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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM

@rcmedphys.bsky.social
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Medical Physicist | Professor, Emory University School of Medicine *opinions are my own* #medphys

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 20/03/2026
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A Mexican teen migrant dies in a Florida jail holding ICE detainees
Royer Perez-Jimenez is the second person to die in ICE custody this week.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 20/02/2026
The Trump administration says that 31 universities have agreed to cut ties with a nonprofit that helps racial minorities earn doctorate degrees.
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Emory among schools to cut ties with nonprofit after White House pressure
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution @ajc.com · 20/02/2026
Marietta is the biggest local law enforcement agency in metro Atlanta to sign up to date, expanding the program’s reach into the state’s most immigrant-heavy region.
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Marietta police department signs ICE partnership, will help arrest immigrants
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Director Bhattacharya spending more time on podcasts, this time taking about not renewing grants NIH was forced to restore. Good reporting from @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/31/n... 1/3
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NIH director says DEI-related grants that were restored under a court order won’t be renewed
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya told a podcaster that DEI-related grants restored under a court order won't be renewed in 2026
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I keep seeing video after video of ICE agents assaulting or attempting to assault young women in New Orleans.
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 02/10/2025
It’s past the time to stand up, but the opportunities are dwindling! Better late than never. 🧵
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"it's too much liquid" going into the baby, instantly up there with the injecting bleach moment.
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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Robust NIH funding saves lives, strengthens America
The NIH is vital to America’s global leadership in medical innovation. Researchers explain how their NIH-funded studies have improved lives.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we are highlighting stories of chemists with Latin American roots. Read more about C&EN’s Trailblazers: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #HHM #chemsky 🧪
C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
MAHA is all marketing and a distraction. It wants to tackle poor air and water quality but the EPA just got defunded. It wants to promote healthy eating, but the admin gutted SNAP benefits that would do just that. Biggest killer of kids? Guns. Totally silent on that. @anacabrera.bsky.social
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Marty Weinhous @weinhous.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
RIP CBS "news." popular.info/p/cbs-news-h...
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CBS News hires Trump loyalist to review news coverage
CBS News has hired Kenneth R.
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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams)
By ending DEI programs, Emory isn’t just closing offices — it’s closing doors. Students deserve every opportunity to learn, thrive, and belong. Retreating from equity undermines the very promise of hi...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Completely agree. It’s absolutely outrageous that nobody stood up for @yamiche.bsky.social — media spinelessness has played a major role in how we got here.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Now this is a headline. Front page lead in NYT. And very strong, no-BS story by @julianbarnes.bsky.social Barnes and Catie Edmondson. Respect, to all involved. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
NYT headline: As Congress Lies Town, Trump Walks All Over it. 

Subhed: He Seizes Power in Spending, Oversight, and National Security, While Republicans Shrug.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations
New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.
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Noëlle McAfee @noellemcafee.net · 07/09/2025
This was painful to write. I hate that Emory’s new interim president, on her second day of office, just last week, called for abolishing DEI programs at Emory. open.substack.com/pub/noellemc...
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Is Emory Joining the Club of Capitulators?
Stepping into the role of Emory University’s interim president, Justice Leah Ward Sears brought with her quite a legacy: a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the youngest person eve...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
What’s happening in Fulton County Georgia right now impacts all of us when we go to the polls in 2026 and 2028. We owe it to ourselves & our country to stay informed. joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
> @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2025
This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want. It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.
Alt text: A tweet from Pete Hegseth reads: “Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired.” Below is a screenshot of a post by Libs of TikTok saying: “Yikes. This she/her Navy Commander is apparently a medical director for ‘transgender healthcare’ at a Naval center in California. Can you please look into this? @PeteHegseth @DODResponse.” The image shows a Navy officer’s profile with a rainbow background, pronouns listed as “She/Her,” and the role described as “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare.” Red boxes highlight the pronouns and the words “Transgender Healthcare.”
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position. But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time. If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Phang: The Constitution says representatives shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons. It doesn’t say you’re only supposed to count U.S. citizens. Trump says you’ve got to redo the census but can’t include “illegals”? Tough shit—the Constitution says otherwise.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I have an incentive for rich people like you @mcuban.bsky.social Federally funded R&D has fueled the innovation that drives American prosperity. Scores of billionaires owe their fortunes to advancements made in labs across the nation. An investment in @standupforscience.bsky.social to help save…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting. Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
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After Years of Anger Directed at C.D.C., Shooting Manifests Worst Fears
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ACLU @aclu.org · 05/08/2025
Good. No doctor should be forced to turn away families because of political threats.
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Boston Children's Hospital says it won't be bullied into abandoning trans youth - LGBTQ Nation
The hospital has faced bomb threats, hate campaigns, and threats to funding over the years but has never wavered in supporting gender-affirming care.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."Text of story:  Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
With @aapmhq.bsky.social 2025 annual meeting underway, I am reminded of this reflection following the 2022 meeting coming off the heels of the pandemic. Let our shared humanity be the context moving forward.... @aapm-hlmpsc.bsky.social
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 11/07/2025
"At least 12 people have already died in ICE custody so far this year, the same number that died in all of 2024."
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Kristi Noem Guts ICE Oversight as Detainee Deaths Surge
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem is making it harder to hold ICE accountable.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/07/2025
Happy 4th of July to those who don’t feel festive, but have a deep reverence for the sacrifice of everyone who has served this country.  To those who find parts of our nation’s history deeply problematic, but are still grateful for the fundamental principles it was founded upon.  To those who are gravely concerned about the future, but still determined to do their part to make it better.  To those who are weary, but hold onto hope…and believe in freedom for all.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/07/2025
Congress and the courts won’t save us. We are the only ones who can save us. Our next national effort is to train 1 million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we stop an authoritarian takeover.
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One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/07/2025
The evidence is clear: Abortion bans make pregnancy more dangerous and threaten our lives.
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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You may have seen videos recently of masked ICE agents aggressively confronting bystanders by shoving phones in their faces and taking pictures of them. Leaked emails show that they’re likely using facial recognition tools to identify and surveil these bystanders. This is a fascist police state.
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Richard Castillo, PhD, FAAPM @rcmedphys.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Following court order, NIH ceases new terminations of politically sensitive grants
After a judge told agency to restore hundreds of killed grants, NIH backs off plans to cancel more existing projects
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions of dollars in canceled grants to University of California researchers, calling the terminations flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization? Rubio: That’s irrelevant Host: No, that's a key point Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
AOC: “grounds for impeachment” Jeffries: “Trump needs to explain”
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Incredible stuff www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When you’re just grabbing brown people
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/06/2025
The news really sucks today. Instead of boosting a harmful Supreme Court decision, here’s something better: a practical guide on how to support the LGBTQ+ youth in your life. Because they deserve our attention, our protection, and our love. 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/ar...
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Friends & Family Support Systems for LGBTQ+ Youth
Discover ways to support LGBTQ+ young people through FAQs and educational resources for friends and family members.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Major development a Columbia. Unclear what effect this will have or how many grants it may affect. And it will be important to learn what Columbia gave up to get this. But a major development nonetheless.
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