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Oncology nurse Dad of 3 Turning the inner monologue into a peaceful him Studied Political Science and International Affairs Signal @miyagivibes.24

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CBS Mornings @cbsmornings.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Direct primary care has exploded in the last decade, going from 140 practices to nearly 3,000 in the U.S.
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Direct primary care gains traction as providers look for a better way to treat patients — without insurance
Direct primary care has exploded in the last decade, going from 140 practices to nearly 3,000 in the U.S.
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Brian Pierce MD @mainedpcdoc.medsky.social · 13/07/2025
The patients that benefit the most from Direct Primary Care (DPC) are those with chronic medical problems that require regular follow ups, those with anxiety and those with both. We usually get labs, generic meds and basic x-rays, ultrasounds, etc. for less than half of what they usually pay OOP.
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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
You know what I felt today for the first time in a long time? Hope. Did you feel it too?
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/06/2025
1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
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Brad @miyagivibes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Show up for them. #nokings #maine
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/06/2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ousting all members of a key CDC vaccination advisory committee and replacing them with his own picks. The move appears to contradict a pledge he made during his confirmation process.
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RFK Jr. ousts all members of CDC vaccine advisory panel
Kennedy said the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a group of experts who recommend vaccines, has been "plagued with persistent conflicts of interest."
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 03/06/2025
Hall Health, which opened in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on May 8, provides primary care without insurance. Patients pay a flat monthly fee and get unlimited visits, longer appointment times and direct access to a doctor—a model aimed at improving outcomes for uninsured and underserved patients.
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New Clinic Aims to Close Care Gaps for Hattiesburg’s Uninsured
Hall Health, a new health clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is offering care designed for uninsured residents who often go without it.
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ACOG @acog.org · 27/05/2025
ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 17/05/2025
Hunger is a policy choice. By cutting food assistance programs like SNAP, Republicans are choosing to let folks go hungry. Let’s be clear about that.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 24/04/2025
@alastairmca30.bsky.social
These are things you just don’t cut.  A hotline for suicidal youth is one of them.  Taking away a basic call for help when someone is at their lowest is not just cold, it’s evil.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
"The FDA this month also suspended existing and developing programs that ensured accurate testing for bird flu in milk and cheese and pathogens like the parasite Cyclospora in other food products." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Unbelievable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Brad @miyagivibes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Opening a new Direct Primary Care office in Bangor!! Www.apotheosis.health #primarycare #healthcare #directprimarycare
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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Important reporting from my NPR colleagues on the human impacts of the cuts to U.S. foreign assistance. They share the story of twelve people - including kids - who have run out of HIV drugs in Zambia.
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
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@billydillydally.bsky.social @billydillydally.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Heads up, folks! Please share!
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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
OMG - a third grader! This is unconscionable actions by people with very evil black souls. An 8 yr old should never be someone's pawn. #MomSky
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 08/04/2025
Trump and Elon Musk's mass layoffs are holding up... life-saving cancer research. This is the opposite of efficient.
Washington Post: NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
We are living through the consequences of having an uninformed and ill-informed citizenry. Our founding fathers warned us about this danger.
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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me
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Chris @mssmig.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Portland, Maine LFG!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/04/2025
WOW: Thousands are currently protesting in Boston. This is just one of more than 1200 'Hands Off' protests underway today across the nation as people rise up against the Trump-Musk regime. (via Rob Way)
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Javen Swanson 🏳️‍🌈 @javenswanson.com · 05/04/2025
Absolute insanity at the Capitol today. I’ve never seen anything like it. #HandsOff
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Truth. It's 2025 in the United States of America. Hard to believe it. Only two months to get here.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is Randy Fine, who is running against Democrat Josh Weil next week in FL’s special election to replace Mike Waltz.
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Brad @miyagivibes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This projection is the stuff of legend 😑
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Jes 👊🇺🇸🔥 (Admin@antifa.org) @jestastrophy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
“This is a Trump EPA-led effort to evade established limits on toxic pollution that protect millions of people across the US.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Fossil fuel companies get direct email line to Trump for exemption requests
EPA sets up email address where ‘regulated community’ can request exemption to evade air pollution rules
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
WSJ: ".. axing 10,000 full-time employees spread across departments tasked with responding to disease outbreaks, approving new drugs, providing insurance for the poorest Americans and more." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department
The changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
"Some predicted the loss of as much as 90 percent of staff from some infectious disease teams." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
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Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics. Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.  With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer’s own second generation inhibitor.
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KittyAKAJody @kittywestmeow.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
WATCH this! And then tell the Republicans in Congress that when they're burning down this house, there's people still inside. Maybe they will care… #SaveMedicaid
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025
THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 15/03/2025
My friend is an anesthesiologist at a VA hospital.  They are 4 anesthesiologists short of being full-staffed.  And thanks to Elon Chainsawhands, they are under a hiring freeze.  So when your favorite veteran’s quadruple bypass surgery gets canceled, remember who is responsible.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is madness
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A-Bloc ~ All Things News & Views 🗽 🌻 📎 @abloc1.substack.com · 14/03/2025
#FYI.
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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The people were ALWAYS going to have to lead the way. The movement is not the party. The PEOPLE are the movement. Is anyone really surprised? The answer is in organizing. Not in hoping that feckless politicians will grow backbones.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
merciless www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This happens when the American people show up. Thank you!
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Alt US Coast Guard @altcoast.altgov.info · 13/03/2025
Nothing they're doing is based in reality or policy. They're just doing whatever makes them look decisive & powerful. When we draw attention to their insanity, the sham falls apart. Glad to see fired probationary workers have a chance to come back! I know for many, though, trust has been broken.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Even though we've already spoken to >150 sources for this story and others, I would still love to connect with any federal workers or folks with insight into DOGE. You can be anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32
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Charles Jennings @chasjennings.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This message needs to be heard widely.
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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
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Brad @miyagivibes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What a great idea to get people started who want to open a primary care office! I know numerous NPs and PAs who would open up a PCP office in rural Maine if there was some help to get up and running. @mayamyco.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social #healthcare #maine www.wabi.tv/2025/03/12/d...
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Dexter man offering free rent, other incentives for opening of medical practice
Spizuoco took his offer to Facebook, sweetening the deal with a $1,000 reward to anyone who helped find a doctor, physician’s assistant, or nurse practitioner to take him up on it.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Get loud
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