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Internist (MD) / street medicine & community oriented primary care for people experiencing homelessness / new dad Musician / artist on the side

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The hatefulness of creating and sustaining a news network with the goal of lying to a population (like directly to their face) every single day for 30 years is actually astounding. #foxnewschannel

20.10.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just hate the way our society views the homeless. I’ve been homeless before and that shit ain’t easy to get out of. Ppl aren’t on the street bc they want to be. They’re not less human than you. And you could easily find yourself out there in today’s world. Have some compassion.

17.09.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1402    πŸ” 378    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 32

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

17.09.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15159    πŸ” 5977    πŸ’¬ 234    πŸ“Œ 139

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today and claimed that Dr. Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC in protest of RFK Jr.’s destruction of public health, refused to send CDC money to Texas in the midst of a measles outbreak.

I do not believe RFK Jr. for a nanosecond.

07.09.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 458    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5

COVID killed at least 1.1 million people in the US (likely an undercount).

COVID vaccines saved at least 3.2 million lives in the US in the first two years alone.

Completely unacceptable RFK Jr is restricting vaccine access when he clearly has no idea how COVID or vaccines work.

04.09.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 904    πŸ” 298    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 3

I think about this often. Prevention so good people forget what they wanted prevented.

04.09.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œproblem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

04.09.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26821    πŸ” 7841    πŸ’¬ 582    πŸ“Œ 459

Honestly RFKJr is so often wrong about things he’s read that I question if he has any reading comprehension whatsoever.

04.09.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RFKJ: Anybody can get the booster. We don’t recommend it.

Warren: if you don’t recommend it, people can’t get it.

RFK: I’m not taking it away. Most Americans will be able to get it for free. I’m not going to recommend drugs for which there is not clinical data.

THERE IS TONS OF CLINICAL DATA.

04.09.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 997    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 20

Kennedy continues to claim that vaccines aren’t adequately tested.

He is a liar. They are the most thoroughly tested intervention of all.

04.09.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4630    πŸ” 1170    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 26

Best of all, this administration is keen on making sure MDs won’t be eligible for public service loan forgiveness. (My wife and I combined have ~$500k debt).

29.08.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resident doctors are being exploited.

They’re working 70 or 80 hours a week and trying to pay off student debts with totally inadequate salaries.

The good news is that they are forming unions and fighting back. I stand with them.

29.08.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1413    πŸ” 249    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 8
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Kennedy’s attack on public health must be stopped The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanageme...

RFK Jr must resign (but won’t because this administration actively seeks the death of objectivity and truth)

29.08.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was homeless. Trump's plan to criminalize people like me won't make you safer. Housing First is a development-first approach that offers a permanent solution. And 'Trump ends homelessness in four years' has a nice ring to it.

Rob Robinson’s story shows how quickly job loss can lead to homelessnessβ€”our latest research confirms this is common.

Decades of evidence support proven solutions like housing + services for those who need themβ€”not sweeps or arrests.

Read his op-ed
buff.ly/ywjtPJY
Read study
buff.ly/1k6qZBd

29.08.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, White House Says

Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s β€œwords can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...

28.08.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11307    πŸ” 4122    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 165
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I absolutely love the FEARLESS Dr. Peter Hotez!!!!!

28.08.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 8270    πŸ” 2187    πŸ’¬ 308    πŸ“Œ 79

Hi, immunologist here:

(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)

RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can β€œsee in kids faces that they have inflammation”

That’s NOT how immunology works.

He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.

28.08.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 22515    πŸ” 6676    πŸ’¬ 679    πŸ“Œ 227

It’s frustrating because chronic stress has real implications down to the cellular level, but he has none of the foundation to understand the problem and is unhinged. Also stop looking at children all the time

29.08.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade.

We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration.

History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.

28.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2793    πŸ” 585    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 11
CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With β€˜Fired’ Carved Into It

CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With β€˜Fired’ Carved Into It

CDC Director Arrives At Office To Find Dead Deer With β€˜Fired’ Carved Into It

28.08.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2182    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 13
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BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(πŸŽ₯ AP)

28.08.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10616    πŸ” 3427    πŸ’¬ 170    πŸ“Œ 248
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Work requirements: have not been shown to increase employment, punish the working poor, restict care, encourage Medicaid churn, employ expensive work monitoring, and will tens of thousands of Americans annually

Medicare for All is cost-efficient, humane, and a prevention focus healthcare system.

27.08.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

None of them see it as an achievement. In fact, their piss poor and deadly response to the pandemic led scientists to call them out. Now they are attempting to punish scientists for their insolence.

26.08.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...

🚨🧡My latest:

As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.

The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

25.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 451    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 37

There is no path to better healthcare that doesn’t lead here. #MFA

25.08.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 377    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

He believes that because that is what he would do

25.08.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like a sentient stormtrooper helmet

21.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

19.08.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6797    πŸ” 3469    πŸ’¬ 258    πŸ“Œ 239
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Novo Halves Ozempic Price to $499 a Month for Those Paying Cash Novo Nordisk A/S is slashing the cost of Ozempic for cash-paying patients after the diabetes shot became the poster child for high US drug prices.

Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget.

Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make.

The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

19.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 10187    πŸ” 3008    πŸ’¬ 499    πŸ“Œ 167

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