Jay Schuur, MD

WTAF???

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

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A chart showing October temperatures from 1960 to 1999 58.1 61.1 57.4 61.8 55.0 57.3 56.2 57.2 60.5 57.7 58.9 62.7 53.5 60.2 54.1 59.2 52.9 54.9 54.9 57.3 55.2 54.4 58.5 57.9 618 59.5 58.0 53.8 52.8 58.2 61.9 58.4 54.5 56.0 58.0 616 56.4 568 57.6

I'm finding it low-key unbearable that people are still walking around in shorts in New York City in October.

In the first decades of my life, October temperatures were in the 50s.

What is 3°C going to look like?

Anyone who thinks 3°C heating won't be catastrophic is insane.

Friday evening #bike ride. #wellness

Watching a Jane Goodall documentary. There’s a part where the chimps suffered a devastating polio outbreak in Gombe. The outbreak started in humans.

She and her team vaccinated the chimps because the vaccines save lives.

Unreal that our HHS Secretary is actively trying to convince us otherwise.

Sources: Big Ten mulling $2B private capital deal The Big Ten is in talks about a private capital deal, which includes a 10-year grant of rights extension through 2046, that would infuse at least $2 billion into the league and its schools, sources to...

The BIG Ten is being sold to private equity 😂
What could possibly go wrong?!?
@bigtenplus.bsky.social
www.espn.com/college-spor...

awesome ride!

Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Not April 1st, not @theonion.com. Just another Monday in Trump land

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.

This is what I’ve been reporting on for months. Agencies are taking money and repurposing it against Congressional instructions, and there’s no way to know what they are taking the money from or what they are using it for.

US Readies $20 Billion Rescue to Help Milei Win in Argentina The US plans to extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and is ready to buy the country’s foreign bonds, providing much-needed financial support to President Javier Milei as he tries to regain inv...

Be sure to let everyone know that Donald Trump wants to use $20B in your taxpayer dollars to bail out a foreign country and help their leader win an election.

finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent...

Shocking. The rollback of climate policies of Trump Administration is most systematic, comprehensive, fast, impactful we ever analysed.

Good part: still many forces in USA work towards a zero GHG emissions, can be seen especially here at #ClimateWeekNYC, starting today.

Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Push for Elon Musk’s xAI Data Center In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that inc...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma.

For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

top issue for 2026

Can't believe they don't want to stay in a place that will put them in chains, parade them in front of cameras, then hold them in dirty overcrowded cells for over a week while threatening them and making racist jokes.

I wondered this when announced. How does a company (OpenAI) that is losing money and has relatively small revenue ($12B) pay Oracle $300B over 5 years???
Seems like MANY users have to start paying and a lot of bonds / IPO funds.

He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

The world's oldest and largest iceberg will soon be no more The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting.

It's not as simple as "we are getting dumber." We are seeing a coordinated attack on science and the use of misinformation to target people who are vulnerable to scammers and grifters. This isn't something that's just happening; it's all part of a plan.

If you enjoy our country's amazing outdoors, take 5 min & comment on the proposed gutting of the Roadless Rule.
Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

Or look on the page of outdoors or conservation orgs such as @outdooralliance.bsky.social
action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-1...

AMA statement on Florida ending all vaccine mandates AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, including those required for school attendance, and urges Florida to reconsider.

The AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, and urges Florida to reconsider. This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk. spr.ly/63328ABvBq

Ocasio-Cortez Secures Department of Energy Study On Impact of AI Data Centers on Americans’ Electric Bills September 4, 2025 Press Release The FY 26 Energy and Water Appropriations Act includes a study on demand response and load flexibility, two potential solutions to ease the energy and cost burdens of AI data centers on consumers and prevent blackouts Washington, D.C. - After the House passage of the FY 26 Energy and Water Appropriations Act, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) announced that the appropriations bill included her request to study the impact rapidly expanding AI data centers would have on utility bills for consumers. “Electric bills across the country are already skyrocketing, and increased energy demand from Big Tech data centers may only make it harder for people to afford their electric bills and keep the lights on. I’m glad the Appropriations committee passed our request to study the impact these data centers will have on Americans’ electric bills, as well as potential solutions to take the cost off consumers and prevent blackouts,” said Representative Ocasio-Cortez. In April, Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Representative Kathy Castor (FL-14) led 14 of their colleagues in a letter to the Appropriations Committee asking for the inclusion of the study. Cryptocurrency companies and artificial intelligence bots like ChatGPT, Grok, and Google Gemini are powered by data centers that require massive amounts of electricity to operate. Data centers are estimated to account for 44% of new U.S. electricity demand by 2028, requiring expensive upgrades to the U.S. electric grid and driving up electricity rates. By 2030, electric bills are on track to rise an average of 8% nationwide to cover the costs of expanding the grid to keep up with these data centers. Load flexibility and demand response programs represent one possible solution to minimizing the impacts of new data centers on consumers. These programs enable the facilities to temp…

Excellent news - @aoc.bsky.social has secured a DOE study on the impact of uncontrolled data centre expansionism on electricity bills in the US -->>>

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Fun fact: an enslaved African man named Onesimus taught his enslaver, Cotton Mather, how to innoculate Puritans from smallpox during an epidemic in 1721. He saved an untold number of lives.

amazing!

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

I got out of my shift in the ED today and saw this.
Our jobs in HC are tough. Caring for people who are sick and die takes a toll. The idea that we will have to care for sick children who could have avoided illness through vaccines is truly heartbreaking.
history will not judge these monsters well.

Alaska Produces a Ton of Gas. Soon, Its Biggest City Might Not Have Enough.

"Alaska Produces a Ton of Gas. Soon, Its Biggest City Might Not Have Enough" the downside of relying on fossil fuels"
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

Authoritarianism...never thought I would see it here.