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Doctor Matt

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IM Physician| Blood + bone marrow donor| Michigander | MI Clinicians for Climate Action| my religion is science and logic | Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/him #VaccinesWork #AbortionIsHealthcare #TransRightsAreHumanRights #MedicareForAll

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course the future of cars is still electric. But like so much other US policy right now, it’s delaying that transition to cleaner technology, and incentivizing many more harmful actions in the meantime.
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you die, please don't take your organs with you. They will be of NO use to you. Please sign the back of your driver's license and be an organ donor. This is the highest form of "charity" because the recipient can do nothing for you except be grateful for your selfless gift.
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1000% this
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community to help spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it. Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from the americancancersoc.bsky.social and find a screening location.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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Katrina Green, MD FAAEM, FAMWA (she/her) @kgreenmd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I got my Covid shot, have you? Protect yourself and those around you!
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“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽‍♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Black ppl have significant improvements in medical outcomes if the have a Black physician or even live with a 25 mi radius of one Black ppls concerned about pain are still being mismanaged by non-Black MDs bc racism The M&M rates for Black mothers improved with a Black gynecologist. Color matters.
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Doctor Matt @mastermeriadoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time I bring up to my in-laws that Im getting an EV, they ALWAYS bring up the whole battery recycling issue. Well here you go - companies are already starting to recycle them. Battery issues will remain but EVs WAY better than ICE for global warming and the environment.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This rule will cost Americans hundreds of billions in extra fuel costs, lead to the release more GHGs than almost all countries on Earth, sicken and kill hundreds from air pollution, and make American roads even less safe.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Anyone who has driven an EV knows how great they are. Trump is ensuring that we will lose the race for EV development and sales, and get left behind. And the planet and its people will suffer for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c...
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
The fraud is that they are paying for insurance ... but not using it? Who exactly is the defrauded party here?
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Admittedly #opera is not my thing, I'm more of a #musicaltheatre girly (though I did see Don Giovanni performed by #UMich #opera few years ago and they knocked it out of the park), but I definitely get behind making the #arts accessible to all instead of only #culture -less trashy billionaires
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Jake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Respiratory virus season has entered the chat 🦠 😷 Don’t let it ruin your plans! Get your flu and COVID vaccines (& RSV if you’re eligible) Vaccines help to prevent infection and significantly reduce the risk of severe illness & hospitalization, plus help protect those who can’t be vaccinated. 💉💪💚
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.
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Zamafir @zamafir.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Frustrated the Federal government revoked EV subsidies and continues to work to dismantle regulations for healthier American families? Vote. Get involved. Call your elected representatives, often. It's time Americans acted and focused on what can be done at a local and state level, esp big states.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lilly pledged to make insulin available at $25/vial for uninsured but it introduced restrictions based on geography and needs, and insulins that are subject to these voluntary price caps are often out of stock at the pharmacy when people go to fill a prescription. via @dylanlscott.bsky.social
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A shocking number of Americans are still rationing insulin
Insulin still doesn’t cost $35. Here’s what it will take to make it truly affordable.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
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Robert O'Neill @robertoneill31.latenightgrin.com · 21/09/2026
streaming is just cable now. they did it. good job everyone.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
With all of the tech bro noise, corporate greenwashing, AI slop, and influencer nonsense out there, how do you find REAL information about climate change and effective climate SOLUTIONS? The Drawdown Explorer. It’s based on the latest data, real science, and is 100% free. Drawdown.org/explorer
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Drawdown Explorer™
We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 19/09/2026
All cookbooks are lies. "One pot meal, done in 35 minutes" Four hours later, with every pan in the kitchen used and piled up in the sink ...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here’s the list of BEVs you can buy in the U.S. right now for relief from soaring gas prices. And you’ll also get lower maintenance costs, better air quality, & less environmental & climate impacts. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.caranddriver.com/features/g32...
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A Guide to Every EV for Sale in the U.S. for 2026, from SUVs to Sports Cars and Trucks
Use this quick guide to find the EV with the right efficiency, range, and price for you, from the practical to the exotic.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 18/09/2026
Some folks are holding up the unusually quiet Atlantic hurricane season as some sort of "gotcha" for climate scientists. But low Atlantic hurricane activity has long been the signature of strong El Nino events, as memorably shown back in 1997:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just a random reminder that it's a moral outrage we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Jillian David @jilliandavid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a friendly reminder that open enrollment for insurance is coming up this year. Don't forget: "Medicare Advantage" IS. NOT. MEDICARE. (it's also called: "Medicare Part C" which is confusing) Don't let slick ads/snazzy flyers fool you. Avoid MA plans like your life depends on it. Bc it does. 1
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Douthat piece where he talks about the importance of AI closes with a sponsorship notice from a healthcare company using AI to deny claims.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: The EPA is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Tag team with @bloomberg.com’s Ari Natter and Jen Dlouhy. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Poised to Repeal Carbon Standards for Coal, Gas Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to formally rescind carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker. If any of us had to flee for our lives international law recognises that we may not be able to get visas overnight or at all, have money, have passports, fly out of a national airport...so we'd have to go however we could.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 07/09/2026
yep, we should much more that's how I was trained and I say "I don't know" all the time
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/09/2026
A shortage of doctors and rising insurance costs are forcing people to forgo preventive care altogether. to.pbs.org/4cMTND1
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Why America faces a primary care shortage – and why it matters - Horizons
There’s a critical need for primary care physicians across America, but a shortage of doctors and rising insurance costs are forcing people to forgo preventive care altogether. Americans die of preven...
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JEaN CANnes NOUx @calypseaux.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
I’ll report back but so far (16+ hours later) I’m A-OK
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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Time for #cardiologists and #stroke #neurologists to change the guidelines for 90 minute door to needle time to account for #EMS having to abandon the #patient to manually push a nonsensical vehicle
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Citizeness Kane @citizenesskane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Cue the clip: youtu.be/AMfXVWFBrVo?...
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Cartographers for Social Equality
YouTube video by Trevor Robinson
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
absolute fuckers "Trump officials at NIH disclosed the existence of DoD’s efforts only after being pressed for information by House Appropriations Committee Democrats." democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
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Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026
I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.
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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just to stress the point. The Paris Agreement's goal of reaching net zero in 'the second half of this century', would now need to be reaching net zero by 2031.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
My prediction is that we will never have enough CO₂ removal (CDR), so overshoot is not a thing. We will hit 1.5°C global warming by 2030, and every tonne of CO₂ we emit will make the world warmer. Where we stop is entirely up to us, but there’s no dialing down the temperature after that.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In honor of the new UN climate report, which spreads the entirely unsubstantiated myth that we can remove and sequester enough carbon from the atmosphere to cool the whole planet down again, here’s a paper that looks empirically at one component of this myth. And it’s not pretty. #EndFossilFuels
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ash, MD • @AshMD_1•9h

Surgery note: The patient had half their body removed last week, but they were able to walk and poop, ready for discharge.
Medicine note: The patient coughed 3 times when I was talking to them, the cough makes me suspicious they have one of the following 17 conditions. Will... Show more

Allyson M. W. Dyar
@Allyson13

Why did they have half their body removed?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/09/2026
Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
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