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Nate Bahr

@natebahrid.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, ID physician @UMN, TB meningitis, histoplasmosis, cryptococcal meningitis, blastomycosis, drug pricing. Patients > Profits.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, this is true DOGE knew *exactly* what USAID resources were used for & where those resources went to: health & humanitarian assistance to women & children in low- & middle-income countries Here are 20 projects that Musk killed He knew exactly what he was doing apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
STAT+: NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/n...
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NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers
The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow. Trying so hard to make a conspiracy happen...forgot that reality is a thing.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vought broke the law when he tried to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also made it easier for wealthy corporations to cheat average Americans. www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... Time to impeach & convict. ImpeachVought.com
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Judge orders feds to restore consumer watchdog funding
Created from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $20 billion to consumers since its inception, according to the plaintiff states.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE Activity Tied to Disruptions in Pediatric Care jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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ICE Activity Tied to Disruptions in Pediatric Care
Actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in early 2026 may have disrupted pediatric outpatient care, a recent study suggests.
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE goons in Evanston, IL sent a U.S. citizen to the hospital after they mistakenly tackled him and punched him in the face while he screamed that he was a citizen and then left him alone on the ground to fend for himself once they realized their mistake. Pure fascist brutality.
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ICE agents mistakenly detained US citizen in Chicago suburb, officials say | CNN
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents mistakenly detained a US citizen in a Chicago suburb Sunday morning, leaving him on the ground with various injuries, according to local authorities.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know what she’s talking about. Sure sounds like she wants to find what suits her politics which is a horrible way to fund science.less innovation, more garbage.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just another day of unnecessary stress and chaos very likely created by Russell "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected" Vought. Just another day where Russell "Project 2025" Vought did his best to make it harder for civil servants to serve the American people. impeachvought.com
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Impeach Vought
We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
bad. bad. bad. politicians in charge of science will stop a LOT of actual science and fund a lot of garbage.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Day5 Fungal Awareness Week. How we diagnose and treat fungal infections varies hugely. Some have seen great improvements in recents years, others...have not changed since before I learned to drive. Want to change this? Tell your reps you want more fungal research and no political interference at NIH
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Day 4 #FungalAwarenessWeek -skin infections. Can occur all over that body and unfortunately, we're seeing some with increased resistance to antifungals and sexual transmission with certain types is a problem too. Bottom line - skin issue that isn't improving - talk to your doctor and #thinkfungal
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fungal Awareness Week Day 3. Travel! We're often aware of the fungal infections that happen commonly in our area, but people travel! As physicians, travel histories can help us get to the right diagnosis. If you go into a cave on vacation and have a cough, I'm checking for you for histoplasmosis!
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tariffs cost Wisconsin about $5.5B, or $2,179 per household, report says www.jsonline.com/story/money/...
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Tariffs cost Wisconsin about $5.5B, or $2,179 per household, report says
Wisconsin ranks 19th nationwide in tariff costs, according to a new National Taxpayers Union Foundation report.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
4 deaths from measles. This is tragic and 100% avoidable. It is completely within human’s capacity to have eliminated measles from the earth. But- anti-vaxxers and misinformation exist 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fourth person dies of measles-associated illness in US
All deaths occurred in Pennsylvania, in worst year since 1992 for one of the most contagious diseases
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is bonkers. First - it's amoral. Second - do no harm ring a bell, Scott? Thirds - It's dumb. Who is the constituency for 'lets take breakfast and lunch away from kids'.?
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did you know that the same types of antifungals that we use to treat humans are used BROADLY in agriculture? This practice contributes to resistance ➡️ limited or no options to treat some fungal infections like Candida auris. #thinkfungal #fungalawarenessweek
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is such a stupid self-own. Hurting our country for the sake of their racism and xenophobia.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's Fungal Awareness Week! The theme today is patient awareness. If you have a possible infection that isn't getting better #thinkfungal In histoplasmosis and blastomycosis, this is often a lung infection that doesn't get better with antibiotics. If that's you - ask your doctor to #thinkfungal!
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Third death. 6th in last 2 years. After none for years. This is #MAHA 🤦🏻‍♂️🤬
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a critical collaboration that helps protect us all from infectious disease. They are also the body that in November will declare that the U.S. has lost its measles elimination status. Trump has now decided it’s “corrupt” and he wants to defund it.
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US Proposal To Eliminate PAHO Funding Raises Alarm Over Health Security In Americas - Health Policy Watch
The oldest multilateral health organization in the world, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), is fighting many of the same health threats it did at
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
KC hospitals see more patients with no insurance — and expect more thebeaconnews.org/stories/2026...
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KC hospitals see more patients without insurance — and expect many more
The end of enhanced subsidies for ACA plans is adding to the tally of uninsured patients. New Medicaid requirements coming in January could be a multiplier.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pretty wild- if you used ASAP wildlife services in Minnesota and they told you an animal they removed did not have rabies, don’t count on it: “At least one customer has been told of negative results from a laboratory that does not perform animal rabies testing” 😳😳😳
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Health officials request information from people who used ASAP Wildlife Services MN amid potential rabies exposure investigation - MN Dept. of Health
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NIH to continue discussing only the top 1/3 of applications. This is a disservice to the research community. Fewer applications will get the higher quality of review from discussion. Applicants will get less nuanced feedback from review. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-114: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Continuation of Modifications to Peer Review Practices NOT-OD-26-114. NIH
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Unlawfully stealing from our future health to fund a war that never should have happened. 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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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can confirm (as can many many thousands in the US). ICE is very happy to terrorize school children.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A web of the relationships between the new Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the “vaccines cause autism” community. This guy will be controlling what NICHD grants are funded.
Network of relationships between key players of the anti-vax community and the new director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A great explainer about a proposal to hide NIH peer review scores from applicants and program officers, why NIH’s justification makes no sense, why it could lead to (further) politicization of science, and how to leave a public comment 27unihted.substack.com/p/nih-wants-...
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NIH wants to shroud peer review scores. Here’s what you can do about it.
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Having an enormous expensive ballroom is a national security issue. OK... If only they gave the level of effort that they give to spinning Trump's desire for a vanity project into something that we need to...things that we need. Like affordable housing and food, access to affordable medical care...
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OMB's proposal to remake federal grantmaking was flooded with comments Now, they are withdrawing some from the public record — including some that point out Russell Vought's connection to the federally funded research that led to Trikafta www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...
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Comments on OMB research rule mysteriously removed from federal website
Some comments on a proposed OMB research rule have been mysteriously removed from a public-facing government webpage.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Man these two are full of it. This isn't a thing.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is on our government. RFK Jr's garbage has led to measles deaths in the past and we're seeing it again. This guy is trying to harm us, don't let him.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
V. disturbing screaming. Turn volume low/off. Yesterday, the car of an Ecuadorian mom and daughter was hit and flipped on a highway. In E.R. 19 y.o. was put in a brace for neck injuries. She's described as suffering a "nervous breakdown." Early reporting said ICE got them. Sheriff actually. Cont.⤵️
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ICE detiene a madre e hija ecuatorianas en un hospital de EE.UU. tras siniestro de tránsito
Grace Calero, de 39 años, y su hija Giulianna Carriel, de 19, fueron detenidas por agentes migratorios mientras recibían atención médica.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
so...quackery? or?
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So many ridiculous things by the FDA's comms people here. I can't get over FDA official communications saying things like 'don't believe the fake news'...🙄
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 18/08/2026
“BODY CAMERAS WERE NOT ON”: Federal Agents Shoot Colombian Man Dead During Wrong-Target Raid as Outrage Erupts
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SHOCKING FATALITY: Husband and Father Dies After ICE Surrounds His Car Looking for Someone Else — Community Demands Evidence
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was reportedly on his way to work when federal immigration officers surrounded the area near his Biddeford home. He was not the person they had come to arrest. Minutes later…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
For decades, the anti-vaxx activist & racist RFK Jr has been obsessed with trying to find a link between childhood vaccines & autism—but decades of research found there’s no link Yet he DELIGHTS in cutting funding that could actually improve autism screening/diagnosis/services among Black kids 🧐
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Seems like a familiar approach from what we have heard from him on the past
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Getting rid of clinical trial K awards will reduce the number of clinician scientists, a critical part of our research workforce. This will especially impact the group of folks doing implementation science (where we figure out how to get evidence into practice). www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Agency will no longer allow K career awards to fund clinical trials
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Nate Bahr @natebahrid.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The administration is anti-vaccine and pro-disease.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 10/08/2026
and yes more importantly, this is antiscientific antivaxx garbage because RFKjr is a grifter who doesnt believe in the germ theory of disease and wants to end childhood vaccination
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Two additional cases of HIV cure were presented at IAS meeting Rio. Both individuals received stem cell transplantation for cancer treatment. This brings the number of people "cured" to 13. We learn more with every case. Credit @lizhighleyman.bsky.social www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-202...
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Two more people cured of HIV after stem cell transplants, offering more clues to long-term remission
Two more people appear to be free of HIV after stem cell transplants for cancer treatment, according to case presentations this week at the 26th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2026) in Rio d...
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