Ruth Stewart, MD
@ruthstewart.bsky.social
Med ed, family medicine MD; loves nature, travel, books, hiking, gardening.
The cruelty.
The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.
Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m in contraceptives
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The cruelty.
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
July 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
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Reposted by Ruth Stewart, MD
Best image of the day:
June 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Best image of the day:
Jane Mayer makes a great point that Trump has made so much $ off his recent grift, he no longer needs Musk. So corrupt. Truly curious why this corruption is not a bigger deal for voters.
June 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Jane Mayer makes a great point that Trump has made so much $ off his recent grift, he no longer needs Musk. So corrupt. Truly curious why this corruption is not a bigger deal for voters.
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Tennessee, we could have had this. 😢
The latest numbers show 656,000 North Carolinians have gained coverage through Medicaid since it expanded in 2023.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
NC Medicaid evaluation shows rise in enrollment, drop in hospital visits
The latest numbers show 656,000 North Carolinians have gained coverage through Medicaid since it expanded in 2023.
www.wunc.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Tennessee, we could have had this. 😢
Nope, @nytimes.com I cannot stomach the VP on The Daily this am. Too full of rage and dread over blowing up the deficit and defunding effective funding to give to the ultra-wealthy. I hope you held his feet to the fire, but even if you did, I just can’t listen to his unpatriotic word vomit. 🤮
May 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nope, @nytimes.com I cannot stomach the VP on The Daily this am. Too full of rage and dread over blowing up the deficit and defunding effective funding to give to the ultra-wealthy. I hope you held his feet to the fire, but even if you did, I just can’t listen to his unpatriotic word vomit. 🤮
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If everyone received the vaccine at 10 yo, it would prevent HPV in the entire population.
Eventually no one would carry the virus & it could not be spread to others
Side Benefit is reduction in cases of both #Cervical and #Penile cancers.
Eventually no one would carry the virus & it could not be spread to others
Side Benefit is reduction in cases of both #Cervical and #Penile cancers.
"A clinical trial run by [NIH] seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent infection with the human papilloma virus is just as effective as two — and, therefore, also helps to prevent cancer." via @matthewherper.bsky.social @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/h...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/h...
U.S. government researchers present 'phenomenal' new data on HPV vaccines
A new study seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent HPV infection is just as effective as two — and, therefore, also helps to prevent cancer.
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Read now and put the recommended solutions on the list of “future to do.” That is, if we get the chance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
Opinion | Trump Isn’t the First Politician to Sell the Office
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Read now and put the recommended solutions on the list of “future to do.” That is, if we get the chance. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...
There's more than this essay can capture, but this is a good start. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
Opinion | The Enduring Fantasy of Porn’s Harmlessness
www.nytimes.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
There's more than this essay can capture, but this is a good start. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...
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Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
May 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
An appropriate response.
Strains bounds of propriety?
Strains…bounds…of…proprietary?
Am I having a stroke?
What is happening?
Strains…bounds…of…proprietary?
Am I having a stroke?
What is happening?
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
An appropriate response.
No child has to die of measles. We have actively and collectively decided to let children die rather than prevent a vaccine-preventable disease. We are stupid, and our children pay the price.
Interrupting this lovely Mother’s Day to scream into the void….NO ONE SHOULD DIE FROM MEASLES. Especially children should not die from measles.
May 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No child has to die of measles. We have actively and collectively decided to let children die rather than prevent a vaccine-preventable disease. We are stupid, and our children pay the price.
I guess it’s useless to ask how these Advance Financial ppl sleep at night, but holy cow, what terrible greed.
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I guess it’s useless to ask how these Advance Financial ppl sleep at night, but holy cow, what terrible greed.
Amazing to watch the understandable hubris of Anthony Bourdain’s first episode of Parts Unknown in Myanmar. I watched the other day, and the discussion about possible democracy taking hold in Myanmar was from the perspective of the presumed “fact” that our democracy was not fragile. Gutting.
May 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Amazing to watch the understandable hubris of Anthony Bourdain’s first episode of Parts Unknown in Myanmar. I watched the other day, and the discussion about possible democracy taking hold in Myanmar was from the perspective of the presumed “fact” that our democracy was not fragile. Gutting.
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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.
These are their stories 🧵
These are their stories 🧵
Who among us could cope with all of this and a minimal level of support? Not me.
8/ “The Year After a Denied Abortion" also documented the unraveling of a Tennessee family after a denied abortion for a life-threatening pregnancy.
This photo essay helped audiences see, feel and understand how decisions made by those in power impact families.
This photo essay helped audiences see, feel and understand how decisions made by those in power impact families.
She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
projects.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Who among us could cope with all of this and a minimal level of support? Not me.
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Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
This is anti-science, anti-intellectualism, anti-standards.
New executive order targets the organizations that accredit medical schools and residency programs.
Will this be the end of the LCME and ACGME?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Will this be the end of the LCME and ACGME?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
April 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is anti-science, anti-intellectualism, anti-standards.
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
It IS a defining feature. Lots of numb folks walking around looking for new ways to numb them selves. My numbing drug of choice is work for sure.
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It IS a defining feature. Lots of numb folks walking around looking for new ways to numb them selves. My numbing drug of choice is work for sure.
“In the effort for transparency.” So, transparently, they will strip rights away and deport American citizens.
And there it is.
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“In the effort for transparency.” So, transparently, they will strip rights away and deport American citizens.
Chilling.
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
April 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Chilling.