John Bowers
jtbowers3.bsky.social
John Bowers
@jtbowers3.bsky.social
Physician, husband, father, grandfather, and sailor.
Climate change further demonstrated in 6/27 NYT. The Big Beautiful Bill strips away fiscal policy that attempts to mitigate it. #BBB
June 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social Epic podcast with Mark Cuban. He’s the type of candidate the dems need: energetic, direct, outspoken, and relevant.
June 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social Thank you for your Bulwark podcast. Can you put the name of the artist in the outro music in the show notes?@jtbowers3.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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As Cornell wins its first lacrosse title since 1977, I think of the MVP of that game, Eamon McEneaney, hero of the World Trade Center bombing evacuation of 1993, who died there on 9/11, whom I'm honored to say I covered and took courses with.
May 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
What does the “H” in a red shield in two of the corners of the field at Gillette Stadium for the NCAA lacrosse semifinal signify? Harvard? @espn.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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20 federal immigration agents mistakenly raided the Oklahoma City home of a family of U.S. citizens, held the mother and her three daughters at gun point, and seized the family’s phones, laptops, and life savings.

Agents from the FBI, ICE, and DHS were cruel and abusive, treating the mother and…
April 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is due to Doge cuts and really matters. www.whro.org/health/2025-...
State health department confirms hundreds of layoffs after ‘COVID-19’ cuts
Virginia also lost $219 million in funding, which had already been allocated.
www.whro.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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My family got these payments when my dad died at 34 years old after serving in the Navy for a decade from what he had paid in. I was five. Jeanine is an incurious ignoramus. Thanks @jessicatarlov.bsky.social for correcting her, which is God’s work.
Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security

Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Prediction:

Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
April 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Corey Booker has been speaking for 14 hours.
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker shows no signs of slowing down after speaking for more than 14 hours on the Senate floor, taking aim at President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE.
April 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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How did we get civil rights? Corey Booker
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social Love all your podcasts!
March 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social Since you are a constituent of Bill Cassidy perhaps he would tell you how his promised monthly meetings with RFK Jr. going with measles cases greater than 500, mass layoffs at HHS, and the commissioning of an autism study overseen by a quack.
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The consequences of a state having a Trumpist governor: www.whro.org/virginia-gov...
Youngkin vetoes minimum wage hike, prescription affordability board bills
www.whro.org
March 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... Trump believes that if you don’t measure or test that bad things will go away.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A federal court ordered the Trump Admin to stop its illegal funding freeze. But the Admin is not complying so Virginia health clinics are closing or reducing services.

www.vpm.org/news/2025-02...
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
www.vpm.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Still no #CDC MMWR or other new information on site except the banner on many pages.
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️
February 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
More shackling of the CDC.
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
CDC Scientists Ordered to Withdraw Studies That Say ‘LGBT’ or ‘Pregnant People’
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
nyti.ms
February 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
@wyden.senate.gov Please recall Kash Patel for a 2nd round of questioning by the Judiciary Committee in view of the political related purge of FBI personnel.
February 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM