Dr. Maya
@drdrmaya.bsky.social
Pediatric hospitalist, fierce-loving mama, loud mouth advocate for kids, proud AAP member, HPSP alum, lover of beauty, breadbaker, third culture kid/polyglot, nerdy intellectual. Teach and promote health equity daily. Do not obey in advance. Views my own.
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The real poverty line is around $140k for a family of four, but it’s perversely hard to get there:
“Every dollar you earn climbing from $40,000 to $100,000 triggers benefit losses that exceed your income gains. You are literally poorer for working harder.”
“Every dollar you earn climbing from $40,000 to $100,000 triggers benefit losses that exceed your income gains. You are literally poorer for working harder.”
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The real poverty line is around $140k for a family of four, but it’s perversely hard to get there:
“Every dollar you earn climbing from $40,000 to $100,000 triggers benefit losses that exceed your income gains. You are literally poorer for working harder.”
“Every dollar you earn climbing from $40,000 to $100,000 triggers benefit losses that exceed your income gains. You are literally poorer for working harder.”
Same. If only we had had a better option during last year's election 🤔
I'm old enough to remember when another Republican president (or two) started a war for oil on fabricated claims.
Never does end well, least of all for the hundreds of thousands killed for NOTHING.
Never does end well, least of all for the hundreds of thousands killed for NOTHING.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Same. If only we had had a better option during last year's election 🤔
Deadline coming up. Please take action to push back on the anti-vax actions of RFK Jr. and his cronies 👇👇👇
📣 📣Healthcare friends📣 📣
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Deadline coming up. Please take action to push back on the anti-vax actions of RFK Jr. and his cronies 👇👇👇
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If you’re looking for concrete actions to take, here’s one!
TAKE ACTION! It's the final sprint before election day on December 2nd, and we're leaving it all on the field for @aftynbehn4tn. Sign up at tr.ee/final-sprint (linked in our bio) to get started. All you need is a phone and a zeal for action!
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
If you’re looking for concrete actions to take, here’s one!
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This is…brilliant.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is…brilliant.
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I have gift articles.
Here it is for anyone who wants to read. Big agree with Elizabeth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Here it is for anyone who wants to read. Big agree with Elizabeth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I have gift articles.
Here it is for anyone who wants to read. Big agree with Elizabeth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Here it is for anyone who wants to read. Big agree with Elizabeth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories & LOSING ALL credibility! DESPICABLE!😡
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
CDC Loses Credibility Among Experts After Vaccine-Autism Reversal - KFF Health News
Backlash was swift after the agency altered its website to say: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.'" Even Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) chimed in: "What parents need...
kffhealthnews.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Instead of a global leader in science, the CDC has devolved into a propaganda machine for RFK Jr.'s fixed, immutable, science-resistant theories & LOSING ALL credibility! DESPICABLE!😡
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
kffhealthnews.org/morning-brea...
📣 📣Healthcare friends📣 📣
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
📣 📣Healthcare friends📣 📣
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
and anyone who cares about access to #vaccines, quick
***ACTION ITEM***
to try to preserve the recommendation for the birth dose of Hep B. Comments close Nov 24. Please take a moment to leave a comment and share this post. Suggested text below👇
www.regulations.gov/docket/
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Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. On this day of mourning, our hearts are with the loved ones of trans people taken from us this year. As our government normalizes transphobia, our opposition must be crystal clear. To our trans community: We will not stop fighting alongside you.
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. On this day of mourning, our hearts are with the loved ones of trans people taken from us this year. As our government normalizes transphobia, our opposition must be crystal clear. To our trans community: We will not stop fighting alongside you.
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Sometimes I still can't believe we're in the timeline where POTUS calls a reporter "Piggy" and we just roll our eyes and say, "Yup, that tracks."
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Sometimes I still can't believe we're in the timeline where POTUS calls a reporter "Piggy" and we just roll our eyes and say, "Yup, that tracks."
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💥Vote Aftyn Behn for Congress 💥
#TN7 🗳️
Follow her:
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Early voting starts Nov.12th
Find out more:
www.aftynforcongress.com
#TN7 🗳️
Follow her:
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Early voting starts Nov.12th
Find out more:
www.aftynforcongress.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
💥Vote Aftyn Behn for Congress 💥
#TN7 🗳️
Follow her:
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Early voting starts Nov.12th
Find out more:
www.aftynforcongress.com
#TN7 🗳️
Follow her:
@aftynbehn.bsky.social
Early voting starts Nov.12th
Find out more:
www.aftynforcongress.com
I remember as a child looking across the Berlin Wall into East Berlin. I remember seeing the watch towers and my parents telling me what East Germans risked to escape to the West. And I remember so many East Germans moving west and arriving in our town after the wall came down. It was intense.
87 years ago today, the Kristallnacht burned. 36 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell.
Whether from the darkness of 9.11.1938 or light of 9.11.1989, the lesson for 🇩🇪 in 2025 is clear: Fight for freedom. Stop fascists. #StandWithUkraine. Their fight for freedom & peace is ours.
Whether from the darkness of 9.11.1938 or light of 9.11.1989, the lesson for 🇩🇪 in 2025 is clear: Fight for freedom. Stop fascists. #StandWithUkraine. Their fight for freedom & peace is ours.
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I remember as a child looking across the Berlin Wall into East Berlin. I remember seeing the watch towers and my parents telling me what East Germans risked to escape to the West. And I remember so many East Germans moving west and arriving in our town after the wall came down. It was intense.
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Democrats literally won every race they could've won today. Like we literally couldn't have won anything else.
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Democrats literally won every race they could've won today. Like we literally couldn't have won anything else.
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Tomorrow
We march
And demand
🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary.
🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.
We march
And demand
🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary.
🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.
On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr. Details here. 911hs.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Tomorrow
We march
And demand
🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary.
🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.
We march
And demand
🚨Remove Robert Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary.
🚨Reverse the harmful changes Kennedy has made to America’s critical public health institutions.
Anybody else nervous but also daring to be optimistic today? #Election2025
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Anybody else nervous but also daring to be optimistic today? #Election2025
Please join me in donating 👇👇👇👇👇
If you’d like to support relief in Jamaica after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, here are two organizations my Jamaican NGO friends highly recommend:
Food for the Poor
foodforthepoor.donorsupport.co/page/2025mel...
And AFJ (American Friends of Jamaica)
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Food for the Poor
foodforthepoor.donorsupport.co/page/2025mel...
And AFJ (American Friends of Jamaica)
theafj.app.neoncrm.com/forms/afj-di...
Help Families Affected by Hurricane Melissa
As Category 5 Hurricane Melissa rips across the Caribbean, families are facing tremendous loss. Together, we can deliver relief, restore hope, and help communities rebuild. Your gift today will provid...
foodforthepoor.donorsupport.co
October 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Please join me in donating 👇👇👇👇👇
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Heads up Oahu friends! Email [email protected] to tell them to preserve mail-in voting. If you can, attend in person or by zoom tomorrow, Oct 29th, at 10am.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Heads up Oahu friends! Email [email protected] to tell them to preserve mail-in voting. If you can, attend in person or by zoom tomorrow, Oct 29th, at 10am.
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CALIFORNIA! Get your ballots completed and mailed or dropped in an official dropbox. Only 20% of CA has returned their ballots! Republicans are too. Please don’t wait. Vote #YesOn50 and return your ballots NOW!
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
October 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
CALIFORNIA! Get your ballots completed and mailed or dropped in an official dropbox. Only 20% of CA has returned their ballots! Republicans are too. Please don’t wait. Vote #YesOn50 and return your ballots NOW!
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
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Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr. must resign.
October 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.
RFK Jr. must resign.
RFK Jr. must resign.
This is so dangerous
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is so dangerous
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is something at least
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/23/h...
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/23/h...
Hawaii set to offer aid for SNAP families as federal shutdown threatens to disrupt food stamp program
State officials say they have a contingency plan called the Hawaii Relief Program that would help at least a third of SNAP beneficiaries.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is something at least
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/23/h...
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/23/h...
Doctor here. Co-sign. Ripping folks off their healthcare is egregious, immoral, and cruel. It's also financially ruinous to those who get sick when they don't have insurance.
People don't stop getting sick when they lose insurance, but they may start rationing meds or skipping doctors' appointments.
And when people delay regular treatment, emergency rooms end up crowded & overwhelmed.
We have to make sure health care remains accessible to everyone.
And when people delay regular treatment, emergency rooms end up crowded & overwhelmed.
We have to make sure health care remains accessible to everyone.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Doctor here. Co-sign. Ripping folks off their healthcare is egregious, immoral, and cruel. It's also financially ruinous to those who get sick when they don't have insurance.
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