From Hardwick, Vermont to the streets of Minneapolis then back again. This is a story about a song that's giving a lot of people comfort, and some courage. www.rumblestripvermont.com/episodes/hol...
“Given that universities are here and poised to stay…”
#Measles in an ICE facility is a public health failure.
In my latest for @statnews.com, I argue this outbreak was avoidable and the result of policy choices that concentrate risk without basic prevention. V This is both a health and human rights failure.
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We should not only reject misguided, bad-faith policy ideas for rural healthcare but also align with local and national efforts to preserve and strengthen rural institutions. 2/2
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In my experience, few institutions are as vital to rural communities as their hospitals and schools. Relegating rural healthcare (and education) to AI and implying that healthcare institutions and workers are expendable sends a signal to rural residents that their lives and futures do not matter.1/2
as someone who worked in rural health policy, this is not a real thing. this is actually called giving up on rural america after your party broke everything and can’t put it back together. perfect time to exploit people with scams
Counterpoint: We could NOT slash Medicaid, stop pretending that the Rural Health Transformation Fund is anything more than a drop in the bucket relative to the safety net cuts, and actually support rural hospitals that are at risk of closure… and, you know, stop acting like utter imbeciles.
The tens of thousands of brave and patriotic Minnesotans shame every elite who bent the knee
The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”
I would agree and also add that there are scholars and other groups outside of public health/medicine that have been doing work on or adjacent to questions of "trust" in specific contexts/groups. Engaging with work will get us further than MDsplaining.
I also do not like platforming/narrow focus on MAHA. I think it 1) ignores the broader political economy that is intensifying these divides, 2)does not substitute for more direct community engagement by subject matter & methodological experts, and 3)ignores multiple dimensions of difference.
I support (and try to practice and teach) listening to people whose lives/views differ sharply; however, this appears to be a conversation among people with similar identities and experiences. And to echo @ethnography911.bsky.social, it is a missed opportunity to draw on other forms of expertise.
Even in this day and age, it is easy to find examples of how the Global North continues to see Africa as a laboratory to experiment on
Love and solidarity to everyone in Minnesota today. Grateful for the example of moral clarity, political courage, and practical action you have offered us all at this moment.
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
A friend with Project HOME in Maine is asking for urgent help.
With ICE descending on neighborhoods, people are afraid to go to work—cutting off income and putting families at immediate risk of eviction.
This is a solidarity fund: 100% of donations go straight to rent.
Revisiting this paper for today's lecture of hospital closures and subsequent racial, ethnic, and class inequities in spatial access to acute hospitals pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Did you know that ~95% of historically Black-serving hospitals closed between 1965-95?
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
So moved by the people of Minnesota who—drawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etc—are writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance.
The rest of us need to be taking notes—and helping them!
www.standwithminnesota.com
Important reminder: The $50 billion rural health transformation fund is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts that will dramatically erode rural communities' (and many others') health care access.
the rural fund was created as political cover for the much more massive rural healthcare cuts in the BBB. most of those cuts kick in after the midterms, but the impacts have already started. however, it’s unlikely that rural republicans will blame their own party for the cuts they all voted for
My colleague @adamsearing.bsky.social notes how Trump Admin will allow only 15% of the $50B in rural health funds in H.R. 1 to be used to reimburse rural hospitals despite being framed as a way to mitigate the draconian #Medicaid cuts harming rural hospitals: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/10/21/t...
Please let me know how I can help (can DM you too).
The full protocol of the study in Guinea Bissau provides no reassurance. If anything is spells out just how insanely unethical the planned study is. The PI who wrote the protocol tried to defend the indefensible by writing to me directly. I responded publicly.
Read 👇
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My heart breaks for the people of my home state of Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities. Not just the Renee Good shooting, but the ongoing violence and fear federal agents are instilling on the population. I hope the reign of terror ends soon.
A Texas rural health consultant said he has “a ton of concerns” about companies taking the money instead of it helping rural hospitals and residents. “I was blown away about how many for-profit companies reached out.”
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
Congratulations!
When formal systems fail, mutual aid sustains rural life
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