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Obesity Drugs May Drop to as Little as $149 a Month www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/h...
This is pandering for votes. Who gives a shit about the price of Ozempic if 40 million-plus Americans lose their insurance or Medicaid coverage and thus have no comprehensive primary care?
Obesity Drugs May Drop to as Little as $149 a Month
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November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ER doc’s worst nightmare on the way to work. IYKYK.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This will probably attract a bunch of trolls, but so what? Here’s my question: if ‘natural immunity’ is such a great public health strategy, why are so many previously exposed people getting sick with Covid-19?

I’ll wait…….and get my updated Covid vaccine. Get your fuc$in$ shots, people!
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Yet another litany of the illegal abuses perpetrated by this administration. It will take decades to arrest and punish all who have been complicit in this…or perhaps they can be self-deported to Argentina.
October 1, 2025
Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Cohen and his writers make some good points in this piece.
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"The Great Tylenol Tragedy of 2025"
In the greatest medical circus ever staged, Tylenol became a villain, autism a punchline, and the nation cheered as logic quietly slipped out the back door.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. truthout.org/articles/im-...

(I wrote a thing in @truthout.org about what it's like to be a primary care doctor when ICE is attacking my patients. )
I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE.
How am I supposed to adequately care for patients who are being constantly terrorized by immigration police?
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September 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Regardless of one’s political views, this policy simply makes no sense vis a vis doctors. There are roughly 15K docs on these visas, mostly working rural/underserved areas where Medicaid cuts will hit hardest. How will this help?
Trump imposes $100K fee on H-1B visas in new immigration action - NewsBreak
President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administrat
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September 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Russia attacks a NATO member non-combatant nation with 19 drones and the best Trump can come up with is this: “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones?” Trump asked in a brief post on Truth Social. “Here we go!” What’s with it? An act of WAR, asshat!

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September 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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He’s going to destroy us all.
September 5, 2025
Today President Donald J.
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September 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Well worth reading if you care about public health and balancing personal freedoms with the good of the whole.
September 4, 2025 (Thursday)
Senators challenged the decisions of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Former CDC Officials Sound The Alarm On RFK Jr.'s Latest Move: 'This Is Unacceptable' - HuffPost
If one expert says you’re a dangerous fool, that’s an opinion. If NINE experts say it, you’re a dangerous fool.
September 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If all the ass*oles taking jobs with ICE would go work in agriculture and construction we wouldn’t have an immigrant labor problem. But then they wouldn’t be gun-toting Billy Bad-asses either, so how would they cope with their small manhood? 🙀😂
August 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck
August 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
JD Vance Makes Dumb Look Strategic
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Cohen cannot be trusted, but his writing is sometimes truly hilarious! L
JD Vance Makes Dumb Look Strategic
JD Vance went on Fox to “help” Trump. Instead, he shoved his boss into the Epstein quicksand, handed Democrats a rope, and smiled stupidly for the cameras.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Reminder: we don't need Ghislaine Maxwell to get to the truth.

It's sitting in files inside the DOJ that they could release TODAY.

She is a liar, a child rapist, and a sex trafficker.

Blanche is meeting with her to buy her silence, nothing more.
July 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hegseth hit with 'rare intervention' as Pentagon generals grow tired of his act: NYT
Source: Raw Story
Wow, who’d a’thunk that appointing an incompetent media buffoon would lead to this? This weakens our country’s defense and endangers us all.
July 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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“Americans as of Sunday faced a 20.6% average effective tariff rate, … the highest since 1910. 
The full effect of the tariffs might not be felt for months …. But the … resulting price increases could amount to the equivalent of a $2,800 hit in yearly household income.”

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July 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
State’s rural hospitals will lose $3.7 billion in Medicaid and SNAP could end, legislative document states
Source: avlwatchdog.org
The impact will be huge.
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July 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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WTF? My 11 year old could do a better job running the country than this clown.
'No earthly clue what he's doing': Psaki shreds Trump's poor grip on his own government
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July 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work
Source: Raw Story
Really??? REALLY??? With no transportation, no housing, no childcare, and sometimes not even a home or a bank account? Why not just reinstate slavery or indentured servitude? 🤬
July 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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If you live deeply enough in unfounded fear, and you hate with your whole heart, you can accomplish some pretty heinous shit.
July 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM