As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
Family physician in practice for 20+ years before moving to a position as a medical director at an academic health center doing population health initiatives. Retired recently and enjoying living near my granddaughters in Sonoma county.
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As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
accountable......
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again i will say this today, the greatest threat to democracy, individual freedoms, and most citizens personal safety is not islam, socialism or wokeism, or someone's sex or sexuality. The greatest threat today is "christian" nationalism.
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
It’s time to teach Susan Collins a lesson.
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I love this guy
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
A Democratic super PAC is launching a $700,000 digital ad blitz slamming Susan Collins for opposing a bipartisan bill that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks. This ad accuses Collins of “the worst kind of greed… using insider information to trade stocks.” Please WATCH and SHARE. 👀
My latest Substack piece on how Trump's fake "emergencies" are his tell when he wants to violate a law or someone's civil rights katiephang.substack.com/p/trumps-end...
Cloverdale Represents! 103 degrees! #Workersoverbillionaires #bannerdrop #laborday
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
The results were so secret that they were published for the entire world to see, even RFK Jr. But, as @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote back in February, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence that vaccines are safe”.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Dear America. It's the guns. Love, Everyone else. Credit: Philip Labes www.instagram.com/philiplabes?... www.tiktok.com/@philiplabes...
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
California stepping up.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
This
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
Wakey Wakey! youtube.com/shorts/LMjFy...
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
It has now been SIX DAYS since Donald Trump has delivered any public remarks. His last public remarks were on August 25th, during a ceremony in the Oval Office. THIS IS NOT NORMAL.
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
She said that with a straight face. Well, as straight as you can get with all that Botox and fillers.
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Why do I blame Bill Cassidy for the destruction of the CDC and the NIH? Because he is a physician. He knew or should have known the danger that Kennedy poses to the U.S. and the globe. Kennedy has never hidden what he is—a predator, a fraud, an anti-science hack, and a gargantuan narcissist.
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
RFK Jr. likes to claim that thimerosal in childhood vaccines causes autism spectrum disorder (ASD). So I wonder if he’d like to explain how the rates of ASD diagnoses in the U.S. have kept going up when thimerosal was removed from all childhood vaccines in 2001?
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
CHICAGO…
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
I wholeheartedly agree with this!
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Going on BBC World around 1:40 PM this Friday Afternoon to discuss the latest on vaccines
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Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
So not only do churches NOT have to pay taxes, they're going to get YOUR tax dollars to boot. This seems like oh, I don't know, government establishing a religion in violation of the First Amendment?
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
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The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Good.
Gov. Newsom drops truth bombs 💣: 🔹 Murder rate = 4x higher in Louisiana vs. California. 🔹 Mississippi = #1 crime state in America So… if troops are coming to fight crime, shouldn’t they be heading South? 🤔 x.com/calltoactivi... #BlueSky #MedSky. #NewsSky
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Another super wealthy kook who is delusional
Is the current shot show at the CDC going to result in RFK jr being fired or impeached? Will Cassidy review his Hippocratic oath and find a conscience and/or a spine ?
Agreed. Gun deaths for children may soon drop to second place to death from vaccine preventable infections in ranking causes of death for children. Not because of a decrease in gun deaths but a significant increase in preventable deaths from infectious diseases. The US is failing to protect kids.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
The same people who villainize Dr. Anthony Fauci, an actual doctor with a speciality in immunology and research in virology, are praising RFK Jr who has never seen the inside of a lab.
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
#FirebrandRecords #CABK
Here he goes.
When Trump says he’s ‘entitled’ to seats in Congress, he’s really saying voters don’t matter. California will defend the right of every American to pick their leaders– and not the other way around! Give voters a chance to keep the midterms fair. Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th.
My 2021 article in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
🚨 GET OUTRAGED NOW! YOUR CITY IS ABOUT TO BE OCCUPIED BY THE ARMY! “It is our job to remind people that our oath is to the constitution of the United States and not to a petty dictator.” @malcolmnance.bsky.social START PROTESTING! DO NOT STOP! open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadn’t happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “If a Democratic president were doing any of these things you would be losing your mind.” 🎯
I don’t often post personal stuff (except for my dog because, well, she’s adorable), but many of the physician groups I am in are reacting to the CDC and vaccine chaos. These are private MD only groups but I wanted to post one of the sentiments.
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.