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Jillian Horton

@jillianhortonmd.bsky.social
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Writer, doctor, thinker, dreamer, schemer, believer, consulting producer, author WE ARE ALL PERFECTLY FINE (HarperCollins). Make good waves. Opinions mine.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TOday's essential read for all budding medical professionals (nurses too!!!) Thanks @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social for articulating in words what many of us feel in our hearts.
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Opinion: A message to Canada’s new medical students: These are hard times, but not hopeless times
Why emphasizing meaning in health care work can be a protective factor against burnout, despair and complacency
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A message to Canada’s new medical students entering a system in crisis: These are hard times, but not hopeless times, by @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: A message to Canada’s new medical students: These are hard times, but not hopeless times
Why emphasizing meaning in health care work can be a protective factor against burnout, despair and complacency
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 08/05/2026
stop what you’re doing and read this
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/05/2026
When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve. This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive. From our “The End of Aid” series, a 2026 Pulitzer finalist:
propublica.org
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The thing about dementia? A total lack of filter will keep manifesting.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Serious question: Should the Surgeon General be someone who never finished residency, doesn’t hold an active medical license, built a career as a wellness influencer, has supplement ties, and has written about using psilocybin (magic mushrooms)? And this is supposed to be America’s “top doctor”? 1/
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Opinion | The danger of letting a mystic lead public health
A look at Casey Means shows the weakness of her nomination and the surgeon general position itself.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The president of the United States, folks.😕 Surely all who condemned the Charlie Kirk reaction will condemn Trump for this. Right? (cc: @MarshaBlackburn ) Our kids are watching.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
800 000 is all of the the old city of Toronto driven from their homes. (Blue on map)
Map of 6 pre amalgamation cities
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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Lol
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar Daily
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/02/2026
Does that seem fair to you?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Yikes. Bari Weiss strikes again. Nothing to see here, folks! www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is true. 🧪
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
No meeting/no plan and no safety for the patients still stuck in our "death zones." To those who call me partisan: This isn't about team jerseys... it’s about competence. When docs beg for help and govt won’t even sit at the table... Does that seem like "Good Govt" to you? 4/4
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“… our ID fellows alone receive an average of 4.1 chat messages per patient, every day. With 15–20 patients, that’s easily 60–80 interruptions daily … a recent study showed that… 99% were non-urgent and 66% were non-actionable.”
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return. Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Jay Bhattacharya wearing the face tats of a convicted rapist for his “eat more veggies” campaign. V normal.
Jay Bhattacharya, ...
@NIHDirector_Jay
Follow
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If you want to pack a punch !.
, start with
what's on your plate.
Eat Real food • S.
Be like Mike Tyson.
@HHSGov @SecKennedy @MikeTyson
Read the new Dietary guidelines here
realfood.gov
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Let’s remember to thank all the EBM gurus and “medical conservatives” who elevated MAHA to power. Cancelled RCTs is their legacy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Another Bari Weiss MAGA infomercial.
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Jillian Horton @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Very happy to share this Feb commentary in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social co-authored w @mayoclinic.org #IBD Dr. Edward V. Loftus Jr. - making our case for an urgent repositioning of #microscopiccolitis under the "true" #IBD umbrella - long overdue for this disease. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Making room under the umbrella for microscopic colitis
Microscopic colitis, a condition causing chronic inflammation in the colon, comprises collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis. But is microscopic colitis inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? A medica...
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Jillian Horton @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is absolutely worth a read if you missed it the first time.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 11/02/2026
You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
REP. BALINT: “This is not a game, Secretary!” BONDI: “I’m Attorney General.” REP. BALINT: “My apologies. I couldn’t tell.” 🔥
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“He’s my first born,” Susan Pretti said. “He’s the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day.” “No,” her husband said. I urge you to read this today.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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RFK Jr. says it may be "better" if fewer children receive the flu vaccine
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed there is "no scientific evidence" the flu vaccine prevents hospitalizations or death in children, despite previous CDC guidance.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Blame them
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Jillian Horton @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Just lovely - in this weekend's @theglobeandmail.com. Makes me think of a term one of my wise friends and teachers used to talk about - bi-directional healing. We most definitely get something out of those extra efforts too. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: As a family doctor, the nearly extinct house call is still a meaningful part of my job
Here’s why the declining tradition is worth saving
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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EDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 27/01/2026
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cartoon by Adam Zyglis
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wow— “Cardinal Tobin told hundreds of faithful gathered online that now is the time to say no — no to violence, no to indifference, and no to funding the U.S. government’s own “machinery of death.” www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
What a shame, how terrible for them.
Screenshot of a news page/header with the headline: “Morale ‘plummeting’ among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred.” Below the headline is a winter street photo showing a bundled-up officer wearing a face covering and tactical vest standing in falling snow, with several other people and vehicles in the background.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cartoon:
ICE: Domestic Terrorist
Pretti: ICU nurse
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daviss @daviss.org · 27/01/2026
CNN reporting that a week before Alex Pretti was killed, 5 agents tackled him and he suffered a broken rib. CNN says he stopped his car after he saw ICE agents interacting with a family on foot and began to blow his whistle. Source tells CNN Pretti believed “That day he thought he was going to die”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/01/2026
During a bipartisan visit to Denmark, Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski write in a guest essay, “we heard from Greenlanders who can’t sleep, and who told us that their children are crying amid fear of invasion — not from China or Russia, but from the United States.”
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Opinion | Shaheen and Murkowski: Congress Must Defend NATO From Trump
America must defend its greatest asset: Its alliances.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time for a truly massive general strike. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration. In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/01/2026
Cartoon:
ICE agent walking through a newborn nursery at the hospital
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/01/2026
#JusticeForAlex #JusticeForRenee #DefundICE #AbolishICE #ICEout #ICEoutForGood #MedSky
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