@laceywhit2.bsky.social
med-peds primary care // generalists rule, specialists also good // healthcare for all // pro 🏳️⚧️ kids
This is true.
A family member is a pediatrician working in a city
Chatting with her about what kind of impact RFK Jr’s actions have had is incredibly disturbing/dispiriting
For every day docs & nurses & other pediatric clinicians, RFK Jr has made their jobs much harder—& children’s lives immeasurably worse 😢
Chatting with her about what kind of impact RFK Jr’s actions have had is incredibly disturbing/dispiriting
For every day docs & nurses & other pediatric clinicians, RFK Jr has made their jobs much harder—& children’s lives immeasurably worse 😢
December 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is true.
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NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.
www.motherjones.com
September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
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The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.
I refuse to sanitize him.
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Good morning America. Happy Monday. And #RFKJr still needs to go. Now. My piece in @thenation.com last week. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
RFK Jr., American Psycho
He needs to go. Now.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Good morning America. Happy Monday. And #RFKJr still needs to go. Now. My piece in @thenation.com last week. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.
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Earlier this year, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
www.propublica.org
September 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Earlier this year, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all of the staff that distributed $1.7B annually in Social Services Block Grant funds, which many states depended on for their child welfare, foster care and adoption systems.
(Published April 2025)
(Published April 2025)
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#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
RFK Jr.’s Senate ravings prove he won’t bring sanity back to public health
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy’s Senate testimony Thursday made one thing crystal clear: He won’t be restoring sanity to our public-health bureaucracies, desperate as the need is.
nypost.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
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I have risen from poverty and a broken home to a life of wealth and a position directly beneath the president. Here’s why that makes me so angry and aggrieved.
by J.D. Vance
by J.D. Vance
September 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I have risen from poverty and a broken home to a life of wealth and a position directly beneath the president. Here’s why that makes me so angry and aggrieved.
by J.D. Vance
by J.D. Vance
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The USTA has asked ordered broadcasters to censor negative audience reactions to Trump. Here's why tennis has a liberal bias problem.
September 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The USTA has asked ordered broadcasters to censor negative audience reactions to Trump. Here's why tennis has a liberal bias problem.
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
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Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
n.pr
July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
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NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.
By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org
By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org
Texas Lawmakers Largely Ignored Recommendations Aimed at Helping Rural Areas Like Kerr County Prepare for Flooding
Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, experts said.
www.propublica.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
NEW: Over the years, Texas legislators have declined to pass at least three bills that would create siren or alert systems, a tool that Kerr County officials tried to secure for years before the July 4 flooding.
By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org
By Lexi Churchill & @lomikriel.bsky.social, w/ @texastribune.org
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
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“Trump’s law doesn’t protect Medicaid. It requires Americans to spend hundreds of millions of hours a year filling out tedious, unnecessary paperwork. It will cause millions to lose their health coverage, limiting access to care and forcing them into debt.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Annoying People to Death
Why the Medicaid work requirement is a terrible idea
www.theatlantic.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“Trump’s law doesn’t protect Medicaid. It requires Americans to spend hundreds of millions of hours a year filling out tedious, unnecessary paperwork. It will cause millions to lose their health coverage, limiting access to care and forcing them into debt.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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"The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It's working."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Some states are making it more difficult for parents to opt out of vaccines.
The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It's working.
www.nbcnews.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It's working."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Reminder for science budget watchers-- House and Senate Appropriations Committees are working on FY26 spending bills to determine NSF and NIH funding. The White House recommended a 57% reduction for NSF and 40% for NIH. But Congress sets the budget.
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
www.ascb.org
July 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reminder for science budget watchers-- House and Senate Appropriations Committees are working on FY26 spending bills to determine NSF and NIH funding. The White House recommended a 57% reduction for NSF and 40% for NIH. But Congress sets the budget.
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
www.ascb.org/science-poli...
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Since 2000, GAVI has distributed 1.1 Billion vaccine doses to children around the world and averted 18.8 million deaths as a direct result of this effort. To cut U.S. funding for this incredible effort is to promote childhood deaths.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US to stop financial support of global vaccine alliance Gavi, health secretary says
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said on Wednesday that the U.S. government will no longer contribute to Gavi, accusing the group that helps buy vaccines for the world's poorest children of ignoring safety, without providing evidence.
www.reuters.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Since 2000, GAVI has distributed 1.1 Billion vaccine doses to children around the world and averted 18.8 million deaths as a direct result of this effort. To cut U.S. funding for this incredible effort is to promote childhood deaths.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Mississippi Free Press is hiring a full-time Assistant Editor. Learn more at
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.