Jr:

“Bobby Kennedy’s views on vaccines are dangerous. But I don’t think most Americans share them. I grew up with him and I’ve known all of this for a long time and others are just getting to know him.”

The Dose (November 22) Resources that may be helpful, eggs are expensive again, new RSV data, and STIs are declining

Hot off the presses: We @yalesph.bsky.social collaborated w/ @kkjetelina.bsky.social & Your Local Epidemiologist to answer 12 common questions about vaccines. Please read & share!

If you have more q’s, let us know…This is just the beginning 💉🩺🛟🧪
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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Trump’s Nomination of Martin Makary for FDA Commissioner - Reproductive Freedom for All

“Marty Makary is a known anti-abortion extremist who will push the Project 2025 agenda…”

reproductivefreedomforall.org/news/reproductive-freedom-for-all-responds-to-trumps-nomination-of-martin-makary-for-fda-commissioner/

Remember when Michelle Obama tried to help the kids…

Anyone else remember when Dr. Oz said that it was fine for 2–3% of schoolchildren to die?

Yeah, he’s in charge of Medicaid and Medicare now.

Pay attention to Oklahoma.

Bibles in classrooms isn't the big story.

The same legal teams behind the seeding of Dobbs are driving a case to create religious schools fully funded by the public & they've already petitioned the Supreme Court.

Understandably, everyone was focused on the election.

Time for my first debunking thread on Bluesky #MedSky. All the usual misinformation about the #HPV vaccine is in this story.

The HPV vaccine literally prevents cancer

Get it for your teenagers 100%

Even the boys

Don’t listen to grifters jUsT aSkInG qUeStIoNs

It was really disrespectful when Michelle Obama promoted some very basic healthy eating ideas, but RFK pushing raw milk and ivermectin while signal boosting vaccine skepticism is freedom and liberty