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Tom Cooney MD
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Internal Medicine physician and educator | #IMProud | @acpinternist | Health Policy | environmental and climate health.| built infrastructure and micro mobility
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"the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined" "Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much #wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity" #inequality #poverty #plutocracy

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Speaking of #cars killing us...

reader.theoregonian.com/senior-in-mo...

"The woman was using her scooter near the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Oak Street on Saturday morning when she was reportedly struck and killed"

1750 ft between cross-walks @oregondot.bsky.social on busy 4-lane road.
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Fascinating: Topological turning points across the human lifespan #brain

"findings suggest that in Western countries .. adolescent topological development extends to around 32 years old, before brain networks begin a new trajectory of topological development"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
a The distribution of ages (years) across each dataset (dHCP = Developing Human Connectome Project; BCP = Baby Connectome Project; CALM = Centre for Attention Learning and Memory; RED = Resilience in Education and Development; ACE = Attention and Cognition in Education; HCPd = Human Connectome Project Development; HCPya = Human Connectome Project Young Adult; camCAN = Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience; HCPa = Human Connectome Project Ageing). b A histogram and density plot of sex distribution across age for the entire sample. c Methods schematic demonstrating that fiber tracking was performed for all participants, each registered to an age-appropriate AAL90 atlas, followed by harmonization using the ComBat algorithm37 across the atlases and datasets. Next, two thresholding analyses were conducted—variable density and density-controlled. For variable density analysis, networks were thresholded to an age-specific average density (70% of raw density) to preserve variation in network density across the lifespan. For the density-controlled analysis, all networks were thresholded to exactly 10% density91 to allow for direct topological comparisons, which are not biased by differences in total connectivity.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#Trump Is Weak and Failing, and #Media Is Finally Saying So newrepublic.com/article/2035... via @newrepublic.com
Marcotte: I think history will look back, and the thing that will be most striking is that while all these elite journalists and politicians and businessmen kissed the ring and bowed down and were afraid of Trump, people in their jammies and slippers—ordinary people—when they see ICE coming into their neighborhood, they confront them in the street. And the courage of ordinary people in this moment has been quite stunning, especially when you compare it to the elite in this country.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Amanita mascaria

#Mushroom season in #Oregon.

Not one of our edibles (contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol, is known to be psychoactive)
Amanita mascaria #Mushroom season in #Oregon. Not one of our edibles (contains several biologically active agents, at least one of which, muscimol, is known to be psychoactive)
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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#Vaccines do NOT cause #autism.

Joint statement from @acpimphysicians.bsky.social @ameracadpeds.bsky.social @idsainfo.bsky.social #AMA @aafp.org and many others

shorturl.at/PjAUa

Medical researchers have spent more than 25 years thoroughly studying this. Vaccines are not linked to autism.
Statement from Leading Medical, Health and Patient Advocacy Groups on CDC Autism Website Changes Nov. 20, 2025—Our organizations, representing autistic individuals, their families, medical professionals and public health workers, are alarmed that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting the outdated, disproven idea that vaccines cause autism. Medical researchers across the globe have spent more than 25 years thoroughly studying this claim. All have come to the same conclusion: Vaccines are not linked to autism. This false rumor distracts from pressing, urgent issues in children’s health. Amplifying this claim and encouraging unnecessary investigations only worsens parents’ fears; it will not lead to better therapies, improved support for caregiving families, or changes in health care, education, and society in ways that would help children with autism thrive. Rather than devoting needed resources right now to support people with autism and their families in every community, our taxpayer-funded health agencies are using public resources to spread harmful rumors. Autistic people are valued members of society and, like all of us, deserve research that helps health care and other systems address genuine needs. Today, our organizations reject this latest attempt to create fear around routine childhood immunizations. Vaccines rank among our greatest medical success stories. Thanks to vaccines, serious diseases that once made thousands sick every year and caused life-long health issues have become rare. We cannot risk losing this progress. Together, we call on the CDC to return to its long history of promoting evidence-based information in the service of protecting the health and well-being of all Americans.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Between 2010 and 2023, yearly #deaths caused by #cars and trucks striking #pedestrians rose 70 percent

So much for #VisionZero
#transportation @oregondot.bsky.social @bikeportland.org

www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The National Gallery of Art is such a stunning place. The architect, John Russell Pope, didn't live long enough to see it built. #DC #art And it is free to visit.
Widescreen view of the atrium of The National Gallery of Art with its beautiful fountain, circle of columns, and spectacular rotunda ceiling.
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#Fall
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Speaks for itself 👇 (hint: #Congress #GOP)
The GOP elephant, speaking to Jesus, says "Quick question. Do I still have to feed the poor if my Christianity is purely performative?"
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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That's One Big Beautiful Ballot map.

#election #vote #Virginia

wapo.st/4qKoSMO
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Kudos to #Maine for soundly rejecting the anti-democratic
Ballot Measure 1. It would have adding a voting ID requirement and adjusting absentee voting regulations. #voting #democracy
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Ah Canada 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Located #ANTIFA in #WarRavagedPortland

#NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Massive crowd in #WarRavagedPortland for #NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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#WarRavagedPortland #NoKingsDay

Massive turnout. The group starting from Convention Center is still crossing Steel Bridge after 45 minutes
October 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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#NoKingsDay in #WarRavagedPortland
October 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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#WarRavagedPortland #NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#WarRavagedPortland

#NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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#WarRavagedPortland

#NoKingsDay
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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#NoKingsDay

Keeping #PDX Portland weird

We the People.
October 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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#NoKingsDay getting started at #PDX Convention Center before marching on to join up the main march in downtown
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, what does the squeaky sneaker get?

reader.theoregonian.com/lawsuit-clai...
October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Pretty clear the public wants #GOP to extend the credits and end the shutdown...

"Despite Budget Concerns, 78% of Public Say #Congress Should Extend the Enhanced #ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year, Including Most #Republicans and #MAGA Supporters"
October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM