Diane Loewenstein Mulvey MD
@dimulvey.bsky.social
Clinical Bioethicist, MD, & Carbon-Based Lifeform.
To be clear: If you pull money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you did not earn or gain anything. Such is the case with Trump’s $1,776 Military Payments. He raided a fund to improve troop housing approved by Congress weeks ago.
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The Santa Presidency
Trump is trying to fix the economy—by handing out cash.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
To be clear: If you pull money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you did not earn or gain anything. Such is the case with Trump’s $1,776 Military Payments. He raided a fund to improve troop housing approved by Congress weeks ago.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
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Opinion | On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice
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December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
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The deal is expected to close next month, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX owning 45% of TikTok’s U.S. business.
Larry Ellison Retakes No.3 Richest Spot From Jeff Bezos As Oracle Shares Rise On TikTok Deal
The deal is expected to close next month, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX owning 45% of TikTok’s U.S. business.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The deal is expected to close next month, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX owning 45% of TikTok’s U.S. business.
Trump’s Puppet Master, Russell Vought, climate change denier, is behind this insanity.
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I worked at NOAA for 30 years, and know Trump’s attack on Colorado’s world-class science labs puts us all at risk (Opinion)
The research activities NCAR and the NOAA labs in Boulder conduct are predominant sources of authoritative weather and climate data, forecasts of extreme weather and predictions of changes in clima…
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December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump’s Puppet Master, Russell Vought, climate change denier, is behind this insanity.
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All that hard right Christian nationalist work down the drain. So sad.
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
All that hard right Christian nationalist work down the drain. So sad.
Classic megalomaniac behavior: when his lips are moving, he’s lying. The Grifter-in-Chief.
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Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night. Here is a fact check.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Classic megalomaniac behavior: when his lips are moving, he’s lying. The Grifter-in-Chief.
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Our most sacred duty is contained within the Hippocratic Oath: Do no harm. Giving saline injections to children in order to circumvent Utah’s vaccination protocol is unconscionable.
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Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeon’s victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other “medical freedom” advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. “This undermines every layer of the system that prot...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Our most sacred duty is contained within the Hippocratic Oath: Do no harm. Giving saline injections to children in order to circumvent Utah’s vaccination protocol is unconscionable.
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
It is not unreasonable for an industrialized nation to view health care as a human right and not a perk for the few who can afford it. And the Red Herring that the cost of healthcare is the real culprit is just that: noise.
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Obamacare Changed the Politics of Health Care
It’s one thing for Republicans to deny hypothetical care. It’s another to take this tangible benefit away.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It is not unreasonable for an industrialized nation to view health care as a human right and not a perk for the few who can afford it. And the Red Herring that the cost of healthcare is the real culprit is just that: noise.
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JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
JB Pritzker: “We’re a nation mostly of immigrants — that is who we are fundamentally at our core. We ought to always be that, it’s what’s made our country great — Immigrants are the most entrepreneurial. Immigrants are the most grateful & patriotic”
It is the eleventh hour to extend insurance tax credits. Yes, the Republicans are to blame for failing to come up with anything to replace the ACA (Obamacare) in over 15 YEARS, but that is irrelevant at this point. Understand the coming crisis because it could be you.
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Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess
Conservatives haven’t taken health policy seriously for decades.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It is the eleventh hour to extend insurance tax credits. Yes, the Republicans are to blame for failing to come up with anything to replace the ACA (Obamacare) in over 15 YEARS, but that is irrelevant at this point. Understand the coming crisis because it could be you.
www.vox.com/health/47196...
www.vox.com/health/47196...
Why Republicans in Congress are turning against Trump
Republicans are also quitting in droves.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Generation Slipping Through Our Fingers — And What We Must Do to Save It
They are savable
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December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Oh My God. Couldn’t we just give him Eric and Don, Jr instead of this grody plan?
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The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate
Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Oh My God. Couldn’t we just give him Eric and Don, Jr instead of this grody plan?
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“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
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‘There’s power in numbers’: New Yorkers are banding together to protect street vendors from ICE
With ICE targeting vendors and fear rising, community groups are organising fast to keep New Yorkers working on the streets safe
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December 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“There’s power in numbers, and now that people have seen we’ve successfully stopped abductions, I hope they can get out there too...”
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1. This moron was convicted by a jury of her peers and found guilty of election fraud after the 2020 election in Colorado.
2. The POTUS moron has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to pardon a state conviction.
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2. The POTUS moron has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to pardon a state conviction.
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Colorado Officials Reject Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of a Convicted Election Denier
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December 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
1. This moron was convicted by a jury of her peers and found guilty of election fraud after the 2020 election in Colorado.
2. The POTUS moron has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to pardon a state conviction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
2. The POTUS moron has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to pardon a state conviction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
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I work extensively with veterans, Tricare, and the entire black hole known as the VA. I was convinced the place could not become less responsive or more inept. I was wrong.
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"The Trump Administration plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions at the Dept of Veterans Affairs this month...
"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
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"The cuts come after a reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 V.A. employees this year..."
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VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs
Strains on the Veterans Affairs system could grow with the elimination of as many as 35,000 mostly unfilled health care positions, including doctors and nurses.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I work extensively with veterans, Tricare, and the entire black hole known as the VA. I was convinced the place could not become less responsive or more inept. I was wrong.
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