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Josh Zembik
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Former Hill staffer and sports reporter. ATL expat. Once had the entire Delaware Congressional delegation in my Jetta. Go Dawgs! jzembik AT gmail DOT com
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A Mariners fan with a KKKIRBY sign showing George Kirby’s strikeouts.
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Jeb!
A NYT news alert says federal officers called Portland protesters “low energy”
October 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Send in the National Guard! Antifa training camp!
Chicago bounce house in the middle of a war zone.
October 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Death everywhere. It’s awful.
Skeletons everywhere from the Chicago War
October 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Horrific.
Even the dogs have been injured in the fighting.
October 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Pictures from the front lines.
Even at the height of war in Chicago, residents managed to decorate for Halloween.
October 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Wait, the White House withdrew its CFTC nominee because of opposition from the Winklevoss twins??
Politico: The White House withdrew Brian Quintenz’s nomination to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission late Tuesday, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the decision ahead of a public announcement. A small but powerful agency, the CFTC oversees a broad swath of financial markets including those tied to the cryptocurrency industry. In July, crypto billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss pressed President Donald Trump to reconsider his selection of Quintenz to lead the Wall Street regulator.
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Absolute hellscape in Chicago.
Just the perfect fall day in Chicago on a street closed to traffic.
September 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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They won. Somehow.
Brian Snitker, head in hand, miserable. The image of the 2025 Braves.
August 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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AMA response to Jay Bhattacharya's Post op-ed on mRNA. "With another pandemic always just beyond the horizon, there is no medical reason to cease programs that empower us to develop vaccines more quickly to address viruses as they mutate."

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AMA president: NIH is wrong to pivot from mRNA vaccines (a screenshot from the AMA's letter to the editor in the Washington Post responding to NIH Director Bhattacharya's piece)
August 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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So much respect for Chopped Junior contestant Sarah for running with an *air quotes* “Jersey Fresh” style of cooking.
August 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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After reports Sec. Kennedy intends to remove all members of the US Preventive Services Task Force, AMA sent the following letter urging him to retain current members and continue the task force’s regular meeting schedule. searchlf.ama-assn.org/letter/docum...
Dear Secretary Kennedy, On behalf of the physician and medical student members of the American Medical Association (AMA), I am writing to express our deep concern with the recent reports of your intention to remove all of the members of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). As you know, USPSTF plays a critical, non-partisan role in guiding physicians’ efforts to prevent disease and improve the health of patients by helping to ensure access to evidence-based clinical preventive services. As such, we urge you to retain the previously appointed members of the USPSTF and commit to the long-standing process of regular meetings to ensure their important work can continue without interruption. The USPSTF has long played an essential role in making evidence-based recommendations for clinical prevention of disease. USPSTF members have been selected through an open, public nomination process and are nationally recognized experts in primary care, prevention and evidence-based medicine. They serve on a volunteer basis, dedicating their time to help reduce disease and improve the health of all Americans—a mission well-aligned with the Make America Healthy Again initiative. Importantly, the USPSTF puts forth recommendations that dictate coverage policy for health insurers nationwide. By law, insurers must cover USPSTF-recommended services without cost sharing. This means that patients have access to services such as screenings for colon, breast, and lung cancer; screenings for anxiety and depression in children; and screenings and preventive services for cardiovascular disease. Access to these services without cost sharing plays a critical role in keeping patients healthy and reducing the burdens of disease. The most important role physicians play is improving the health of patients. Given the essential role USPSTF members play in weighing the benefits and harms of preventive services such as screenings, behavioral counseling, and preventive medications…
July 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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LUDA!
Ludacrisp apples for sale. I had no idea.
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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I didn’t know this was where Andrew Giuliani landed! This World Cup is gonna be a mess.
According to Politico, Andrew Giuliani “leads a task force on World Cup preparations”
July 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Thank god Congress just lowered these people’s taxes.
NYT alert: Gourmet stores are upping their game in the Hamptons, where a single (very fancy) melon can cost $400. Truffles, anyone?
July 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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AMA statement on the reconciliation bill and its massive Medicaid cuts. Quote is from a physician in Flint, Mich., whose patients rely on Medicaid to get the care they need.
AMA: Reconciliation bill passage a “harmful day for patients and health care” Statement attributable to: Bobby Mukkamala, M.D. President, American Medical Association “Today is a sad and unnecessarily harmful day for patients and health care across the country, and its impact will reverberate for years. Care will be less accessible and patients may simply forego seeing their physician because the lifelines of Medicaid and CHIP are severed. “This is bad for my patients in Flint, Michigan, and it is devastating for the estimated 11.8 million people who will have no health insurance coverage as a result of this bill. “The American Medical Association’s mission is promoting the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. This bill moves us in the wrong direction. It will make it harder to access care and make patients sicker. It will make it more likely that acute, treatable illnesses will turn into life-threatening or costly chronic conditions. That is disappointing, maddening, and unacceptable.”
July 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Our 4 year old has been OBSESSED with death lately. Constantly asking “how did he get dead?” about everyone. As Michael Harris stepped in for the Braves tonight, he said “dad, is Michael Harris dead?”

Me: “does he look dead?”

4 year old: “Um, yes?”

And honestly…
Michael Harris’s baseball savant page looks a lot like the page of a dead guy.
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Jennifer Coolidge on 'The White Lotus': "These gays, they're trying to murder me"
June 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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CJ Roberts: People were saying I wasn't quite the worst chief justice. Not as long as Taney was out there.
Michael Jordan: "...and I took that personally"
June 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Eric Adams wearing a Yankees/Mets hat like a lunatic.
June 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Tune in for the series finale of “Earth, with Donald Trump”
NYT alert gamifies a Trump announcement on whether he’ll attack Iran, saying he’ll decide “within the next two weeks”
June 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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AMA statement on ACIP.
AMA Statement on Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices The following statement is attributable to: Bruce A. Scott, M.D. President, American Medical Association “For generations, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been a trusted national source of science- and data-driven advice and guidance on the use of vaccines to prevent and control disease. Physicians, parents, community leaders and public health officials rely on them for clinical guidance, public health information, and knowledge. Today’s action to remove the 17 sitting members of ACIP undermines that trust and upends a transparent process that has saved countless lives. With an ongoing measles outbreak and routine child vaccination rates declining, this move will further fuel the spread of vaccine-preventable illnesses.”
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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At a conference housed almost entirely at the LAX Marriott. But I managed to sneak away once!
The sign welcoming visitors to Dodger Stadium, complete with palm trees Aaron Judge one pitch before he hit a 440-foot home run Shohei Ohtani ACTUALLY hitting a home run! (One of two last night)
May 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Who the hell is Elon to say a Bill can't be big AND beautiful??
Big beautiful de Blasio.
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Oh do SOME analysts say this?? FFS, NYT, how can you not even report verifiable facts?? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/w...
NYT subhed writers unwilling to attribute record American applications for British citizenship to Trump
May 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM