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Join us at Solcana for an interactive training on Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV), Minneapolis’s method of choosing local elected officials.
Meet mayoral candidates @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social!
Saturday, 9/20 – 1:30-3pm. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/aurinchowdhu...
Meet mayoral candidates @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social!
Saturday, 9/20 – 1:30-3pm. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/aurinchowdhu...
September 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us at Solcana for an interactive training on Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV), Minneapolis’s method of choosing local elected officials.
Meet mayoral candidates @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social!
Saturday, 9/20 – 1:30-3pm. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/aurinchowdhu...
Meet mayoral candidates @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social!
Saturday, 9/20 – 1:30-3pm. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/aurinchowdhu...
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I wrote this after doing a training on the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution, because, apparently, this is necessary to be a doctor under this regime. Grateful to @huffpost.com and, always, dream editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for the platform.
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying.
“It was then I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.”
www.huffpost.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I wrote this after doing a training on the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution, because, apparently, this is necessary to be a doctor under this regime. Grateful to @huffpost.com and, always, dream editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for the platform.
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
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I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
In Honor of Joanna Macy, 1929-2025
I write while staying in one of the great forests of British Columbia, a forest in which the inextricability of life from death is gorgeously evident. Several kinds of fern spring from this soil, some...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....
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"Even if you're not a frontline advocate, being a member of professional organizations matters. Dues help support the staff, policy experts, and infrastructure needed to fight these battles."
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Our op-ed is out on @medpagetoday.bsky.social "We Called Code Red On Medicaid Cuts" we explain how these cuts will hurt patients and what physicians and healthcare workers can do next. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... @gfriedman.bsky.social @haribuddy.bsky.social #SaveMedicaid #ThisBillKills
Opinion | It's 'Code Red' for Medicaid
It's too late to stop the 'Big Beautiful Bill' but it's not too late to continue the fight
www.medpagetoday.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Even if you're not a frontline advocate, being a member of professional organizations matters. Dues help support the staff, policy experts, and infrastructure needed to fight these battles."
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It is the duty of physicians to determine the least risky strategy for patients, very different from a lawyer who is on a side and makes the strongest case possible case for his client. There is no jury here - just lives hanging in the balance.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It is the duty of physicians to determine the least risky strategy for patients, very different from a lawyer who is on a side and makes the strongest case possible case for his client. There is no jury here - just lives hanging in the balance.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
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We echo Sen. Cassidy’s call to delay the ACIP meeting until new members are selected who are qualified and committed to following scientific evidence.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy called for federal health officials to postpone this week’s meetings of outside vaccine advisers, citing a small, newly appointed panel and concerns about biases against vaccines.
CDC vaccine advisory meeting should be postponed amid bias concerns, Cassidy says | CNN
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy on Monday night called for federal health officials to postpone this week’s meetings of outside vaccine advisers, citing a small, newly appointed panel and concerns about ...
www.cnn.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We echo Sen. Cassidy’s call to delay the ACIP meeting until new members are selected who are qualified and committed to following scientific evidence.
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I just became a member of @drsforamerica.bsky.social because the work they're doing is essential. And we need more HCW to join the fight for healthcare! Please join DFA and help fight the Medicaid cuts that will hurt our patients, hospitals and communities! #MedSky
Action Center - Doctors for America
www.votervoice.net
June 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just became a member of @drsforamerica.bsky.social because the work they're doing is essential. And we need more HCW to join the fight for healthcare! Please join DFA and help fight the Medicaid cuts that will hurt our patients, hospitals and communities! #MedSky
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We need movements for real change, led by Idealists, who believe change is possible, Organizers, who build coalitions and practical strategies, Visionaries, who imagine better futures. Anyone out there fitting this description? Let’s do this!
May 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We need movements for real change, led by Idealists, who believe change is possible, Organizers, who build coalitions and practical strategies, Visionaries, who imagine better futures. Anyone out there fitting this description? Let’s do this!
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We are taking legal action to protect patients nationwide from aggressive attempts by the Texas Attorney General to upend federal medical privacy protections nationwide and inject massive instability into the health care system.
@democracyforward.org
doctorsforamerica.or...
@democracyforward.org
doctorsforamerica.or...
Doctors, Local Governments Commit to Defending Repro Care
Democracy Forward, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and Public Rights Project, are taking legal action to protect patients nationwide from aggressive attempts by the Texas Attorney General to upend federal medical privacy protections nationwide and inject massive instability into the health care system.
doctorsforamerica.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We are taking legal action to protect patients nationwide from aggressive attempts by the Texas Attorney General to upend federal medical privacy protections nationwide and inject massive instability into the health care system.
@democracyforward.org
doctorsforamerica.or...
@democracyforward.org
doctorsforamerica.or...
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Opinion | 13 Ways to Save Health and Science in America - featuring a section from Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, Doctors for America board member.
@nytimes.com
@reshmagar.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025...
@nytimes.com
@reshmagar.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025...
Opinion | 13 Ways to Save Health and Science in America
Expert-backed ideas for continued progress.
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Opinion | 13 Ways to Save Health and Science in America - featuring a section from Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, Doctors for America board member.
@nytimes.com
@reshmagar.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025...
@nytimes.com
@reshmagar.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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DFA's FDA Task Force is deeply concerned about remarks made by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during yesterday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing.
doctorsforamerica.or...
doctorsforamerica.or...
DFA's FDA Task Force Dismayed by Kennedy Testimony
We are deeply concerned about remarks made by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during yesterday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing.
doctorsforamerica.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
DFA's FDA Task Force is deeply concerned about remarks made by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during yesterday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing.
doctorsforamerica.or...
doctorsforamerica.or...
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COMMENTARY: We provide health care across rural Oregon and know Medicaid and health care workforce funding are lifelines for Oregonians, especially in rural communities whose care infrastructure is fundamentally reliant on federal support. buff.ly/i0gKNMK
We're rural Oregon doctors. Medicaid cuts will disproportionately hurt rural Oregonians • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Any reduction in federal support for critical health care access, benefits or the health care workforce is unacceptable, Evan Saulino writes.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
COMMENTARY: We provide health care across rural Oregon and know Medicaid and health care workforce funding are lifelines for Oregonians, especially in rural communities whose care infrastructure is fundamentally reliant on federal support. buff.ly/i0gKNMK
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Hey SenMcCormicckPA: I am one of the docs who called tonight w/ @drsforamerica.bsky.social to remind you that >90% of people on Medicaid are already working or disabled. Work requirements & co-pays cause add'l barriers & cost to 1 in 4 Pennsylvanians on Medicaid so billionaires get tax cuts.
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hey SenMcCormicckPA: I am one of the docs who called tonight w/ @drsforamerica.bsky.social to remind you that >90% of people on Medicaid are already working or disabled. Work requirements & co-pays cause add'l barriers & cost to 1 in 4 Pennsylvanians on Medicaid so billionaires get tax cuts.
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Obfuscation, falsehoods & evasions marked a hearing meant to clarify how HHS can maintain its core functions under Kennedy cuts and reorg. Proof of principle is the failure to contain the measles outbreak - successfully done in the past, failing in the present.
Obfuscation, falsehoods & evasions marked a hearing meant to clarify how HHS can maintain its core functions under Kennedy cuts and reorg. Proof of principle is the failure to contain the measles outbreak - successfully done in the past, failing in the present.
DFA's FDA Task Force Dismayed by Kennedy Testimony
We are deeply concerned about remarks made by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during yesterday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Commi...
doctorsforamerica.org
May 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
doctorsforamerica.org/sr-kennedy-t...
Obfuscation, falsehoods & evasions marked a hearing meant to clarify how HHS can maintain its core functions under Kennedy cuts and reorg. Proof of principle is the failure to contain the measles outbreak - successfully done in the past, failing in the present.
Obfuscation, falsehoods & evasions marked a hearing meant to clarify how HHS can maintain its core functions under Kennedy cuts and reorg. Proof of principle is the failure to contain the measles outbreak - successfully done in the past, failing in the present.
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My statement on Cleveland Clinic’s decision to deny preventive care to patients who are unable to pay their copay upfront ⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My statement on Cleveland Clinic’s decision to deny preventive care to patients who are unable to pay their copay upfront ⬇️
🚨 The fight to save Medicaid isn’t over and the pressure is working. Watch to hear why >>
May 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This right here is #WhyWeStay. I’m not just fighting for her, I’m fighting for you. I also hope I’m giving you hope and some tools to fight on your own as well.
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This right here is #WhyWeStay. I’m not just fighting for her, I’m fighting for you. I also hope I’m giving you hope and some tools to fight on your own as well.
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Structural inequalities lead to health inequities - FACT. One of the best ways to address centuries of inequity is to have physicians who reflect the population they serve -FACT. Medical schools must fight this in public, in the classrooms and in the courts.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
What we heard this week 🧵 #Medsky
"Like the law firms, they'll have to bend the knee and kiss the ring." [email protected], discussing a new #executiveorder by President Trump that targeted medical school and residency accreditors for their #DEI standards.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
"Like the law firms, they'll have to bend the knee and kiss the ring." [email protected], discussing a new #executiveorder by President Trump that targeted medical school and residency accreditors for their #DEI standards.
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Trump Order Targets Med School, Residency Accreditors Over 'Unlawful' DEI Standards
Chaos could ensue if ACGME, LCME lose their accrediting authority, critics say
www.medpagetoday.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Structural inequalities lead to health inequities - FACT. One of the best ways to address centuries of inequity is to have physicians who reflect the population they serve -FACT. Medical schools must fight this in public, in the classrooms and in the courts.
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
@drsforamerica.bsky.social
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A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg and Rabbi Ariana Katz
New on How to Survive the End of the World pod!! Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Rabbis Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz, co-authors of For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year.
New on How to Survive the End of the World pod!! Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Rabbis Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz, co-authors of For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year.
April 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg and Rabbi Ariana Katz
New on How to Survive the End of the World pod!! Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Rabbis Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz, co-authors of For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year.
New on How to Survive the End of the World pod!! Autumn and adrienne are thrilled to welcome Rabbis Jessica Rosenberg and Ariana Katz, co-authors of For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year.
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LRRP's Dr. Christine Ryan will speak at this webinar on Monday – RSVP to join us!
Join us Monday, April 28th, from 8-9pm ET for a webinar on how faith communities can mobilize around reproductive freedom!
RSVP here: bit.ly/faithandrepro
@revangelatw.bsky.social @ncjw.bsky.social
RSVP here: bit.ly/faithandrepro
@revangelatw.bsky.social @ncjw.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
LRRP's Dr. Christine Ryan will speak at this webinar on Monday – RSVP to join us!
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Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social & @ag.state.mn.us
April 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thank you @leighfinke.bsky.social & @ag.state.mn.us