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Random thought that popped up: Where's the Tubman twenty? Is it ever going to happen?
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Random thought that popped up: Where's the Tubman twenty? Is it ever going to happen?
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Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
September 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
August 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
The companies doing the prior authorizations will be paid based on how much they save ( how much they deny).
There is so much to dislike about this timeline...
www.axios.com/2025/06/27/m...
There is so much to dislike about this timeline...
www.axios.com/2025/06/27/m...
Traditional Medicare to add prior authorizations
Traditional Medicare historically hasn't required payer pre-approval before patients can access most medications or services, a major perk for enrollees.
www.axios.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The companies doing the prior authorizations will be paid based on how much they save ( how much they deny).
There is so much to dislike about this timeline...
www.axios.com/2025/06/27/m...
There is so much to dislike about this timeline...
www.axios.com/2025/06/27/m...
The hits just keep coming thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
July 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The hits just keep coming thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Also rural hospitals and clinics are screwed.
June 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Also rural hospitals and clinics are screwed.
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NEWS: Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
www.finance.senate.gov
June 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEWS: Wyden Statement on New CBO Numbers Showing More than $930 Billion in Medicaid Cuts In New Senate Draft
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The new bill text goes way beyond eliminating @wyden.senate.gov's tax credits for wind and solar.
It actually **TAXES CLEAN ENERGY**
Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.
It actually **TAXES CLEAN ENERGY**
Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.
Re-upping this. H/T @ashleyschapitl.bsky.social, a former aide to Ron Wyden who worked on the IRA, the bill would also impose a new fee on Wind and Solar projects.
June 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The new bill text goes way beyond eliminating @wyden.senate.gov's tax credits for wind and solar.
It actually **TAXES CLEAN ENERGY**
Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.
It actually **TAXES CLEAN ENERGY**
Needless to say, this is an awful idea. It's an immediate rate hike for consumers, and hundreds of thousands of clean energy workers are about to lose their jobs.
Keeps popping up in my feed... youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
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June 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Keeps popping up in my feed... youtu.be/gp5JCrSXkJY?...
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Republicans were never going to stop at abortion. They are coming for contraception. Republicans want a politician in every bedroom and exam room in America.
The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was disbanded.
How CDC cuts affect women with chronic diseases like sickle cell
The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was disbanded.
nbcnews.to
June 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Republicans were never going to stop at abortion. They are coming for contraception. Republicans want a politician in every bedroom and exam room in America.
Like reading about this wapo.st/4kMztDe
4 ways women are physically stronger than men
Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female bodies excel in other areas.
wapo.st
May 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Like reading about this wapo.st/4kMztDe
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“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." — 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the US Senate, signed by President Adams
Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.
Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.
May 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." — 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the US Senate, signed by President Adams
Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.
Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.
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Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.
U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law • Georgia Recorder
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...
georgiarecorder.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Here we go. US born citizen in ICE custody.
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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
There's now a 6-week t-bill? Why?
February 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
There's now a 6-week t-bill? Why?
Ew. Just no to the creepy ad with Seal
February 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Ew. Just no to the creepy ad with Seal
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“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material
Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Agency staff were also sent an email Friday directing them to contact scientific journals to pull back manuscripts that had been accepted, but not yet published, that did not comply with the executive order on gender ideology” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?
January 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
What the fuck is this? AI qualifying as a prescriber?
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Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.
I have not seen people talking about this so far w/ 47's cuts to roles.
"Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday" eliminating their role. This is a mandated committee by law dating back to PanAm 103. @jonostrower.com @wandrme.paxex.aero
apnews.com/article/coas...
"Members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday" eliminating their role. This is a mandated committee by law dating back to PanAm 103. @jonostrower.com @wandrme.paxex.aero
apnews.com/article/coas...
Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts key aviation safety advisory committee
President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while...
apnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
Dr retired 2020 and last year I finally found a new one (and had to wait 8 no to get in). This year she and most of docs in that hospital system are no longer accepting BCBS ( v. low reimbursement rates)
January 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Dr retired 2020 and last year I finally found a new one (and had to wait 8 no to get in). This year she and most of docs in that hospital system are no longer accepting BCBS ( v. low reimbursement rates)
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So reproductiverights.gov no longer exists and we are out of the WHO
January 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
So reproductiverights.gov no longer exists and we are out of the WHO
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Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs
Trump’s initial orders reverse Biden on health care costs, protections from discrimination
Trump's executive orders took aim at Biden's priorities, from drug pricing to gender discrimination.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs