Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP
@tnicholsmd.com
I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others
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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP
@tnicholsmd.com
· Oct 17
Hi new friends, welcome!
I’m an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician interested in health policy and advocacy. I post about harm reduction and the intersection between politics and health and healthcare, and my otherwise meandering thoughts of political despair.
I’m an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician interested in health policy and advocacy. I post about harm reduction and the intersection between politics and health and healthcare, and my otherwise meandering thoughts of political despair.
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The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The AMA is starting to fracture under political pressure. Our analysis explains what changed this week, and why it matters.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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“The filibuster used to help us to obstruct civil rights progress and the filling of judicial vacancies, but its current role in slowing our authoritarian agenda shows its time must be up.”
"What once seemed like a dignified brake on hasty lawmaking now blocks even routine governance," U.S. treasury secretary Scott Bessent writes. https://wapo.st/4iiAAKS
Opinion | It’s time to end the filibuster
Senate Republicans should not shy from doing what Democrats are certain to do.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“The filibuster used to help us to obstruct civil rights progress and the filling of judicial vacancies, but its current role in slowing our authoritarian agenda shows its time must be up.”
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Many of the biggest problems America faces today have their roots in “forgive & forget” after the Civil War & the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by white supremacists. We can’t afford to repeat those enormous blunders this time. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Many of the biggest problems America faces today have their roots in “forgive & forget” after the Civil War & the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by white supremacists. We can’t afford to repeat those enormous blunders this time. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Correction: The US healthcare system has already collapsed. We just haven't recognized it yet.
i've seen enough: the american healthcare system is going to collapse by january 2028. things will be held together for a while by employer contributions to private insurance premiums but /
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Correction: The US healthcare system has already collapsed. We just haven't recognized it yet.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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The rhetorical skill of Zelenskyy is truly remarkable. There is no major world leader who comes close to him.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The rhetorical skill of Zelenskyy is truly remarkable. There is no major world leader who comes close to him.
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No License for Disinformation didn’t die a peaceful death it was killed. This small group of doctors were actively caring for patients being killed by vaccine lies.
The system picked the liars.
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The system picked the liars.
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Good Luck Fighting Disinformation
A group that formed during the pandemic to counter medical lies found that every lever it pulled on failed to produce the results it was hoping for.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
No License for Disinformation didn’t die a peaceful death it was killed. This small group of doctors were actively caring for patients being killed by vaccine lies.
The system picked the liars.
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@qjurecic.bsky.social @tnicholsmd.com
@solnatamd.medsky.social
The system picked the liars.
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Hey, remember when I said not to trust Michael Steele because he helped build this monster with absolutely no foresight and then lost control of it? This is just the tip of the iceberg.
He deserves nothing but our scorn and contempt, not rebranding or PAC donations.
He deserves nothing but our scorn and contempt, not rebranding or PAC donations.
In this video clip, John Boehner and Michael Steele call slurs thrown at Dem lawmakers "isolated incidents" and condemn them.
But there were quite a few of them—more than 10 reported incidents vs. D's by mid-2010. There were some 1,360 anti-government "Patriot" groups by the end of 2012, per SPLC.
But there were quite a few of them—more than 10 reported incidents vs. D's by mid-2010. There were some 1,360 anti-government "Patriot" groups by the end of 2012, per SPLC.
Boehner, Steele And Cantor Dismiss Tea Baggers Racist And Bigoted Comments As 'Isolated Incidents'
Boehner, Steele and Cantor Dismiss Tea Baggers Racist and Bigoted Comments as 'Isolated Incidents'
crooksandliars.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hey, remember when I said not to trust Michael Steele because he helped build this monster with absolutely no foresight and then lost control of it? This is just the tip of the iceberg.
He deserves nothing but our scorn and contempt, not rebranding or PAC donations.
He deserves nothing but our scorn and contempt, not rebranding or PAC donations.
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“I told everybody: ‘I’m retired, I sit home all day,’” he said.
“If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
Grambo soon started being notified about immigration enforcement activity, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a day.
“If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
Grambo soon started being notified about immigration enforcement activity, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a day.
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
“I told everybody: ‘I’m retired, I sit home all day,’” he said.
“If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
Grambo soon started being notified about immigration enforcement activity, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a day.
“If we get any reports of ICE in the neighborhood, somebody text me, and I’ll run over on my scooter and go yell at them.’”
Grambo soon started being notified about immigration enforcement activity, sometimes 3 or 4 times in a day.
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Obviously fuck this MAHA trash framing, but also I think the core lack of understanding that allows these idiot thoughts to get traction is the fact that we know very very little about the brain and so no, treating mental health is not in fact as simple as putting a cast on a broken bone
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Obviously fuck this MAHA trash framing, but also I think the core lack of understanding that allows these idiot thoughts to get traction is the fact that we know very very little about the brain and so no, treating mental health is not in fact as simple as putting a cast on a broken bone
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I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.
I think this prediction is holding up pretty well, and maybe I should have noted the failure of the Turn Charlie Kirk Into A Martyr moment might have been the pinnacle of the phenomenon. In some deep way I think the New Right Loser Men fail to understand what state power can and can't do for them.
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.
“In our brave new world, where disinformation, distrust and conspiracy theories are common currency, the number of vaccinated children is falling steadily.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: How a single measles case became 5,000 – and the lessons not learned
It’s important not to lay blame, but to understand the virus’s epidemiology
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“In our brave new world, where disinformation, distrust and conspiracy theories are common currency, the number of vaccinated children is falling steadily.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
This makes me so furious. Do not allow conservatives an inch on this. I don‘t care what they say they believed, we warned them about what would actually happen and they refused to listen. This blood is on their hands.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This makes me so furious. Do not allow conservatives an inch on this. I don‘t care what they say they believed, we warned them about what would actually happen and they refused to listen. This blood is on their hands.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
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Yes. Keep talking about it. Visibility is the first step. Then collective, mutual awareness that this is happening and that it’s wrong (ie I know that you know that I know it’s happening and it’s wrong). And then the growing sense that accountability is possible and (eventually) imminent.
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yes. Keep talking about it. Visibility is the first step. Then collective, mutual awareness that this is happening and that it’s wrong (ie I know that you know that I know it’s happening and it’s wrong). And then the growing sense that accountability is possible and (eventually) imminent.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH NORMIES.
Absolutely bring this up at Thanksgiving. Force this conversation.
Absolutely bring this up at Thanksgiving. Force this conversation.
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH NORMIES.
Absolutely bring this up at Thanksgiving. Force this conversation.
Absolutely bring this up at Thanksgiving. Force this conversation.
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In 90 seconds Jon Tester explains Citizens United—"the worst decision the Supreme Court's ever made"—and what Montana is doing to stop the flood of dark money into politics.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In 90 seconds Jon Tester explains Citizens United—"the worst decision the Supreme Court's ever made"—and what Montana is doing to stop the flood of dark money into politics.
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Evidence of racial polarization in Georgia last week. In one race, a White D ran against a Black R; the inverse was true in the other. So, where did the White D over-perform the Black D? In whiter areas.
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Evidence of racial polarization in Georgia last week. In one race, a White D ran against a Black R; the inverse was true in the other. So, where did the White D over-perform the Black D? In whiter areas.
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It is hard to overstate just how fringe QAnon was when Marjorie Taylor Greene began posting videos about it (it wasn't even called QAnon yet).
Now, eight years later, her anger at Trump over Epstein can be linked directly to her QAnon beliefs...
www.wired.com/story/how-do...
Now, eight years later, her anger at Trump over Epstein can be linked directly to her QAnon beliefs...
www.wired.com/story/how-do...
How Donald Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Spin Cycle
Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession. That’s all changing.
www.wired.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It is hard to overstate just how fringe QAnon was when Marjorie Taylor Greene began posting videos about it (it wasn't even called QAnon yet).
Now, eight years later, her anger at Trump over Epstein can be linked directly to her QAnon beliefs...
www.wired.com/story/how-do...
Now, eight years later, her anger at Trump over Epstein can be linked directly to her QAnon beliefs...
www.wired.com/story/how-do...
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If judges understand that shadow docket orders are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on, they can be less constrained by the reckless decision-making of the Supreme Court.
Judges Are Finding Ways to Deal With the Supreme Court’s Disastrous Shadow Docket
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If judges understand that shadow docket orders are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on, they can be less constrained by the reckless decision-making of the Supreme Court.
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You have to follow the link to Twitter to see Vindman's actual statement. He calls on Trump to release the transcript of his call with MBS after Khashoggi murder. But he makes pretty clear that Trump gave MBS a big high five after he ordered JK sawed into parts. x.com/RepVindman/s...
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You have to follow the link to Twitter to see Vindman's actual statement. He calls on Trump to release the transcript of his call with MBS after Khashoggi murder. But he makes pretty clear that Trump gave MBS a big high five after he ordered JK sawed into parts. x.com/RepVindman/s...