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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Needs a Spine Implant A recent exchange revealed a troubling lack of political courage—but the job practically demands it.

She didn’t finish residency, she doesn’t have an active license

And in her confirmation hearing, she couldn’t give a straight answer on vaccines

Is this who we want to be Surgeon General? www.thebulwark.com/p/casey-mean...

So honored to be a colleague of @markhertling.bsky.social

And so excited to read his new book, sneak peak here:

Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Needs a Spine Implant A recent exchange revealed a troubling lack of political courage—but the job practically demands it.

NEW for @thebulwark.com

I wrote about the distinguished history of the U.S. Surgeon General…

The 1964 smoking report, Koop on AIDS in the 1980s…

And all the reasons to believe Casey Means is nowhere near qualified for the job www.thebulwark.com/p/casey-mean...

How to Eat An Elephant The essential plan to save America by persuading voters to discard MAGA into the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last.

I'm not sure anybody has spent as much time studying -- or thought as carefully -- about the rise of MAGA as @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Now she's written on book on what to do about it

It's called How to Eat An Elephant

You can pre-order here static.macmillan.com/static/smp/h...

We Are Eating the Earth From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the f...

Grateful to @mikegrunwald.bsky.social for writing The Breakdown while I was on vacation

And highly recommend his latest book, We Are Eating the Earth

Smart and original, and sure to challenge you no matter what your political priors www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...

RFK Jr.’s Junk Science Diet His MAHA ideas about food are built on some of the same lies as his antivax campaign.

RFK Jr’s food agenda doesn’t get the same scrutiny as his vaccine agenda

Here’s why it should, according to @mikegrunwald.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-ken...

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?

Trump says his prescription drug deals will give Americans the lowest prices in the world.

@citizencohn.bsky.social explains why the reality is far more limited, and why the policy may be distracting from much bigger changes to health care.

Thank you Bulwark community! You raised more than $60,000 raised for Second Harvest Heartland, feeding more than 180,000 families in need in Minnesota.

Our friends there still need help. ICE is still active in their communities. Help feed families affected by the ICE siege.

*Brutal but absolutely fair and accurate
*Gives a new meaning to "special government employee"
*Yeah, thats her husband listening to all of this

CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota: Part 2 At a White House press conference last Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance, newly tasked with leading a war on fraud, announced that “we have decided to temporarily halt” $259 million in federal matc...

As promised my colleague Andy Schneider with a *must read* blog taking a deep dive into the Trump Admin's latest unprecedented effort to block federal #Medicaid funding in order to punish Minnesota. A few key takeaways to follow (1/x): ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/03/02/c...

It really is crazy how exceptionally disordered this whole thing is. This is what happens when you have a mentally deteriorating old man as president that can be easily manipulated by those around him

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

No, Trump Didn’t Make Historic Progress on Drug Prices Go ahead and guess which president did.

Trump wants to make his prescription drug deals a focus of the midterms

Here's what he's not telling you about them

NEW at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trump-d...

Yep. Funding is about a year late for a post doc program that was supporting one of my fellows. An award already made, but no dollars released. Also hearing similar things from faculty about R01s.

This story from @michaeldgreen.phd is way too common at the Trump/Bhattacharya NIH. Program staff can't give grantees clear answers; they don't have them. That is the MO: provide intentionally ambiguous guidance under threat of retaliation, creating an environment where staff over-comply out of fear

"She's got two degrees from Stanford. She knows what the studies say. But she's close with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and would be working for him." Which one do you think would win out?

@citizencohn.bsky.social on the Casey Means hearing

Behind the MAHA Veil It's not about transparency or choice. It's not even about "natural health." It's about making everyone else take their quack cures.

Some 🔥🔥🔥 for MAHA from @jvl.bsky.social

www.thebulwark.com/p/behind-the...

The Trump ‘Affordability’ Pivot That Never Came In his record-breakingly-long SOTU, the president spent more time talking about Venezuela than prices.

No, you didn't miss the affordability pivot

Latest from @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trump-...

“There is really good reason to think that any savings from rolling back all of these pollution limits would be more than offset by the higher cost of medical bills and lost productivity from people getting sicker and dying earlier.” RFK Jr. is on board with it, too.

An Ignominious Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body Millions will lose health insurance, but at least all those struggling Americans in the top 1 percent will get a big tax break.

Tonight Trump bragged about the OBBB

That legislation included the largest Medicaid cut in history

10 million expected to lose insurance

A refresher: www.thebulwark.com/p/an-ignomin...

Fears of polio resurgence as US vaccine adviser questions need for childhood shots Survivors say US healthcare system not ready for new cases – ‘the only thing to fix polio is the polio vaccine’

Every time I write about measles, experts warn that polio is next.

But it's been so long since we had polio outbreaks, there are very few doctors who even know how to treat its long-term health issues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Spanberger has substance and gravity. Light years from Katie Britt in her kitchen, remember that?

The stock market and TrumpRx Trump's SOTU address will tout his big wins on lowering drug prices. Don't believe it.

Pretty you’re going to hear Trump boast that he’s made massive progress on drug prices

Here’s the real story, from @gooznews.bsky.social — who literally wrote the book on that subject gooznews.substack.com/p/the-stock-...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: @petebuttigieg.bsky.social is joining us on tonight's SOTU livestream with @timmiller.bsky.social to react to Trump's speech

Oh lord, it's happening again. But this time you can watch it live with us.

Join Sam, Tim and a host of special guests as we livestream Trump's State of the Union.

Tune in at 8:50 PM ET on YouTube and Substack.

American Women Dominated the Winter Olympics Mikaela Shiffrin. Alysa Liu. The U.S. women's hockey team. And that's just the start.

The female stars of Team USA were the story of the 2026 Games. slate.trib.al/BrWaYXx

Like I said, I haven't gone deep enough on the substance to trust my opinion

But I've known @mikegrunwald.bsky.social a long time and, well, he's usually right

Also you should buy his book www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...

Inside the Church That Preaches ‘Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand’ Evangelical pastor Douglas Wilson wrote that men “conquer” and women “surrender.” Christ Church survivors are starting to speak out.

In the midst of the Epstein files revelations, this is the guy who Trump's defense secretary invites in to the Pentagon for an official U.S. government-endorsed religious service:

(warning that story contains details of child sexual abuse and rape)

www.vice.com/en/article/i...

Very interesting story here -->