Go Spurs Go!!! #NBAplayoffs2026

Raise a glass to freedom!

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley.

Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

I’ve called my Senators and Representative multiple times. I’ve taken my whole family to every single #NoKings and ICE protest in our community. I don’t want ANY of this, but especially genocide of an innocent people. How do we get the 535 people who have actual power to DO SOMETHING???

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, per required notification to Congress, marking 15 deaths in detention this year and 45+ since Trump took office again.

FAVREAU: “$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we're dropping bombs on Iran.”

(From @podsaveamerica.crooked.com )

Because I work really hard for the money I pay in taxes and I want it to be spent on healthcare, education, childcare, and making our communities, healthier, safer and more beautiful for all of us, not just the #EpsteinClass

#NoKings San Antonio!

I wish Bluesky was as popular as that other app during medical conferences. It was a great way to start a connection. Hope you have a great time!

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

Murdering citizens in the streets, arresting independent journalists, buying up warehouses to store people? Sounds like the plot of a dystopian film that would never be set in America, yet hrrr we are… www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you”

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

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.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

(Published July 2025)

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

60 Minutes CECOT YouTube video by Gary Bauman

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73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

There are so many holes in DHS’s story it’s nuts. They say this woman was driving her boyfriend’s car, who they claim is undocumented.

ICE pulls her over, see she’s alone, know they are looking for a man, and still handcuff her while she screams “I am a US citizen,”.

Why is ICE harassing women?

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children.

Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

It’s Love Your Lungs Day! 🫁💙
Declared by the City of Chicago in partnership with CHEST, October 19 celebrates lung health and the professionals who care for it.

Join us at #CHEST2025 and share how you #LoveYourLungs.
🔗 www.chestnet.org/newsroom/pre...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

This is pretty scary stuff. Fellow Americans are not the enemy. They’re just people trying to make it through the day and leave the world a better place for their children. I can’t believe that this is what our good servicemen and women signed up for.

This is nuts! Groceries are too expensive, energy is too expensive, housing is too expensive, healthcare is already too expensive. No one can afford this. #TrumpShutdown

New Aetna and Cigna downcoding policies Two large private payers, Aetna and Cigna, plan to implement downcoding policies beginning Oct. 1, 2025.

Hmmm …. What is the word you would use to describe intentionally submitting incorrect billing/coding in order to affect reimbursement? If a doctor did it, I’m pretty sure you’d call it FRAUD. @ama-assn.org

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