@pediheartchris.bsky.social
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The federal government has the money to continue funding SNAP benefits — they’re choosing to suspend it and harm millions of families across the country already struggling to make ends meet.
I’m leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to release these funds immediately.
I’m leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to release these funds immediately.
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The federal government has the money to continue funding SNAP benefits — they’re choosing to suspend it and harm millions of families across the country already struggling to make ends meet.
I’m leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to release these funds immediately.
I’m leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to release these funds immediately.
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Participants on SNAP receive an average of $187 per month.
Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.
Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Participants on SNAP receive an average of $187 per month.
Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.
Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.
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Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
This MAGA/MAHA/Trump/RFK Jr/Dr Oz/Dr Bhattacharya press conference right now is quite possibly the worst press conference—from the viewpoints of medicine, public health, & medical ethics—that I’ve ever seen. These men are so shameless & deeply irresponsible. Wherever happened to science & evidence?
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”
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Are we great yet?
September 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are we great yet?
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this seems like sensible advice if you live in the US and want to do effective protest about Kimmel:
September 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
this seems like sensible advice if you live in the US and want to do effective protest about Kimmel:
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This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
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The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Acetaminophen/Tylenol use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests associations observed in other, less rigorous analyses may have been attributable to familial confounding (aka erroneous finding):
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But what about guns?
Guns are the leading cause of death in children 1-19 years of age in the US.
But if you look at 1-4 years separately drowning is the leading cause of death.
Because those kids haven’t started school yet.
Read that again.
Guns are the leading cause of death in children 1-19 years of age in the US.
But if you look at 1-4 years separately drowning is the leading cause of death.
Because those kids haven’t started school yet.
Read that again.
Drowning is the leading cause of death in children between 1 and 4 years of age but apparently the CDC Drowning Prevention program is no longer needed.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC
A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young children. Then the administration terminated that staff.
www.npr.org
August 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
But what about guns?
Guns are the leading cause of death in children 1-19 years of age in the US.
But if you look at 1-4 years separately drowning is the leading cause of death.
Because those kids haven’t started school yet.
Read that again.
Guns are the leading cause of death in children 1-19 years of age in the US.
But if you look at 1-4 years separately drowning is the leading cause of death.
Because those kids haven’t started school yet.
Read that again.
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Can’t work today. My mitochondria weren’t up to the challenge.
August 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Can’t work today. My mitochondria weren’t up to the challenge.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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"That's an 11-point increase in respondents who strongly disapprove of the president from the beginning of his term to recent weeks...
A 9-point drop in respondents who say they strongly approve..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...?
A 9-point drop in respondents who say they strongly approve..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...?
New poll shows more Americans 'strongly disapprove' of Trump's second term: What to know
In a poll from YouGov/The Economist, two-thirds say they have strong feelings about Donald Trump - either positive or negative. Here's the breakdown.
www.usatoday.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"That's an 11-point increase in respondents who strongly disapprove of the president from the beginning of his term to recent weeks...
A 9-point drop in respondents who say they strongly approve..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...?
A 9-point drop in respondents who say they strongly approve..."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...?
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Let's go. Democracies die when the regime operates outside of the box and opposition stays in it. Good for California. Other pro-democracy states should follow suit.
LIVE NOW: Governor Newsom, state leaders make major announcement countering Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme.
www.youtube.com/live/io2Hutl...
www.youtube.com/live/io2Hutl...
Governor Newsom, California leaders make major announcement countering Trump's gerrymandering scheme
YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom
www.youtube.com
August 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Let's go. Democracies die when the regime operates outside of the box and opposition stays in it. Good for California. Other pro-democracy states should follow suit.
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Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
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Almost like actions have consequences. In this case, the cost of those consequences are human lives.
They gutted and neglected the FAA and the planes started crashing.
They defunded the NIH and the CDC and Measles came back from extinction.
They dismantled the weather service, NOAA, and FEMA and a flood killed 250+ people.
They defunded the NIH and the CDC and Measles came back from extinction.
They dismantled the weather service, NOAA, and FEMA and a flood killed 250+ people.
July 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Almost like actions have consequences. In this case, the cost of those consequences are human lives.
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Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
June 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.
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On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.
June 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.
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It’s looking more and more like a dictatorship. That’s no way to treat a U.S. Senator. Claiming he was an attacker and failed to identify himself is delusional he’s a sitting senator. America is watching, and the tides are turning.
June 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It’s looking more and more like a dictatorship. That’s no way to treat a U.S. Senator. Claiming he was an attacker and failed to identify himself is delusional he’s a sitting senator. America is watching, and the tides are turning.
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Beyond parody.
May 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Beyond parody.
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What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law
May 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What is a nation supposed to do when its leader is publicly committing impeachable offenses on a daily basis and the impeachment process is utterly broken due to slightly more than half of the nation's Congress being members of a cult dedicated to destroying rule of law
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Bottom line:
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Bottom line:
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.
This isn’t budget policy, it’s a power grab. It strips judges of their ability to enforce the law and gives government officials a green light to ignore court orders. It’s authoritarian by design and it’s buried in the fine print.