Tom Cooney MD

NPR is doing a thing

The @thelancet.com does not mince words

"The destruction that #Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US #health and #science while he remains at the helm.

#RFKjr #MedSky

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Stopped at the Ronald Reagan museum at Eureka College while passing through Eureka, IL (pop. 5200).  These quotes on display pop off the walls.  Prescient.

Much bigger data center tax breaks on deck in Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s bill Data centers' Oregon tax breaks were worth nearly $500 million last year. They could be much bigger in the future.

Many states are considering reining in tax breaks for data centers, citing rising energy costs and environmental impacts.

Gov. Tina Kotek's economic development bill would take Oregon in the other direction, substantially boosting the state's data center giveaways.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Here's Colbert's interview with Talarico, not on the Carr-controlled, Trump-tainted airwaves but in the free air of the internet. As I post this, 500k have watched. Let's make sure more people see it on YouTube than TV. Call that the Carr Effect.
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Meta’s AI glasses empower creeps Over the last year, Meta’s AI smart glasses have been used by deviant men to surreptitiously record videos of women and children.

#Zuckerberg #Meta’s AI glasses empower creeps oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/metas-ai-g... #privacy #harassment

#Evil “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,”

Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Fascinating take on #MAHA through the historical lens of #tuberculosis and the sanatorium. #MedSky

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Woman headed out to buy socks. She’s now stuck in ICE detention. Bonamici has pushed ICE to release Maria Trinidad Loya Medina so she can care for her seriously ill husband and their two children.

"the #immigration #judge found Medina was a risk because she didn’t immediately respond to the #ICE agents while she was on the phone with her son during her arrest." WTF!

Lived and worked in same community >20yrs, 2 kids/husband.

Disgraceful.
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The physicians continue, “And so, in order to uphold our professional covenants, we call for an immediate end to the violence and trauma that is being inflicted on our patients and our communities by ICE. We implore all in our medical community to use the power of your voices as well, to protect our patients and your own” (italics mine) (5).

Kudos to @drjanetj.bsky.social for her eloquent yet heart rendering perspective. #MedSky #Health #ICE

"This is a humanitarian crisis. Patients are afraid to leave their homes for medical appointments, including for prenatal check-ups, or medical emergencies"

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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...

"LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5% of cases and disposition in fewer than 44.2%"

Surprise (snark alert), #AI #LLM are great if you give them all data up front but terrible at knowing when or what to ask. #Health #Healthcare #MedSky

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Image of Trump taking giant Westminster dog show trophy and the winning Doberman ripping at his sleave. Caption: "Donald Trump decides that he also needs the Westminster Kennel Club Trophy to feel whole.

#Trump awards himself #Westminster Kennel Club trophy, declaring he is 'top dog'...

#MAGA #DogSky

This family's blood is on the hands of the LA City Council and former Mayor Eric Garcetti.

There's just no other way to put it.

Minnesotans sang outside the hotels where ICE and BP goons are staying, telling them it's not too late to change careers: "It's okay to change your mind. Show us your courage."

This ruling from Fed Judge Ana Reyes is magisterial in thoroughly discrediting #Noem and her illegal effort to deport #Haitians with Temporary Protected Status #TPS. #ICE

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Weekly US Influenza Surveillance Report: Key Updates for Week 3, ending January 24, 2026 Seasonal influenza activity is low.

#RFKjr anti- #vaccine regime killing kids

"90% of reported pediatric deaths this season have occurred in children who were not fully vaccinated against influenza."'

"children < 18 years have the highest peak weekly hospitalization rate observed since 2010-2011 season."

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The Melania movie Here we go again

Jeff #Bezos is back on bended knee. #Melania

H/T @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

#Vance driven #ICE Ethnic Cleansing of #Haitians in Ohio?

Critical read from @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Couldn’t have said it better.

#Noem #Miller #MAGA #bootlicker

Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by #ICE in #Minneapolis with harsh criticism of #DHS behavior

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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...

The Gestapo #ICE agents act with a sense of impunity (and immunity) directly traceable to our hyperpartisan, extremist #SCOTUS rulings.

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When our patients go without medical care, the harm is not theoretical. It is measurable. Fear doesn’t just keep people away from clinics and EDs, it pushes patients into crisis. We know what happens when the symptoms that signal a medical crisis are ignored in the hope that they will just go away. When their conditions worsen, patients arrive in EDs and hospitals with advanced cases of illness. We have seen the cost of waiting: appendixes rupture, mild infections transform into lifethreatening sepsis, patients end up on ventilators in the ICU because they could not get medications they needed. And sometimes, it is too late; those hours of waiting in fear become their last.

We Do Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

" #Physicians throughout #Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement #ICE is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices." #health #healthcare #MedSky

Pochettino digs a deeper hole: "We are not politicians. We are sport people that only we can talk about our job"

What a remarkably naive, even irrresposible point of view. May be a great #soccer coach but he knows nothing about roles, rights and responsibilities of citizenship @usmnt.ussoccer.com

Pochettino on Weah’s critique of World Cup ticket prices: Players should keep focus on the field The U.S. manager indicated that it's not his or the players' place to answer for FIFA's decisions and that opinions should be kept quiet

"Mauricio Pochettino said Thursday that, “we are not politicians” and should “talk about our job,” rather than comment on #FIFA’s #WorldCup ticket prices."

So playing for the @usmnt.ussoccer.com means giving up your right to free #speech? #1A

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William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89

Back when #science, not ideology drove public #health

"developed the vaccination strategy that helped wipe out smallpox in the 1970s, one of the world’s greatest public health triumphs, and who led the United States’ early response to the AIDS epidemic" #vaccine

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I 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 free

Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked at town hall The Minnesota lawmaker is sprayed with an unknown substance by a man in the audience

Rep. Ilhan #Omar attacked at town hall open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

#Trump h/t @anntelnaes.bsky.social

"Of course Trump has a graceless response"

Bari Weiss to CBS News staff: Without a shift in strategy, ‘we are toast’ The CBS News editor in chief said the network needs to produce journalism people want as she named a raft of new contributors from her website, the Free Press.

Update: with Bari #Weiss heading @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy, they are actually beyond toast and headed into the burnt ashes stage.

Rather sad that such a hack is now in charge of this celebrated news organization.

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Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.

Spot on by the @theatlantic.com @adamserwer.bsky.social

"millions of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the administration, and, in Minnesota, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life. " #ICE

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From the comics community on Reddit: When a Country Turns the Gun on Itself Explore this post and more from the comics community

Powerful, poignant 'comic'. H/T to Gold Shaw Farm at #Reddit
(u/goldshawfarm)

#ICE #DHS #Noem #Bovino #fascism #MSP

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