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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP

@tnicholsmd.com

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I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others Humanist | Emergency+Addiction Medicine | Health policy and advocacy | Health technology and innovation | Views my own (he/him)

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · Oct 17

Hi new friends, welcome!
I’m an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician interested in health policy and advocacy. I post about harm reduction and the intersection between politics and health and healthcare, and my otherwise meandering thoughts of political despair.

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 5h

US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

Advance Publication | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 15m

We must take this stuff seriously. Please, none of this “he just has some controversial opinions” stuff. Don’t call him “America’s most canceled man” or something.

If you are going to interview Fuentes, it’s unforgivable to set aside his neo-Nazism.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ris...

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All

A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2h

I'm so impressed! You've gotten so good!

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2h

Important thread.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

The premise of Cambridge Analytica was that, through the magic of big data, everyone from states to political influence operators could identify the unique intersection of online signals to profile and target individual people and communities with messaging designed to reflexively control them

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 9h

Debunkinhg takes hours, misinformation seconds.

Don´t just post. If you didn´t read or understand the paper, don´t post it with conclusions from others. Be very careful with low-impact journals and with predatory journals as well as with pre-prints! If unsure, ask experts, or wait for them.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

“The show then cut to a break and later resumed the interview with Miller. Sanchez told the audience, ‘wires got crossed’. Neither Sanchez nor Miller mentioned Trump wielding ‘plenary authority’ again.”

WHY AREN’T JOURNALISTS ASKING BASIC FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS??

Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 6h

Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority.

Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 5h

They’re consolidating power to break any checks on their power and attempts at authoritarian takeover.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

The CIA’s deputy director has “abruptly demoted” the CIA’s acting general counsel & installed himself in that role, thus taking “control of making legal judgments for the agency while continuing to help lead it…” (This follows Hegseth’s termination of top military legal officials in Feb.) 10/6/25 1/

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

www.nytimes.com

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 5h

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 5h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 20h

You are doing amazing work. Thanks @turban.bsky.social ❤️

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 20h

Whoa.

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

Congrats!!!

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza."
#Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

Tulane changes syllabus, fires academic director over Gaza article • Louisiana Illuminator

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people who support Palestine.

lailluminator.com

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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to exercise monarchic whim and illegally re-direct appropriations is how the headline should read.

Just again, spending and appropriations is a core power of Congress, not subject to the Executive's whims.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Jeffrey B. Benyacar 🎗️ @drjeffreyb.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh! Framing inhalers as “drivers of climate change” is lazy journalism. They’re life-saving medical devices, not SUVs.
Exaggerating a 0.006% emission source while guilt-tripping asthma patients is moral theater, not science.
Statistical telescoping (aggregation fallacy) on full display too. 🛟

Rethinking Inhalers in the Era of Climate Change

Portable, fast-acting, and highly effective, metered-dose inhalers have transformed the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) over the past 70 years. But alongside their...

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

So good!

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

So many good suggestions here! Keep them coming!

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2d

What is a song that likely doesn't make anyone's top lists, but that you think is a perfect song, or absolutely beautiful, or that you could listen to on repeat?

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

One of the best songs ever created in the history of music

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

Strong suggestion, if you like night swimming, for Holocene by Bon Iver:
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Bon Iver - Holocene - Official Video

YouTube video by Bon Iver

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2d

The institutional norm is to always assume people are engaging in good faith and that has not been true for a very long time and is deeply problematicI

Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2d

The amount of times that I have talked about GamerGate or Groypers, or accelerationism, the rise of online extremism over decades translating into real kinetic action with folks, or the impact of disinformation campaigns to people who aren't regularly in online spaces I just get blank stares.

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2d

If you don't know what Gamergate is...I need you to look it up, read about it, and understand that has continued to be the ongoing strategy.

Our failure to shut down any of these catastrophic swarming / threatening / disinformation campaigns or hold anyone accountable is the problem.

Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 2d

I will die on my "Everything is Gamergate" hill

Kingsgrave @kingsgrave.bsky.social · 2d

the post ironic shit has really spread way too far

edgy "joke" which lines up with my actual beliefs and the joke is that Im not actually joking. plausible deniability, im just a little birthday boy, wink wink

something awful, kiwifarms, and 4chan really are all the origin points of this shit

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 2d

What is a song that likely doesn't make anyone's top lists, but that you think is a perfect song, or absolutely beautiful, or that you could listen to on repeat?

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