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Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/48Ova76
December 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
What a nice way to speak of immigrants from a war-torn country trying to seek a better life in the most wealthy country in history.
President Trump on Tuesday delivered blatantly xenophobic public remarks, which included attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota and calling them “garbage.”

Listen to "The Daily."
Trump Rants: ‘Let Them Go Back to Where They Came From’
President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
nyti.ms
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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More than half of Americans get their news regularly from Tiktok. And this has more than doubled in 5 years. Tiktok has become a key gateway to news and politics.

This makes ownership of and content on the platform even more important.

Source: @pewresearch.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What an eloquent, concise, and firm summary of Trump's perpetual corruption.
"Trying to silence me":
Beto O'Rourke responds to Texas AG's threat to arrest him
August 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Target could have doubled down on its DEI efforts and easily won more business and increased customer loyalty. Instead, they cowered to the Trump Administration and its racist, homophobic, sexist policies.

My family was once regular Target shoppers but we haven't given them a dime since Jan. 24.
💥 Some "cave to the loudest voices demanding a step backward. Some have quietly dismantled their DEI..." Costco "held its ground, recognizing that diversity and inclusion aren’t just buzzwords; they’re essential to a thriving workplace and a successful business."

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Johnson: Costco’s DEI stand shows how to do the right thing
Peter Johnson: Celebrating Costco for its commitment to DEI
www.dallasnews.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just take a multivitamin. 🙄
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tour this week on combating chronic illness comes after the Trump administration canceled key grants and contracts that directly address diseases such as obesity and dementia, which experts agree are among the nation’s leading health problems.
As RFK Jr. Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut
Two significant programs that invested in research on diabetes, dementia, obesity and kidney disease have ended since the start of the Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I barely passed the required basic statistics course in grad school. Maybe if Stats, STAT! had been available, I might've done better!
nejm.org NEJM.org @nejm.org · Mar 11
This video from NEJM Evidence explores the basis for non-inferiority trials, the meaning of non-inferiority margins, and the interpretation of a non-inferiority trial’s results.

Check out our Stats, STAT! playlist on YouTube to explore more statistical concepts: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#MedSky
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Nobody wants this. Nobody.
Chinese Officials Consider Elon Musk Takeover of TikTok US
Reports suggests that Chinese officials are considering an Elon Musk takeover of the app.
www.socialmediatoday.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Here's an online quiz all should take. It's a simple test: read a bunch of headlines and choose whether you believe each is real or fake.

Test your misinformation susceptibility here: yourmist.streamlit.app

#misinformation #fakenews
December 18, 2024 at 10:43 PM
You know the #MedSky community has hit a critical mass when all the major medical journals have set up camp here.

Thank you to @sarasyrah.bsky.social for helping set up the @nejm.org handle and to @chrisiacono.bsky.social who will be doing the heavy lifting in managing the great content to come.
Hello, #MedSky community! We’re excited to begin our Bluesky journey.

Here is a sampling of the trusted, influential, and essential information you can expect when you follow us:
December 6, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, Jonathan Haidt argued in 2022. It’s not just a phase. theatln.tc/XH7Zf8OQ
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
theatln.tc
November 27, 2024 at 5:33 PM
It seems Bluesky is the place to be for physicians and researchers.

www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Physicians Flock to Bluesky, Hoping to Leave X Behind
Many compare it to the early days of Twitter
www.medpagetoday.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:57 PM
America in a nutshell.
beyond parody
April 27, 2024 at 2:48 AM
GIFs are here!
Bonheur GIF
ALT: Bonheur GIF
media.tenor.com
April 27, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Threads users: will you or have you opted in to seeing political content in your feed?

Should Bluesky similarly steer away from politics?

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-d...
April 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all down. Social media managers hopping on to Bluesky, LinkedIn, and anything other than X:
March 5, 2024 at 4:08 PM