The effect of the Dobbs decision on physicians is not getting a lot of attention but it is, in fact, having a significant effect on the political views of the medical community. Here is one of the first fact-based reports I have seen on this.
Doctors are giving nearly twice as much to Democrats as Republicans this cycle, teaming with Kamala Harris’ campaign and broadcasting the hazards they see in a second Trump administration on social media.
Some of their colleagues worry all the politicking will further erode trust in public health, but the Harris supporters say they see it as a moral obligation.
“Elections do matter for your health,” Dr. Suhas Gondi, an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who’s involved with the organizing, told POLITICO. “It’s hard for me to not be engaged in politics.”
Doctors’ strong support for Harris is the culmination of a political shift that started with the battles over patients’ rights and HMOs in the early 2000s and gained speed with Donald Trump’s 2016 run — which drove educated professionals into the Democratic Party.
Until then, physicians, as individuals and the organizations representing them, gave more to GOP candidates in every election cycle since the 1990s, save 2008.
Doctors skeptical of their colleagues’ public display of partisanship say they’re worried about how it’s playing in the exam room and what it […]
The Environmental Protection Agency was specifically created to protect the wellbeing of Earth and you. Here, in this report, we see what happened during traitor Trump’s administration, and how great governmental corruption by corporations was during his time in office. And yet millions of witless Americans are preparing to vote again for this disgusting human being and his Frankenstein VP. And yet more witless Americans, particularly according to polls young Black men, either won’t vote or want to vote for a third party candidate when there is only a two party system. Anything other than voting for Democrats, however imperfect they may be, is a vote for traitor Trump. If Harris wins, and the House and Senate have Democratic majorities, that will be the time for civil activism to get rid of the Electoral College, give the Supreme Court term limits and a proper ethics code, and add four more justices, so there are 13. Also to restructure the tax system so that the uber-rich pay their fair share, and vastly expand programs to foster wellbeing for not just humans but the entire Earth’s ecosystem.
Martin Phillips is one of three scientists who faced retaliation by supervisors at the Environmental Protection Agency, an inspector general’s investigation found. Credit:Jenn Ackerman / ProPublica
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response.
More than three years ago, a small group of government scientists came forward with disturbing allegations.
During President Donald Trump’s administration, they said, their managers at the Environmental Protection Agency began pressuring them to make new chemicals they were vetting seem safer than they really were. They were encouraged to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
After the scientists pushed back, they received negative performance reviews and three of them were removed from their positions in the EPA’s division of […]
As this report describes large numbers of young people (18-34) are registering to vote in November, and they seem to be favoring Harris-Walz. I hope that is true because as the days count down to the election the actions and words of the MAGAt Republicans become ever. more horrifying. Consider Mark Robinson as but one example.
Young Black voters register to vote. Credit: USA Today
Voter registration is breaking records as Election Day approaches, particularly among young people, many of whom are first-time voters.
On Tuesday’s National Voter Registration Day more than 150,000 people registered through Vote.org, the most the organization has ever seen on that day. The organizationregistered 279,400 voters in all of last year.
Last week, 337,826 people visited a link posted on Instagram by pop star Taylor Swift that directed them to their state’s voter registration site.
Although Swift noted that she would be voting for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, people don’t have to declare a party affiliation when they register and neither vote.org nor Swift tracked registrations by party. Vote.org has previously told USA TODAY that about 80% of people they register turn out in the next election.
A huge percentage of the newly registered voters are young people, many voting for the first time.
According to Vote.org, voters under 35 made up 81% of Tuesday’s registrations, with the biggest spike among 18-year-olds. On this year’s National Voter […]
The MAGAts, as this article describes, are serving the interests of Putin, the anti-vaxxers, and a range of other anti-American weaponized misinformation designed to destroy the U.S. democracy. Have you been sucked into the Intelligencer? Do you know someone who has? Did you believe anything you read? Then you or they are a victim of skillfully designed lies.
George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante9. Credit: Getty
Amid the recent crackdown on Russian influence in American media, a group of former Trump advisers and operatives have quietly helped build a pro-Russian website that frequently spreads debunked conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine, election fraud and vaccines.
Working alongside contributors for Kremlin state media, the former Donald Trump policy aide George Papadopoulos, his wife, Simona Mangiante, and others have become editorial board members of the website Intelligencer, which is increasingly becoming a source of news for those in the rightwing ecosystem.
The growth of the website, which has not been reported on before, comes at a time when the US is seeking to crack down on Russian influence ahead of the 2024 election. Recently, the justice department charged two members of RT (formerly known as Russia Today) with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and money laundering for payments they allegedly made to “recruit unwitting American influencers”. It also placed sanctions […]
Bill Blum, Former Administrative Law Judge - Common Dreams
Stephan:
Even judges can see the corruption and bias that has overtaken the Supreme Court, which is no longer a disinterested arbiter of justice but has become a christofascist racist cabal in service to MAGAt world.
Clouds are seen above the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit Drew Angerer / Getty
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the gun violence that has left our schools, streets, and communities soaked in blood, don’t point just at the National Rifle Association and their lackeys in the Republican Party. Raise another finger, ideally your middle one, toward a Supreme Court that has enabled the unceasing rise of gun-related carnage in all its ever-more-obscene forms.
The key decision came in 2008, when a 5-4 majority led by the late Justice Antonin Scalia ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms. Prior to Heller, the combined weight of academic scholarship and legal precedent had construed the Second Amendment as protecting civilian gun ownership only in connection with long-antiquated state militias. This view was long seen as reflecting the spirit of the actual debates […]
Amy Gardner and Jacqueline Alemany, Reporters - Microsoft Start | The Washington Post
Stephan:
There is so much civil gun violence being provoked by Trump and the MAGAts that, as this article describes,it is beginning to dawn on a few Republicans and Democrats that Congress may face another mass violence event like 6 January, that could kill a number of members of the House and Senate and render one or both houses dysfunctional. Who would have ever guessed that this is what the United States would become? But, then who would have every predicted that being murdered by a gun wound would become the leading cause of death for children in the U.S.?
Scarred by violence, lawmakers plan for possible ‘mass casualty’ event. Credit: Alex Brandon / AP
Imagine the unthinkable: a mass shooting of members of Congress that leaves a large swath of the country unrepresented and shifts the balance of political power in Washington.
In the current political environment, such an outbreak of violence is not as unthinkable as it used to be, according to a bipartisan collection of House members. The attempted assassination of members at a congressional baseball team practice in 2017, the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a dramatic spike in threats against members and, most recently, a possible second assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump highlight the need for Congress to ensure it can continue to govern in the aftermath of mass violence, they said.
To address such a scenario, these four House members — two Republicans and two Democrats — are pushing an unlikely solution: a constitutional amendment that would allow members to be replaced […]
