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Scooter McGruder

@chambersol.bsky.social
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Husband, father, physician, overall angry 40-something ex-optimist. My cantankerous views do not represent the views of any organizations with which I am affiliated.

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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Finally watching The Pitt, and I can hear the hospital administrators screaming “who is completing documentation? Dear god, who is THINKING OF THE BILLING AND CODING?!?!?”
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Surprise Aesop Rock album?? SURPRISE AESOP ROCK ALBUM!!!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dr. El-Deiry put up a slide with case reports of highly disparate cancers that happened to occur after COVID19 vaccination. He falsely claimed that there are no studies of cancer after COVID19 vaccination. None of the massive US vaccine safety systems have ever detected an increase in cancer.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you want the 90s rock equivalent of driving a rusted out Honda Accord at top speed down the side of a mountain, the wheels nearly falling off, only to successfully pull off a jump over 100-foot chasm, do yourself a favor and listen to Winder by Hum at top volume. Makes me want to run thru walls
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thinking about the “pod” with only one episode of Alien Earth left …
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Best way to address gun violence after a crazy person shot up the CDC? Oh, I don’t know … how about we decimate the VIOLENCE PREVENTION GROUP?!? This is just so incredibly disgusting. I hate everything.
apnews.com
At least 600 CDC employees are getting final termination notices, union says
At least 600 employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are receiving permanent termination notices.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Vaccines do not cause autism. But some people will never stop trying to prove that they do. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Playbook Used to ‘Prove’ Vaccines Cause Autism (Gift Article)
Data can easily be manipulated to show causation that doesn’t exist.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Mood these last few months
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
For some reason I’m subjecting myself to listening to ACIP. This thimerosal talk is a highlight of anti-vax bullshit. All to discuss something that has been removed from almost all vaccines. It’s just a scare tactic to lend an air of legitimacy to skepticism of ALL vaccines. I hate everything.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We’ve been using VE for years as a marker for effectiveness with multiple exposures to vaccines or infection. Great COVID VE data presented at ACIP … first question from Kulldorf: “what about RTC?” Jesus Christ this is an embarrassing indication of where ACIP is headed.
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Indivisible Arizona❌👑 @indivisiblearizona.org · 10/06/2025
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Share broadly: deep thanks to all those signatories (and beyond) working to pursue discoveries in medical research in the face of threats to careers and academic freedom. www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/h...
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NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies | CNN
Staffers at the US National Institutes of Health published a letter of dissent, taking issue with what they see as the politicization of research and destruction of scientific progress under the Trump...
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Welcome to America in 2025
A post highlighting gun violence awareness month … right before a post about a multiple shooting in TX
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2025
DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/06/2025
South Florida meteorologist @johnmoralestv.bsky.social told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dr. Panagiotakopoulos said, “My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population, and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role”. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-off...
cbsnews.com
CDC official overseeing COVID-19 vaccine recommendations resigns
The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
(Sung to the tune of Mission Impossible) Pope pope pope pope new pope Pope pope pope pope new pope There’s a neeeew Pope and heeee’s From the soooouth side! Chi-town!
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Emma Roller @emmaroller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist
A four-pack of Bob Uecker-branded Usinger’s hot dogs
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Elon backtracked on DOGE savings goals from $1 trillion to $150 billion. But watchdogs report only $12.6 billion in verifiable savings. That represents just 0.173% of the U.S. federal budget for 2025. We're losing vital government services for basically nothing in return.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/04/2025
Breaking news: The United States faces millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates for the disease drop 10 percent, according to new research published Thursday.
washingtonpost.com
Millions of U.S. measles cases forecast over 25 years if shots decline
Measles, once virtually wiped out in the United States, could become commonplace again if declining vaccination rates continue, a new model shows.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
All so that the richest can get a tax cut. Just disgusting.
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CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools | CNN
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools, citing the l...
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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2025
Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination outreach across the country, including in Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, and Washington state.
npr.org
As measles spreads, federal budget cuts force closure of vaccine clinics
Federal funding cuts, though temporarily blocked by a judge, have upended vaccination outreach across the country, including in Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, Texas, and Washington state.
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Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance @indivisibletucson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Tucson came out by the thousands for the #HandsOff protest, and had a great time.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
20,000 HHS employees, gone in the blink of an eye. Kids getting treated for vitamin A toxicity on the advice of a charlatan. Funds for local public health efforts vaporized. A larger measles outbreak continuing to spread. Hope your vote for RFK Jr. was worth it, Bill Cassidy.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In Atlanta for a conference, and guys … these HHS cuts are really hurting the CDC
Okay, so this isn’t the CDC. But it’s an apt metaphor for what the admin is doing to science writ large, but particularly medical science.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We’re all about to see what happens when the head of HHS believes that miasmas are the cause of most disease and that germ theory is a hoax.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/03/2025
Fighting Oligarchy
Where we go from here
3/20 Las Vegas, Tempe, AZ
3/21 Greeley and Denver Colorado 
3/22 Tucson, AZ
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
Rep. Jasmine CrockettRep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGov. JB PritzkerGov. Tim Walz
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The richest man in the world gave a 22 year old without a security clearance everyone in America’s social security and tax information and Senate Democrats did absolutely fuck all in response. Incredible work everyone.
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Matt Martell @mattmartell.fangraphs.com · 13/03/2025
I called Jonathan Lucroy about a year and a half ago for a story. He didn't pick up. Instead of Lucroy’s Southern drawl, I heard the comforting cadence of a Bob Uecker broadcast. I wrote about the former Brewers who had Uecker record their voicemail greetings:
blogs.fangraphs.com
Bob Uecker’s Voice Lives On
The Hall of Fame broadcaster, entertainer, and big league catcher’s legacy of laughter also includes personalized voicemail recordings for former players.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
FACT: #Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the country, and around two-thirds of nursing home stays. FACT: About 1 in 5 Americans rely on Medicare or #Medicaid to cover healthcare expenses. FACT: Republicans just passed a bill requiring DEEP cuts to these programs.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 12/03/2025
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RFK Jr is a firehouse of disinformation.  Getting measles gives you immunity, but also gives you measles with risks of encephalitis, pneumonia, and death.  MMR vaccine wanes 0.04%/year, not 4.5%.  For the vast majority it’s lifetime protection and it’s incredibly safe.
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Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance @indivisibletucson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Call Senators Kelly and Gallego today! Senator Kelly's DC voicemail is full. Call his Arizona offices: 602-671-7901 & 520-475-5177. bsky.app/profile/aoc....
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
RFK Jr. went on Hannity last night and continued his crusade against MMR vaccines. “It used to be when you and I were kids, everybody got measles," Kennedy told Hannity. "And measles gave you protection, lifetime protection against measles…a vaccine doesn’t do that…”
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
wsj.com
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Two truths and a lie Truth: There are adverse events from MMR and all vaccines. Truth: People die, albeit very, very, VERY rarely. BIG FUCKING LIE: the MMR does NOT cause measles or any sequelae. It prevents measles. It’s safe and effective. Measles disables & kills children. Vaccinate your kids
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Jeff Duchin @docjeffd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
“Decades of research and hundreds of carefully designed and scientifically sound studies show no link or association between vaccines and autism.” www.idsociety.org/news--public...
idsociety.org
Statement on CDC Decision to Study Vaccines and Autism
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And, scene: bsky.app/profile/wash...
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 11/03/2025
if we make it through this one thing i know is i don't want to hear another goddamn word about the constitution from conservatives
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Seems the new standard for being called a traitor in this Age of American Misrule is to fly more than three dozen combat missions in Iraq for the U.S. Navy, then command the Space Shuttle as a U.S. Astronaut, then serve in the U.S. Senate, and remember that Russia attacked its neighbor, Ukraine.
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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Scooter McGruder @chambersol.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tucson!
Stand up for science, 3/7/25, noon on the U of A campus
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 07/03/2025
I’m just gonna post this every so often.
youtu.be
Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/03/2025
Nearly all the nominees for health agencies have engaged in spreading COVID disinformation & conspiracy theories over the last 5 years. I can't emphasize enough how dangerous it will be if they are confirmed. Motivated by revenge, they will try to dismantle all critical public health infrastructure.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 05/03/2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted a new analysis showing that the wealthiest 1% has extracted $79 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans since 1975. In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was redirected upward—enough to provide every U.S. worker with a $32,000 raise.
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Sanders: 1 Percent Has Sapped $79T in Wealth From Bottom 90 Percent Since 1975
In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent— enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Dr. Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social just published this piece on the threat posed by the nominations of Bhattacharya to lead the NIH and Weldon to lead the CDC. 🔥https://tucson.com/opinion/column/article_4b593eac-f82c-11ef-8a9f-5300a67c4dfe.html
tucson.com
Local opinion: The danger to US health science research does not stop at RFK Jr.
The Trump administration has declared war on the health sciences by nominating Drs. Bhattacharya and Weldon to head NIH and CDC. They will damage US disease and vaccine research in
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