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Emergency Medicine Doc | Mom | Writer | Health Services Research | Public Health Preserving a modicum of peace where I can. If engagement is not respectful, I will block.

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Casey Means has gone on and on about her passion for getting healthy foods on Americans' plates.

I hope one of the Democrats asks her what she thinks is the effect of cutting SNAP cuts and the Local Food For Schools program on low-income Americans' ability to afford healthy food.

25.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I got u

10.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025

🧸Most were children
βŒ›οΈ Many died within the first year

😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition

news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

10.02.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 778 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 110
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How America Got So Sick The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

β€œthe withering of public health might not anticipate a future apocalypse so much as it recalls a previous America, one where lives were cheaper and shorter, where good health was the province of a privileged few…”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

10.02.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviorsβ€”just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."

-Adam Serwer, in The Atlantic

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

"No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor.

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesiveβ€”because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave.

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities..."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

06.02.2026 00:55 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

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04.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black background with everything in white text, except [NationalShutdown.us] which it’s on top of a white box

Black background with everything in white text, except [NationalShutdown.us] which it’s on top of a white box

No context needed

#generalstrike

27.01.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8
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Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

28.01.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 20935 πŸ” 6518 πŸ’¬ 5437 πŸ“Œ 2852

So very sorry for this terrible loss

26.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

24.01.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 60631 πŸ” 18877 πŸ’¬ 1404 πŸ“Œ 741

The heartbreak is that we all know those nurses: the ones who don’t compartmentalize to the hospital, but are always caring for the people around them.

25.01.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI don’t like established science,” he said, adding β€œscience is what I observe.”

22.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

17.01.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 12775 πŸ” 3020 πŸ’¬ 573 πŸ“Œ 189
Homeland Security &
@DHSgov
X.com
Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.
A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.
@TriciaOhio

Homeland Security & @DHSgov X.com Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account.

Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

17.01.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 10743 πŸ” 3520 πŸ’¬ 479 πŸ“Œ 256

In case anyone is still unclear, a tariff is a tax on imports and in practice American consumers pay most of it through higher prices

17.01.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Please elaborate!

16.01.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. β€œThis is another Tuskegee.” The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousandsβ€”without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.

Thank you, @jeremyfaust.bsky.social, for this public service; we have all wanted to see the protocol of this deeply unethical trial being funded by RFK Jr in Guinea-Bissau, I’m grateful you obtained it and have published it

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

15.01.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 136 πŸ” 74 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

I mean it wasn’t even one Scaramucci

15.01.2026 05:16 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, now these SAMHSA grants are reinstated? I’m relieved, but how chaotic and inconstant and unprofessional is all this?

democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...

15.01.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

14.01.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 9253 πŸ” 2419 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 187

The folks I work with are a small indigenous team providing a bridge to mental health care in a rural area. They squeeze lifesaving work out of every SAMHSA dollar while trying to stay intact week after week. There’s no money or time for lawyers.

14.01.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

14.01.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 266 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 20

I want it to be very clear that this doesn't just affect people with mental illness or addiction. It doesn't just affect their families, either. It will impact every single American with a decrease in quality of life, because the services that help people also buffer the community.

14.01.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amen

14.01.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s fine! Just let everyone get to health crisis levels and have them go to the ER! Hahahahaha <laughs in unprecedented boarding>

14.01.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0