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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking of when a patient showed up with a firearm looking for one of my colleagues. Healthcare workers: it’s worth asking your hospital if there is a non-firewalled link to your schedules out there.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thanks so much for putting it out there.

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last week we revealed that dozens of hospitals throughout the country expose the live call schedule and cells of their physicians and medical providers. At a time of increased violence threats and harassment, experts said, that’s a significant security risk. And yet, most schedules are still live.

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Links exposed physician cell numbers and work schedules at health systems in Philly and nationwide

QGenda web links revealed the information for thousands of providers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Medicine, ChristianaCare, and at least 50 other health systems across the country.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Along with everything else, she always made us laugh. RIP Dolly 💔

Dolly center, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the 1980 movie 9 to 5.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a terrific response, but they can go even further -- the weak attack on "communism" gives Democrats a great opening to call out Trump's massive cronyism and corruption.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The next time someone tries to tell me I should be thinking of retirement, I'm going to make them watch this half time show and get back to me

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/07/2026

look if we’re trying to showcase parts of america that don’t suck we can do a lot worse than the muppets

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Madonna-Seven Nation Army-Muppets-BTS is not a combination I would have predicted and it's awesome

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“The fundamental choice is between a system where scientists make scientific judgments through accountable deliberative processes and one where political appointees make those calls instead.” In this cycle as both a submitter and a study section reviewer, these proposed changes are grim news.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Please support in any way you can, including sharing across your networks!

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“We built it around two tools: The Resource Guide is a trusted health navigation guide co-created with community members. The Community Guide is an app-based directory that helps Black patients find affirming providers who have been vetted through community experience, not just credentials.”

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“Inspired by Victor Hugo Green's 1936 Negro Motorist Green Book (a guide that helped Black travelers find safe places to eat, sleep, and exist with dignity during segregation) the Green Book for Health is a national, community-driven health navigation initiative…

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Thrilled to support The Green Book for Health, an RWJ-sponsored initiative that provides resources to help Black patients navigate healthcare. givebutter.com/the-green-bo...

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The Green Book for Health

Building a movement to improvd

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

One of my ER colleagues trying to figure out how to allocate the two hallway beds with 35 patients in the waiting room

Painting of Jesus with fish and loaves of bread

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is now the LOST generation for all doctoral research, from engineering to public health, from literature to psychology, from religion to economics. Some programs will suffer more than others, but this is a tremendous loss to the future. This is ALL on #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #JDVance.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

When Trump said he would bring on a "New Golden Age," he was talking about his wallet.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Casey Means has gone on and on about her passion for getting healthy foods on Americans' plates. I hope one of the Democrats asks her what she thinks is the effect of cutting SNAP cuts and the Local Food For Schools program on low-income Americans' ability to afford healthy food.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

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Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News

History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“the withering of public health might not anticipate a future apocalypse so much as it recalls a previous America, one where lives were cheaper and shorter, where good health was the province of a privileged few…” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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How America Got So Sick

The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back." -Adam Serwer, in The Atlantic

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about 'Western civilization,' while armed brutes try to tear it down by force. "No matter how many more armed men Trump sends to impose his will on the people of Minnesota, all he can do is accentuate their valor.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

So very sorry for this terrible loss

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The heartbreak is that we all know those nurses: the ones who don’t compartmentalize to the hospital, but are always caring for the people around them.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“I don’t like established science,” he said, adding “science is what I observe.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/01/2026

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

DHS getting basic 4th Amendment law wrong on its official Twitter account. Seems like this post is bound to show up as an exhibit in one of the cases challenging ICE/Border Control enforcement actions.

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Law enforcement uses 'reasonable suspicion' to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position.
A person's immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

In case anyone is still unclear, a tariff is a tax on imports and in practice American consumers pay most of it through higher prices

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I mean it wasn’t even one Scaramucci

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Brendan Gutenschwager @bgonthescene.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The folks I work with are a small indigenous team providing a bridge to mental health care in a rural area. They squeeze lifesaving work out of every SAMHSA dollar while trying to stay intact week after week. There’s no money or time for lawyers.

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 14/01/2026

I want it to be very clear that this doesn't just affect people with mental illness or addiction. It doesn't just affect their families, either. It will impact every single American with a decrease in quality of life, because the services that help people also buffer the community.

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It’s fine! Just let everyone get to health crisis levels and have them go to the ER! Hahahahaha <laughs in unprecedented boarding>

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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I don’t use “tragedy” lightly. Do people know how hard it is to set up the multilayered efforts that allow us to claw our way through the fentanyl crisis alone? To get people to mental health services in this time? It’s *already* tough.

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