Kunjali Padhya, MD FACG

LOUDER

@jbpritzker.bsky.social

Fall 2025 Government Shutdown: What You Need to Know - American College of Gastroenterology Congress has until Sept. 30th to pass a funding bill and avert a government shutdown.

Federal Government Shutdown Update

ACG members, here's what you should know:
✔️Medicare claims processed, with delay
🚨Telehealth restrictions are back
⚠️NIH grants may be affected
📣Updates from ACG to come

Read more: https://gi.org/2025/10/01/fall-2025-government-shutdown-what-you-need-to-know/

The famous unicycling Darth Vader on a bridge in Portland. He is playing flaming bagpipes.

War ravaged Portland

There is an increase of federal agents in Portland. We did not ask for this. We do not need this. And we certainly will not be divided by this. We stand united in our values and reject this egregious abuse of power.

👏🏼

This has maybe been the most uninformed and dangerous “health” press conference held by the U.S. government in my lifetime.
 
Don’t listen to Trump or RFK Jr. when it comes to vaccines, Tylenol, or anything having to do with your health—talk to your doctor.
 
My god.

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

@thepressbox.bsky.social

@mikegolicjr.bsky.social

Wait I actually did finish it in one sitting

Photo of overseas shipping containers stacked on top of each other. There is yellow tape all over the graphic that says "Tariffs."

How are Trump's economic policies impacting you?

Let me give you a hard example. 🧵

Only one for the rest of your life, Oreo or Reese’s?

LIFE GOALS

1. Raise happy children
2. Be old dude at grand rounds who falls asleep

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

(1/2)

Alfred Molina lololol

Northwest rural and tribal public broadcasters brace for possible federal cuts In rural communities and tribal lands, federal dollars often pay for the only local reporting available and fund broadcast equipment for the Emergency Alert System.

If you're wondering how cuts to public broadcasting would most affect the Pacific Northwest, it's going to be in our Indigenous serving stations and rural stations. These are vital communications in news deserts. @anomalily.net covers it all.

The Senate is voting TODAY on cuts to PBS, rural radio, and so much more.

It's local journalism, lifesaving emergency alerts, and quality educational programming for our kids.

Public media is free for everyone—let's protect it.

I will be voting NO.

No playing Spanish-language music: Many immigrants say they have new rules for driving As the Trump administration's crackdown continues, traffic stops have become increasingly important tools of enforcement. It has led many immigrants to take alternate modes of transportation.

As the Trump administration's crackdown continues, traffic stops have become increasingly important tools of enforcement. It has led many immigrants to take alternate modes of transportation.

YouTube video by Live Heavy Music Weird Al Yankovic - Live - You Can Call Me Al- Pine Knob Amphitheater - Clarkston, MI 2025

As a reminder: There’s still joy in the world.

Here’s “Weird Al” Yankovic singing “You Can Call Me Al” at Pine Knob last week.

youtu.be/TW4nsoiR_xs?...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

An illustration of an anthropomorphic cat lying wide-eyed and stiffly on its back in bed, wearing red pajamas. The cat appears anxious or troubled, staring upward with a blank expression. The bed has a yellow blanket and purple frame, and the floor beneath shows a patterned rug. The image has a humorous and relatable tone, often used to depict sleeplessness or overthinking.

mood

Toto in a grey Mercedes logo driver's hat and a black rain jacket looking cozy in his headset, another individual behind him with the collar up, nose poking through the zipper gap and only eyes visible

Toto 😂

OpenEvidence is generally very good, but it's occasionally horrifically wrong

One place it falls down a lot is drug allergy (where it's often too conservative)

There are NO absolute contraindications to acetylcysteine for acetaminophen OD

Reported "allergy" = anaphylactoid rxns... (#1/3) #EMIMCC

The Democratic Doctors Caucus gathered outside Speaker Johnson’s Office to tell the American people the truth that House Republicans don’t want you to know: Medicaid cuts will kill Americans.

Today, USAID shuts down.

Experts say this could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030—including 4.5 million babies and children under 5.

Let’s not forget, Trump recently let a warehouse full of food aid rot rather than feed the hungry.

This isn’t America first. It’s America heartless.