JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Congrats @abdulelsayed.bsky.social! If he wins in November, he will be the first Senate member with an advanced public health degree, which we so desperately need right now!

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

in addition to the ablism, it's false reassurance -- nearly half of adults have hypertension, a lot have diabetes or high cholesterol, 7% are immunocompromised… people we encounter in our daily lives all the time we think of as healthy take BP meds, cholesterol meds, take mAbs for IBD…

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 4h ago

I'm really, really, really tired of public health officials going out of their way to tell us that the dead had "underlying conditions" — a phrase so vague as to be useless in actually informing risk assessment. It's just ableism...

Visa holders are a vital part of the U.S. biomedical research enterprise — for example, at NIH, 60% of postdocs are visiting. These scientists contribute incredible, indispensable talent and expertise.

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

theintercept.com

I have so much good condition, child-based *stuff* my kids have outgrown (clothes, toys, entire bedrom set) and this fucking society makes it SO FUCKING HARD for me to give these items away and basically encourages me to place it in a landfill and I fucking hate everything.

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

We are all just lucky that #cyclospora is generally not fatal and people recover. Absolutely if there’s another #virus with a case fatality rate >5% in the next 3 years we will have #bubonicplague in #Europe level deaths and #healthcare workers won’t even have trash bags to wear

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

"The #climate we live in today is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetimes because of ongoing fossil fuel emissions."

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d ago

The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

Increasingly seeing "it's too late, we failed" as an argument against climate action. But: a) While we haven't done nearly enough, we've made a lot of progress relative to the "just let fossil fuels rip" world of pre-2000; b) the more&faster we reduce climate pollution, the less bad things will get;

You know what bring #jobs to small towns? #Hospitals #medical clinics #schools #colleges. Actual in-person middle class jobs. But to the Trump administration, #robot work that destroys the #environment >>>>>>>> “women’s work”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

(1/2) On the topic of Mitch McConnell and falls— important to mention that falls are the leading cause of injury for adults ages 65 years & up. Falls among adults aged 65 and older are common, costly, & preventable. Falls are the leading cause of fatal & nonfatal injuries among older adults.

Can a gas stove boil water in less than 30 seconds?

THIS

Peter Jacobs@pjacobs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Said this before, and will keep saying it: Prior to vaccine availability in the US, almost 1 in 5 people hospitalized during the pandemic DIED. For those admitted to an ICU it was more like 40-50%. The vaccines, and then the combination of vaccines and less lethal variants, changed everything.

Said this before, and will keep saying it: Prior to vaccine availability in the US, almost 1 in 5 people hospitalized during the pandemic DIED. For those admitted to an ICU it was more like 40-50%. The vaccines, and then the combination of vaccines and less lethal variants, changed everything.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

ACTION: CALL YOUR SENATORS & REP and DEMAND YOUR HEALTH RECORDS STAY PRIVATE! Trump has demanded PERSONAL PRIVATE PROTECTED health info from ER Visits be sent to a private contractor!! This is an outrageous invasion of privacy by the federal government! www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...

Trump administration demands hospitals share emergency room records | CNN

A tiny federal agency tasked with protecting the public from injuries caused by lawn mowers and coffeemakers is demanding that some of the nation’s biggest health systems turn over detailed, personall...

cnn.com

If you haven’t thought about it recently, please consider donating blood. Donating whole blood takes less than 10 min. I love the staff at my local red cross, they make the whole process super smooth. Plus I get Lorna Doones for my mother in law 😊

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."

Make sure everyone you know over 65 is aware that Trump & Republicans are INCREASING their costs for Medicare drugs at the same time they are MASSIVELY INCREASING the budget for ICE & the Military. TRUMP & REPUBLICANS HATE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

Progressive News Service@prognews.bsky.social · 7d ago

Medicare prescription drug insurance subsidies ending. “The Trump admin. on Tuesday said it would end a subsidy program that helped lower premiums for seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D... plans... increasing monthly costs for millions of Americans..." www.commondreams.org/news/medicar...

I remember coming home from the hospital and crying about a 40 year old man who died while I was working in the ICU during the pandemic. I had to call his sister and tell her the news. Fuck these people. I cant believe we’re doing this shit again…

scenarist / Chris@scenarist.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m missing people who did not “get through this”, you worthless pile.

President @barackobama.bsky.social’s summer reading list is here 📚 This year, President Obama is inviting all of you to come read these picks at the Obama Presidential Center, and we invited a few book lovers to share their first reactions. What are you reading first?

@waiterich.bsky.social

Kate Marvel@drkatemarvel.bsky.social · last wk.

"Beef consumption has consequences" is also a key plot point in the Odyssey

“Rural Health Transformation Program will distribute $50 billion to states over five years…. allocated Mississippi nearly $206 million…Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut Medicaid spending by $911 billion over 10 years and increase the number of uninsured people by 10 million”

Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA@arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The tragedy might have had a different outcome if the hospital in Belzoni, a five-minute drive from Ball-Stribling’s home, hadn’t closed 13 years ago. Today, Humphreys County has no hospital, no emergency room, no urgent care clinic, and no county health department."

Fixed it for you, @thetimes.com!

It’s that time of year again. Teachers, THANK YOU for what you do. If you need help stocking your room this year, please drop a link to your Classroom Wishlists in the comments! I’ll get as much as I can, and there are always some great members of the community who chip in too!

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

Anyone read House of the Scorpion? Worth a read if you cant figure out why cloning yourself for spare parts might be a little unethical

Kylie Cheung@kylietcheung.bsky.social · 2w ago

ever since i was a little girl, i dreamed of someday becoming my own blood boy