Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

CoC Accreditation Is Becoming More Accessible to Rural Hospitals CoC accreditation addresses disparities in rural cancer care by offering tools for program development and data monitoring.

Only 7.9% of rural hospitals (excluding critical access hospitals) in the US are CoC-accredited, compared to 35% of urban hospitals.

This article describes favorable approaches to achieving accreditation for rural hospitals. 🏥

Utah…

Essentially, Hegseth and his brother (high level advisor at DHS) are trying to bully the US military into participating in immigration crackdowns.

Basically, prepare for more LA-style invasions in cities near you. But also learn carefully from how the city responded, it worked!

I just realized I owe Janette Sadik-Khan a huge thank you for developing NYC’s Summer Streets program and leading the creation of the Citi Bike program. She made my ride yesterday possible on both counts. And based on the vast number of people I saw out riding, I’m not alone @jskstreet.bsky.social

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

Welcome lunch for our new fellows @utah.edu

#flashtheU #flashtheUFriday

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

In a new episode of @acsjacs.bsky.social‬ #JACSOperativeWord, @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social‬ is joined by Drs. Brett Johnson and Clifford Ko.

They discuss quality improvement outcomes from initial site visits across ACS accreditation programs and success after remediation.

🎙️: buff.ly/D3O0AG3

Finally conquered a problem I've been wrestling with for a few hours now. Sad that no one here got it when I shouted:

"Victory is mine, victory is mine. Great day in the morning, people, victory is mine...Bring me the finest muffins and bagels in all the land."

Sigh.
@bradleywhitford.bsky.social

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

The #UCSDSurgery Research Symposium brings @ucsandiego.bsky.social and @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social surgical scientists together to share their work. To understand the importance of surgical science, we asked researchers what they hope the impact of their research will be #BehindEveryBreakthrough

this is not legal advice but there are like twenty circuit court cases holding that you do in fact have a first amendment right to record the police

4 Democrats didn’t vote and another 3 Democratic seats are vacant due to member deaths

Four Democratic absences (Correa, Beatty, Randall and Norcross) and the deaths of Grijalva, Turner and Connelly left the Democrats down 7 votes as the bill passed by 2.

Two Republicans also didn’t vote.

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Expect to see a lot more empty Silicon Valley hype purporting to be the game-changing science that our fascist liberators promise will be the result of dismantling federally-funded science and academia.

There will be many more "direwolves" and no actual direwolves in our future

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”

--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.

We the People.

In the latest @acsjacs.bsky.social‬ #JACSOperativeWord, Drs. Todd Heniford and Alexis Holland from the Carolinas Medical Center join host @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social‬.

They discuss their study on the long-term maintenance of preoperative weight loss before hernia surgery.

🎙️: buff.ly/QUfN6yG

CONCLUSION Plaintiffs have established a likelihood of success on the merits for their claims that Defendants acted arbitrarily and capriciously by purporting to terminate the VPPP Agreement in the February 19 Letter except for the portion of Plaintiffs' argument resting upon Defendants' failure to perform a subsequent NEPA review. Plaintiffs have adequately shown that they would be irreparably injured absent an injunction, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest support an injunction. Because each factor weighs in favor of a preliminary injunction, Plaintiffs' motions for a preliminary injunction are GRANTED. Consistent with the above findings of fact and conclusions of law, the Court issues the following injunction:

Defendants Sean Duffy, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, Gloria M. Shepherd, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the Federal Highway Administration, the United States Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration as well as all persons identified under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2), including all of Defendants' respective officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys, and all other persons who are in active concert or participation with any of the foregoing, are enjoined from taking any agency action founded on the February 19, 2025 letter from Secretary Duffy to Governor Hochul purporting to terminate the VPPP Agreement and rescind federal approval for New York's Central Business District Tolling Program, including any action to enforce compliance with or implement (1) the February 19 Letter, (2) Defendants' 108 Case 1:25-cv-01413-LL Document 132 Filed 05/28/25 Page 109 of 109 purported termination of the VPPP Agreement, or (3) Defendants' purported termination of the Tolling Program. For the avoidance of doubt, Defendants are enjoined from taking any of the "compliance measures" set forth in the April 21, 2025 Letter including withholding federal funds, approvals, or authorizations from New York state or local agencies to enforce compliance with or implement (1) the February 19 Letter, (2) Defendants' purported termination of the VPPP Agreement, or (3) Defendants' purported termination of the Tolling Program. The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to close Dkt. Nos. 82 and 88. SO ORDERED. Dated: May 28, 2025 New York, New York LEWIS J. LIMAN United States District Judge

BREAKING: Trump administration's effort to stop NYC's congestion pricing is blocked, as Judge Lewis Liman, a Trump appointee, issues a 109-page opinion granting a preliminary injunction to the challengers defending the congestion pricing program.

Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A reminder…this is all over Trump’s false claim that CBS edited an interview with Kamala Harris to make her look better.

It was the standard kind of editing all news magazine shows engage in and have always engaged in.

Marco Rubio literally had a student kidnapped off the street for co-authoring an oped criticizing her university.

And now he's complaining about censorship?

16 States Sue Trump Over $1.4 Billion in Science Cuts

“Sixteen states sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, asking a federal court to block cuts in programs and funding for the National Science Foundation that they argue are critical to maintaining the United States’ position as a global leader in science, technology, engineering and math.”

Rubio says US will start revoking visas for Chinese students U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States will start revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.

“Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the United States will start revoking visas of Chinese students…
China has the second highest number of international students pursing higher education in the United States in 2023/2024 with 277,398 students, according to the Institute of International Education.”

oh no MrsAware got one in the mail today

So they want him to do his fucking job. How novel.

🚨 In a stunningly short-sighted move, HHS just canceled its contract with Moderna to test mRNA vaccines for #H5N1 and other pandemic threats.

When the next big outbreak hits, what’s the plan—bleach again?

This will come back to bite us. Hard.
#BirdFlu #PublicHealth #PandemicPreparedness

Hear from JACS Editor-in-Chief @tomvarghesejr.bsky.social
on the upcoming Clinical Congress, hosted here in Chicago, IL!

Learn more about Clinical Congress at facs.org/clincon2025

Apple/EU tariffs, attacks on Harvard…all purposeful mis-directs, that will not stand, from the following:

—GOP tax bill is largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history.

Democrats/media being played.