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The BMJ @bmj.com · 5h

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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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 5h

This type of acute heart syndrome needs a name and ICD-10 code. I propose: “Kavanaugh attack.”

Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 6h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Social Greedia @socialgreedia.bsky.social · 1d

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 19h

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 1d

Would that be a pretopic pregnancy?

Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 1d

If Watergate happened today, we would never hear about it and Woodward and Bernstein would have already been fired.

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 1d

Does he think babies are inside placentas?

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 1d

“We’re doing the studies to make the proof.” — RFK Jr

That is the very definition of scientific misconduct.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

“Kennedy is very effective at using obviously untrue, pseudoscientific garbage to justify wildly irresponsible and dangerous health policies. Lying about monovalent MMR will be one more feather in his cap, with the next generation of Americans paying the price.”

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a thing about how this split the MMR up into monovalents is bullshit that Andrew Wakefield cooked up. It will be used to strip access to the MMR.

The MAHA movement continues to destroy public health.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The Monovalent Mirage

A pretend alternative to the MMR exists, just ask Andrew Wakefield

open.substack.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 2d

I thought this was The Onion at first. But no, it’s MedPage quoting our ableist fat-shaming CMS administrator.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 2d

Is Charles Foster Kane running CNN now?

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

You need to fix this @cnn.com.

Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 3d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 3d

Hey, they’re bringing back pay phones!

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 4d

Opening ceremonies at #AAFPFMX in Anaheim

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 4d

It baffles me why South Carolinians continue to vote against their own interests.

KFF @kff.org · 4d

⚡ A new analysis by KFF’s Jared Ortaliza finds that more than half of ACA Marketplace enrollees live in Republican congressional districts, concentrated in the South. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/48bH774

KFF map titled “At Least 10% of the Population in All Congressional Districts in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina Are Enrolled in the ACA Marketplaces.” The map shows the share of population that is enrolled in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces in 2025 by congressional district, 119th Congress.

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 4d

#AAFP #COD #FMX in Anaheim — food trucks on every corner

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Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 5d

This guy is a “professor of operations management” who is making decisions about COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy. #VaccinesSaveLives

FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 7d

A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee.

www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...

Griffin Cupstid, MD @cupstid.net · 7d

In Anaheim for the #AAFP Congress of Delegates and FMX

That’s me outside of the Anaheim Convention Center

Anaheim Convention Center welcomes the AAFP

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 7d

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

bit.ly/3IPC0PD

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 7d

“In her complaint, the scientist, Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who had directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, objected to Trump administration actions, alleging that they had endangered research subjects, defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.”

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Chusid @rchusid.bsky.social · 9d

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
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