Kim Bredeson
@bredeson.bsky.social
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
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"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Happy World TB Day. Grateful for all the work global TB Fighters pour into preventing this curable and preventable scourge. Together, we can end TB.
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Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy
By retracting foreign aid, the president could make tuberculosis untreatable again.
www.theatlantic.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
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March 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This will directly cause hundreds of thousands of new and needless deaths from tuberculosis every year, and reverse decades of progress in fighting our deadliest infection. I'm just devastated.
People who ban books are never on the right side of history
February 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
People who ban books are never on the right side of history
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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#NTDDay: Millions are impacted by neglected tropical diseases like Schistosomiasis, yet they are often overlooked. 🌍
Watch Masha Pastrana, our Medical Advisor, explain the disease and why urgent action is crucial: youtube.com/shorts/OCmwz...
Watch Masha Pastrana, our Medical Advisor, explain the disease and why urgent action is crucial: youtube.com/shorts/OCmwz...
#NTDDay: Doctors Without Borders medical advisors talks schistosomiasis
YouTube video by Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
#NTDDay: Millions are impacted by neglected tropical diseases like Schistosomiasis, yet they are often overlooked. 🌍
Watch Masha Pastrana, our Medical Advisor, explain the disease and why urgent action is crucial: youtube.com/shorts/OCmwz...
Watch Masha Pastrana, our Medical Advisor, explain the disease and why urgent action is crucial: youtube.com/shorts/OCmwz...
You promised you'd be Tesla
But you're just another Edison
But you're just another Edison
January 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You promised you'd be Tesla
But you're just another Edison
But you're just another Edison
Not me being 24 days late to cross “TB Outbreak” off my 2024 bingo card 😓 #tuberculosis #tb
January 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Not me being 24 days late to cross “TB Outbreak” off my 2024 bingo card 😓 #tuberculosis #tb
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It's still January.
January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's still January.
Someday I would like to watch a Chief’s game without getting an ulcer. But, alas, today was not that day.
#kcc #kansascity #chiefs
#kcc #kansascity #chiefs
January 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Someday I would like to watch a Chief’s game without getting an ulcer. But, alas, today was not that day.
#kcc #kansascity #chiefs
#kcc #kansascity #chiefs
January 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all
January 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all
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I wish I could unrecall
how we almost had it all
how we almost had it all
January 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I wish I could unrecall
how we almost had it all
how we almost had it all
“”Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” - Erm. Aren’t all people phenotypically female at conception? Did DJT’s White House just accidentally end the patriarchy? #djt #whitehouse #patriarchy #intheclurbweallgirls
January 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“”Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” - Erm. Aren’t all people phenotypically female at conception? Did DJT’s White House just accidentally end the patriarchy? #djt #whitehouse #patriarchy #intheclurbweallgirls
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He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.
January 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
He pardoned EVERY SINGLE PERSON... I won't hold my breath for people to be outraged.
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr #mlk #mlkday #peace #nonviolentrevolution
January 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr #mlk #mlkday #peace #nonviolentrevolution
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Oh goody, TikTok is back, and it’s all thanks to not-yet-president Donald Trump. I’m so grateful for his selfless efforts over the last 15 hours that the past 8 years of bigotry, idiocy, and shameful behaviors is just water under the bridge now. Bygones! #tiktokrefugee #thanksorangeoverlord
January 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Oh goody, TikTok is back, and it’s all thanks to not-yet-president Donald Trump. I’m so grateful for his selfless efforts over the last 15 hours that the past 8 years of bigotry, idiocy, and shameful behaviors is just water under the bridge now. Bygones! #tiktokrefugee #thanksorangeoverlord