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Max Jordan Nguemeni

@maxjordan.bsky.social
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UCLA GIM & HSR Asst Prof/Doctor, researcher, chaotic good & tennis guy. Studying justice, drugs & the environment. ALUM of BWH IM+CIR-SEIU, YaleMed, Howard U & Forbes30u30. Writing at adversereaction.substack.com Social media is for fun!

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Bryan Sorohan @bsorohan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'll never figure out why a carefully selected population of students who were generally in the top of their classes everywhere they came from (excluding maybe donor and celeb admits) is nonetheless supposed to fall into a normal curve grading distribution. It's not a random population.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The AHRQ just cancelled all of its grant mechanisms. This is the agency that funds a lot of research on healthcare quality. Congress appropriated them $200+M for this fiscal year. MAHA does NOT care about health. Only healthism. It’s Margaret Thatcher’s fever dream. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
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MAHA Isn’t About Health. It’s Healthism.
RFK Jr. pushes diet and exercise while millions of Americans face hunger, poverty, and worse.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
“.. 15 percent of individuals said they had borrowed money in the last year to pay for medical expenses, while another 11 percent said they had skipped a meal.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/h...
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Donovan Maust @dtmaust.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
One of those things you learned about in medical school but didn't think you'd ever hear about again after the Step exams
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If there’s no society, there’s no obligation to regulate pollution, guarantee food security or access to healthcare. There are only individuals tasked w/ optimizing themselves. Read why I think #MAHA isn’t about health. It’s healthism. My latest in Adverse Reaction. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
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MAHA Isn’t About Health. It’s Healthism.
RFK Jr. pushes diet and exercise while millions of Americans face hunger, poverty, and worse.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
My latest in @journalgim.bsky.social: Medicaid Coverage Restrictions & On-Label Buprenorphine Rx’ing for Chronic Pain. Current restrictive policies are associated with lower historical uptake of buprenorphine products that are FDA-approved for chronic pain, a safer alternative to traditional opioids
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Landing in Vegas tonight for the pregnancy meeting™️ . Pumped to see my MFM friends & mentors. #SMFM26
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Do I know anyone planning a long-ish stay in Paris? Like 2 weeks or more
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Can immigration law people weigh in on whether the suspension of immigration visas from poor countries/non-western|NATO countries applies to citizenship petitions for current permanent residents?
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Requiring reviewers to log into some portal to review the manuscript as opposed to providing you with a direct link to the review form can legit add a week to two weeks to my review time I’m so sorry.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I understand that short form videos are what “works” in our new attention economy… how well do mid-length explanatory/criticism videos perform on youtube? I just don’t love the amount of nuance lost in 1-3 min reels/tik tok videos.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
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KFF @kff.org · 08/12/2025
KFF’s Medicaid work requirements tracker compiles national and state enrollment and renewal outcomes data, related policies, implementation questions, 1115 waivers and more. We’ll continue adding information as federal guidance and state decisions take shape: on.kff.org/4ozQHFm
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Tracking Implementation of the 2025 Reconciliation Law: Medicaid Work Requirements | KFF
KFF's interactive tracks key data and policies that will affect how states implement Medicaid work requirements, which are required under the 2025 budget reconciliation law starting in January 2027. T...
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Honestly feeling quite a bit of distress re the undoing of public health etc being facilitated by doctors, while many of our professional societies are, it seems, just doing press releases.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Have you ever had someone you love dearly die from the very failures you spend your waking hours trying to address in our healthcare system?
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene might be yalls next president bruh
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crystal @cim.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The Zohran press conference is your regular reminder that the entire administration folds like tissue paper at the slightest hint of confidence and conviction, and thus the fact that national democrats are playing a game of capitulation and weakness is exactly why they're all getting away with it
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/11/2025
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Trump is so simple. He likes Zohran because he’s good looking and charismatic. Lolol
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization
What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
And it was hours after 12 major airports banned private jets that the Democrats caved.
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Finally in print - The 1st publication in the New England Journal of Medicine describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence. And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire #SilenceIsComplicity www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/11/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
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Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Buprenorphine is safer than most if not any opioid we prescribe but people still act like dosing it is some esoteric practice. There’s no shortage of resources we can use to figure how to dose a medication for the first time. We should use them when prescribing a new medication.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16/10/2025
Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
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Prescription drug coverage options are shrinking for Medicare shoppers
Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Van Jones Isaiah 48:22!
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.
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Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM
In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
How can i rationalize bed rotting as a good thing lol
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leχi (fae/she) @queenofthefae.art · 04/10/2025
Cartoon of a man looking through a window. The man is in a black shirt that says “Sickos” and is saying “Yes… Ha Ha Ha… YES!”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently. But also such a smarmy so and so.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
They didn’t infiltrate. They were invited in by the Admin. And the mainstream WH press corps didn’t stand up for their own (Yamiche Alcindor, AP).
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KFF @kff.org · 04/10/2025
Most Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA supporters, say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. on.kff.org/4q7ElGy
KFF graph showing that more than 3 in 4 adults (78%) support extending the enhanced premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage, based on a KFF Health Tracking Poll from September 23-29, 2025.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade. If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.
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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵
Abstract and results summary
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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Levels of Employment and Community Engagement among Low-Income Adults: Implications for Medicaid Work Requirements
Abstract. Context: Twenty states are pursuing community engagement requirements (“work requirements”) in Medicaid, though legal challenges are ongoing. While most nondisabled low-income individuals wo...
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“I can see you clearly vividly emblazoned in my mind” is such a bar. Mariah Carey’s pen is really unmatched.
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Mind you perp walks are unconstitutional
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thank god for family members with rare/unusual first names. Can’t be using max or jordan in any kind of password lol
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Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Fetterman's numbers should alarm any pundits or consultants who believe Democrats should shift to the right and meet conservatives in the middle. open.substack.com/pub/extremea...
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Analysis: Fetterman’s Polling Numbers Should Be a Warning For Democrats
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s polling numbers highlight the already failed strategy of trying to appeal to the political right
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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
On October the third he asked me what day it was
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
PLEASED TO SHARE THAT OUR FINAL U.S. STOP IS LOS ANGELES AND WE'RE ALMOST SOLD OUT so if you want to come and support a #Blacksky owned bookstore, GET YOUR TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy! Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster. Competence matters.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
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Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
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Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET
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