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Some good news. The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase. Science for the win.

@catgyoung.bsky.social

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Science is not a popularity contest. Public health is not a popularity contest. People can like him or dislike him. None of that matters. RFK Jr advocates against science and public health. And without true science and public health, people will die.

@greenhousemd.bsky.social

Physicians brace for summer travel season as Alberta tops 800 measles cases | CBC News As summer approaches, Alberta's measles case counts are expected to keep climbing and some experts worry transmission will become even more widespread.

Physicians brace for summer travel season as Alberta tops 800 measles cases #Alberta

'As Stampede comes and as all these different events happen, we're going to have more and more spread'

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Opinion | RFK Jr. Conducts His Vaccine Purge His claims about conflicts of interest proved to be nothing.

“His goal is to eliminate incentives to develop vaccines.”

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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

Kennedy accused ACIP members of serving industry interests over public health. Nothing could be further from the truth. ACIP meetings=live-streamed. All votes & records=fully accessible to the public, &every meeting has a public comment period Members must disclose conflicts of interest & recuse...

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today.

I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.

Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.

One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

RFK Jr. to fire all members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee The HHS secretary announced his plans in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece Monday afternoon.

RFK Jr. is planning to fire all 17 members of the panel that advises the CDC on vaccines.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd has gathered in the streets of Los Angeles, California to peacefully protest against Donald Trump’s American Gestapo (ICE) (Video: Anthony Cabassa)

Don’t look to these extremist justices to save us.

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CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?

All this Russia, Russia, Russia news makes this TV theme song below play in my head. Always been afraid of Russian leaders...

There's a holdup in the Bronx...
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild;
Car 54, Where Are You?

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International Fraud Awareness Week #fraudweek
Don't know about you but I am practically numb to most notices about fraud but a recent text message almost tricked me:

About Fidelity; someone was trying to break in so reach out to the number and link. Checked acct; called Fidelity & reported. Phew

Mass. widower who donated Rockefeller tree has stroke, community asks for cards Earl Albert, who donated a tree to Rockefeller Center in memory of his wife, suffered a stroke. His family hopes he can attend the lighting ceremony.

I am thrilled to be on @bsky.app that promotes kindness after leaving my 2008 choice behind

I want to share this story about the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree & encourage you to send out one extra card this season:
Earl Albert
PO Box 109
West Stockbridge, MA 01266

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You look great! I am an 8-yr cancer survivor, I was a bit shocked by how much being bald affected me. I never lost my sense of humor though. My locks grew back all curly at first.

New to Bluesky. Loving the variety of posts. Was on Twitter from 2008 so it hurt to watch it deteriorate so badly.

Paul Farmer Symposium Accompaniment was central to Dr. Paul Farmer's vision for global health equity. This panel will explore how accompaniment remains vital in advancing global health equity today.

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The 2024 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity - The Audacity of Accompaniment

Hosted by PIH, Harvard Med School, BWH, and Harvard
Harvard Global Health Institute.

Livestream live 1:00 pm EST
Program begins 1:30 pm EST
November 19, 2024

#partnersinhealth

When Healing Hurts: A Doctor’s Struggle with Moral Injury in U.S. Health Care In the winter of 2011, I walked away from fifteen years of training in surgery and psychiatry, working in both rural and urban emergency rooms, and as a private practice psychiatrist, to manage resear...

By way of introduction, this out today. Thanks to Wendell Potter for including #moralinjury in his broader conversations. (Working to get him over here…)

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