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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 1d

MAGA: Pediatricians must take care of antivax families.

Also MAGA: Based on executive orders VA doctors may choose to deny care for patients based on marital status or political affiliation.

Screenshot of a tweet from @janjekielek it is an interview with Joseph Ladapo. A balg black man wearing a grey pinstripe suit with two flags and florida health as a backdrop.

Many pediatricians refuse to treat kids who haven’t received certain vaccines, says
@FLSurgeonGen
Joseph Ladapo. He’s determined to end such denial of medical care in Florida:

“It's a really repulsive policy stance…It is very clearly coercive to punish families by kicking them out of your practice if they do not agree to taking a medication.”

Headline of a Guardian article from June by Aaron Glantz:

This article is more than 3 months old
VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination
This article is more than 3 months old
Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 10h

The thing that called my attention was the role of the "Drug Recognition Expert."
I'm dubious about such training for LEOs for a number of reasons - quotes from me and from @ryanmarino.bsky.social in gift article here:
www.nhregister.com/news/article...

Why CT experts say it’s hard to tell when people are too high to drive

With recreational marijuana legal in Connecticut and more cops becoming drug recognition...

www.nhregister.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Carlos Alonso @calonsonet.bsky.social · 15h

A la espera de algo horrible en EEUU. Una crisis permanente sin visos de solución.
Por @4freedoms.es open.substack.com/pub/4freedom...

A la espera de algo horrible

Una crisis permanente y sin visos de solución

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 19h

This should be shown to medical students for years about how doctors, entranced by power and fancy titles, lent the legitimacy of the medical profession to a deranged authoritarian.

Can doctors sink lower than this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 17h

" Officer Martin Jensen, a specially trained Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), was called to assess whether Bimpong was under the influence of drugs.
... When another officer questioned whether Bimpong should be taken to the hospital, Jensen replied: “For what?” "

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 18h

For me but not for thee

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 19h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Roto_BOOOOOOdor @rototudor.bsky.social · 1d

/SCREAMS IN HAVE YOU PEOPLE NEVER READ AND THE BAND PLAYS ON

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to recent Mayo Clinic CV podcast, kind of surpised to hear a discussion of the "ECG age".
Dubious about the utility of the concept.
As for TFG's "cardiac age" - also dubious.

What is ECG Age Vs. Chronological age, and How to Use it in Your CV Prevention Practice
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025

What is ECG Age Vs. Chronological age, and How to Use it in Your CV Prevention Practice

Guest: Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, M.D., M.S.

Host: Stephen L. Kopecky, M.D.

After listening to this episode of the CV Prevention segment of Mayo Clinic’s podcast “Interviews with the Experts,” listeners will better understand why it is important to differentiate between biological and chronological age. This is something that may help identify increased risk for age-related conditions and factors that may adversely affecting a person’s health. Listeners will become familiar with different ways to measure aging rate or biological age, especially with ECG age. Finally, factors that appear to affect biological age, such as social determinants of health, lack of exercise, excess weight, and stress are discussed.

Topics Discussed:

What is ECG Age?
How did your team come up with the idea?
Why is important to differentiate between biological age and chronological age?

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Manolo K. @epicureo64.aldea.social · 2d

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

"No nos podemos permitir que se pasee por Barcelona el equipo de un Estado genocida, pedimos su expulsión en el Tour del próximo año...
ni el deporte ni nada a la vida son neutros, no podemos poner el deporte para blanquear un genocidio"
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El gobierno Collboni quiere una salida del Tour desde Barcelona sin "equipos bajo la bandera de Israel"

El concejal de Deportes, David Escudé, reclama que se apliquen a Israel las mismas restricciones que a Rusia

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we argue vociferously, backed by empirical research, that patients’ wellbeing and health outcomes will suffer from the Trump administration’s push to end DEI policies at US medical schools

The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d

The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

With regard to the Nobel Peace prize

Humorous meme showing a guy smoking, saying "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up schadenfreude."

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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 1d

"The authors appeared to accept very bad evidence when it supported a specific set of beliefs, and discarded evidence of any quality when it did not support this"

gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed

A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

gidmk.substack.com

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Spanish Revolution @spanishrevolution.bsky.social · 2d

Así describió Tácito la hipocresía del Imperio Romano: arrasar pueblos enteros y después presumir de “pacificar” la región.
Dos mil años después, sigue siendo el mismo guion:
bombardean, saquean, destruyen...
y lo llaman alto el fuego, orden, democracia.

No hay paz en la devastación.

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El hilo @elhilopodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Estados Unidos ha atacado cinco embarcaciones en el caribe venezolano y asesinado a al menos 21 personas. Mientras Trump dice que combate el narcotráfico, Maduro señala un intento de invasión.

¿Qué hay realmente detrás de esta escalada militar?

Escucha: elhilo.audio/267

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

You have no idea how annoyed and tired I am of both influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2, so I decided to reduce my risk of dealing with them both.

Tired looking blonde skank in a black beater tank with two bandages on her arm from her awesome flu and Covid shots

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