The Monica
@mclemoremr.bsky.social
Nurse|scientist|geek|wino|Editor in Chief - Health Equity #tenured #Dr @mclemoremr everywhere
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The Monica
@mclemoremr.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Health care and economic security of Washingtonians at risk
By Monica R. McLemore, Hiroshi Nakano and John Schapman
www.spokesman.com
My first OpEd as WHBE Board chair. "To be clear, access to health insurance is not a partisan issue – it helps people on all sides of the political spectrum. As bipartisan members of the Washington Health Benefit Exchange Board, we are Republicans and Democrats."
www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Omg 🤬
BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
January 15, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Omg 🤬
I just want folx to understand as much as I work and produce this took me out today. Cause he said the quiet part out loud and I know a lot of yall agree with him. #ThinkingUnderDuress #Angrier
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I just want folx to understand as much as I work and produce this took me out today. Cause he said the quiet part out loud and I know a lot of yall agree with him. #ThinkingUnderDuress #Angrier
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Exactly. Behavior change is required.
Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Exactly. Behavior change is required.
This year is gonna be all about curating space for more voices. So much good stuff coming in 2026. Wait till y’all see who we are centering at Health Equity Journal!
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This year is gonna be all about curating space for more voices. So much good stuff coming in 2026. Wait till y’all see who we are centering at Health Equity Journal!
1. Applications are now open for the AcademyHealth Health Equity Scholars Program which provides 10 scholars complimentary travel and registration for #ARM26 in Seattle, WA. Apply by March 2: ow.ly/BG1y50UH45K
AcademyHealth Health Equity Scholars Program | AcademyHealth
ow.ly
January 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
1. Applications are now open for the AcademyHealth Health Equity Scholars Program which provides 10 scholars complimentary travel and registration for #ARM26 in Seattle, WA. Apply by March 2: ow.ly/BG1y50UH45K
“We protest an NIH leadership that creates a culture of fear within the agency’s dedicated staff. Colleagues who question illegal and politically motivated orders have been silenced, with some placed on leave or forced out.
January 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
“We protest an NIH leadership that creates a culture of fear within the agency’s dedicated staff. Colleagues who question illegal and politically motivated orders have been silenced, with some placed on leave or forced out.
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"Providing health care to low-income people has never been easy..." ooh, I have a feeling I'm going to dig hard into @irincarmon.bsky.social 's latest and have THINGS. TO. SAY.
www.thecut.com/article/plan...
www.thecut.com/article/plan...
‘Planned Parenthood Has a Good-Girl Problem’
The abortion provider and advocacy group is facing a funding crisis. Many critics blame the organization itself.
www.thecut.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
"Providing health care to low-income people has never been easy..." ooh, I have a feeling I'm going to dig hard into @irincarmon.bsky.social 's latest and have THINGS. TO. SAY.
www.thecut.com/article/plan...
www.thecut.com/article/plan...
Nurses. And 💚🩷
Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!
January 9, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Nurses. And 💚🩷
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Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Everything happening now has a precedent. This is not new. Please understand that everything happening now is very American. The only change is that it is happening on camera to middle income white people. Ask BIPOC and low income white people about abuses by the state.
See? I don’t want passive allies. I want active folx to get your people.
“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”
January 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
See? I don’t want passive allies. I want active folx to get your people.
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I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.
“Say her name” is not about allyship. It’s a term crafted for people who are the focus of violence that deliberately erases us. It’s not for her, and it wouldn’t be for her, even if she were Heather Heyer, who didn’t get it when she died for civil rights. Can you understand that?
January 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I want us to stay focused on the grief of this terrible moment, but when Black people tell you not to touch something, that is not a challenge. Some things are ours for a reason. We can remember Renee Good as the person she was and the circumstances of her murder without co-opting Black suffering.
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After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields
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While I was off for the holidays & taking a bit of a break from social, we released a fun episode of @reprosfightback.bsky.social that y'all should check out. We had amazing advocates ( Lupe Rodriguez, @mclemoremr.bsky.social, Samira Damavandi, and me) share their repro hero origin story. #podcast
We closed out 2025 with a new addition to our fan-favorite series! On this episode, hear from four amazing heroes in the field of reproductive health, rights, and justice about how they began working in this space 🌻
www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...
www.reprosfightback.com/episodes-blo...
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Hero Origin Stories: Round 8 — rePROs Fight Back
There’s still time in the year to hear from leaders and advocates in the sexual and reproductive health and rights field! On this episode of our most popular series, SRHR Hero Origin Stories, we talk ...
www.reprosfightback.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
While I was off for the holidays & taking a bit of a break from social, we released a fun episode of @reprosfightback.bsky.social that y'all should check out. We had amazing advocates ( Lupe Rodriguez, @mclemoremr.bsky.social, Samira Damavandi, and me) share their repro hero origin story. #podcast
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White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done.
Sit down, Peter.
This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.
Sit down, Peter.
This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done.
Sit down, Peter.
This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.
Sit down, Peter.
This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.
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Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
January 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.
Chyle it’s time to bring this back out…
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Chyle it’s time to bring this back out…
Publication post #1: New work out today…push the PhD students you work with to publish their work. I don’t serve as Editor in Chief when I publish in my journal and am completely divorced from the peer-review process. Glad to support this work since here folx won’t be erased
www.liebertpub.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Publication post #1: New work out today…push the PhD students you work with to publish their work. I don’t serve as Editor in Chief when I publish in my journal and am completely divorced from the peer-review process. Glad to support this work since here folx won’t be erased
Suing works. I’m gonna ask the #ANA again in public what say you? #EquitySummit24 I asked this LAST YEAR…
There's hope for research left in limbo by the Trump administration's cancellation of #NIH-funded projects that were deemed to be DEI-related. As @jonathanwosen.bsky.social & @aniloza.bsky.social report, NIH has agreed to review some frozen or denied grants. www.statnews.com/2025/12/29/n...
Trump administration agrees to reconsider frozen and denied NIH grant submissions related to DEI
NIH agrees to reevaluate research projects left in bureaucratic limbo while a lawsuit over termination of DEI-related grants moves through the courts
www.statnews.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Suing works. I’m gonna ask the #ANA again in public what say you? #EquitySummit24 I asked this LAST YEAR…
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#BrigitteBardot was convicted several times for inciting racial hatred in France when she was alive. She does not magically become a good person because she died. How we choose to live determines how we will be remembered when we die.
www.npr.org/2025/12/28/1...
www.npr.org/2025/12/28/1...
Brigitte Bardot, sex goddess of cinema, has died
Legendary screen siren and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91. The alluring former model starred in numerous movies, often playing the highly sexualized love interest.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#BrigitteBardot was convicted several times for inciting racial hatred in France when she was alive. She does not magically become a good person because she died. How we choose to live determines how we will be remembered when we die.
www.npr.org/2025/12/28/1...
www.npr.org/2025/12/28/1...
Whoever coined AI slop - I owe you a drink. Cause that’s exactly what that mess is.
December 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Whoever coined AI slop - I owe you a drink. Cause that’s exactly what that mess is.
Whew y’all. These interviews required liquor cause Mamdani (Mayor Elect of NYC) & Karp (Palintir CEO) interviews do not disappoint. Seriously, know where you stand. We are in for a rough ride. 🙄 #UseYourBrain #KnowWhatYouThink #BirthdayIn5days #IamREALclear
December 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Whew y’all. These interviews required liquor cause Mamdani (Mayor Elect of NYC) & Karp (Palintir CEO) interviews do not disappoint. Seriously, know where you stand. We are in for a rough ride. 🙄 #UseYourBrain #KnowWhatYouThink #BirthdayIn5days #IamREALclear
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Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.
