Ronnie Cohen
@ronnielcohen.bsky.social
California journalist focused mostly on health and social justice. Words at KFF Health News, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, The Guardian and more. Old yogi and new knitter. She/her.
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A ruling upholding California's medical bias training law is a victory for the state against anti-DEI challenges from the Trump administration and conservative groups.
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Affirmative Action Critics Refuse To Back Down in Fight Over Medical Bias Training - KFF Health News
A nonprofit fighting affirmative action in medicine and a Los Angeles ophthalmologist have launched a long-shot legal appeal aimed at ending California’s requirement that every continuing medical educ...
kffhealthnews.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A ruling upholding California's medical bias training law is a victory for the state against anti-DEI challenges from the Trump administration and conservative groups.
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Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.
California’s antibias training rule for doctors faces long-shot Supreme Court appeal
Foes of California’s mandate that all medical education courses address unconscious bias are pushing their case toward the Supreme Court. At stake: how far states can go in requiring such...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.
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Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?
August 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Where is Trump’s attention to this matter?
Rich!
From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
"The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."
From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
"The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."
Read Trump’s Directive Firing Lisa Cook From Fed Role
The president said in a letter on Monday that he was removing the Federal Reserve governor from her duties, effective immediately.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Rich!
From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
"The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."
From a man fined $364 million for a scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth.
"The American people must be able to have full confidence in the honesty of the members entrusted with setting policy and overseeing the Federal Reserve."
Why are more younger Americans dying?
As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing.
(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)
(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)
Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. We Have a Few Ideas as to Why.
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
slate.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Why are more younger Americans dying?
The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.
As a mortality researcher, I haven’t generally paid a lot of attention to people my own age (elder Millennial here). That’s, unfortunately, changing.
(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)
(With @astokespop.bsky.social and Jacob Bor)
Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate. We Have a Few Ideas as to Why.
America is not a good place to be an early adult.
slate.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The sobering fact is that Americans in early adulthood have fallen far behind their peers in other rich countries—to the point where more of them are losing their lives.
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Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif killed in Israeli attack in Gaza City
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
bit.ly
August 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Al-Sharif killed in what appears to be a targeted Israeli attack on tent housing journalists outside al-Shifa hospital.
He's back, at least in part.
Ousted F.D.A. Vaccine Chief Returns to Agency
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
He's back, at least in part.
What have we become?
As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.
As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.
Trump Said Family Separations Would End. They’re Happening Again.
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
What have we become?
As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.
As I listened to today's Daily, I recalled the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty -- Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. I sang these lines as a child in school.
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BREAKING: Japan says a powerful, magnitude 8 earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issues a tsunami advisory.
Japan says powerful quake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, issues a tsunami advisory
Japan’s meteorological agency says that a powerful earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issued a tsunami advisory for Japan.
bit.ly
July 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
BREAKING: Japan says a powerful, magnitude 8 earthquake has hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issues a tsunami advisory.
"I don’t know how you can have a better future without looking honestly at the past.”
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Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged.
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"I don’t know how you can have a better future without looking honestly at the past.”
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My latest @npr.org.
Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.
@hsph.harvard.edu @jamanetworkopen.com
Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.
@hsph.harvard.edu @jamanetworkopen.com
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk
A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly stored, affected cancer rates over the decades.
n.pr
July 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My latest @npr.org.
Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.
@hsph.harvard.edu @jamanetworkopen.com
Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to get cancer than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.
@hsph.harvard.edu @jamanetworkopen.com
Not necessarily true that no one has escaped Alcatraz and survived.
U.S. marshals still hunt Alcatraz prisoners 50 years after notorious escape
Fifty years after three convicts used spoons to burrow out of Alcatraz Island's federal prison and escaped on a raft made of raincoats, their relatives will pay their first visit to the scene of America's most famous jail break.
www.reuters.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Not necessarily true that no one has escaped Alcatraz and survived.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
What's a "new Brooklyner"? (Curious as someone who was born and raised in the borough.)
July 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What's a "new Brooklyner"? (Curious as someone who was born and raised in the borough.)
Chilling.
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An Offhand Remark About Gold Bars, Secretly Recorded, Upended His Life
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Chilling.
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Disabled people in wheelchairs are being zip-tied and arrested in the halls of Congress—for demanding the right to live. They came to stop Trump’s brutal Medicaid cuts, and this is the response: cuffs, arrests, silence. This is what cruelty looks like. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
June 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So not Christian.
A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...
A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...
A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay
Valley Christian High School in Dublin pursued this rising baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay.
sfstandard.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So not Christian.
A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...
A Christian school wanted this baseball star. Then it learned his parents are gay sfstandard.com/2025/06/17/v...
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Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.
Reporter Is Detained by ICE After Reporting on Immigration Protest
Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter originally from El Salvador, was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta on Saturday, his lawyers said.
trib.al
June 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language reporter in Atlanta originally from El Salvador, was arrested while reporting on a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies over the weekend, his lawyers said.
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This is disgusting.
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is disgusting.
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
If this is how they treat Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, how do you think they’ll treat you?
"If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to daily laborers out in the LA community, throughout California and throughout the country."
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to daily laborers out in the LA community, throughout California and throughout the country."