Peter Matthews, MD

This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.

"The skin simply starts sloughing off and you become unable to maintain your body temperature, where you also get skin infection....They had not seen cases like that for two decades."

Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...

YouTube video by The New Yorker "Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The referenced movie (Rovina’s Choice) is very moving. It’s only 22 minutes, worth a watch.

Sen. Cassidy says he's "very concerned" about possible hepatitis B vaccine schedule change Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician whose medical practice focused on hepatitis B, said he's "very concerned" about a potential change to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infant...

www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-ca...

Poor Bill Cassidy. Sorry bud you could have prevented this insanity.

Good to see some brave former NIH senior staff members & grantees speaking out in this excellent article by @cohenjon.bsky.social

I salute you all for that!

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Or wait, we could expand Medicaid in all the states to cover more low income people. OR, how about this - reinstate the individual mandate fines to increase the size of the insurance pool thus driving down costs? It’s almost like there are actual ideas out there that the GOP rejects out of hand.

If only the federal government established a plan on the exchanges so people wouldn’t need to pay these mean insurers and there would be downward pressure on costs because of the competition. They could call it a “public option.”

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Trump’s Raids Terrorize Catholics — Pope Leo’s Top Cardinal Calls It an ‘Assault on Millions’ Seminarians are leaving the country, priests worry they could be next, and Pope Leo XIV insists the Church must stand with its most vulnerable faithful.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Pope Leo ally who serves as archbishop of Washington, doesn’t mince words about what’s happening.

“We are witnessing a full-scale governmental assault designed to produce fear among millions.

“It's an instrument of terror.”

Excellent explanation of why these reported NDAs are a very bad sign. Clearly they are intended to put loyalty above one’s oath to the Constitution. No one in government should sign these.

YouTube video by Nick Valencia News 67-year old American citizen left with broken ribs by ICE #breakingnews #iceraids #savedemocracy

This incident is spreading through Chicago running circles. A 67 year old man, driving back from a long run with his friends, is pulled from the car and thrown to the ground by ICE (or BP?) agents because he did... something.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAw...

During the pandemic, he at least had a reason to talk about health and medical issues. People needed leadership, and he mishandled that spectacularly. This time, it’s unclear why he is even talking about these issues! Makes no sense; is it ego or is RFK somehow pressuring him?

It’s another level of corruption to just straight up demand that the government gives him money.

It’s a direct quote bro

So sad, womp womp

The problem is that they are going to believe these obvious lies after hearing them in their Fox/Newsmax bubble

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

“Hepatitas” love it. Not sure if intentional misspellings to prove authenticity or just plain idiocy

WTAF

Cartoon of a RFK Jr. worm climbing out of Trump’s brain

Yesterday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, CMS Director Mehmet Oz, and FDA Director Marty Makary silently flanked the president — complicit in his unscientific claims and pseudoscience agenda.

We're naming and shaming them. They are a public health risk.

Thank you for this preamble to the pod. I’m interested to hear more discussion on the first item, that many of these killers are steeped in gun culture. It’s not the model, or the magazine size, it’s that they are so culturally focused on guns that the gun becomes their means of solving problems.

Sorry, Cassidy does not get to pretend he isn’t complicit in this madness

Russia bombs apartment buildings.

Trump says they missed military targets by mistake.

Russia launches drones into Poland.

Trump says maybe they just got lost.

Trump is Putin’s bitch.

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s Dangerous Designs for Public Health If the president wants to make America healthy again, great. But he shouldn’t expect to do so with Mr. Kennedy at the helm, writes Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The medical community understands that vaccines are safe, effective & have led to the elimination of polio, measles & small pox.

Secretary Kennedy does not.

President Trump must ask for his resignation.

Sign the Petition RFK Jr. Must Be Removed—Before More Damage is Done, Before More Lives are Lost

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Getting hard off renaming DoD Dept of War while simultaneously claiming the mantle of isolationism and promising “no new wars” is the perfect distillation of MAGA.