Nora Becker
@norabeckermd.bsky.social
MD, PhD, Assistant Prof at UMich | Alum of Penn Med, Wharton, Brigham & Women’s Hospital | Primary care physician and health policy researcher | Mom | Thoughts are my own. #BLM
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Nora Becker
@norabeckermd.bsky.social
· Mar 12
Prof @norabeckermd.bsky.social doing a great job of explaining why Medicaid cuts are an incredibly bad idea
To local news where people listen
www.9and10news.com/2025/03/11/m...
To local news where people listen
www.9and10news.com/2025/03/11/m...
Medicaid cuts could lead to higher long-term costs, advocates say
About 2.3 million Michigan residents are enrolled in medicaid, including close to a million children.
www.9and10news.com
God I hope people are listening
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Patient: My questions fall into the following categories: “Guilty Confessions,” “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With,” “General Complaints,” and “Things You Probably Can’t Do Anything About.”
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
January 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Patient: My questions fall into the following categories: “Guilty Confessions,” “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With,” “General Complaints,” and “Things You Probably Can’t Do Anything About.”
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
“If only someone could stop this,” laments one of the 53 people in the country who could stop this
Sen. Bill Cassidy, a former physician, spoke out against RFK Jr.'s reduction of the childhood immunization schedule: "Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency...will make America sicker."
Read more: thehill.com/policy/healt...
Read more: thehill.com/policy/healt...
Cassidy rips RFK Jr. vaccine schedule change, says it’s ‘based on no scientific input’
Sen. Bill Cassidy criticizes the reduction of the childhood immunization schedule by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., warning it will make America sicker.
thehill.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM
“If only someone could stop this,” laments one of the 53 people in the country who could stop this
Patient: My questions fall into the following categories: “Guilty Confessions,” “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With,” “General Complaints,” and “Things You Probably Can’t Do Anything About.”
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
January 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Patient: My questions fall into the following categories: “Guilty Confessions,” “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With,” “General Complaints,” and “Things You Probably Can’t Do Anything About.”
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
Me: It’s Primary Care Jeopardy! I’ll take “Things I’ve Diagnosed Myself With” for $300.
(Shared w consent)
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No.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
January 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
No.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.
Ann Arbor finally has a decent Thai restaurant
Thousands rejoice
2026 off to a great start
Thousands rejoice
2026 off to a great start
January 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Ann Arbor finally has a decent Thai restaurant
Thousands rejoice
2026 off to a great start
Thousands rejoice
2026 off to a great start
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You don't need to change for anyone in the new year.
Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile.
Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan.
Show everyone your claws and dark determination.
Make the world change for you.
Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile.
Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan.
Show everyone your claws and dark determination.
Make the world change for you.
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM
You don't need to change for anyone in the new year.
Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile.
Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan.
Show everyone your claws and dark determination.
Make the world change for you.
Don't hide your fangs behind a thin smile.
Don't hide your wings under a tattered cardigan.
Show everyone your claws and dark determination.
Make the world change for you.
So say we all
Better year I can feel it
January 1, 2026 at 5:06 AM
So say we all
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Done and done
Bring it on 2026
Bring it on 2026
My holiday break plans include playing a lot of Zelda and watching the sexy gay hockey show.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
January 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Done and done
Bring it on 2026
Bring it on 2026
Done and done
Bring it on 2026
Bring it on 2026
My holiday break plans include playing a lot of Zelda and watching the sexy gay hockey show.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
January 1, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Done and done
Bring it on 2026
Bring it on 2026
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
December 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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My 6yo asked to watch tv with her friend and I said no
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My 6yo asked to watch tv with her friend and I said no
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
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[posting from 1998] mom they’re doing sexual tai chi in buffy the vampire slayer
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
[posting from 1998] mom they’re doing sexual tai chi in buffy the vampire slayer
My 6yo asked to watch tv with her friend and I said no
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
December 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My 6yo asked to watch tv with her friend and I said no
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
So instead they found a rectangular toy and sat on the couch for 30 minutes staring at it while my 6yo narrated imaginary tv shows
Someone put this kid on the stage
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The only New Year’s resolutions you need:
- haunt more forests
- wander more moors
- terrify more towns
- draw more townsfolk towards their mossy doom with the awesome and terrible grandeur of your dark shambling form
- haunt more forests
- wander more moors
- terrify more towns
- draw more townsfolk towards their mossy doom with the awesome and terrible grandeur of your dark shambling form
December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The only New Year’s resolutions you need:
- haunt more forests
- wander more moors
- terrify more towns
- draw more townsfolk towards their mossy doom with the awesome and terrible grandeur of your dark shambling form
- haunt more forests
- wander more moors
- terrify more towns
- draw more townsfolk towards their mossy doom with the awesome and terrible grandeur of your dark shambling form
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Happy holidays, from Doctors for America.
This year, give the gift of patient advocacy, health equity, and a stronger voice for patients everywhere.
Every holiday donation is matched up to $10,000, amplifying our advocacy for health equity & patients’ rights.
Donate here: bit.ly/DFAholidaymatch
This year, give the gift of patient advocacy, health equity, and a stronger voice for patients everywhere.
Every holiday donation is matched up to $10,000, amplifying our advocacy for health equity & patients’ rights.
Donate here: bit.ly/DFAholidaymatch
December 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Happy holidays, from Doctors for America.
This year, give the gift of patient advocacy, health equity, and a stronger voice for patients everywhere.
Every holiday donation is matched up to $10,000, amplifying our advocacy for health equity & patients’ rights.
Donate here: bit.ly/DFAholidaymatch
This year, give the gift of patient advocacy, health equity, and a stronger voice for patients everywhere.
Every holiday donation is matched up to $10,000, amplifying our advocacy for health equity & patients’ rights.
Donate here: bit.ly/DFAholidaymatch
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9yo: But how will Santa get into our house if we don’t have a chimney?
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
9yo: But how will Santa get into our house if we don’t have a chimney?
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
9yo: But how will Santa get into our house if we don’t have a chimney?
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
9yo: But how will Santa get into our house if we don’t have a chimney?
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
Me, the Jewish parent: I think the chimney is probably a metaphor. It’s like a spiritual chimney? Ask your father
In our house the Santa snacks come with Lactaid and omeprazole
Plus a carrot for the reindeer
Plus a carrot for the reindeer
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
In our house the Santa snacks come with Lactaid and omeprazole
Plus a carrot for the reindeer
Plus a carrot for the reindeer
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Insane new real estate listing in my very own town
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Insane new real estate listing in my very own town
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
Insane new real estate listing in my very own town
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...
414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 - 3 beds/3.5 baths
(SW Michigan MLS) For Sale: 3 beds, 3.5 baths ∙ 5000 sq. ft. ∙ 414 S Main St #10, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 ∙ $7,000,000 ∙ MLS# 25062388 ∙ This Downtown Ann Arbor penthouse stands among the finest residence...
www.redfin.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Insane new real estate listing in my very own town
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
Choices were made
Many, many choices
An overwhelming amount of choices, one might say
My holiday break plans include playing a lot of Zelda and watching the sexy gay hockey show.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
My holiday break plans include playing a lot of Zelda and watching the sexy gay hockey show.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
It’s an ambitious schedule but I believe in myself.
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For the first time in my life, I donated to the American Academy of Pediatrics. They’re upholding evidence-based health standards for our kids and our communities, and they’re losing federal grants because of it.
www.aap.org/en/philanthr...
www.aap.org/en/philanthr...
December 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
For the first time in my life, I donated to the American Academy of Pediatrics. They’re upholding evidence-based health standards for our kids and our communities, and they’re losing federal grants because of it.
www.aap.org/en/philanthr...
www.aap.org/en/philanthr...