Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

'stopDEI.edu.gov' - I believe we know what to do The Guardian reported this morning the creation of the ‘tip portal’ enddei.ed.gov. Here is the post from the Department of Education — www.ed.gov/… For some obscure reason I believe that us Kosacks kn...

It looks like we have a homework assignment:

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Modern Medicare vs. Single Payer - Health Justice Monitor Sadly, Medicare has been twisted into a morass of complex choices and financial vulnerability. Coverage in other nations and with single payer is simple and effective. Let’s take that path!

healthjusticemonitor.org/2025/02/21/m...

I know that thought is tempting, but the ones who can’t vote in those states shouldn’t pay for the terrible mistakes of those who can. :/

If she can do it, we can all do it.

The Alienation of Jaime Cachua His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

When cognitive dissonance starts to become reality. We are going to start seeing a lot of this, I imagine.

Photo of a page of a newspaper showing the headline “one in three say COVID-19 response overblown: poll” The article describes dozens of opinions on the overreach and overreaction of the response and mentions 50% thought it was appropriate and another 13% did not think it was overblown.

In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.

The role of media ladies and gentlemen.

#covid #covidcanada

Last night we went Christmas shopping at a Night Market in Culver City. They had great, unique gifts (including a young woman with a typewriter who wrote custom poems for $10). It felt so good spending our money on local artists who are just happy for the business and don’t want to control the world

I enjoyed shopping with mine too. And then later on my own while I was still working from home. But now that my days are a stream of short-form interactions with people (usually people who don’t feel 100% great), I’m not feeling it. HEB is right next to work though so order/pickup is easy.

The Sound of Fear on Air It is an ominous sign that "Morning Joe" felt it had to apologize for something I said.

Here's the Frum/Atlantic column from yesterday

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If I lived in a walkable neighborhood, then I would be down for it. I still go in person to the international markets for specialty items I can’t get at the big supermarket. But I’m with @nobodobodon.bsky.social in that curbside has won out for me otherwise. Esp after peopling all day at work now.

Want to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in Hospitals Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found

Masks in hospitals save lives.

When masking is dropped - they saw a 25% jump in hospital acquired viral infections.

When reinstated? A 33% decrease.

It’s almost as though masking should be mandatory and permanent in hospital settings.

www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

"Health care is not just about responding to disease. It's also about prevention and improving health equity and access in our communities, improving workforce issues, and changing patterns of disease." -Rachel Gerson, MD, MA #RSNA24

Please re-read original post regarding knowledge of science or lack thereof. Kthxbye

This feeding into a mindset of ‘agree to disagree’ and outright dismissal/invalidation of fear and anger of those who are likely to be most affected in the months and years to come is what may be grinding me down the most atm. I’m trying, but it’s treading emotional and mental water atm. Love y’all.

Senator Tom Daschle withdraws as health secretary nominee Former senator Tom Daschle came under scrutiny over failure to pay $140,000 in taxes

When Obama nominated Tom Daschle -- a congressional leader with three decades of experience working on federal health care policies -- to be HHS secretary, the senator had to withdraw because a donor provided him with a car.

If only he'd beheaded a whale!

www.theguardian.com/world/2009/f...

The press treated Michelle Obama pushing vegetables as more politically fraught than RFK Jr anti-vaxxing up the joint.

Maggie, taking over all the stuffed toys

POLIO IS CONQUERED newspaper headline

Sigh.

A lot of what NIH does is fund basic research into public health that is not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to do. This is what you get with someone who does not believe in research.