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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 17h

Six surgeons general...are coming late to the fight.

No paywall: archive.ph/cW4yJ

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2d

It’s because it doesn’t fucking work, Sharyl. Ivermectin doesn’t treat COVID.

There’s backlash for the same reason a doctor would face backlash for prescribing leeches for Ebola.

Sharyl Attkisson @sharylattklsson.bsky.social · 4d

(PODCAST) After Hours: Ivermectin Over-the-Counter
art19.com/shows/full-m...
Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, part of a movement to make ivermectin available over-the-counter, discusses with Sharyl the backlash she faced for prescribing it during COVID and how her lawsuit challenged the FDA’s stance.

Full Measure After Hours

The companion podcast to the Sunday TV news program: "Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson." Original behind the scenes reflections off the news narrative. Sharyl is a five time Emmy award winning, nonp...

art19.com

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Julie Posetti @julieposetti.bsky.social · 7d

📢 🗞️ Published today: #DisarmingDisinformation🇺🇸 -

💡 86% of Americans have seen or heard journalists being harassed or abused online, indicating a normalisation of such attacks and reflecting unprecedented political targeting of the U.S. press.

Read the full study: www.icfj.org/disarming-di...

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 5d

The link for the letter with over 1000 doctors signing it (all verified with active FL licenses).

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Florida Must Preserve School Vaccine Requirements to Protect Our Children and Communities.docx

Florida Must Preserve School Vaccine Requirements to Protect Our Children and Communities As a group of over 1,000 Florida physicians, representing the medical community across the state, we urgently...

docs.google.com

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 5d

✔️ It's important for the floridians to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for FL legislators to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for the FL Surgeon General to understand that his short-term political gain will not be judged well by history in the long term.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5d

Over 1000 Florida doctors have signed a letter challenging their state’s surgeon general, anti-vaxxer Joe Ladapo, and his decision to end school vaccine mandates.

www.importantcontext.news/p/1000-docto...

1,000 Doctors Challenge Florida’s Anti-Vax Surgeon General

Joe Ladapo ended vaccine requirements but not everyone is quietly accepting the dangerous policy change.

www.importantcontext.news

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 3d

@drneilstone.bsky.social

www.wrdw.com/2025/10/03/s...

MAHA going well I see. South Carolina confirms full-blown outbreak of measles.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 4d

@sanders.senate.gov

How many will see health care premiums increase in your state.

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Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social · 4d

Vought: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't [function]”

www.propublica.org/article/vide...

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

www.propublica.org

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Peter Daszak @peterdaszak.bsky.social · 4d

Hard time to be a federal employee, but remember - this is part if their plan - to make govt workers lives miserable. See tbe shocking quote from Vought in the Politico article posted after this one. scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/nearly-imp...

"Nearly impossible for NIH staff to do our jobs": Jenna Norton's speech for the Civil Servants Coalition

At the Capitol, Monday 9/29

scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 5d

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!

COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.

Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.

How did that happen?🧵

sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!

The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 5d

The link for the letter with over 1000 doctors signing it (all verified with active FL licenses).

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Florida Must Preserve School Vaccine Requirements to Protect Our Children and Communities.docx

Florida Must Preserve School Vaccine Requirements to Protect Our Children and Communities As a group of over 1,000 Florida physicians, representing the medical community across the state, we urgently...

docs.google.com

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 5d

✔️ It's important for the floridians to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for FL legislators to know where Florida physicians stand.
✔️ It's important for the FL Surgeon General to understand that his short-term political gain will not be judged well by history in the long term.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5d

Over 1000 Florida doctors have signed a letter challenging their state’s surgeon general, anti-vaxxer Joe Ladapo, and his decision to end school vaccine mandates.

www.importantcontext.news/p/1000-docto...

1,000 Doctors Challenge Florida’s Anti-Vax Surgeon General

Joe Ladapo ended vaccine requirements but not everyone is quietly accepting the dangerous policy change.

www.importantcontext.news

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5d

Over 1000 Florida doctors have signed a letter challenging their state’s surgeon general, anti-vaxxer Joe Ladapo, and his decision to end school vaccine mandates.

www.importantcontext.news/p/1000-docto...

1,000 Doctors Challenge Florida’s Anti-Vax Surgeon General

Joe Ladapo ended vaccine requirements but not everyone is quietly accepting the dangerous policy change.

www.importantcontext.news

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5d

The crazy thing is that we want affordable healthcare for them, too.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 6d

Jay Bhattacharya sent a pre-recorded video to NIDDK Council, too. But I get it.

It's hard to face your staff when you lie about them.

Even harder to face researchers when you're willing to break the U.S. scientific enterprise just to get a position of power you're in no way qualified for.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

An email to Director Bhattacharya to start the day

1/6

Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I attended the NIAID Council meeting online. I wanted to raise two points. First, I was disappointed that you sent a video of your presentation rather than showing up in person or, at least, attending live but virtually. You are missing out on important opportunities to interact with NIH staff and Advisory Council members. These individuals use their expertise and considerable time and energy to try to further the NIH mission. In addition, you are sending a signal about your priorities. This is especially true when you spend your time by appearing on The Glenn Show within a day. I realize that it was important to try to clean up the mess made primarily by President Trump at your press conference when he said repeatedly "Don't Take Tylenol!".

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 6d

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

bit.ly/3IPC0PD

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 6d

I didn’t go through 12 years of medical training to check immigration status before deciding if a life is worth saving.

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JAMA @jama.com · 13d

💬 Viewpoint: Safeguarding pathways for non-US international medical graduates (IMGs) is essential to addressing physician shortages and ensuring health care access in underserved regions.

ja.ma/4nKcvOl

JAMA article cover: "International Medical Graduates, Visa Disruptions, and the Future of the US Physician Workforce" by Natalia Solenkova. Published online September 25, 2025. The article discusses the impact of J-1 visa processing delays on non-US IMGs.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 6d

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives.

Today, in response, we brought our own graphs.

We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity).

This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 7d

Attended a “retirement” party for 4 fed employees tonight. Incredibly sad for our country that so much talent is leaving their critical roles. Godspeed

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years ..

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit this week

More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.

www.reuters.com

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