Bianca Santomasso, MD, PhD
@bsantomasso.bsky.social
Neuroimmunooncologist-fascinated by the brain and the immune system. Mom/wife/foodie/proud NYer. Personal account, opinions are my own.
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We're three lines into "First they came..."
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We're three lines into "First they came..."
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The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Trump Administration is once again failing to do its job — and California is cleaning up their mess.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
We're deploying state resources to protect the 2,000-year old sequoias on FEDERAL LANDS from the wildfires the federal administration are supposed to handle.
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In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
In light of today’s news about the National Cancer Institute announcing a 4% payline, it’s really important to communicate to people that the previous 10% payline was still effectively a lottery and the result of decades of underfunding the NIH. Paylines used to be 25%.
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Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents arrested me.
Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in a Florida swamp.
It’s frightening. It’s essential to fight back. It makes me proud of how New Yorkers voted last week – and how we’ll vote again in November.
Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in a Florida swamp.
It’s frightening. It’s essential to fight back. It makes me proud of how New Yorkers voted last week – and how we’ll vote again in November.
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
July 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents arrested me.
Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in a Florida swamp.
It’s frightening. It’s essential to fight back. It makes me proud of how New Yorkers voted last week – and how we’ll vote again in November.
Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in a Florida swamp.
It’s frightening. It’s essential to fight back. It makes me proud of how New Yorkers voted last week – and how we’ll vote again in November.
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For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
July 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
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he's just going to lie his way straight through it
July 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
he's just going to lie his way straight through it
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If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"
July 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
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Medicaid is the most important source of long-term care for the elderly.
www.wral.com/lifestyle/he...
www.wral.com/lifestyle/he...
Medicaid cuts could leave NC families without options for nursing home care
Proposed federal cuts to Medicaid could leave thousands of North Carolina families grappling with the loss of affordable nursing home care.
www.wral.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Medicaid is the most important source of long-term care for the elderly.
www.wral.com/lifestyle/he...
www.wral.com/lifestyle/he...
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
May 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.
April 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.
120,000 in NY saying “Hands off!”
April 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
120,000 in NY saying “Hands off!”
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Trump is driving the world to a global depression -and destruction of all US influence - using powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress could recall those powers and save everyone from the disaster Trump is determined to inflict
April 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump is driving the world to a global depression -and destruction of all US influence - using powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress could recall those powers and save everyone from the disaster Trump is determined to inflict
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It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.
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The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature
Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...
nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
"implications are profound"
New @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
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NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
Negligently disclosing national defense information is illegal — and it doesn't have to be classified
The Espionage Act, the law that often has been used in criminal cases involving leaks or mishandling of classified information, contains a provision making it
www.nbcnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Make America Nauseous Again
Trump’s FDA said “it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies & grocers rapidly trace contaminated food through the supply chain & pull it off the shelves.”
Trump has undercut efforts to tackle bacteria in food that sicken people.
Trump’s FDA said “it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies & grocers rapidly trace contaminated food through the supply chain & pull it off the shelves.”
Trump has undercut efforts to tackle bacteria in food that sicken people.
Trump Administration Postpones Deadline for Companies to Record and Trace Tainted Food
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Make America Nauseous Again
Trump’s FDA said “it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies & grocers rapidly trace contaminated food through the supply chain & pull it off the shelves.”
Trump has undercut efforts to tackle bacteria in food that sicken people.
Trump’s FDA said “it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies & grocers rapidly trace contaminated food through the supply chain & pull it off the shelves.”
Trump has undercut efforts to tackle bacteria in food that sicken people.
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
March 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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And add Canada to this growing list of countries issuing travel warnings for the U.S..👇
“The Golden Age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”
-Donald Trump, January 20, 2025.
-Donald Trump, January 20, 2025.
March 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
And add Canada to this growing list of countries issuing travel warnings for the U.S..👇
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In Michigan, 2.8 million people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under the Republican budget proposal, including 300,000 people with disabilities and 168,000 seniors.
Whitmer, Dingell sound alarm about potential Medicaid cuts, what it means for Michigan
“Too many people do not understand what the impact will be on our children, our seniors, our people with disabilities if they cut Medicaid,” said Dingell, D-Ann Arbor.
www.mlive.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In Michigan, 2.8 million people on Medicaid are at risk of losing their health care under the Republican budget proposal, including 300,000 people with disabilities and 168,000 seniors.