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David States MD PhD

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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 21/12/2025
Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable State laws offer providers some guidance and protect patients in the absence of comprehensive federal AI laws www.statnews.com/2025/12/12/t...
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Trump order blocking state AI laws could slow health AI adoption, leave patients vulnerable
Trump's order to block state AI laws could help the tech industry but hurt health systems looking to adopt AI safely, and leave patients vulnerable.
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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 21/12/2025
STAT reports departures of multiple FDA digital health leaders. The transition may affect near term guidance priorities and industry expectations for clinical AI oversight. www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/f...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2043...
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Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Abrego Garcia Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Trump’s strategy is to be so corrupt, dishonest, and hypocritical that people eventually stop calling him out
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
@covertshores.bsky.social what’s up with Japanese subs? x.com/pati_marins6...
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Goodhart's Law, transplant edition even when gaming the system involves invasive medical procedures www.statnews.com/2025/12/01/o...
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Doctors may be ‘gaming’ the organ transplant waitlist
Patients have been given invasive treatments that their conditions did not warrant to push them higher on the organ transplant waitlist.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Impeach RFKjr, he is a danger to our health who lied during his confirmation hearings
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The square antenna on the top of the fuselage of this Russian jet-powered Geran (Shahed) drone looks like Starlink (?)
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The ultra-conservative, polyamorous homosexual billionaire Peter Thiel is a bit of a hypocrite when he claims that the Pope is a tool of the Antichrist because he is not conservative enough. ‘Do as I say, not as I do’ is probably Thiel’s favorite sentence
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
$474M in now tax exempt investments
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya must resign
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
MAGA: Children shouldn’t learn about slavery. Also MAGA: We’re reinstalling this monument of a confederate general who fought to preserve slavery.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Long overdue, noise cameras using technology and steep fines to combat roaring engines and blasting radios www.wsj.com/us-news/new-...
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New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors
Traffic police deploy new technology—and steep fines—to combat roaring mufflers, revving engines and blaring stereos.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The. comments section gives a useful window into the editorial policies of the NY Times. Not what they contain, but what they censor. Sure ways to get your comment nuked, call Trump: - corrupt - senile or question his mental acuity - mention his age and infirmity Sorry, but the NYT supports him
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The human cost of China's chemical warfare attack on the US. Fentanyl is very tightly regulated in China, but they turn a blind eye or worse on exporting fentanyl and precursors to the West www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...
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‘People overdosed,’ drug dealer texts friend who had already died in mass poisoning
They planned to open food trucks together. Now, one is dead and the other is in federal prison.
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Gilead to provide HIV prevention drug to 2 million people in lower income countries at cost Agreement with Global Fund does not include PEPFAR, reflecting Trump’s cuts to foreign aid www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Gilead to provide HIV prevention drug to 2 million people in lower income countries at cost
Gilead announced a deal to get its groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to lower income countries. Notably, the deal does not include PEPFAR.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Little known, America was a British penal colony. During the 17th and 18th Centuries, tens of thousands of convicts were sent to the colonies as indentured labor. England only started using Australia when the Revolutionary War closed American ports podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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When Britain Sent Its Convicts to America
Podcast Episode · American History Hit · 07/07/2025 · 28m
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Public schools have been one of America's great strengths. The Trump administration continues its war on the fabric of our society. Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools www.detroitnews.com/story/news/e...
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Trump administration withholding $157M in funding for Michigan schools
Michigan leader called for the funding to be released immediately, saying it supports economically disadvantaged and vulnerable students.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sad that it has come to this. Personal threats and vandalism are not free speech. University of Michigan regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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University of Michigan regents, execs get 24-hour security as threats, harassment persist
The University of Michigan says the Michigan Constitution requires that regents be able to carry out their duties free from intimidation and threats.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Human intelligence is the result of millions of years of biological evolution to create systems that can live and work with each other. AIs have none of that. In essence AIs are sociopaths. The Monster Inside ChatGPT www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Opinion | The Monster Inside ChatGPT
We discovered how easily a model’s safety training falls off, and below that mask is a lot of darkness.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The costs of gun violence we too often ignore. Security guard suffered a shattered tibia and will be out of work for months, may well end up with a permanent disability. Deacon lost his truck. GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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GoFundMe efforts set up for 2 heroes who prevented mass church shooting
A security officer injured in church shooting will be out of work for five months, while the deacon who ran over the gunman lost his truck in gunfire.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Alert parishioner and a security guard averted a mass murder. Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully loaded magazines, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Police ID suspected gunman fatally shot at Wayne church
Officials said his mother was a member of the church.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Unreliable expensive energy. Michigan's electric utilities need to get their act together instead of asking for yet another big rate increase. www.mlive.com/environment/...
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Why are Michigan’s residential power rates so high? ‘This is getting outrageous’
Michigan residents pay on average the highest electric rates in the Midwest and among the steepest in the nation.
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Ton Aarts @tonaarts.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Nissan Leaf, on road since 2009 and best sold EV model worldwide on 1-1-2020: zero (!) people burned alive 27 fire victims in the cheap Ford Pinto half a century ago, "worst fire hazard car ever in automotive history" And now 138+ burned alive in a Tesla: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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People burned alive in a Tesla, by Ton Aarts
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Americans want and deserve secure borders and control over immigration, but as we clean up the mess of decades of failed border policy, we need ways to recognize people who have contributed to society and not caused trouble www.mlive.com/public-inter...
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After driving 6 mph over speed limit on a rural U.P. road, couple faces deportation
More than 200 miles away from the Canadian border, in a remote corner of the Upper Peninsula, a couple was stopped by police and picked up by border agents.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Cutting primary care access by cutting Medicaid will drive people into ERs, the least efficient way to deliver care. Bad policy. Hospital ERs will be overwhelmed if $800 billion Medicaid cut passes, doctors warn www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
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Hospital ERs will be overwhelmed if $800 billion Medicaid cut passes, doctors warn
Doctors at Trinity Health Ann Arbor warn cuts could reduce well-child visits, overwhelm emergency departments, and cause people to fall through the cracks.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Here's the CBO's analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Trump regime has quietly shut down the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions. Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the US just about every other day. Eliminating the US Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board will come at a huge cost to safety—and lives👇
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Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
The Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates large-scale industrial chemical disasters, will close under Trump's orders.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It’s always fun when the “anti government paranoia” switch gets flipped to the “actually we love our armed agents of the state, don’t we folks” side
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Amy Klobuchar (who got Mike Lee to take down his hateful tweets) speaking now. www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
Amy Klobuchar speaking on the floor of the Senate with a picture of the assassination victims.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I worry about the disabling effects of the viruses RFK Jr wants to let run rampant Long Covid surpassed asthma to become the most common chronic illness in children Measles & polio both disable at an alarming rate What will happen to these kids under a Regime that devalues disabled lives?
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Geological hydrogen could drive an energy revolution, and Michigan is positioned to be a leader www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Energy source emits water instead of greenhouse gases — and Michigan may be a hub for it
Scientists believe Michigan may be an abundant source of what could become the next big thing in carbon-free energy.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Michigan Republican House proposed 65% cut in state funding for @UMich Ann Arbor. This is a terrible idea. The Ann Arbor campus has been an engine of innovation for the Michigan economy and attracts many talented people to our state. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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Millions of dollars in cuts to MSU, University of Michigan part of GOP’s revised plan
The 13 other public universities in the state, besides Michigan State and Michigan, would see significantly higher funding under the Republican budget proposal that passed the Michigan House late Thur...
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The apps are being distributed nationally. Where are the FBI and FCC? Why are we relying on state Attorneys General to file lawsuits blocking foreign actors putting malware in apps? www.wsj.com/opinion/nebr...
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Opinion | Chinese Spyware, Only $6.99
Nebraska sues Temu for siphoning sensitive data from Americans.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Prasad has promised several times that new vaccine RCTs will be done by spring 2026. If they are not, I’m not blaming drug companies. I’m blaming him & our medical establishment. Is their job to deliver results for us. Let’s hold them accountable. 🧵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SII...
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Dr. Vinay Prasad says Big Pharma should study vaccines, results available spring 2026
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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Michael Mina MD,PhD @michaelmina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today RFK Jr took the single biggest step towards destroying childhood vaccines When @nytimes asked me in December whether RFK could kill the vaccine program - I said he’d have to remove CDCs ACIP And… that’s exactly what he just did today Not good-just like that we cannot trust CDC on vaccines
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
It was a public waterway before they built the dam. Why should building a dam to generate their own electricity give them the right to exclude the public now? [sorry, paywalled :(] www.mlive.com/environment/...
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Congressman pushes to let Boyne Mountain dam avoid access demand
Boyne Mountain doesn’t want new hydro dam license to allow the public to access the Boyne River pond above its 250-kilowatt dam.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about Finland and how pro-Kremlin propagandists have become more active in the Finnish political space since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. For the first time since 2022, they’ve gained some political power in Finland. 1/16
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
▪️In the fall of 2022,Ukraine faced relentless drone attacks from Russian forces using Iranian-made Shahed drones.In response,Ukrainian engineers developed Sky Fortress—a nationwide network of acoustic sensors that tracks drones by sound
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This exchange is revealing, terrifying, and intellectually bankrupt. No world leader would ever want to enter a room to deal with this guy because he's a crank.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Had a call with trump for 1 hour and 15 mins. Apparently "The Art of the Deal" lets me do whatever I want.
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David States MD PhD @statesdj.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Nice to have it reopen, but renovating a news stand should not take 5 years. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Historic Harvard Square Kiosk Reopens as Cambridge KiOSK After 5 Years | News | The Harvard Crimson
The newly renovated Cambridge KiOSK — formally known as the Harvard Square Kiosk — welcomed visitors back with a ribbon cutting celebration on Friday morning.
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