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Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her
@drquinngyn.medsky.social
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PDX Ob-Gyn, abortion provider, minimally-invasive gynecologic surgeon, left academic medicine no regrets, I bleed Duke blue, fiercely supportive parent of a trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
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drquinngyn.medsky.social
Blue Cross: We won’t approve your patient’s hysterectomy until she’s had an endometrial biopsy

Also Blue Cross: Once the biopsy is done, the hysterectomy will be approved. We don’t need to wait for the result

This is an insurance company insisting I inflict violence on a patient for no reason
mementomorty.bsky.social Memento (Aloof) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d
OH MY GOD, so get this

BCBS was waiting on some updated/corrected info from provider. Provider finally gets back to them, insurance updates info, then ACCIDENTALLY denies my claim saying it was OON, total error on their behalf, so provider bills me AGAIN.
mementomorty.bsky.social Memento (Aloof) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1d
Anthem BC/BS came back, 10 months later, and decided that it was going to deny me and my son's rabies treatments, after already approving the claim last December.

Denying a claim where if treatment were not given, results in death 100% of the time!
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ips-dc.org
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Michele Quinn, MD, FACOG she/her
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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marthapearce55.bsky.social
This isn't politics anymore. This is morality, and the dismantling of the Patriarchy....these nasty, disgusting men, AND the tratiorist women who support and defend them must be exposed and removed from public discourse for the safety of all of the women and children of the world.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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chlowski.bsky.social
it's 🏳️‍⚧️ transgender awareness week 🏳️‍⚧️, so : donate to trans support organizations if you can, hire trans people, defend them in public & private spaces when necessary, & just don't be an asshole in general
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
> 20 years practice. Also thousands of vaccines. Not a single case of Guillain-Barre
tom.medsky.social Tom Turkey [redacted] DO 🦃 @tom.medsky.social · 2d
19 years of practice, literally thousands of vaccines given. One case of Guillain-Barre when I was a resident and it was related to enterovirus.

Interesting that all the bad people are talking about this very rare condition at the same time - almost like they are coordinating somehow. 🤔
Two tweets: A Midwestern Doctor 1. @MidwesternDoc 22h I have been shocked by how many people I've met who developed GBS from a flu shot or COVID vaccine and am almost certain it's much more common than one in a million injections. 2. Quote Kelly DNP Functional/Integrative Medicine @kacdnp91 · 23h New patient Guillain-Barré syndrome, received both flu and Covid booster 3wks ago. 32yrs old.
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
All these men touching their penises and then touching freaking everything. Penis on the doorknob, penis on the table, penis on the serving utensils at the buffet
tom.medsky.social Tom Turkey [redacted] DO 🦃 @tom.medsky.social · 4d
I've told this story before but one of my roommates in medical school never washed his hands after #1 and his reasoning was "I DIDN'T PISS ON MY HANDS!"

If you live in southeast Ohio near Oxford DM me and I will let you know which primary care doctor to avoid.
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
On May 27 2025, these 3 MAHA/MAGA dudes took to X to say they were no longer recommending COVID vaccination in pregnancy

This was terrible advice:

First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...)

1/2
Video on X with RFK Jr, Makary, and Bhattacharya: "Today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS ’s promise to Make America Healthy Again."
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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dholladay.bsky.social
Here are the Democrats who sold out the American public:

Sen. Dick Durbin
Sen. Angus King (independent who caucuses with Democrats)
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
Sen. Jacky Rosen
Sen. John Fetterman
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Sen. Maggie Hassan

Vote them out.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave.

It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
I’m at a conference and it’s all AI this and AI that and I just want to hear about how I can use my own intelligence to help people. Can we please focus on improving our own brains and stop farming out thought?
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Food prices are up. SNAP is being held hostage. Millions of government workers are going on 6 weeks without pay. Unemployment has been rising and as of August more than 7 million Americans were unemployed. And the minimum wage hasn’t increased since 2009, when a dollar was worth >50% more than today
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
Great. I’m really looking forward to RFK Jr weighing in on fetal monitoring
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.

Read that again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
NYT headline: Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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erininthemorning.com
The 6th Circuit has been competing to be the most anti-trans circuit in America and is now carving out a right to bully transgender kids.

Despicable.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts.

Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.
OPINION MURPHY, Circuit Judge. An Ohio public school district bars its students from referring to transgender and nonbinary classmates using the pronouns that match their biological sex if the classmates prefer to go by different pronouns. The plaintiff in this case has parent and student members who believe that a person's sex is immutable. The members want to express this view by using biological pronouns. And they believe that they would convey a falsehood —that a person's gender is fluid—if they use preferred pronouns. So the plaintiff challenged the school district's speech ban on behalf of its members under the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause. This case about pronouns pits two important interests against each other. On the one hand, the school district has prohibited speech (biological pronouns) that expresses a message on a matter of pressing public concern. And because the district requires other speech (preferred pronouns) that expresses a competing view, it has discriminated based on its students' viewpoints. Its approach thus raises serious free-speech concerns. On the other hand, the school district rightly responds that it has a duty to protect all students- including transgender and nonbinary students— from bullying and harassment. And this protection, while necessarily restricting speech, does not violate the Free Speech Clause. So which of these competing concerns should prevail in this case? The Supreme Court's cases provide a clear answer. A school district may not restrict personal speech on matters of public concern unless the speech would "materially and substantially disrupt" school activities or infringe the legal "rights of others" in the school community. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503, 513 (1969). In this case's current posture, the school district has fallen far short of meeting this demanding standard. It introduced no evidence that the use of biological pronouns would disrupt school functions or qualify as harassment under Ohio law. Our society continues to debate whether biological pronouns are appropriate or offensive just as it continues to debate many other issues surrounding transgender rights. The school district may not skew this debate by forcing one side to change the way it conveys its message or by compelling it to express a different view. We thus reverse and remand Case: 23-3630 Document: 253-2 Filed: 11/06/2025 Page: 4 No. 23-3630 Defending Educ. v. Olentangy Loc. Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ., et al. Page 4 for the entry of an appropriately tailored preliminary injunction barring the district from punishing students for the commonplace use of biological pronouns. Yet nothing we say here forecloses the district from enforcing its anti-harassment policies against the abuse of transgender students just as it enforces those policies against the abuse of all other students.
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
If you work in healthcare and aren’t constantly appalled by the suffering people endure over something as stupid and unnecessary as people going without food or proper nutrition (or housing or medicine etc) in the wealthiest country in the history of the world then why are you working in healthcare?
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9d
The nurse who made fun of new parents who can’t feed their babies without SNAP was fired.

Shame on her.

Poverty is not a moral failing.

Those in healthcare roles are supposed to help, not hurt.

Don’t forget to donate diapers, formula & feminine care products to food banks!
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
Oopsie they didn’t voter suppress hard enough
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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tnicholsmd.com
When your cause is for hope and to improve society for all, and when you bank on our collective humanity, you will win. There will always be more of us than them.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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carlzimmer.com
Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/s...
Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease
NIH-led research on structural racism was published Friday, even as the Trump administration has cancelled and discredited such work.
www.statnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
drquinngyn.medsky.social
What is so silly about this is Scott Adams isn’t even asking for help with a denial of coverage. This privileged and apparently hapless man is asking the president for help scheduling an appointment with Kaiser
November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis∗ Jesper Akesson, Robert W. Hahn, Robert D. Metcalfe and Itzhak Rasooly† February 12, 2022 Abstract It is often argued that many White Americans oppose redistributive welfare policies because of animosity toward Black Americans. While a host of observational studies lend credence to this view, it has not yet been rigorously tested using the tools of randomized inference. In this study, we do exactly this by conducting two incentive-compatible experiments (n = 9, 775) in which different participants are randomly given different information about the share of welfare recipients who identify as Black and White. Our empirical analysis yields four main findings. First, most respondents greatly overestimate the share of welfare recipients who are Black. Second, these exaggerated beliefs reduce support for welfare among White respondents, a causal claim that we establish using treatment assignment as an instrument for beliefs. Third, just making White participants think about the racial composition of welfare recipients––holding constant their actual beliefs––reduces their support for welfare. Fourth, providing accurate information about the racial composition of welfare recipients does not influence support for welfare (relative to not receiving any information).
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM