Al Lee

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised.

A gift from the content gods.

BREAKING: Elon Musk tries to get Verizon's FAA contract canceled -- so that he can give the $2.4 BILLION contract to his Starlink company

Musk is literally going into the government -- and pocketing billions for himself

MASSIVE conflicts of interest -- 100% ILLEGAL

This is honestly shocking and so extremely disappointing to see. I feel like EM trends conservative but MAGA and this bigotry is the farthest thing from real conservatism.

I haven’t seen this action by #SAEM posted for discussion yet.

Are journals and societies also adjusting or retracting prior research to reflect an executive branch policy « to recognize two sexes, male and female »? Where does it stop?

#medsky #emedsky #emergencymedicine #meded #acep #aaem

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

He’s calling people who receive federal assistance “parasites” while taking $8 million a day from U.S. taxpayers—plus another $400 million on the way for armored Teslas. What a hypocrite. This administration is full of terrible people.

Yet what do they want to do? Ban the environmental justice programs addressing these real health risks because they are "DEI". Deregulate everything that would otherwise provide protection? Destroy education? Takeaway Medicare, Medicaid, Social security, food stamps? It is absolutely ridiculous.

Public health scientists already have a good handle on root causes. Poverty, pollution, stressors, chemicals in our food, lifestyle factors made worse by various disparities, preventable deaths by accidents, addiction, lack of education and health literacy.

RFK Jr. So discouraging & disrespectful of all who have given their lives, attention and energy to advancing science and medicine to HELP people on a large scale. They want to rip all these drugs off the market. Somewhere else in this document it talks about needing to find the root causes.

This is infuriating. And re: "root causes", haven't we all been looking at that? Pollution, poverty, disparities, violence/abuse, what's allowed to be in our food supply, chemicals etc.? Which they want to deregulate further and push policies that will make everything worse.

Thanks for starting this sweet tribute. Happy Valentine's Day to my favorite hospital hallway ride or die too. RIP little buddy.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Trump administration to fire thousands at health agencies The Trump administration is set to eliminate thousands of federal health care jobs Friday, targeting employees across agencies who were hired in the past one to two years.

BREAKING: StatNews reports that more than 5,000 HHS employees across NIH, CDC and other public health and research agencies will be fired this afternoon. www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

The AP provides a model of effective press resistance Credibility is more important than access.

All hail the courage of the @apnews.com. Seriously.

NEW — In an alarming email last night reviewed by me, Coast Guard members learned that 1,135 members' direct deposit account routing information was compromised due to a data breach from unauthorized access.

It was only discovered because an officer “reported anomalous activity” on their account.

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

Yep. Want to cut 2 trillion from Social Security and Medicare, slash SNAP and food aid, give 4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the rich and raise debt ceiling 4 trillion. It's such a grift. From our pockets to theirs!

Hey kids. I'm in my 60s. You've not lived in America when wealthy paid a #FairShare. I have. We led world in:
- schools and education
- protecting our environment
- new highways and transportation
- biomedical science and health care
- LANDED ON MOON SIX TIMES! ~#SharedFacts

Every day I read the news and have to go look for myself because it seems like it has to be a joke.

BREAKING - Democrats CRUSHING special elections

Iowa state Senate - Democrat FLIPPED a Trump+21 seat by 4%

Minnesota state Senate - Democrat outperformed by +20 points

Westchester County NY Executive - Dem outperform +2

The anti-Trump anti-Musk backlash is RISING UP

To be clear, it's not a mistake that grants to train special ed teachers were cancelled. MAGA absolutely considers those to be verboten "DEI," and Silicon Valley considers them contrary to their eugenics project.

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.

I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

And furthermore, point out the fact that Trump's pivot to blaming DEI and Biden wasn't just predictable, it was predicted about twelve hour before the collision.

Trump's playbook is transparent.

And use this slide

Better yet, “Trump politicalizes tragedy during body recovery while signaling he is pressuring investigators to blame his political foes”

If I may, the press: Do not write "Trump blamed DEI." Spell out what he's saying. "Trump blamed women, black people, and other minorities for the mid-air collision." Follow that up with: "He did not specify which black people or women."

Georgia dismissed all members of maternal mortality committee after ProPublica obtained internal details of two deaths | CNN Georgia officials have dismissed all members of a state committee charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women. The move came in response to ProPublica having obtained internal reports detailin...

If you don't investigate, there's no problem, right?