David (Smilin' Dave) Holtzman, MPH JD
@smidave.bsky.social
Retired public health scientist (State of California). Lawyer. Former air quality hearing officer. Former president, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. Former L.A. County Redistricting Commissioner. Pro-RCV.
cruel asshole. fuck this shit.
I personally know 2 people who were in clinical trials that were stopped. Terrible.
The second Trump administration’s deep federal spending cuts, including at the NIH, have halted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting more than 74,000 patients, according to a new analysis.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 AM
cruel asshole. fuck this shit.
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I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
Please read this, or his resignation will have been in vain. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why I Am Resigning
A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Please read this, or his resignation will have been in vain. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
'let us deny you healthcare or we will deny you food'
HURT POOR PEOPLE, MAKE THEM BEG
HURT POOR PEOPLE, MAKE THEM BEG
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'let us deny you healthcare or we will deny you food'
HURT POOR PEOPLE, MAKE THEM BEG
HURT POOR PEOPLE, MAKE THEM BEG
verklempt.
DONNA is gone!
💔
DONNA is gone!
💔
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
verklempt.
DONNA is gone!
💔
DONNA is gone!
💔
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brett is seeing everyone post about “kavanaugh stops” and he’s losing his mind
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
brett is seeing everyone post about “kavanaugh stops” and he’s losing his mind
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Name a dead song that was better with Donna.
TMNS is a great call. Looks Like Rain or Mission in the Rain for me
Also, Sing Me Back Home
TMNS is a great call. Looks Like Rain or Mission in the Rain for me
Also, Sing Me Back Home
Name a dead song that was better with Donna.
- the Music Never Stopped is mine
- the Music Never Stopped is mine
November 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Name a dead song that was better with Donna.
TMNS is a great call. Looks Like Rain or Mission in the Rain for me
Also, Sing Me Back Home
TMNS is a great call. Looks Like Rain or Mission in the Rain for me
Also, Sing Me Back Home
Access the free RS article (link below)... Donna will forever be missed
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang back-up on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died at age 78.
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Access the free RS article (link below)... Donna will forever be missed
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💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
💔 fare thee well, deej. 💔
Heads up! Marketing and Marijuana = toxic Mix.
I totally endorse this thread.
today’s THC products are absurdly strong and badly need to be regulated to reduce population harms.
but re-criminalizing THC when this regime is violating civil rights wholesale/building a new network of prison labor camps should set off alarm bells for anyone familiar with prisons and jim crow
but re-criminalizing THC when this regime is violating civil rights wholesale/building a new network of prison labor camps should set off alarm bells for anyone familiar with prisons and jim crow
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Heads up! Marketing and Marijuana = toxic Mix.
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Le coût humain et sanitaire toujours plus lourd du réchauffement climatique
Le coût humain et sanitaire toujours plus lourd du réchauffement climatique
Les experts du Lancet Countdown estiment que le nombre de morts liées à la chaleur dans le monde a augmenté de 23 % depuis les années 1990, en majorité en raison du changement climatique.
www.lemonde.fr
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Le coût humain et sanitaire toujours plus lourd du réchauffement climatique
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JB Pritzker creating the “Illinois Accountability Commission” isn’t getting enough attention. Its focus is on immigration agents & it will document abuses, capture impacts on families and communities, & recommend actions to prevent further harm. We need more of these nationwide.
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
JB Pritzker creating the “Illinois Accountability Commission” isn’t getting enough attention. Its focus is on immigration agents & it will document abuses, capture impacts on families and communities, & recommend actions to prevent further harm. We need more of these nationwide.
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/MqVJGeC0
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism app.sosha.ai/s/MqVJGeC0
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/IWVdLgVa
Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify
app.sosha.ai
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/IWVdLgVa
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So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison
techstartups.com/2025/10/24/t...
techstartups.com/2025/10/24/t...
October 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison
techstartups.com/2025/10/24/t...
techstartups.com/2025/10/24/t...
nice. rilly??
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
nice. rilly??
Bari Weiss power!
October 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bari Weiss power!
Like Robert Moses, the National Asshole gains an advantage by starting without having permission. From Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" (p. 218): “Once you sink that first stake,” [Moses] would often say, “they’ll never make you pull it up.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Like Robert Moses, the National Asshole gains an advantage by starting without having permission. From Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" (p. 218): “Once you sink that first stake,” [Moses] would often say, “they’ll never make you pull it up.”
all they will call you is deportee
Individuals have sacrificed so much to get to the U.S. - by boat, by foot, by whatever.
Only to be lost on an NY Times headline.
“Mass deportations continue”
“X boat sunk at see”
“Children suffer in immigration prison”
Only to be lost on an NY Times headline.
“Mass deportations continue”
“X boat sunk at see”
“Children suffer in immigration prison”
October 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
all they will call you is deportee
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Just Made.
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just Made.