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Margaret Russell

@drmargaretrussell.bsky.social
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Family Physician. HIV Specialist. Policy wonk. Animal lover. Crazy Bird lady. Opinions my own and not medical advice. #MedSky

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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I am seeing this every day. People afraid to come for medical care. Afraid to see a specialist or get an x-ray. They are afraid regardless of status, because it is abundantly clear to anyone paying attention that legal status (even citizenship) doesn't protect you
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
There are no words. I am ashamed of what we have done to this family and this little boy
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I'll be there. Who'swith me? #JohnLewis #GoodTrouble
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Build community Love others with abandon Joy is resistance
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Please understand what a horrific miscarriage of justice this is. One day, our children and grandchildren will study this time and view this practice with horror and disbelief. Make no mistake: future generations will judge all of us for what we do in this moment. Silence is not an option
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I'll be there, how about you?
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 09/07/2025
@brontyman.bsky.social
Dear US citizens,
Whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We CANNOT allow this to stand. History will judge all of us for what we do in this moment
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Chris N. Morfas @thehappygringo.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is an excellent explainer. Read it to prepare yourself to watch and oppose the looming disaster.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Medicaid cutsnwont ONLY affect those on Medicaid
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 07/07/2025
Concentration camp?
-mass detention without trial
-targeted group persecution 
-state of military control 
-harsh, inhumane conditions 
-isolation and surveillance 
-fear as a tool of control
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 07/07/2025
Is anyone else having a hard time living a normal day-to-day life while our nation builds literal concentration camps?
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Did you know that the first work requirements in the United States EXPLICITLY only applied to Black women? They were instituted during WW1 because women of all races whose husbands were deployed received war allowances. Chapter 3: Race and rumor www.marketplace.org/episode/2023...
marketplace.org
Chapter 3: Race and rumor
How a rumor about welfare cheats transformed a small city.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 05/07/2025
@ashishkjha.bsky.social time.com/7300067/budg...
One way most Americans will feel the OBBB law is through crowded ERs.  No, not because uninsured folks will flood ERs.  But because the law will close a lot of nursing homes.  Which will create a backlog in the system overcrowding ERs.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today we rest. Tomorrow we resist. And every single day afterward, until our country lives up to it's best ideals.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Last week I was on Capitol Hill, pleading with members of Congress not to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and vital programs offering a lifeline to struggling families. PLEASE contact you US Representative - the House has to vote on the Senates version of the Reconciliation Bill and YOUR VOICE MATTERS
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 03/07/2025
@greenhousemd.bsky.social
I don’t think I’ve ever been this afraid for my patients.
Some may lose their health care access.
Some may lose their hospitals
Some may lose their medications
And at the end of it all, it won’t matter who had Medicaid and who didn’t .  Everyone loses.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I cant think of a better way to mark the anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence Join me at People's Independence Day Chicago action.womensmarch.com/events/peopl...
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People's Independence Day Chicago
We are calling on CHICAGO for all to join us on July 4th for the PEOPLE’s INDEPENDENCE DAY because there can be no freedom without justice!  The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda is a growing c...
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Gender-affirming care isn't just for trans and gender non-conforming people Gender-affirming care is being addressed by your correct name It's being offered the appropriate screenings It's being sensitive about your comfort in your body and your modesty It isn't something radical or specialized
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Proof this guy is full of SITH.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Highly recommend "On Tyrrany" if you haven't read it already
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/05/2025
@catgyoung.bsky.social
Did you know the Human Genome Project cost taxpayers about $3 billion over 13 years but is estimated to have generated a ROI of $1 trillion impacting the fields of medicine, agriculture, energy, and the environment? Science is not a cost.  It’s an investment with countless returns.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Honestly, folks, it's the least we can do
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Some good news - the CDC released an HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report with data for 2023. Unfortunately, there is no data presented on HIV incidence and PrEP coverage because...of RIF. This diminishes our situational awareness re: where we are nationally in our work to end the HIV epidemic.
cdc.gov
HIV Diagnoses, Deaths, and Prevalence: 2025 Update
Data on HIV diagnoses, deaths, and prevalence in the US.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A fight in an alley is not a “boxing match”, it’s assault. A stabbing is not a “medical procedure”, it’s attempted murder. A car removed without infraction is not “towed”, it’s stolen. A person kidnapped without process is not “deported”, it’s human trafficking.
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a close up of a man wearing a collar and looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a man wearing a collar and looking at the camera .
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2025
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy Independent Bookstore Day to those who celebrate! www.fastcompany.com/91323620/ind...
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Amazon's book sale crashes Independent Bookstore Day—and readers are pushing back
Indie bookstores planned a national celebration. Amazon planned a book sale. Now, the battle for readers' attention is on.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Happy Independent Bookstore Day to those who celebrate! www.fastcompany.com/91323620/ind...
fastcompany.com
Amazon's book sale crashes Independent Bookstore Day—and readers are pushing back
Indie bookstores planned a national celebration. Amazon planned a book sale. Now, the battle for readers' attention is on.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The silver lining to watching the world burn is the opportunity to build something better in its place
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This might be where we are going.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What an amazing act of positive resistance and what phenomenal way to rethink higher education. What if more teachers and professors did this? What if we removed the barriers so many face to learning?
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Dr. Implorable @drimplorable.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Prescription to read @rx-to-read.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Green tomorrow. Got it
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
For your consideration…. #obskyn #obgynsky #reprosky
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Yesterday in Chicago #JoyIsResistance
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I HIGHLY recommend On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social if you haven't read it
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/04/2025
@doctormike.bsky.social
Last night the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, blocked Trump from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act.
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Margaret Russell @drmargaretrussell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Joy is Resistance events.pol-rev.com/events/8a109...
events.pol-rev.com
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Disability is one of the few minority groups you can join at any time. People believe they will be the exception & have trouble accepting they’re likely to become disabled at some point in their lives. Work on internalized ableism. Engage in disability justice. It will benefit you in the long run
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