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Taylor Nichols, MD MS

@tnicholsmd.com
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I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others Humanist | Emergency+Addiction Medicine | Health policy and advocacy | Health technology and innovation | Views my own (he/him)

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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 14h
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in the latest phase of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15h
Today in Administrative Burden and Inequality in U.S. Health Care, I'm teaching on the Medicaid provisions of HR1, the not-so-beautiful bill. It's going to be hard to cram so much awful into 75 minutes, but in their next assignment, they'll be tracing sources of burden borne by a Medicaid enrollee.
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Inside Out Anger Character Screaming
ALT: Inside Out Anger Character Screaming
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
This is a formal request to SCOTUS to forcefully detransition dozens of incarcerated trans people and to subject them to medical experimentation. That's what this is.
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 28/09/2026
A Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them. 2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes. www.defactomedia.ca/how-vancouve...
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How Vancouver police turned against DULF
Court records show the same inspector who encouraged the compassion club’s founders also approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The entire state government of California is a parable about how giving people more opportunities to vote on something is not, in fact, the same thing as making your political system more democratic.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The government isn’t racist you’re being hysterical” I give you: Chinese dragon holding opium poppies DEA swag patches paid for with tax money
A circular patch for the DEA reading “heroin intelligence unit”. The image depicts a traditional Chinese dragon emerging from a body of water, clutching a few heroin poppies.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
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Stephen Sandelich @sandelichmd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Black and low-income adolescents with OUD are significantly less likely to leave the ED with a buprenorphine prescription, per health equity research on adolescent SUD care. Same presentation. Different outcome. Poverty doesn't just raise risk. It narrows the off-ramp.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Hollywood reporter, owned by Penske Media, broke the story. Several other outlets, including The Daily Beast and The Wrap, have followed up: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...
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YouTube, Meta Restore Ads for 'Musk' Documentary: 'This Was an Error'
Advertisements for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary will come to YouTube and Meta after all. The platforms had previously rejected them.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.
A Facebook comment that includes a comic of a car mowing down a group of cyclist with the text, "Cyclists! Move over and it won't happen!"
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 27/09/2026
Bringing back the podcast, with a new episode and re-introduction of "Recovery Reform" as we work to build up as a non-profit providing non-judgemental, non-stigmatizing, harm reduction based recovery support. youtu.be/D92FJhbjM4E
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Recovery Reform Reboot
YouTube video by Recovery Reform
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 27/09/2026
Football needs to do everything to ensure safety. They’ve been trying to address perception directly with improved safety gear, game changes, etc. I would still never let anyone I cared about play football. Which is why this behavior cannot be tolerated, and both player and team should be punished.
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Dirty Hit on Dante Moore and Disrespectful Response #football #highlights #usc #oregon #dantemore
YouTube video by The Fan Le Batard Show
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
the rationalists secular solstice doom holiday is just the funniest shit ever, I’m sorry but omg www.interfaithamerica.org/article/at-b...
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At Bay Area's Secular Solstice, Rationalists Grapple with AI Doomsday
For participants worldwide, the holiday offers a meaningful, musical opportunity to stare down the dark. At this year’s Bay Area Secular Solstice, that looked like grappling with the possibility of su...
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 27/09/2026
I'm not crying, you're crying 😭 The manager detouring from his approached to the mount. Watching his daughter sprint onto the field to hug him. One of the best to do it, retiring in the jersey that made him one of the greats. Got to see him pitch on his brief stop with the Giants.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 26/09/2026
I should have died 33 years ago today. Instead, I started my day with the second fastest 5K I’ve run (at least since I raced as a cross country runner in middle school). Feeling pretty grateful.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 26/09/2026
Did anyone else ever use the website or app 8tracks for music? A social site where people could create and upload playlists and you could follow people who made great playlists and get notified when they posted a new one? Man I miss that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8tracks...
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8tracks.com - Wikipedia
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'A survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.' The under-16 social media ban won't address this. We have to start having the necessary difficult conversations to challenge gendered disrespect everywhere.
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Hostile attitudes toward women are driving extremism in young Australians
A University of Melbourne survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026
I’ve seen several stories of young women describing rape and sexual assault on college campuses in the last week which strikes me not as a rise in assaults but, given the violence of some of the examples, I fear we’re back in an era of headlines about group assaults, for the Tate/Clavicular era
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 25/09/2026
ok, it’s not all doomscrolling. If you want a laugh, this thread is great. I was unaware of the Guardian’s poasting game.
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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote an article for WWFU that’s now live. I did my best to address what I believe is the most immediate and serious threat of causing real world harm, which is a current rise of nazi accelerationism, and how groups have begun to align under a common banner with a shared goal of mass-violence.
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A New Wave of Nazi Accelerationism
How a fragmented neo-Nazi movement is carrying accelerationist ideology into a new generation of networks.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow it’s almost like I said this exact thing and pointed out the article was a fucking hit job and y’all got so mad and now the owner of the bar is confirming that exact thing and saying she believes the story was “abysmal journalism” and telling y’all to stop being so fucking hateful.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 24/09/2026
Ok, so fatherhood rewires the brain through structural remodeling and neural pruning, increasing efficiency. But no one has yet studied how that correlates to "dad reflexes" yet, because I swear my overall reflex time has significantly improved as a dad. www.npr.org/2026/06/21/n...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 24/09/2026
Every accusation is a confession.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Learned yesterday that there's a vast swath of rural counties in New Mexico with a total population of 247,000ish people, covering an area id 53,259 square miles, without a pediatrician www.instagram.com/p/DdoegYHjFw...
15 New Mexico counties have zero pediatricians NM county map, revevant counties without pediatricians are:

Catron
Cibola
De Baca
Guadalupe 
Harding 
Hidalgo
Lincoln
Luna
Mora
Quay
Rio Arriba
Sierra
Torrance
Union
Valencia


NEW MEXICO
VOICES
FOR CHILDREN
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Colleague @kieraevebutler.bsky.social on Life Surge, a faith-tinged cousin of the old Real Estate Wealth Expo (& Trump University), in which motivational speakers urge people to sign up for paid seminars that will teach them how to get rich. I covered this in my book. These attendees are marks.
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The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
really think it should be a bigger deal that all of these very wealthy men are throwing their money around explicitly in demand of a poll tax. seems like a big deal that billionaires are saying out loud that they don't want certain citizens to vote. thats just my opinion
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is this weird obsession on Bluesky, in particular, to insist that Long COVID or COVID-related sequelae are the answer to everything, but as this Tufts study states: “Our primary analysis ends in 2019” It’s not COVID. These death rates have nothing to do with COVID. Jesus christ, people
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Cliff Pervocracy @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 22/09/2026
Earlier this summer, I was brushing up on HIV history to prepare for AIDS 2026. People who inject drugs were weirdly absent from most narratives, which implied interventions like clean syringes happened in spite of them, not because of them. But their work had lasting impact. My latest.
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People who use drugs are organized. You just might not see it.
#1 in a series inspired by conversations from AIDS 2026, Rio De Janeiro
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the slop is coming from inside the house www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026
This is how you get Palantir workers saying “wait, I didn’t sign up to provide the machine learning systems for powering a genocide” while not understanding the moral harm they are already engaged in
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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 22/09/2026
A renewed reminder to delete your Meta accounts and all Meta apps. Just do it. You’ll feel better.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 21/09/2026
Economists call this a transient dislocation, but some people know it better as “my dad never worked again and sank into a pit of alcoholism and despair.” It’s not worth trading away refrigeration for! But don’t shut your eyes to the despair, either
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