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David Escobar, DO, MPH🫘🫛

@healthwonk.bsky.social
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Osteopathic doc serving the medically underserved. Practice and research interests in addiction medicine, behavioral health integration, osteopathic manipulative treatment, health law & policy, LGBTQIA+ health. 🏳️‍🌈 Dog dad. Per aspera ad astra 🖖🏽~Leguminati

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨 Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely: "Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is disappearing refugees into the hands of torturers – and rewarding them handsomely | Tutu Alicante and Uzra Zeya
Refugees from third countries are being sent to Equatorial Guinea, where they are often sent back to the very countries they fled
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump threatening to tear down Kennedy center if he can’t have it, is why women walk thru the parking lot w their car keys in their hand
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s decision on mail voting means that Americans can cast their mail ballots with confidence this fall. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Supreme Court Rules Postal Service Must Deliver Mail Ballots
The ruling affirms that American citizens can vote by mail with confidence.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
FINALLY: NYC is releasing documents related to the misleading information provided to the public about air quality in the aftermath of 9/11. (More people have died from illnesses related to 9/11 than were killed on the day of the attacks.)
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After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)
New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Don’t tell me that you remember Sept. 11, 2001. I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” - Rudy Giuliani
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fusion will be regulated differently than fission: more like radioactive-material facilities than nuclear reactors (no NRC reactor license needed), with state regulators playing a larger role. Washington State has issued the world's first fusion plant permits, marking a new regulatory path.
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Helion clears key regulatory milestone on the path to building and operating the world's first fusion power plant
Helion has become the first company in the world to secure the regulatory licenses needed for a fusion power plant, following receipt of two licenses from the Washington Department of Health (DOH).
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
NEW: DNC passed dueling resolutions today: one to abolish ICE and one to reform ICE. Neither are binding, and the platform won’t be finalized until the 2028 convention. Keep being loud! apnews.com/article/demo...
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Democrats disagree over abolishing or reforming ICE at DNC meeting
Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hi! I’m the rabbi that organized 2500 other rabbis around this principle before, during and after the fall of Dobbs. A thread!! 🧵 First of all, there’s a lot of clarity in the tradition about this. From the Mishnah on down:
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The Torah of Reproductive Freedom
The Jewish Case for Abortion Justice
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@theradr.bsky.social, as ever, bringing you the good Torah.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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NPR @npr.org · 26/07/2026
For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood. n.pr/4pCF42m
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ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks
For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19/07/2026
Europe's top human rights body questioned the integrity of the World Cup and urged FIFA on Sunday to help build a stronger framework for the 2030 edition being played mostly in Spain and Portugal. to.pbs.org/4wRvlI7
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World Cup integrity questioned by European rights body urging FIFA to help protect 2030 tournament
“The next crisis has already begun. It has two names: money and power,” the head of the 46-nation Council of Europe wrote Sunday in an open letter to FIFA.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2026
Yup. They didn’t have evidence when they sued 63 times. They didn’t have evidence in defense against the Jack Smith indictment, and they don’t have evidence now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
The only thing Trump’s document dump proved tonight was that there was Russian collusion. That’s fucking hilarious to me.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/07/2026
CBS just cut away and dispelled all the lies. Total failure. Nobody cares.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/07/2026
Tonight, you will likely hear the president claim there was foreign interference in the 2020 election. To be clear, there were attempts, but there was no evidence they changed any election outcome. From a joint DOJ/FBI/DHS/CISA report in 2021: www.dhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 11/07/2026
Death (Trump) knocking on doors meme with blood out of the open doors for “Knicks in 4” and “USMNT”. He’s knocking on the door that says England
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David Escobar, DO, MPH🫘🫛 @healthwonk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What? Corruption? Get out. Congress needs to rectify the SCOTUS abysmal ruling in Trump v Slaughter and legislate ability for Congress to impeach FCC commissioners for high crimes and misdemeanors
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David Escobar, DO, MPH🫘🫛 @healthwonk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Way to go @katiephang.bsky.social ! We are such huge fans of your work.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Sen. Lindsey Graham passed away. He was 71. This is the statement from his office.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
👏Judge Blocks Postal Service From Imposing Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots The ruling, based on agreements the service made in a 2021 legal settlement, was the second time a judge has blocked new curbs by President Trump on voting by mail. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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Judge Blocks Postal Service From Imposing Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has just rejected the Trump Justice Department's attempt to force Maryland election officials to turn over the state's complete voter registration list.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/06/2026
Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...
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EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.
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David Escobar, DO, MPH🫘🫛 @healthwonk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Boyle Heights, #EastLosAngeles
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
‘Water is the new oil’ as Texas cities square off over aquifers With increase in population and demand from data centres as well as increased drought with less and less water Texans are going to get very thirsty texasclimatenews.org/2025/04/16/w...
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‘Water is the new oil’ as Texas cities square off over aquifers
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/06/2026
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.
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Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study
The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🤣
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Alex Jones has attempted to pervert the justice system and render his assets valueless so he can recoup them basically for free, part of a long legal strategy to never pay these families. With the permission of the Sandy Hook families, we're just not waiting around anymore to get this moving.
Alex is holding Infowars.com hostage. He’s trying to intentionally degrade the assets so these families can never sell them, and the courts have largely obliged. We’re tired of waiting around.”

Ben collins, ceo of the onion
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Students for Trump star Ryan Fournier and a friend were arrested Friday by Secret Service agents investigating a bizarre scheme: a bogus Secret Service badge and a night at a strip club. Crazy story + exclusive Fournier arrest pics: @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/the-shocki...
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The Shocking Arrest of a MAGA Pit Bull and His Fake Secret Service Pal
Ryan Fournier and his friend were arrested on Friday. Strip clubs, counterfeit badges, and made-up claims of Trump world access contributed to their fall.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"'Y'all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae. Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?" The US Government in a nutshell.
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Laughter as workers put peroxide in algae-filled Reflecting Pool': '0 scientists in admin'
Workers were spotted dumping hydrogen peroxide by the gallon into the Reflecting Pool days after President Donald Trump's $14.2 million renovation turned it green.CBS News journalist Bob Kovach was on...
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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A new study of 445 adolescents treated at pediatric gender clinics in Canada found that after a mean 2.4 years, 94.6% still identified as trns. Of the 353 who started hormonal treatments, 1.1% discontinued them. www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
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Stability of Transgender Identity in Adolescents Seen in Multidisciplinary Specialized Gender Centers: A Multicenter Study in Canada
To determine the proportions of adolescents continuing with their gender identity after referral to specialized gender clinics, the proportion continuing with gender-affirming hormones, and the propor...
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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 15/06/2026
“I know that he arranged to have cash and, like, Disneyland tickets, taken to one of the officers in the jail .... “ Sarah Kellen told a House committee.
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Epstein paid Palm Beach deputy to get special treatment in jail, ex-aide says
“I know that he arranged to have cash and, like, Disneyland tickets, taken to one of the officers in the jail .... “ Sarah Kellen told a House committee.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We’ve got the Onion Newsvan circling the cursed UFC fight outside the White House.
Onion can: FBI Agents Watch in Silence as Kash Patel Gets Ass Kicked by UFC Fighter
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So we gave Iran more money, additional control of the strait and got…. like a fraction of the nuclear oversight we got from the JPCOA while killing a bunch of civilians???
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I woke up thinking about how, in 1829, Andrew Jackson invited supporters to the White House and the "monstrous crowd" turned into a drunken brawl, created "sheer bedlam," and trashed the building. Trump has Jackson's portrait displayed in the Oval Office.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Trump made a South African a trillionaire while making Americans poorer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2026
NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
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A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
ALERT: Judge Amit Mehta says he will NOT schedule a formal hearing on the suit which seeks to HALT the UFC event at White House and Lincoln Memorial Instead, the judge will decide whether to issue a temporary restraining order based on the submitted court filings Stand by...
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Politico @politico.com · 11/06/2026
At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting, members of the group’s House of Delegates sent a clear message to their leaders: Call out RFK Jr. — even if it costs us in the pocketbook.
politico.com
America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.
The American Medical Association has sought a working relationship with the health secretary. Members saw moral compromise.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
the best evidence for voter fraud is ... that there is no evidence of fraud!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I find it curious that Mike Lee is now taking the position that the government should not be weighing in on matters of religious doctrine, despite joining an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit that urged the court to uphold the Ten Commandments in public schools, now that he's on the receiving end.
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David Escobar, DO, MPH🫘🫛 @healthwonk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Yup @dailybeanspod.com #leguminatti
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TheBionicBee 🐝 @suewho82.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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