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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 2d

Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god they are panicking so hard right now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 3d

Hear hear
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I'm an ER doctor. JD Vance's claims about immigrants and wait times are utterly wrong.

Emergency medicine has a moral and legal commitment: treat anyone, anywhere, anytime.

www.msnbc.com

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 5d

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GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care - KFF Health News

Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable C...

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 6d

Join us live at 10:00 a.m. for This Won't Hurt A Bit! KYRS Medical Lake/Spokane 88.1 and 92.3 FM or streaming worldwide at kyrs.org. today we talk about colorectal cancer and DJ Boom Kitty's upcoming colonoscopy!

KYRS | Thin Air Community Radio

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15d

MAGA's recent autism, vaccine, Tylenol debacle highlights degree to which science-free BS is being normalized.

In this piece I list my TOP 10 twisted science concerns: thewalrus.ca/before-you-s... @thewalrus.ca

#1? Health misinformation increasingly linked to political identity.

You’re Not Imagining It. Health Misinformation Is Everywhere | The Walrus

And yes, some of it has probably gotten to you

thewalrus.ca

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 18d

Bonkers for sure! #rfkjrmustgo

Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 19d

This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history."

www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...

FDA brings back GSK's leucovorin drug that RFK Jr. touted as autism treatment

The Trump administration is touting leucovorin as a treatment for autism.

www.statnews.com

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 18d

This is exactly *why* we have a problem with replacing science with EBM. It's just a vehicle for laundering the opinions of whatever science cosplayers are winning at medical politics today. The best argument against EBM is watching it in action.

Formalized cherry picking is still cherry picking.

Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health

The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them.

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 18d

The clown show keeps rolling! www.yahoo.com/news/science...

Trump promotes unproven theory about Tylenol and autism. What does the science say?

The promise of singular causes and silver bullet cures might draw attention. But experts warn that it could backfire on families.

www.yahoo.com

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 20d

Join us live at 10:00 a.m. for This Won't Hurt A Bit! Spokane's only Sunday morning medical talk show. Today we talked with Katie Holly about all things bariatric! Live on 88.1 or 92.3 FM streaming worldwide @kyrs.org #cancellationkatie

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 21d

Hello @jessiegender.bsky.social can you recommend a book on this topic?

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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 21d

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In Q&A, Drew Weissman says vast literature shows Covid shots are safe, refutes claims from Retsef Levi
www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d...

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible”

In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 23d

It's unfortunate that it has come to this but, luckily, some sane states are stepping up!

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

West Coast States Issue Joint Vaccine Recommendations Ahead of CDC Advisers Meeting

States formed an alliance in an effort to fight the 'weaponization' of federal health agencies

www.medpagetoday.com

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 26d

MAHA
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

EPA Releases Proposal to End the Burdensome, Costly Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, Saving up to $2.4 Billion | US EPA

Today, in accordance with President Trump’s Day One executive orders, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposed rule to end the burdensome Greenhouse Gas...

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 26d

Welcome to the party!
apnews.com/article/covi...

States are taking steps to ease access to COVID-19 vaccines as they await federal recommendation

The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions.

apnews.com

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 27d

So, he murdered a podcaster because he wanted everyone to have health care and a living wage?

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 27d

#rfkjrmustgo
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RFK Jr., Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric, MAHA, and the New Eugenics

How Kennedy’s naturalism reframes health as virtue while dismantling protections that once raised life expectancy and safeguarded the vulnerable.

open.substack.com

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 27d

#rfkjrmustgo

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27d

Shutting down the war on cancer.

“New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…”

Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article.

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

www.nytimes.com

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 27d

#rfkjrmustgo

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27d

Reading today’s big NYT Magazine story made me physically sick

It details how Trump & the men he put in charge of federal research—men like Jay Bhattacharya & RFK Jr—are dismantling cancer research

Not just the US vaccine system—they’re crushing cancer R&D

🎁Link

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System

www.nytimes.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 27d

New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the National Institutes of Health as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research. The Trump administration, in sharp contrast, has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of cancer-related research grants and contracts and suspended or delayed payments for hundreds of millions more
- largely for political reasons.

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TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · 29d

#rfkjrmustgo
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

The Jarring Contradiction at the Heart of Kennedy’s Agenda

www.nytimes.com

TWHAB @twhab.bsky.social · Sep 12

#rfkjrmustgo

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 12

Just 1 in 4 Americans believe RFK Jr/Trump administration restrictions to vaccine access sare based on science, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Just 1 in 4 Americans believe Trump administration vaccine shifts are based on science, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

The Trump administration's top public health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has upended the federal government's process for recommending immunizations.

www.reuters.com

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