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Christina S. Ho
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law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · May 3
Alright: the ballet/health policy crossover content that you didn’t even know you needed this weekend—me talking with the Royal Academy of Dance about embodied rites of social cooperation, about the agitprop adult ballet collective we organized in Beijing 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
S10 E7: Christina Ho
Podcast Episode · Why Dance Matters · S10 E7 · 35m
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 5h
It’s been a busy day, but I want to draw your attention to this critically important paper by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and colleagues.

In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
This difference-in-differences analysis examines changes in obstetric-related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act violation filings following state and federal restrictions on abortion.
jamanetwork.com

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🏴‍☠️commadork69🏴‍☠️ @commadork69.bsky.social · 1d
charging subs to turn off the llm features getting shoved into products is legit what i feel like will be the most profitable monetization of it when all the dust settles too tbh

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · 2d
Foreign #doctor match rates by specialty:
- #Nephrology - 40%
- Interventional #Cardiology - 39%
- Cardiac electrophysiology - 38.8%
- #Endocrinology - 36.8%
- #Rheumatology - 35.5%
- #Criticalcare - 29.2%
- Hematology/ #Oncology - 28.8%
- #InfectiousDisease - 28.7%

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d❄️nut @funkndonuts.bsky.social · 2d
"we will safeguard access to care by making sure there aren't enough qualified providers"

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 2d
Oof. This hurts. So hard fought to eke this one out over far too many years, only to have it slip out of reach again

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d
Trump reversing the safe staffing mandate is his way of saying, “Happy Holidays and I hope your loved ones die.”
Trump administration repeals Biden-era nursing home staffing mandate
HHS repealed the rule on Tuesday, which would have required nursing homes to increase staffing, saying the regulations would have disproportionately harmed rural communities.
www.healthcaredive.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d
FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
FDA Approves New Drug  That Reverses Effects Of Narcan
SILVER SPRING, MD—Praising the drug’s ability to quickly and effectively increase fatalities amongst the nation’s opioid users, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new nasal spray Wednesd...
theonion.com

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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 3d
The good news is Republicans in Congress are shitting their pants right about now

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Tiffany Cabán @tiffanycaban.bsky.social · 3d
ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d
RICK PAZDUR is now planning to resign at the end of the year — three weeks after taking the job as FDA's top drug regulator.

Big shake-up after a year of turbulence at the agency.

Story w @rachelroubein.bsky.social.

(And credit to Stat's @lizzylawrence.bsky.social, who beat us out the door.)

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Ralphie the Rover @cornbeef.bsky.social · 3d
Palantir are pushing heavily into healthcare for data.

I would imagine your friend has come across the concept of investing due to their ubiquitousness across the sector.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 4d
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 4d
A key litmus test: “operationalizing changes in Marketplace policy requires months to build…Establishing and transferring funds to health savings accounts (HSAs) would take even longer. Fortunately, Marketplaces have already built IT systems for a “clean” extension [to switch] “on” in…days”
jasonlevitis.bsky.social Jason Levitis @jasonlevitis.bsky.social · 4d
As we 👀 for the White House plan to extend ACA tax credits, here's a readers' guide with 6️⃣ key questions to ask.

The first and most important: does it quickly halt the growing harm from 2026 premium increases hitting consumers NOW with open enrollment in full swing?

www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...
Six Questions to Evaluate the White House’s Proposal to Extend Affordable Care Act Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
With consumers already seeing higher premiums from imminently expiring enhanced premium tax credits, federal policymakers will need to ensure that any plan c…
www.urban.org

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Jason Levitis @jasonlevitis.bsky.social · 4d
As we 👀 for the White House plan to extend ACA tax credits, here's a readers' guide with 6️⃣ key questions to ask.

The first and most important: does it quickly halt the growing harm from 2026 premium increases hitting consumers NOW with open enrollment in full swing?

www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...
Six Questions to Evaluate the White House’s Proposal to Extend Affordable Care Act Enhanced Premium Tax Credits
With consumers already seeing higher premiums from imminently expiring enhanced premium tax credits, federal policymakers will need to ensure that any plan c…
www.urban.org

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 4d
“there’s nothing we can do about gun violence or whooping cough”

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 4d
Long before modern horror named the femme fatale, Chinese folklore whispered of the Painted Skin Ghost (畫皮鬼), a demon who steals human skin to walk among the living. Beneath its beauty lies decay, a mirror to the masks we craft for acceptance. Across dynasties and retellings, 1/2
#folklore

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 4d
@democracynow.org reporting that the Trump administration will no longer commemorate World AIDS day.
democracynow The Trump Administration says it will no longer commemorate World AIDS Day, which is observed around the world on December 1. According to an email viewed by The New York Times, the State Department last month instructed employees and grantees to "refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging." This directive means 2025 will be the first first time since 1988 that the U.S. government has failed to mark World AIDS Day. Earlier this year, the Trump administration froze foreign funding for many public health programs dedicated to fighting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 5d
He’s clearly in the grip of such a unidimensional “number go up” mindset that I expect he can’t compass the many incommensurable considerations that go into healthcare. Does he think he’s making some kind of population aggregate social determinants of health argument here?

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 5d
If it can be dignified by the label “thinking” gah

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 5d
“The investor [has] been a vocal proponent of advancing AI at all earthly cost. ‘We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives,” he wrote on a16z’s blog. ‘Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.’”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5d
It's pretty funny how the Silicon Valley tech bros have all suddenly decided that the actual Pope is the villain in their little narrative. sfstandard.com/2025/11/10/m...
Marc Andreessen v. the pope: VC starts meme-war with Leo XIV
The venture capitalist quickly deleted his social media posts mocking the pontiff’s call to build moral AI.
sfstandard.com

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judgeluttig.bsky.social @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 5d
The virtues and the vices that have distinguished the virtuous from the unvirtuous since before the beginning of time still exist today, regardless of what we are being told.

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Eve @sis-kisser.bsky.social · 5d
Around this time of year I remember with disgust how a friend in college told me about the time he went to see The Nutcracker at the Mariinsky Theater and fell asleep

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5d
As a result, a whopping ~450,000 New Yorkers in the 200 - 250% income FPL bracket will be kicked off the Essential Plan program & pushed back over to #ACA exchange plans...which wouldn't be too bad except that they'll have to do so under the *new* subsidy formula, paying 6.6 - 8.4% of their income.

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5d
NEW JERSEY is continuing their existing NJ Health Plan Savings program with $215 million in additional assistance for enrollees earning up to 500% FPL. This amounts to perhaps 40% of the lost federal tax credits.
a man in a suit is sitting in a car and says that 's a lovely accent you have ... new jersey
Alt: a man in a suit is sitting in a car and says that 's a lovely accent you have ... new jersey
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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: The New York Times got a State Dept. cable telling diplomats to destroy visas that had been approved and printed to give to Afghans. And diplomats are told to do scheduled interviews but not grant visas. US shuts all legal entry routes for Afghans. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d
It's quite striking that US medicine, which has for nearly three decades been organized around combating "scope creep" by which non-MDs might be permitted to provide essential care to people, is so eagerly embracing AI and the machine takeover of care? What's the difference? Follow the money.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9d
Had my hair done today. I’ve been going to the same small-town stylist for a decade. Want to know the topic of conversation in the ENTIRE salon?

Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 9d
It’s not just that prison meals are bland and unappetizing — though they often are.

In lawsuits and news reports, kitchen workers at prisons in Arizona, Oregon, and elsewhere reported seeing boxes of food that were served to prisoners marked: “not for human consumption.”
Prison Food Is a Growing Billion-Dollar Industry. Many Meals Are Inedible.
As private food providers' contracts grow, the meager and moldy portions behind bars have forced some people to eat toothpaste and toilet paper.
www.themarshallproject.org

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 9d
“I think if you have an inclination towards a danced life — not a dance career, but a danced life — the feedback you receive from motion is perhaps exacerbated, you know?”
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William Forsythe - The Talks
“I think if you have an inclination towards a danced life, the feedback you receive from motion is perhaps exacerbated, you know?” “My ballets were entirely new works and that was uncomfortable for th...
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