Dania Palanker

Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas sounds like something from a really bad super hero movie.

Seems apropos that I spent hours embroidering "With fear of our democracy, I dissent" today

Kansas is taking self sufficiency away from trans residents.

Losing the ability to drive in much of the state means losing the ability to get oneself to work, school & medical care. Many will also lose the ability to fly if they don't have a passport or other Real ID.

This is hugely problematic as it will have huge repercussions on the DME industry and, I fear, will really hurt investments in DME research.

My reading is that Medicare isn't stopping claims for DME and that moratorium is on applications for DME suppliers to participate in Medicare—both applications for suppliers that don't currently participate in Medicare and to participating suppliers who have a change in majority ownership.

Trump says "We ended DEI in America" during the #SOTU.

What he means is this administration is working hard to roll back civil rights protections and deny equal opportunity to all.

This person is most excellent

"Ofelia was unable to continue treatment 'because of the stress and disruption' caused by the arrest."

Ofelia was only 16

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

One way to reduce health insurance premiums is to make most prescription drugs over-the-counter so most currently prescribed medication is no longer covered under the prescription drug coverage.

Putting pregnant people's health at risk is hysterical!

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

I'm shocked!

I believe the strategist is Bobby, aka Robert

Just a brief 18 day Kavanaugh stop detention

We deported a 2 month old baby with bronchitis less than a day after he was unresponsive and treated at the hospital

Public health is as American as Paul Revere. Literally. Paul Revere was Boston's first health officer.

I can sort of deal with “bitch-ass”? But a reminder that calling women you hate “bitches” just makes it ok for anyone to call a woman they hate a bitch!

Not a defense of Pam! She’s evil! Just a reminder that gendered insults entrench the word further into use.

I don't want to keep living in the Veep, but if they were all evil, universe anymore

Chubby yellow animated hands hold a valentine card with a smiling train that says "I choo-choo-choose a working public health system, robust medical research funding, vaccines, and a non-eugenicist HHS"

For @reprolawyer.bsky.social and all my other health policy nerds who miss #HealthPolicyValentines but don't know how to start in this pit of despair

I had the same thought this morning.

The lack of humanity is sickening.

Both of these are very bad ideas

Repost if you love people who have abortions 🩷 (that’s all of you)

Proud to join my colleagues yesterday to push for a fair contract. We just want the same rights as our peers in other unionized newsrooms.

(That's not me in the mouse (rat?) costume, though I wish it was.)

Nothing like an inflatable labor rat on a picket line

Thee white men are standing in a room and one of them is talking to another man in a suit and tie . Alt: Three white men in suits and ties are on the floor of the stock exchange and appear upset. An older man in the middle hunches over while making a face that looks like some distress or crying. A taller man is speaking to the third man. The words "This is an outrage, I demand an investigation" appear at the bottom of the screen. (from Trading Places)

Do you ever think about how so many other Gen Xers have became the villains from the movies of our youth?

I've been eying an embroidery pattern of dachshunds in sweaters. They were my stepfather's favorite dog and he passed last spring. So they'll always be special even though my mom only ever brought big dogs home.

Recreate that all over the country to reduce hypertension!