Chandan Devireddy, MD, MBA

“Officer Rose, 33, had two children, and his wife is pregnant with a third. He was just a few weeks from his first anniversary with the department. He had graduated from training in March and had served in the U.S. Marines...”

Second time we’ve read about pregnant widows in two weeks.

Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta

The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.

A maniac paralyzed an entire city sector devoted to public health, knowledge, patient care, & humanism. A CDC federal building is now riddled with bullet holes. A police officer's pregnant wife and kids have lost their family member. How many more casualties will there be on this assault on reason?

A maniac paralyzed an entire city sector devoted to public health, knowledge, patient care, & humanism. A CDC federal building is now riddled with bullet holes. A police officer's pregnant wife and kids have lost their family member. How many more casualties will there be on this assault on reason?

Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta

20 yrs ago, this story would have dominated headlines for a week. Now it's a footnote. Was this individual's anti-vax madness fueled by the same disinformation spewing forth from folks like RFK Jr? And now they're silent? Will we sweep this tragedy under the rug? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

There’s no describing the sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach when getting this text. One police officer hospitalized and rapid rifle fire was possibly directed at CDC? Awful.

Most regular folks don't wake up worrying about institutions. They have more immediate concerns.

But once you live through a period when core institutions fail, you start paying attention, and historical memory is rebuilt for a time.

We're going through one of those moments now.

I’ve been surprised how little anyone outside of (here) is complaining about the destruction of the NIH and thereby academic medical centers. Probably because medical schools are quiet. If they won’t speak up, hard to imagine the average doctor noticing or caring. Pretty devastating

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

Masterclass in confronting disinformation…

DAVID BRANCACCIO: There's a little sweet moment, I've got to say, in a very intense book — your latest — in which you're heading out the door and your wife says what are you doing? I think you say — I'm getting — I'm going to buy an envelope. KURT VONNEGUT: Yeah. DAVID BRANCACCIO: What happens then? KURT VONNEGUT: Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know… And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

Reminds me of this

This is absolutely insane…and being done in your name if you’re a US citizen. There is no excuse being ok with this.

WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner

NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade

CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger

WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!

EPA eliminates its scientific research arm The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

Friday night massacre:

I’m so mad. Shaking fist at the sky mad. Maybe this timeline has Rupert Murdoch somehow appearing as the unexpected hero…but I heavily doubt it

Well, this just fucking sucks.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

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More time for us to score more goals?

In an era of shifting global economic might, the last thing the US should be doing is conceding one of its greatest assets for future growth…our brainpower

Billboard beside road with text that reads: WHEN DID FIRING PARK RANGERS, SCIENTISTS, AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS BECOME A BETTER IDEA THAN SIMPLY TAXING BILLIONAIRES?

We seriously need a crowdfunding campaign to put a billboard up like this everywhere

Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding. Hunters Are Not Happy.

The Bird Banding Lab “has given us something that is the envy of the world,” Ramsey Russell, a duck hunter in Mississippi, said.
Sadly, you can apply this quote to so many federal programs killed by this administration. NIH. CDC. NOAA, etc. Will ducks wake MAGA up? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

Foreign medical residents fill critical positions at U.S. hospitals, but many now face visa issues Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration's travel and visa…

Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training this week were delayed by the Trump administration’s travel and visa restrictions.

The beautiful opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), one of the most colorful species of sea slug, filmed off the coast of California by Aron Sanchez-Baranda.

This pretty much sums up our current political nightmare…

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Condolences to City fans but that was a heck of a Club World Cup match played by Al-Hilal. Not sure that’s how FIFA hoped this would go down!…

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver's summary of Trump's horrible budget bill is a must-see. It's a perfect wrap-up for people who aren't following this very important issue.

There's so much that's terrible in the bill that he couldn't fit everything in, but Oliver gets a lot of it. Highly recommended.

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

“Family members identified the victim as Tustin resident Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines.”

Patriotic Americans denounce masked unidentified Gestapo snatching people off our streets. We are better than this.