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Wtf? Gift bags are a huge leap too far.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Fwiw, I cancelled a few weeks ago before all *this* and process was the same then. They didn't change this recently.

You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.

...if the sun explodes, wouldn't that also affect Mars?

Traditional Medicare to add prior authorizations Traditional Medicare historically hasn't required payer pre-approval before patients can access most medications or services, a major perk for enrollees.

The companies doing the prior authorizations will be paid based on how much they save ( how much they deny).

There is so much to dislike about this timeline...
www.axios.com/2025/06/27/m...

Maybe check any still open sessions, mail forwarding rules, malware...

The hits just keep coming thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Also rural hospitals and clinics are screwed.

Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft

NEWS: Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft

The new bill text goes way beyond eliminating @wyden.senate.gov's tax credits for wind and solar.

It actually **TAXES CLEAN ENERGY**

Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.

YouTube video by PettyYou007 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

Keeps popping up in my feed... youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...

Republicans were never going to stop at abortion. They are coming for contraception. Republicans want a politician in every bedroom and exam room in America.

4 ways women are physically stronger than men Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female bodies excel in other areas.

Like reading about this wapo.st/4kMztDe

“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." — 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the US Senate, signed by President Adams

Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.

U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law • Georgia Recorder Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

There's now a 6-week t-bill? Why?

Ew. Just no to the creepy ad with Seal

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?

Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

2/2 so I gotta start all over again and the only pcps supposedly taking new patients either are close to retirement or very very poorly rated.

Dr retired 2020 and last year I finally found a new one (and had to wait 8 no to get in). This year she and most of docs in that hospital system are no longer accepting BCBS ( v. low reimbursement rates)

So reproductiverights.gov no longer exists and we are out of the WHO

Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

Statement on National Security Staff Firings: Trump Implementing the "Vindman Rule"

President Trump’s NSA, Mike Waltz, announced a sweeping directive to terminate all national security staffers loaned from other departments and agencies who serve in apolitical, non-partisan senior staff roles.

I've had luck with Bon Ami ( but hard to find now) and soft scrub. Now trying Dawn+vinegar (jury still out)