Rodrigo Muñoz
@drigomunoz.bsky.social
Gynecologist in NC. Progressive. Husband. Cat dad. Incoming Duke URPS fellow. Princeton, UABSOM, and UNC OB/GYN alum.
Views my own and not med advice.
Views my own and not med advice.
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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was just released. It would terminate health insurance for 14 MILLION Americans.
This is not a drill. We need to fight back.
This is not a drill. We need to fight back.
May 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was just released. It would terminate health insurance for 14 MILLION Americans.
This is not a drill. We need to fight back.
This is not a drill. We need to fight back.
The values reflected by taking healthcare away to fund cutting taxes for the wealthy are despicable.
May 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The values reflected by taking healthcare away to fund cutting taxes for the wealthy are despicable.
Wrapping up a week in Bologna. Experiencing the familiar dread of going from a walkable, planned environment with trains and transit to the car-is-king, sidewalk-less American southeastern US. We tolerate such poor standards.
May 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Wrapping up a week in Bologna. Experiencing the familiar dread of going from a walkable, planned environment with trains and transit to the car-is-king, sidewalk-less American southeastern US. We tolerate such poor standards.
Worth remembering that the institutions and titles never made America’s storied scientists great, but vice versa. Take away the people and you just have empty buildings full of beakers and benches.
April 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Worth remembering that the institutions and titles never made America’s storied scientists great, but vice versa. Take away the people and you just have empty buildings full of beakers and benches.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies from ripping taxpayers off for services that should be free.
Americans want a free and easy way to file their taxes — Trump and Musk want to take that away.
Americans want a free and easy way to file their taxes — Trump and Musk want to take that away.
Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free.
apnews.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies from ripping taxpayers off for services that should be free.
Americans want a free and easy way to file their taxes — Trump and Musk want to take that away.
Americans want a free and easy way to file their taxes — Trump and Musk want to take that away.
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Documented two doses of MMR (or VZV) trump any serologic testing for measles or varicella IgG. Commerically available tests are not sensitive enough and will be false negative in about 1/3 of vaccinated individuals.
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Documented two doses of MMR (or VZV) trump any serologic testing for measles or varicella IgG. Commerically available tests are not sensitive enough and will be false negative in about 1/3 of vaccinated individuals.
Up next: Thom Tillis ⏳
April 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Up next: Thom Tillis ⏳
Bro most of us just want leaders who will stand up to evil rich cronies
March 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Bro most of us just want leaders who will stand up to evil rich cronies
Kneecapping our biomedical research infrastructure is such a moronic and cruel self-own for our country.
March 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Kneecapping our biomedical research infrastructure is such a moronic and cruel self-own for our country.
Have they considered using Epic chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Have they considered using Epic chat?
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This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.
Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Mom of child dead from measles: “Don’t do the shots,” my other 4 kids were fine
The interview downplayed the disease, maligned vaccines…
arstechnica.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.
I still sometimes sit in moments of brief shock that our country re-elected him after the January 6 attack on Congress.
March 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I still sometimes sit in moments of brief shock that our country re-elected him after the January 6 attack on Congress.
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The back and forth with student loans is exhausting and makes it hard to plan financially. I wish we had a functioning legislative body that would do *anything* about it.
March 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The back and forth with student loans is exhausting and makes it hard to plan financially. I wish we had a functioning legislative body that would do *anything* about it.
We will never be the same.
February 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We will never be the same.
Expertise matters. Experience matters.
February 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Expertise matters. Experience matters.
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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."
Suffer no tyrants.
February 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Suffer no tyrants.
What a fucking joke.
By voting to confirm RFK Jr., the Senate “is wagering the future of our public health system on a prayer that a conspiracy theorist can build back up the agencies that he and his supporters have spent years breaking down,” Nicholas Florko writes.
RFK Jr. Won. Now What?
America’s health is in the hands of an anti-vaccine conspiracist.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What a fucking joke.
I was a junior in college when Tyler Clementi died by suicide after his homophobic Rutgers roommate spied on him via webcam and posted about it on Twitter. A year later, Jamey Rodemeyer took his life at age 14 in Amherst, NY, a victim of intense bullying and homophobia.
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was a junior in college when Tyler Clementi died by suicide after his homophobic Rutgers roommate spied on him via webcam and posted about it on Twitter. A year later, Jamey Rodemeyer took his life at age 14 in Amherst, NY, a victim of intense bullying and homophobia.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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