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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH

@gjmontalto.bsky.social
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Venn diagram of medicine, mental health, public health, advocacy. Inequity is a societal choice. Retired US Navy. Assoc Prof Pediatrics Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. All opinions are mine & may not reflect those of my employer.

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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Anyone could have predicted this. Capitalism > our kids. @inquirer.com share.inquirer.com/2GvmZ4
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As the betting industry grows, kids as young as 11 are getting hooked
Experts argue that gambling addiction among youths could be the 'next opioid epidemic.'
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This article is not about socialism. It is about a generation of Democrats focused on solving the real problems faced by their constituents. Beware labels. They distort more than they illuminate.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/05/2026
Now, if Hamas responds or even if ordinary Palestinians defend themselves they’ll be labeled the instigator—even though war criminal Netanyahu is again in breach of international law. The only thing more shameful are the US politician cowards who continue to fund this genocide. 2/2
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Glad to see the WBGT getting some (hot, humid) air time.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Evergreen
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“The AAP recommends that families create a media plan for the household—**one that parents can abide by as well.** ‘Parents have to be role models for these rules,’ Nagata said. (His prior research has found that parental screen use is one of the strongest predictors of preteen screen use.)”🧪
“The ideal solution? "Eliminating screens from the bedroom entirely," Nagata says, "Especially when you're asleep. Our studies have shown that simple act alone is associated with the best quality and longest duration of sleep."

But most adolescents aren't separated from screens when they go to bed: Two-thirds of teens in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study previously reported that they sleep with their phones or another electronic device in their bedroom. "That's the default for the majority of teens in the U.S.," Nagata says.

It can be a hard cycle to break. But even if a phone stays in the bedroom, there are steps that can help. "Turning it off entirely is more effective than leaving it on" with a silent or vibrate-only setting, Nagata notes — even subtle vibrations or fluctuating lights can awaken kids.”
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
No! This is not "today's warped political age." This is "TRUMP's warped political age." A majority of Americans are rational, decent people who think this stuff is as corrupt as hell bit.ly/3Rkyfpl
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WSJ torches Trump's 'rotten' deal as 'emblem of today's warped political age'
The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board torched one of Trump's latest deals in a Tuesday opinion piece.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Loved @billamend.bsky.social as a kid, love him just as much as an adult.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Another example of a coward. If you’re not willing to lose your elected position by doing what’s right, don’t run. And in some cases, you lose anyway.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Terrifying that Navy leadership has sunk to such immoral, illegal depths.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I tortured myself by listening to some of this in the car while running an errand -- he took a series of obsequious softball questions from right-wing toadies, but then the one real journalist who asked an actual question is the one with no objectivity? Really?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."
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Snorkeling at Pearl Harbor: Kash Patel’s Travels Add to Focus on Ethical Issues
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Gold Coast Chicago Tesla, the midwest hub of Tesla protests, is gone.
Tesla signage and everything inside the Chicago Tesla dealership is gone.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Get rid of it.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We have identified threshold at which a bigoted remark stops being "racially tinged" or "racially charged" and becomes "racist" to the NYT, and it's a high bar:
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A Racist Remark About Jeffries Sets Off Democratic Anger in Virginia
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Doctors say that a Vitamin K injection given at birth saves the lives of hundreds of newborns. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for "further study" says the injection can create mitochondrial challenges. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Certainly the good news for many of these dudes is that they aren’t vaccinated against mumps, and they’ll get their giant nards for free.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Are you worried about hantavirus? Well research on this virus and other emerging infections is disappearing in real time, right now. My Yale colleague just lost $5 million, which the National Science Foundation (NSF) has refused to release to his group. It is so twisted and sick.
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RaySCline @lastmandarin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
1967. All Over Again.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We have the dumbest economy.
WSJ headline: “Oil prices plunged on optimism about diplomacy between the US and Iran.”
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Strong work, @idph.bsky.social and @govpritzker.illinois.gov!
News release from IL Department of Public Health stating “IL maintains high childhood vaccination rates, outpacing national trends.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 02/05/2026
US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany. It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/05/2026
Any version of "MAHA" that excludes children eating well and not being exposed to unreasonable environmental pollution is bullshit.
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Uncle Leo @alazar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
With a record-low four in April, Baltimore had the fewest monthly homicides ever in a month since police began keeping crime statistics.
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In an era of declining crime, Baltimore notches a new low
The four homicides recorded in April represent the fewest killings in a month in the city since police began keeping crime statistics that way in 1970.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
ESPN unironically teases a segment on the 22 year old Texas Tech QB who is headed to rehab for his gambling addiction and then tosses it to 5 minutes of NHL prop bets for tonight. I don’t what to say other than sports betting is a scourge and an epidemic among young men and needs to go.
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God @thegodshow.com · 27/04/2026
I wish they cared this much about shootings when it happens to children at school.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Film you've watched more than 6 times with a gif.
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two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says same person ..
Alt: two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says same person ..
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The CDC staff are thorough and scientifically meticulous. If they said the data on Covid vaccine efficacy was ready to publish in MMWR, it was solid. Bhattacharya is a hack and a stain on medicine and public health 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day 2026. Remembering a couple of sunsets while at sea in 2015.
Sun setting behind a cloud, casting an orange hue, while at sea with no land around. Sun setting behind a cloud, casting an orange hue in an otherwise blue sky, while at sea with no land around.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Education is learning how to think and solve problems. It is not compiling information.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Whole lotta sanewashing in here.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Iranian regime has more credibility than the Trump regime in reporting what’s happening in the war. I’m not saying this to be unpatriotic. I’m saying it because it’s obviously true, and Trump’s lies are turning the U.S. into a pariah state.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Disgusting any day, abhorrent on Jackie Robinson Day.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/04/2026
This is Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen He just called on Trump to assassinate the Iranian delegation. 1. This is a war crime 2. Wash Post is now state media and promoting war crimes 3. Why are you still subscribed to them? Yes, inviting you to my platform: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 15/04/2026
They’ve got endless money for war and endless excuses for everything you need. Enough. Fund people, not war.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wall Street Journal making the case for looking away from suffering.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This dude was kicked out of the E Street Band in 1973. nypost.com/2026/04/12/u...
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Exclusive | Ex-longtime Springsteen drummer Vini Lopez says woke Boss should respect Trump
“Trump is the president of the United States — everyone should have respect for him.”
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
Artemis II Return
NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@washingtonpost.com do better, edit the headline. CDC career staff & scientists did NOT delay data. The Trump administration delayed release. From your friendly, illegally fired CDC staff and our allies.
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Gregg J Montalto, MD, MPH @gjmontalto.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Fully endorse. An entire political movement has aggressively denigrated science. Not just scienTISTS, but science itself. The scientific method. Apolitical = ascientific.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026
Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?
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