Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/09/2026I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE: I noted that the new Republican Chair of the Senate Budget Committee often calls Social Security a "Ponzi scheme." He actually called it a "LEGAL Ponzi scheme." Do his Republican colleagues agree? 1316640
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Medicare for All means we will no longer be nickeled and dimed by corporations who exist specifically to hold our healthcare dollars and pay out as little as possible. 280109813032
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This isn’t an accident, @yahoosports.bsky.social Trash move to court misogynists 🤬🤬🤬 0263
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Unbelievably chilling, shameful collaborationist behavior by a medical association Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.” 7531190
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Read what got the authors booted from the American Diabetes Association meeting 👇🏻👇🏻 02713
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaCAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part. 05421
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 02/05/2026This is an abortion ban 322083638
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 23/03/2026100% agree. 22248211181
Reposted by Rafael Santana-Daviladigby @digby56.bsky.social · 13/03/2026The most pathetic thing you'll see today. Here's President Bone Spurs trying to pretend he went to one of the military academies. I've no doubt millions of his followers will believe it. 1851394324
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Dear Latino & Hispanic voters, The Republican Party believes that masked federal thugs lawlessly roaming our streets, racially profiling brown & black people, and terrorizing immigrants & citizens is just a “little hiccup.” I thought you should know. Best, A Former Republican 591048309
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaBruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay freeyoutu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 42569709740554
Rafael Santana-Davila @valdesan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026G.O.P. Congressman: We Need to Wake Up After Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/o... Although i dont agree with everything said here. I completely echo the waking up part. @adamsmith.house.gov its time to lead a coalitionnytimes.comOpinion | G.O.P. Congressman: We Need to Wake Up After Minneapolis 010
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/01/2026On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken. 5058031810
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault. 30565982019371
Rafael Santana-Davila @valdesan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026@gluesenkampperez.house.gov you own today. 020
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaTina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/01/2026For those asking where we go from here: Not voting to fund ICE is a great place for us to start. 1543998659
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off. 287238896170
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaCongresswoman Betty McCollum @mccollum.house.gov · 24/01/2026Minnesota’s Congressional Democrats are united. We’re speaking with one voice to condemn the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti and to demand that ICE, DHS, and CBP agents leave our state immediately. 2725842
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSenator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Trump’s endless empowerment of federal immigration agents has resulted in yet another senseless killing. This brutal crackdown has to end. I cannot and will not vote to fund DHS while this administration continues these violent federal takeovers of our cities. 2121170206
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaRep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 24/01/2026Kristi Noem must be impeached. ICE must be abolished. Democrats in the Senate cannot fund DHS. Trump has created a militarized police force accountable only to him. These agents need to leave our cities NOW. 681773409
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/01/2026The real “domestic terrorists” are in the White House. The victim, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was reportedly a law abiding US citizen & an ICU nurse at the VA. He was licensed to carry a firearm. Trump & Miller are responsible for his killing & are now lying to the American people. 53750242
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now 626234997711
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage. 13856007118637
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now. 59884675913366
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSenator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/01/2026To my Republican colleagues, the Vice President is spitting in your face and openly flouting your constitutional authority. Time to decide if you came here to be a Member of Congress or a cheerleader for whatever Trump wants. 23245561294
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaJonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Apologies to Vinay Prasad!!!! 1264
Rafael Santana-Davila @valdesan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Add the Washington ones @adamsmith.house.gov @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov 021
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment. 29979751364
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaLiz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Former FDA commissioners criticize CBER head Dr. Prasad's memo about respiratory vaccines www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....nejm.orgA Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJMTwelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability. 035
Rafael Santana-Davila @valdesan.bsky.social · 24/11/2025www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.org'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. 010
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/11/2025In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What if you could save someone in West Africa from developing river blindness, caused by a parasite that can destroy the optic nerve, for 75 cents? Or keep a child from dying of hunger in Sudan’s civil war and famine for $14 a week?” Nicholas Kristof writes.nyti.msOpinion | Donate This Holiday Season: Nicholas Kristof Needs Your HelpEach dollar you donate through my holiday guide will generate $4 to nonprofits that are making our world a better place. 88231
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 31/10/202515 million Americans are going to lose their health care. 2275270649312
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22/10/2025This is why I think Democrats need to let the GOP pass their budget. Let the voters see and feel what GOP government means. See if Ron is right about this not being a “gut-wrenching problem.” People need to understand what GOP rule is: Pain and poverty. 9049177
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaMonica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov 7602620313458
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I work with Veterans. If I told them that they "killed people and broke things for a living" they would (rightfully) tell me to go to hell. Those that have had to kill someone in the line of duty most often view it with sadness, regret, and one of the worst experiences of their lives. 1603852933
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/09/2025Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day. 36949891146
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here. 13205843516167
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSoumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 20/09/2025My guess is at least 500 #doctors at my #hospital are on H1B visas including at least a few dozen #hospitalists, and if we lose even a handful to other countries our house of cards #healthcare system will fall apart, let alone all 500+ 57537
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I recommend everyone watches this 1604101405398
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/09/20259 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health 322117995124
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaJarushka Naidoo @drjnaidoo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Congrats #DavidOReilly on the PLAN trial: plasma-first liquid biopsy (LB) v tissue (TB) for NSCLC in🇮🇪 @EJCancer - 138pts - 3wk⬇️ time to genomic result,LB>TB - 90% concordance - LB half the cost (micro-cost analysis) @oncoalert.bsky.social @cancertrialsie.bsky.social www.ejcancer.com/article/S095...ejcancer.comClinical benefit and cost of plasma-first next-generation sequencing in patients with newly diagnosed advanced non-small cell lung cancer in Ireland: The PLAN studyWe report a pilot clinical trial investigating the feasibility of liquid biopsy genotyping (LBG) at the time of radiological suspicion of advanced NSCLC, incorporating a micro-cost model (MCM). (PLAsm... 071
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaNEJM.org @nejm.org · 20/06/2025Beamion LUNG-1 trial: Safe, effective, oral therapies are needed for patients with HER2-mutant non–small-cell lung cancer. Research findings on the oral, irreversible, HER2-selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor zongertinib are summarized in a new Quick Take video. nej.md/3HETKwj #MedSky 043
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.youtu.beBrad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC 570361727714
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 14/06/2025America has intersecting problems: -right wing hate -guns -media fragmentation -ignorance 1143
Reposted by Rafael Santana-DavilaSteven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A colleague, a friend and a brilliant scientist. The US lost a trusted vaccine expert to an anti-science purge at #ACIP Americans should be outraged. 16424