“Dr Levi has made a number of easily disproved statements about his baseless belief that mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are harmful, despite having little or no education, training or experience in public health”.
My quote. Hence I could not be happier that ACIP will not be discussing COVID19 vaccines.
New data out from MN dept of health: biggest surge in uninsured in years: went from historic low of 3.8% in 2023 to 5.8% in 2025. 52% increase, or 116,000 more role without insurance
Some will skip care (and suffer). Others will present in crisis, and need to be treated at higher cost. Barbaric.
You know what pisses me off about the announcement by Oz and Makary, now disproven, that leucovorin could treat autism?
It’s the false hope given to people with autism and those who love them.
If you’ve ever had a kid with a complex condition and you’re desperate for help, you are vulnerable.
The FDA approved a generic medication for a rare brain disorder, while walking back suggestions by President Donald Trump and other administration officials that the drug showed great promise for people with autism.
Pretty much sums it up.
I do not but will follow up
Press release from Long Term Care Imperative in Minnesota. Seeks to allow long-term care facilities to host happy hours for residents.
All for this. Let Grams and Gramps have a beer.
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
This is a well argued editorial about political violence by @jburcum.bsky.social. I especially appreciated that she does not implicate ordinary if divisive political speech, as almost every other take on this topic does. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mn-political...
Thank you, Chris.
Four-byline alert: 🚨
“.. Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations.”
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That is one ugly room.
Good. People are calling BS on RFK Jr.
Federal Medicaid audit finds massive overpayment for autism therapy in Colorado www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/h...
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.
Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
Tillis: “This letter from the Office of Inspector General…cites 10 different instances under Ms. Noem's leadership where they've been misled and not allowed to pursue investigations…That's a failure of leadership, and that is why I've called for your resignation.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Capitol Hill to answer questions for the first time since federal agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis
NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
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Richard Painter on Trump admin deferring MN Medicaid dollars: “I just think this is political retribution by the Trump administration because they got their you-know-whats handed to them on this Metro Surge." www.startribune.com/trump-withho...
It's... nuts that the AI company is the good guy in this
Pete Hegseth reposted Sam Altman & @sama X.com Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. Al safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the Dow also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all Al companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place. 6:56 PM • 2/27/26 • 155K Views
It’s looking more and more like Trump squeezing Anthropic was just in service of the other tech oligarchs Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon's supply chain risk designation in court reut.rs/4u0Jy4P
I wanted to talk with Steve because it's amazing he came out of retirement to publish independently. I had no idea he'd been forced to RELEARN HIS ARTFORM WITH HIS LEFT HAND. Anyway, great guy and a state treasure.
Wicked ideology? Bizarre and worrisome choice of words .
US surgeon general nominee dodges vaccine questions in Senate hearing
Means defended removing the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine from the childhood immunization schedule.
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Photo: Ron Johnson/ Wikimedia Commons
This is ugly.
One takeaway from #SOTU: Trump is doubling down, not backing away. on the strategy that led to the violent MN immigration operation.
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Mn Rep Ilhan Omar is shouting at the President. #SOTU
