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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · 9d

From my local (Marin County, CA) public health department: "the combined impact of federal vaccine policy and the shutdown has disrupted supply, and the County has not received COVID-19 vaccines."

#vaccine #COVID #shutdown

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · Sep 11

A ruling upholding California's medical bias training law is a victory for the state against anti-DEI challenges from the Trump administration and conservative groups.
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Affirmative Action Critics Refuse To Back Down in Fight Over Medical Bias Training - KFF Health News

A nonprofit fighting affirmative action in medicine and a Los Angeles ophthalmologist have launched a long-shot legal appeal aimed at ending California’s requirement that every continuing medical educ...

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Sep 10

Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.

California’s antibias training rule for doctors faces long-shot Supreme Court appeal

Foes of California’s mandate that all medical education courses address unconscious bias are pushing their case toward the Supreme Court. At stake: how far states can go in requiring such...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Aug 28

Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Rich!

From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.

"The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."

Read Trump’s Directive Firing Lisa Cook From Fed Role

The president said in a letter on Monday that he was removing the Federal Reserve governor from her duties, effective immediately.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Why are more younger Americans dying?

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing.

(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)

Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. We Have a Few Ideas as to Why.

America is not a good place to be an early adult.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 21

The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · Aug 20

As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing.

(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)

Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. We Have a Few Ideas as to Why.

America is not a good place to be an early adult.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City

Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 9

He's back, at least in part.

Ousted F.D.A. Vaccine Chief Returns to Agency

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Not a fool at all.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Aug 7

What have we become?

As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.

Trump Said Family Separations Would End. They’re Happening Again.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jul 30

BREAKING: Japan says a powerful, magnitude 8 earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issues a tsunami advisory.

Japan says powerful quake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, issues a tsunami advisory

Japan’s meteorological agency says that a powerful earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issued a tsunami advisory for Japan.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 29

And then they came for Duke Medicine, Health and Law...

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Please watch.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 24

"I don’t know how you can have a better future without looking honestly at the past.”

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 24

In exchange for $75 million in aid to Haiti and Nigeria.
www.axios.com/2025/07/24/s...

Shaheen cuts foreign aid deal to support Waltz

Waltz has been working with several Democratic senators to find common ground.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 21

My latest @npr.org.

Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 21

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 17

Not necessarily true that no one has escaped Alcatraz and survived.

U.S. marshals still hunt Alcatraz prisoners 50 years after notorious escape

Fifty years after three convicts used spoons to burrow out of Alcatraz Island's federal prison and escaped on a raft made of raincoats, their relatives will pay their first visit to the scene of America's most famous jail break.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 15

Read with tissues

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‘I already want to cry.’ Undocumented parents prepare for the unthinkable: Giving up their kids

Undocumented parents are preparing for the worst in response to the L.A. immigration raids. Bracing for potential deportation, they’re making emergency care plans for their kids.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 3

What's a "new Brooklyner"? (Curious as someone who was born and raised in the borough.)

Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Chilling.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/c...

An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · Jun 25

Disabled people in wheelchairs are being zip-tied and arrested in the halls of Congress—for demanding the right to live. They came to stop Trump’s brutal Medicaid cuts, and this is the response: cuffs, arrests, silence. This is what cruelty looks like. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · Jun 20

So not Christian.

A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...

A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay

Valley Christian High School in Dublin pursued this rising baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 18

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.

Reporter Is Detained by ICE After Reporting on Immigration Protest

Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter originally from El Salvador, was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta on Saturday, his lawyers said.

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