A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping at a department store in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico, but were taken by ICE: telemundopr.com/programas/dia-…

Idea that Kennedy will do something useful about chronic disease is laughable. (1) For one thing, he believes vaccines drive the chronic disease "epidemic," because he's a grifter and a crank like Calley Means. (2) For another, Kennedy will be joining an administration set...

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PEPFAR is one of the most popular, bipartisan US foreign aid programs. The State Department says it has saved 25million lives, but there isn't much public, independent verification. Last week I invited some friends to a weekend hackatjon to see if PEPFAR's numbers held up.

The U.S. is seeing a growing trend of "concierge" medicine for the rich as it gets harder and harder to secure a primary care physician via traditional means. We are barrelling quickly toward a full-on libertarian healthcare system, a crisis that RFK will only exacerbate.

The GMG Union is thrilled to be negotiating its next contract. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller waited until 2 days before the current contract expires to meet, but we couldn't be more committed to winning a fair deal for our members. We did it last time and we'll do it again.

"no one has died" because of feeding USAID to the woodchipper, Elon claimed. In this devastating piece the NYT went out and learned some of their names and stories:

Jim Spanfeller has fired the editorial staff of Quartz after loading it up with AI slop and selling it to a Canadian firm. It's a new low for a company that has tried to disrespect, undermine, and exploit its newsroom at every turn.

Scientists haven’t been “frankly scared to ask the question”. There are 1000s of studies in the peer-reviewed literature showing no link between autism & the MMR vaccine. Progress has been slow because neurodivergence is complex & multifactorial. Jay is not being truthful.

The HHS report “is a rejection of decades of science, evidence, and direct experiences by young people, their doctors, and their families.” scim.ag/4lZrgwO

I haven't had the time to go through all of it, but I did catch part of the HELP committee meeting where Kennedy alleges that varicella vaccination leads to shingles outbreaks in older adults. This is not true, but it's worth discussing where this idea comes from 🧵

I've been overwhelmed by the support for my new adventure at Scientific American, and how many people said they wanted to subscribe, so I got discounts! Follow the link, choose any plan, and use the DAVID25 promotion code during checkout for 30% off. scientificamerican.com/getsciam/

BREAKING: WGAE members at Vox Media reached a tentative agreement with management on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement! The 250-member unit will vote to ratify the contract in the coming days. As a deal has now been reached, there will not be any pickets.

Some coverage of our study in Annals IM on the impacts of Medicaid cuts contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act from Ed Cara at Gizmodo — on healthcare access and use, and health (including mortality).

Our new analysis just up at Health Affairs Forefront: we project administrative costs stemming from national Medicaid Work Requirements as in the "Big Beautiful Bill." We estimate: > $5 billion in new administrative costs, equal to > $950 per beneficiary dis-enrolled, or

The “Big Beautiful Bill” will make America a more unjust & unequal nation; it will kill thousands of working class people via denial of medical care; it will shutter hospitals; it will massively grow our apparatuses of surveillance & imprisonment & oppression. 1/2

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