Belinda McIntosh, M.D.
@bmacmd.bsky.social
Physician, Healthcare Equity Advocate, Physicians for a National Health Program, Georgians for a Universal Health Program
Pinned
“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks.
Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats.
Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so.
We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”
Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats.
Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so.
We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”
Letter to Faculty on Self-Censorship and Boldness (opinion)
In a letter to fellow faculty, Nolan L. Cabrera argues that self-censorship is not a strategy for self-preservation.
www.insidehighered.com
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted". -- Frederick Douglass (quoted in this thoughtful essay by Nolan Cabrera)
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Dr. Dave Oxman says the Democratic Party is at a crossroads, and change isn’t coming from the inside. That’s why he’s running to represent the people of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. Visit daveoxman.com to learn more.
Dr Dave Oxman
Dave is a lifelong Democrat who believes deeply in public service—but he is not a career politician.
daveoxman.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dr. Dave Oxman says the Democratic Party is at a crossroads, and change isn’t coming from the inside. That’s why he’s running to represent the people of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. Visit daveoxman.com to learn more.
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Watch Video Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66l8...
Dr. Dave Oxman For Congress
YouTube video by Dr. Dave For Philly
www.youtube.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Watch Video Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66l8...
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Private equity firms don't revive struggling hospitals any more than a chop shop fixes cars.
Let's break it down.
youtu.be/Q_5vYjMUKnQ
Let's break it down.
youtu.be/Q_5vYjMUKnQ
Private Equity's Assault On Healthcare
YouTube video by Dr. Dave For Philly
youtu.be
July 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Private equity firms don't revive struggling hospitals any more than a chop shop fixes cars.
Let's break it down.
youtu.be/Q_5vYjMUKnQ
Let's break it down.
youtu.be/Q_5vYjMUKnQ
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60 years ago, America did something special. Happy birthday, Medicare!
July 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
60 years ago, America did something special. Happy birthday, Medicare!
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The way we offer healthcare in America is a sign of a broken system. It's time we fix it.
youtube.com/shorts/lzoxY...
youtube.com/shorts/lzoxY...
Employer-based Health Insurance Doesn't Make Sense #politics #philadelphia #philly #democrat
YouTube video by Dr. Dave For Philly
youtube.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The way we offer healthcare in America is a sign of a broken system. It's time we fix it.
youtube.com/shorts/lzoxY...
youtube.com/shorts/lzoxY...
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RFK is on a mission to spread misinformation in his role as Health and Human Services Secretary. Democrats in power need to step up and call him out as he crusades, spreading junk science and harmful lies.
September 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
RFK is on a mission to spread misinformation in his role as Health and Human Services Secretary. Democrats in power need to step up and call him out as he crusades, spreading junk science and harmful lies.
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"If communicated as a matter of economic freedom and a fight against the creeping corporatization of American life, a national health plan could form the cornerstone of a new economic populism from the left."
Read the full article here: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...
Read the full article here: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"If communicated as a matter of economic freedom and a fight against the creeping corporatization of American life, a national health plan could form the cornerstone of a new economic populism from the left."
Read the full article here: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...
Read the full article here: thephiladelphiacitizen.org/guest-commen...
"no amount of data will repair underfunded clinics, reverse physician shortages or protect patients from predatory insurers."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"no amount of data will repair underfunded clinics, reverse physician shortages or protect patients from predatory insurers."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
Must read for healthcare providers. "The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life."
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“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.
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I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
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BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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I don’t what to say about a Dem leadership that can be undone by the likes of Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. Saying they went over Schumer’s head is not the flex people think it is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I don’t what to say about a Dem leadership that can be undone by the likes of Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen. Saying they went over Schumer’s head is not the flex people think it is.
