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AP:It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns
"Medical mistrust is spreading beyond vaccines: Refusals of vitamin K shots for newborns have nearly doubled since 2017, alarming doctors nationwide.
Newborns without the shot are 81 times more likely to suffer potentially deadly bleeding, a preventable complication that once affected 1 in 60 babies."
(Better, non paywall link! Thanks Denise!)
https://apnews.com/article/babies-newborns-pediatricians-vitamin-k-hepatitis-b-erythromycin-9126463f0cb38b9778fb77bc0d071776
"It could take 20 years before birth defects from rubella become common again."
"Unvaccinated children have to grow old enough to become pregnant."
"We will see babies being born who are blind, deaf and have heart disease."
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Author: Patricia Callahan
Publication: ProPublica @ProPublica
March 19, 2026
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#USA #Russia #Japan #Nigeria #Healthcare #Eugenics
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues
LANDLORDS ARE EVIL
(with a few rare exceptions)
#AssetClass #WorkingClass #Inflation #poverty #hunger #Homelessness #Healthcare
Lol I can’t get a primary care doctor at any “real” clinic in #PDX or any city within reasonable driving distance, so I use Zoomcare for primary. Every few months they change their policies about which of their employees and locations is allowed to be a “primary care”. Today I miraculously got the same PC as last year, at a nearby location—but on arrival they told me I would have to make separate appointments *on separate days* for each different concern I wanted to inquire about. For example I couldn’t get a prescription renewed on the same day I get an annual exam. *jazz hands* #healthcare!
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When does your cat go to the vet ?
#cats #cat #CatsOfMastodon #pets #health #healthcare
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#cats #CatsOfMastodon #recovery #health #healthcare #pet
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The Corrupt Care cluster continues to grow, the latest addition being the DynaLife story. While Netizens can recall that this story was mainly notable for the extremely long backlogs for lab work as a result of this private provider, more details emerge from Freedom of Information Act requests. “DynaLife insolvent less than 90 days into contract for lab services, government documents show”, by Taylor Lambert, takes us through the reveal.
Highlight here is the timeline.
Dec 2020 - Proposals for privatization contract was issued.
June 2021 - “DynaLife was selected. One year later, the contract had been finalized and was set to take effect Dec. 5, 2022.”
Two weeks before that date (late Nov, 2022 it seems) - “‘concerns with the financial viability of DynaLife emerged,’ according to a briefing note prepared for the premier in July 2023.”
Feb 2023 - “DynaLife's owners — Labcorp, a large American health-care company, and OMERS, a municipal employee pension plan in Ontario — ‘informally flagged financial concerns’ about the company, according to the briefing note to Smith.”
Mar 10, 2023 - A request of APL was denied. (During this time, DynaLife was taking on the staff of Alberta Precision Labs [APL]. APL staff were paid better than DynaLife staff so presumably DynaLife was demanding APL staff to be paid less. Naturally, if this was the request, it was likely denied)
Mar 30, 2023 - DynaLife’s owners reportedly requested $70 Million from the government. At some point both the AHS and Alberta Health decided to deny this request. In turn, DynaLIfe asked to end the privatization contract, and to sell DynaLife to AHS. As noted in the article “…[t]he 2023-24 AHS annual report breaks down the financial details of the acquisition. The government paid $31.5 million in cash and took on approximately $66 million in assumed liabilities from DynaLife.”
Oct 2023 - Alberta Auditor General Doug Wylie announces an investigation.
DynaLife appears to have sought greater profits by essentially carving into its own workers. And, what is positive as well is once DynaLife was clear it would not be able to do the same with APL workers, there was no profits or savings possible. In other words, the public operations of APL are already as efficient and effective as possible. This was implied since from the government’s point of view a “...later briefing note for health minister LaGrange states that, in addition to the one-time capital injection, DynaLife was requesting ‘a significant ongoing increase to their annual payment,’ which would eliminate ‘all potential savings from the contract.’”
Moving on to the dark zones of this story, when DynaLife attempted to consume a public organization with workers that were paid better than their own, DynaLife encountered what turned out to be an existential challenge. But, how? Surely DynaLife would have been keenly aware of what it can and cannot do. How could DynaLife then be caught by surprise knowing the number of APL workers it would take on, and the cost of paying these workers?
Surely, a casual observer would start wondering if the original plan was to get the government to buy out DynaLife from the start. And, the question arises, how much did the UCP know of this, and when? What’s the benefit to Albertans to buy out DynaLife in cash, and wash away all of DynaLife’s liabilities? Someone’s very happy with the outcome - but this wasn’t without consequences.
Albertans were waiting for lab results - in some cases perhaps their lives may have been on the line for those lab results. Now Albertans have to stomach the idea that some corporate big wigs wanted a cash out payday?
Clearly from this smoking wreckage Netizens can see the menace of greed and deception.
There’s no way Alberta Health or the Minister of Health can even suggest that they have no say or sway upon AHS or anything else to do with Healthcare in Alberta. The UCP control all of it.
Worse, Albertans see that the Alberta Auditor General Doug Wylie started his investigation back in…October 2023. The UCP played this card already. We’re done with this can kicking for another 5-10 years. Public Judicial Inquiry for the Corrupt Care scandals.
As Dr. Luanne Metz already noted 3 of 4 “top positions in AHS are filled by government appointed bureaucrats with no clinical experience of healthcare leadership qualifications.” If they’re not picked for their qualifications, Netizens are free to guess what other qualities they were selected for.
#CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta
https://bird.makeup/users/luanne_metz/statuses/1902116673697824946
During a recent Question Period, MLA Christina Gray asks Premier Danielle Smith about Jitendra Prasad. Prasad was a prominent figure in the Corrupt Care allegations. From this clip, Danielle Smith maintains her delusional line of argument that she did not know of the Corrupt Care cluster of contracts, and that this “issue” will be investigated to uncover the truth.
What Netizens will also be aware of is that the Statement of Defence Premier Smith refers is not a response to the allegations of corruptions contained in the original Claim. The Statement of Defence is simply a next step court filing in response to the issue of wrongful dismissal of Mentzelopoulos.
So Premier Smith is essentially making jazz hands at Albertans, trying to suggest that the Statement of Defence, a tightly leashed, limited-scope inquiry by a third party lawyer, and a potentially years long investigation by the Auditor General is an actual answer to the reported corruption from within her office, some of her fellow UCP party members, and other private parties.
Newsflash: Premier Smith has either been raising any other issue under the sun to change the subject, avoid speaking of the subject, and/or serving up the equivalent to word salad. She's even run off to a bizarre, American right-wing fundraiser. Anything to possibly get away from the Corrupt Care scandal.
With UCP control over AHS so complete, as discussed Post 111 and 93, every step taken by the AHS may be politically calculated, and motivated.
In “AHS claims fired CEO kept confidential emails, seeking injunction”, by Jack Farrell, what AHS is basically saying here is they’ll toe the line with Premier Smith.
Who else had that same concern that the UCP and “they” have 100% control over everything? Oh right, Post 112, Mr Peter Guthrie.
But, besides this very concerning issue of corruption, the Alberta NDP itself may be getting the “jazz hands” by their own signal management. While entirely a speculation on my part, the mainstream media outlets are all held by strong American interests, and X is simply not generating the same access and reach to the public despite whatever stats are reported back. I grow concerned that if the NDP are not prepared to meet this challenge by boldly stepping into the Social Web and taking back the signal, they’re being suppressed.
#CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta
https://bird.makeup/users/thebreakdownab/statuses/1905323279214403894
https://globalnews.ca/news/11101909/alberta-health-services-ceo-emails/
From “Well-known conservative operative quits Alberta’s UCP, says party is ‘allergic to transparency’”, by Phil Heidenreich, Cameron Davies, notorious for his involvement in the Kenney Leadership scandal, resigns his membership with the UCP
>“(The party) is addicted to power and allergic to transparency,” Davies wrote on Thursday. “We are not witnessing leadership — we are witnessing damage control.
>“Backroom deals, gag orders and purges of internal dissent have replaced open dialogue and democratic decision-making. MLAs are muzzled, caucus is sidelined, staff are silenced and the grassroots members who built this movement have been abandoned.”
This is of course in the greater context of “Auditor general denies that Alberta government using lawyer for investigation is normal”, by Nicolas Frew. Here, “some health ministry staff members received an email — which CBC News obtained — that told them to direct members of the office of the auditor general to the government's legal counsel if they are contacted as part of the investigation into the government's health-care procurement practices.”
Basically, AB GOV itself is playing damage control for stripping public funds out of the healthcare system in favour of a select few private parties - and is now potentially protecting these few (and each other) with the use of public funds. Instead of clearing the air, and avoiding conflicts of interest, like Mr Guthrie, Danielle Smith’s UCP is mired in a corruption scandal that may be unprecedented in Alberta.
#CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta
https://globalnews.ca/news/11149912/alberta-ucp-letter-cameron-davies/amp/
Danielle Smith and the UCP press ahead with their Compassionate Intervention Act - otherwise known as the controversial involuntary treatment program. I’d like to set aside the issue of the merits of such a program to highlight that this is the same UCP dream team implicated in allegations of corruption - the Corrupt Care cluster of contracts.
Further, as Post 110 revealed, Marshall Smith may have had some involvements with this involuntary treatment planning, and potential conflicts of interest as this program was being laid out.
As a quick reminder, Mentzelopoulos’ Wrongful Dismissal Claim suggests that Dan Williams knows something about the alleged conflicts of interests that flow out of the Corrupt Care contracts.
Whether Netizens can even believe such a UCP group can administer this Act safely, look just at what’s being proposed here. As Climenhaga and others already pointed out, these facilities will be jails.
I’d suggest Netizens consider that this group of UCP insiders, vulnerable to group-think, and are still very much human. This group has cut social safety nets, reduced funding to outreach programs, and have eroded the effectiveness of how healthcare is provided in the province. Now, this same crack team proposes to roll out an untested, potentially Charter non-compliant piece of legislation targeting the vulnerable.
We should clarify that the vulnerable will inevitably be the coloured people, First Nations people, Metis, the women, the young, the children.
And, we also accept that police are human, and they make mistakes like any other.
Now, Netizens have to stomach the idea that those who end up targeted mistakenly will be subject to treatment they cannot refuse. Police and people some times allege that others are intoxicated - or they have the appearance of being intoxicated. But in a Criminal Justice setting these are allegations that still must eventually be proven.
What’s the burden of proof here? What if this is simply false? What if the person in question is just “different”, and not even intoxicated? Their bodies are flooded with medications that may have intended effects, and unintended outcomes. Where’s the line? What if someone’s found to have abused this Act for their own designs? Surely the reporters are coming from a position of strength relative to the actual target.
But, the targeted one can still somehow “ask” for legal counsel. Their bodies, filled with drugs they don’t ask for, they can “ask” for an advocate?
This Act is designed to turn people away from the Healthcare system - to potentially put Healthcare Workers, Police, Lawyers, and the public in impossible situations. When people die as a result of these treatments, who speaks for them?
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta
I’d build upon a previous comment made on the subject that there’s no logic or sense for Alberta to pursue independence in any scenario. But, I wish to now correct myself: Danielle Smith’s giving Alberta Separatists a platform they may find too tempting. And, I’d suggest this is clearly for her own political survival at the expense of all else.
This attitude is illustrated in “Inside an Australian Miner’s Brawl with Alberta Regulators”, by Andrew Nikiforuk. Basically, the Alberta Energy Regulator’s experience with Australian Coal companies has been hostile, belligerent, and litigious. I would encourage Albertans to go over that article, and I suggest it simply outlines the same attitude that the UCP have adopted in its core: Take Everything, Leave Nothing.
Albertans see that attitude play out even when it’s time to clean up after the Oil and Gas industry. From the Globe “Alberta wants to accelerate cleanup of oil and gas wells with taxpayers as backstop, document shows”, by Jeffrey Jones, which basically outlines how resource companies are trying to make Albertans hold the bag on the clean up and waste left behind so they can make off with the money. And, the UCP are on board with the idea with a complicated game of musical chairs meant to leave Albertans sitting in the dirt:
>The mature asset report tallies the number of marginal, inactive or decommissioned oil and gas wells in the province at 274,215, more than half of all those licensed. Estimates to clean them up vary wildly, from $33-billion into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Jones goes on:
>In the report, Mr. Yager, who is also an Alberta Energy Regulator director, acknowledged that “the trust has been broken” between the industry, landowners, municipalities and government as resource wealth has been taken for granted and individual rights rival or surpass what he terms “the greater good.”
I’d suggest that trust was never a part of the equation.
How about Pillage or Die in politics? That’s a complete other beast.
In the case of Smith, with serious challenges to her credibility in Corrupt Care Scandals, a “big tent” UCP threatening to break apart with disparate priorities, persistent opposition in the NDP, and a rising public sentiment that Smith has betrayed her party and Canada in general, survival is likely top of mind. Her response? Smith has now chosen to turn friend and foe alike against one another, and chooses hell in exchange for control.
I’ve pointed out before that Smith’s also been turning social safety nets against one another as a result of cuts to the Legal Aid Society of Alberta, and consequently to the Alberta Law Foundation. This sudden budget shortfall has meant organizations designed as critical components to provide support for the vulnerable, victims of crime, or the addicted, are forced to choose amongst each other as sacrifice.
She’s also persisting in her privatization plans in favour of Chartered Surgical Facilities against a shattered AHS, despite the allegations of corruption in her very cabinet that remain unanswered. Smith’s also pressing ahead with a forced treatment for addictions plan that features privatized elements yet again possibly implicated in the same Corrupt Care scandal given that the same UCP cabinet is involved.
And, now, we see Smith giving Alberta Separatists a platform - nakedly providing a route to referendum that would allow the separatists to fork out, and waste their time, energy, and funds. From “Danielle Smith's reform is nudging Alberta separation vote from 'if' toward 'when’”, by Jason Markusoff, Tim Hoven is mentioned as “a conservative grassroots organizer".
By Hoven’s own estimation “the current premier and her UCP members will stay federalist and won't help the independence movement. That would leave many conservative activists fighting on their own, and could prompt an exodus of members from the UCP”.
Smith’s strategy could not be clearer to her enemies, to her friends, and to the world. She’s a Premier, desperate to survive, vulnerable, and weak. Premier Smith is unfit to lead.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation
https://coffee-time.org/@runsmooth/statuses/01JT76R5RPBE9B26J5KQRMV9JM
https://coffee-time.org/@runsmooth/statuses/01JSSX3P12MHB49JC215A900C6
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/ndp-releases-another-video-on-ucp-and-health-care
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/30/Australian-Miner-Brawl-Alberta-Regulators/
By 2025, Alberta Justice Minister Mickey Amery continues a dubious conservative trend: joining an infamous group of conservative Justice Ministers who cannot seem to stay out of controversy. From Jonathan Denis, Doug Schweitzer, Kaycee Madu, and Tyler Shandro, Amery’s contribution to this legacy is no less serious.
But, as Netizens review this situation, I suggest the important point is that Justice Minister Amery was already aware of his own potential for conflict long before the Wrongful Dismissal claim of Mentzelopoulos. Throughout it all, Amery knows he still has the same Brother-in-Law. And I’m sure there will be questions about whether the UCP cabinet, and Premier Smith were aware of this detail. Yet, when we set that all aside, what we still have is an attempt to slow or control the flow of information to the public. And, if that’s the case, can Albertans expect a fulsome investigations by Auditor General Wylie or former Honourable Justice Raymond Wyant?
From “Ousted Alberta MLA says premier knew about AHS problems”, by Michael Franklin, a few additional details emerge from the Wrongful Dismissal claim of Mentzelopoulos. Particularly:
>He also indicated concerns with Justice Minister Mickey Amery’s relationship with MHCare CEO Sam Mraiche and the business owner’s connection to former Edmonton police chief Dale McFee, who is now a deputy minister of the executive council.
From “Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation”, by Carrie Tait, Albertans learn that
>Mr. Amery told The Globe and Mail that he and Mr. Mraiche have been friends for “a very long time.” He confirmed they are related and, when pressed for details, said he and Mr. Mraiche are “loosely related” through marriage.
The article goes on
>Andrew Flavelle Martin, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law, said Mr. Amery should take steps to formally distance himself from the government’s handling of Ms. Mentzelopoulos’s lawsuit.
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>“The question I‘d be concerned about is: How involved is he in directing the litigation around the wrongful dismissal given that his friend is involved in one of the contracts?” said Prof. Martin, whose research focuses on legal ethics for government lawyers and Attorneys General. “The optics are not good.”
Again, Danielle Smith and the UCP have not addressed the allegations of corruption that emerged from the Corrupt Care scandal. We’ve heard from Amery himself that he believes he’s onside the Conflicts and Interest Act. We’ve also heard UCP House Leader Joseph Schow saying “‘Putting your name on a ballot and getting elected to this wonderful chamber does not preclude you from having friends and relatives,’ he said.”
We’re not talking about having friends - and Amery knows the difference between the written words of legislation, AND their rationale. As the Minister of Justice, Amery should be aware of not just the need to comply with the law, but the appearance of compliance. Albertans have to grapple with the idea that former Infrastructure Minister Peter Guthrie understood the assignment when he took his job, and the Justice Minister did not.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/ousted-alberta-mla-says-premier-knew-about-ahs-problems/
Mr Guthrie gave notice to the Auditor General about a previous allegation of Ethical Fading, this time a multi-billion dollar Rail Master Plan that may have involved Premier Danielle Smith’s husband, David Moretta.
From “Why Was Premier Smith’s Husband in a Secret Megaproject Meeting?”, by Charles Rusnell, Mount Royal’s Lori Williams offered some foreshadowing of the years to come:
>“In politics, we talk about not just doing things properly, but appearing to do things properly,” she said.
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>“And if things are happening in a way that appear to evade documentation, or people are told that information isn’t available because it wasn’t a government meeting, it raises both questions of fairness and propriety.”
I think Williams’ comments are of particular force when Albertans have to go over the last few years of Danielle Smith and her cabinet’s activities. As NDP's Nenshi has stated time and again, Albertans deserve a full Judicial Inquiry into Corrupt Care, and the Auditor General needs to be able to do his job without restrictions.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation #RailMasterPlan
https://youtu.be/-HIOk6Q_Bhg?si=NGl-Pfp30NGcA-8P&utm_source=ZTQxO
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/28/David-Moretta-Secret-Rail-Megaproject-Meeting/
Netizens following the Corrupt Care scandals will already be aware of Marshall Smith’s lawsuit against Mentzelopoulos, the Globe and Mail, Carrie Tait, and an unnamed party. For many, Smith’s lawsuit appears to be a SLAPP or Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
Now, “Former chief of staff to Alberta Premier lived in home owned by Sam Mraiche’s sister”, by Carrie Tait, appears to raise further issues of Smith’s relationship with Sam Mraiche. Also, two other political staffers may have stayed at the same property:
>Mr. Smith lived at the property with at least two other people.
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>Ethan Lecavalier-Kidney told The Globe he lived at the property under a sublease agreement from August, 2023 to April, 2024. He said he paid $1,118 a month, plus utilities. He did not answer questions about who collected his rent.
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>Eric Engler also confirmed he resided at the property but did not provide details about when he lived there or the amount of rent he paid.
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>Both said they were unaware of who owned the property. The two men worked in government as political staff.
Albertans will need real answers to what’s going on with Danielle Smith and the UCP. How deeply integrated is the UCP with Mraiche?
Netizens know that the UCP have not volunteered this information to the public. Albertans have little reason to believe any of the measures taken by Danielle Smith’s UCP are intended to address the corruption scandals in good faith.
Alberta must have a full Judicial Inquiry.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation #RailMasterPlan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/marshall-smith-defamation-lawsuit-ahs-globe-1.7537552
From “Alberta paid more than six times usual price for pain medications in $70-million import deal, according to government briefing note”, by Carrie Tait and Alanna Smith, Netizens learn that Alberta had options to order less of the infamous Tylenot.
To recap, Post 114 to 115 reveal that Alberta has stored the unwanted Tylenot and PPE to the tune of over $5 Million. At some point, Danielle Smith abjectly tried to offer the unwanted material to Ukraine. Albertans are also aware that Premier Smith’s government deposited $49 million dollars into an MHCare account, and the money’s been sitting there for over a year.
Albertans now find that Premier Smith maximized the boondoggle by choice. Worse, Danielle Smith has tried to change the focus off from her Corrupt Care scandals by giving Alberta Separatists a platform.
From JasonontheDrums, there’s a review of what Alberta may have been able to invest with the money squandered by Premier Smith in favour of MHCare and Mraiche.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation #RailMasterPlan
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-turkish-pain-medication-deal-prices/
https://archive.ph/fJ2d4#selection-2381.0-2381.131
https://bird.makeup/users/jasononthedrums/statuses/1926370546964484331
Here, the allegations take us to Melewka Homes Ltd, owned by Lewis Semashkewich and John Semashkewich. The pair did business with a Mohamed Eldassouki. Plot twist: Eldassouki apparently is the brother-in-law of the perpetual protagonist of capitalism, Sam Mraiche. The Semashkewiches go on to allege that Mraiche introduced himself as Fred, and suggested that he had connections with high ranked officials, and he could pull contracts awarded to Melweka at any time. Fred went on to make demands for large sums of money.
Unfortunately, some of these contracts appear to involve the Addiction Recovery Centres that were once handled by AHS. But, since AHS may have been shattered into pieces for allegedly investigating the CorruptCare cluster of contracts, it has since been replaced by Recovery Alberta in 2024. At this point, it beggars belief that the UCP, Danielle Smith, and her caucus do not either resign or at least take steps to mitigate what is clearly an out-of-control conflicts of interest.
#CompassionateCareAct #InvoluntaryTreatment #ForcedTreatment #CorruptCare #HealthCare #Corruption #Alberta #AlbertaSeparation #SamMraiche #DanielleSmith #JitendraPrasad #BryanWard #MohamedEldassouki #Melewka #RecoveryAlberta
Update: Regarding the cybersecurity incident that occurred last December, the Davila clinic has begun notifying affected patients.
https://www.security-chu.com/2025/12/Devman-ransomware-ataca-clinica-davila.html
Hey American healthcare workers! BC would love to have you!
“British Columbia is ready to welcome you with open arms,” he said. “We have a public health-care system, we respect the environment, we respect reproductive rights.”
March 16th was a National Day of Action to protect Canadian health care against a two-tier system. In Edmonton, Friends of Medicare organized a noon hour protest near the office of MP Eleanor Olszewski.
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#yeg #canada #abhealth #canpoli #healthcare #protest #photojournalism #yegphotographer
#TFW the head of the Maine Hospital Association retires after 40 years of service and says that affordable health care is "not a solvable problem."
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/15/its-not-a-solvable-problem-maines-outgoing-hospital-lobbyist-says-theres-no-fix-for-rising-health-care-costs/
🇺🇸 CoinbaseCartel claims data breach on United States' nchroma bio, exfiltrated data. #DataBreach #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
🇧🇭 Payload claims ransomware attack on Bahrain's Royal Bahrain Hospital. Threatens to publish stolen data within 8-9 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #Bahrain #ThreatIntel
Back to the fax? Doctors say Ottawa's plans to axe prescription software leaves them in limbo
A pair of Ontario family doctors say they may have to go back to sending patient prescriptions to pharmacies by fax because a federally funded agency is doing away with an electronic system, with no clear plans for its replacement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/prescribe-it-9.7127925?cmp=rss
It’s #LongCovidAwarenessDay . I’m in a huge flare so I don’t have a witty message.
But if you haven’t, I would be thankful if you checked out my art blog, @illmarks or maybe shared it with a friend (especially off fedi!).
Many of us w/ chronic conditions struggle to articulate the diversity / severity / scope of our symptoms, or be heard to when we do. That’s why I use creativity to show what I cannot say. Thank you for listening.
🇨🇴 NyxarGroup claims data breach on Colombia's Coopsana. Exfiltrated a database with 1.1 million records including patient names, phone numbers, email addresses, identification numbers, and medical appointment details. #DataBreach #Healthcare #Colombia #ThreatIntel
🇺🇸 Qilin claims ransomware attack on United States' FMRS Health Systems Inc. Exfiltrated data. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
🇫🇷 DumpSec claims data breach on France's gps santé. The purported data includes approximately 890,000 records including patient IDs, names, dates of birth, and phone numbers in JSONL format. #DataBreach #Healthcare #France #ThreatIntel
We intentionally under fund the healthcare system (at all levels) and the education system necessary to train health care workers under the guise of of 'fiscal responsibility' when in reality politicians have been kicking the can down the road for decades to provide tax cuts to the rich... now those chickens are coming home to roost.
To turn this ship around we need to:
1) Build all the healthcare infrastructure we've neglected
2) Build the education infrastructure (because without an education system we can't train the health care workers we need)
And we needed to start yesterday
#healthcare #cdnpoli #abpoli #neoliberalism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-hospitals-wait-times-9.7123684
I'm not fat nor obese yet I've started on these last night. I talked to a few doctors, made my case and they approved.
I don't have an image problem, never did, I have an autoimmune condition that improves the lower the % of fat I have, that has always been THE reason I go to the gym.
My meds make it impossible for me to lose weight at my usual pace, and when I do, my autoimmune gets triggered the longest I diet, it hides in the fat.
That's why I was approved.
Stop judging other people by whatever small-minded worldviews you have in your mind, you never lived a day in their shoes.
#semiglutides #ozempic #healthcare
"An individual appointed by [RFK Jr.] to review the safety of coronavirus vaccines has no medical background, and his research has been widely criticized by experts."
"Levi is an anti-vaxxer, especially when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines and mRNA shots in general."
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Author: Chris Walker
Publication: Truthout
March 12, 2026
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#USA #Samoa #Healthcare
https://truthout.org/articles/rfk-jr-appointee-reviewing-vaccines-has-no-medical-background/
A call to action for #scientists and #HealthCare workers: "We also have the ability to throw sand in the gears. Tell that ICE officer to get out of the examining room. Speak up for scientists and #researchers whose work is being targeted at your institutions. Stand up for departments under siege. Do not let your students face harassment or worse alone. Show up for hearings to stop MAHA zealots from undermining #vaccine access in your town or your state."
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/health-workers-resistance-trump/
"As many as 724,000 service members, their families and veterans may rely on health care at hospitals that face financial vulnerability, partly due to cuts in President Donald Trump's megabill, according to a new analysis."
#healthcare #veterans #military #tricare #hospitals #medicaid #RuralHealth #USpol
"Thousands of primary care practices, a key gateway to the medical system, are fighting to remain financially viable — and independent.
In response, many are banding together to form Independent Physician Associations, or IPAs. The goal is to increase their market power, change the way they get paid, and retain control over how they treat patients."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/primary-care-independent-physicians-boost-market-power/
#healthcare #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine #physicians #clinics #RuralHealth #business #industry
🇺🇸 Handala Hack claims data breach on United States' Stryker, alleging exfiltration of about 50 TB of internal data. #DataBreach #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
Uhhhhh... well this isn't great. #trans #healthcare #hrt
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can
Healthcare bullshit [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Follow up: I called Georgetown and got an appointment with a doctor who is the director of their IBD Center. In June.
Good riddance, GW. You suck.
yeah that's not bad
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #war #iran #bombing #healthcare
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A 2026 political cartoon by STAHLER of bombs falling above a smoky ground plane, the largest and closest having a sticker on its side reading "This could have been your health insurance" | Andrews McMeel Syndication/GoComics.com
🇺🇸 Worldleaks claims data breach on United States' Sagent Pharmaceuticals. Stolen data will be published within 1-2 days. #DataBreach #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
🇨🇱 LockBit 5.0 has now published all the information from Clínica Dávila (http://davila.cl). Remember that this medical institution was attacked by the Devman ransomware back in December last year. It appears that Devman sold a portion of the data to LockBit.
Now the question that arises: Has Clínica Dávila individually notified each patient about the attack it suffered from Devman back in December last year?
https://www.security-chu.com/2026/03/lockbit-filtra-los-datos-de-la-clinica-davila.html
#cybersecurity #ransomware #Chile #databreach #health #healthcare #lockbit #devman #research
Calabria, Italy refuses to fire Cuban doctors
[from Facebook, 3/7/26]
#US Chargé d’Affaires to #Cuba Mike Hammer was last week in #Italy, where he met with Roberto Occhiuto, the governor of the #Calabria region. He pushed Occhiuto to end Calabria’s employment of around 500 Cuban #doctors. Occhiuto refused.
After the meeting he issued a statement saying: “Cuban doctors who are allowing us to keep #hospitals and emergency rooms open are still a necessity for our region.”
In an apparent concession, Occhiuto added that he had intended to increase that number to as many as 1,000 in 2026, but is now considering advertising for applicants from elsewhere.
Cuban doctors and nurses are paid many times more abroad than what they earn in Cuba. BotB has verified that Cuban doctors in Italy are paid 3,000€ a month. They must send 1,800€ of that to the Cuban state (much of which supports the public #healthcare system), and keep 1,200€.
#CubanMedicalSolidarity
#news #politics #USpol
@cuba
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graphic with photo of Cuban doctors in Italy
Text near top reads: "Calabria, Italy refuses to fire Cuban doctors."
Logo at lower right has text saying "Belly of the Beast"
Veterans services being cut by Trump.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/va-cuts-reimbursement-rates-to-cover-in-home-care-for-new-mexico-veterans/article_6e80bd96-70be-4c2d-ba91-e2142fce717a.html?utm_source=santafenewmexican.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fyour-morning-headlines%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
#VeteransAdministration #VA #Veterans #Healthcare
Alberta: Albertans own the oil. Corporations pay us for it.
Premier Smith: Albertans are being subsidized by oil corporations!
From the Alberta government website: "Albertans own 81% of the province’s mineral rights and the Alberta government manages those resources on their behalf. The province grants companies the right to develop the resources through its tenure process and, in return, the company must pay the province – that’s called a royalty."
"The Alberta government manages our resources on our behalf."
So what do we do when a manager is not doing their job? We fire them!
#abpoli #cdnpoli #oil #education #healthcare #publichealth #red4ed #wearred4publiced #climate #climatechange
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peter mackay
@peterfmackay
Albertans aren't getting subsidized by oil and gas revenues. Albertans OWN THE OIL. That's not a subsidy. That's payment for extraction of a resource, and this government has made sure that we get WAY less monty[sic] than we should out of that extraction.
Adam MacVicar
@AdamMacVicar
Mar 5
"Every single community is getting subsidized by oil and gas revenues," says Premier Danielle Smith about the education property tax increase.
Smith says the province decided to cover a third of
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Introduction
Albertans own 81% of the province’s mineral rights and the Alberta government manages those resources on their behalf. The province grants companies the right to develop the resources through its tenure process and, in return, the company must pay the province – that’s called a royalty. As the resource owner, the Alberta government sets terms and conditions for development and encourages the use of new technology for enhanced resource recovery by providing programs or incentives to industry. More information about specific royalty programs, as well as historical royalty data can be found in Royalties.
Oil par prices are important components in the calculation of the Crown royalty rates for conventional crude oil. These prices are intended to represent provincial arm’s length netback market prices at the producing battery received by producers selling their Crown production.
#AWS launches a new #AI agent platform specifically for #healthcare
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/aws-amazon-connect-health-ai-agent-platform-health-care-providers/
@AnnaAnthro Albertans are 'rock-solid' in their opposition to the destruction of their #healthcare, #education, and #judiciary systems BUT they are still being dismantled.
A bit of good news. And a possible model for the future.
‘I didn’t believe it’: Illinois, Cook County wipes out $2B in medical debt for pennies on dollar
#Chicago #Healthcare #politics
https://www.nprillinois.org/health-harvest/2026-03-06/i-didnt-believe-it-illinois-cook-county-wipe-out-2b-in-medical-debt-for-pennies-on-dollar
🇺🇸 INSOMNIA claims ransomware attack on United States' Belmont Aesthetic & Reconstructive Plastic Surgery. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
"In a recent and timely report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors detailed the case of a 7-year-old boy who died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a delayed and almost universally fatal neurological complication of measles."
#measles #Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #SouthCarolina #children #healthcare #science
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Hey All,
I don't like asking, but need to see some specialists for my condition, and I need to pay for medications, and I could use some help, because US healthcare is atrocious.
If you're able to lend a hand, I means a lot to me.
There's a link on my profile if you'd like to donate something.
Thank you.
*now back to our regularly scheduled wholesome(ish)-posting*
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A hand, holding up a tiny white and black teacup goat. The goat looks like this is just another Tuesday.
🇺🇸 INC RANSOM claims ransomware attack on USA's Precision Coating. Exfiltrated data includes proprietary developments, technologies, patents, partner company information, and sensitive photo and video component materials. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
🇺🇦 Perun Svaroga claims data breach on Ukraine's Ukrposhta. Exposes user data including email addresses, passwords, full names, IP addresses, and phone numbers. #DataBreach #Healthcare #Ukraine #ThreatIntel
"Vice Pres. JD Vance said the Trump administration will pause some Medicaid funding for Minnesota over fraud concerns."
Nicholas Grossman said: “The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being ‘good stewards’ of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it”:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-freeze-minnesota
copy: @renewedresistance #healthcare #HumanRights
The cover of the Lancet says it all. The Trump administration is destroying healthcare and science.
#trump #kennedy #healthcare #science #politics
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Cover Lancet
💡 New on Nexus: Reports suggest that the Trump administration's imminent National Cyber Strategy would prioritize cyber offense in order to shape adversary behavior and relegate cyber defense to the back burner. If implemented, expert Megan Stifel writes, this is a shift that threatens to compromise our national security.
#RiskManagement #OperationalResilience #CyberResilience #Federal #Healthcare #Industrial
The National Pharmacare plan activates for BC Residents on Sunday! Automatic coverage for anyone on the BC Medical Service Plan for diabetes, contraception, and menopause meds among other things.
Thank your local Federal NDP representative for pushing this through! Hopefully Carney doesn't dare claw it back.
"Oregon poised to become first in US to remove cost barriers to cervical cancer detection"
"Oregon is poised to become the first state in the nation to eliminate out-of-pocket costs for follow-up testing after an abnormal cervical cancer screening."
#USPol #ORpol #Oregon #HealthCare #Insurance #GiftLink
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Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, the bill’s chief sponsor, told members of the House Committee on Health Care last week that women with an abnormal Pap smear can face between $750 and $1,200 in out-of-pocket costs for follow-up testing, even if they have insurance.
“This co-payment is a prohibitive barrier to women getting the care they need, and it leads to deaths that should be preventable,” Patterson said. “No patient should have to choose between a significant expense or finding out whether or not they actually do have cervical cancer.”
The #Trump admin’s proposed new rules for #Obamacare plans next year would shift more #healthcare costs to Americans, with much higher deductibles leading to higher #medical bills.
Under the proposal, people who rely on the #AffordableCareAct for their #HealthInsurance coverage could choose plans with misleading lower monthly premiums that would leave them exposed to medical expenses totaling thousands of dollars more than #ACA plans do now before their #insurance would kick in.
New #Trump #ACA Plans Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000
The Trump admin is proposing #Obamacare plans that it says will lower #HealthInsurance premiums. But critics warn they will make #healthcare unaffordable.
#Republicans #Congress #law #policy #insurance #AffordableCareAct #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Most health care services in the U.S. cost at least twice what they do in other countries, and sometimes up to ten times as much.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/here-s-why-healthcare-is-so-expensive-in-the-u-s
#KUOW #News #HealthCare #Health #Economy #HealthCare
RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/africanews-ku85rbgbz/-/a-804qCP-DRhGgTIG8cGvjVw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0
SO THAT’S WHY #MAGA #DOGE KILLED #USAID : to extort mining deals from African countries.
and you hear that radio silence from Bill Gates about USAID and the vaccine programs the orangen shitstains killed?
that's because he’s in on this colonialist charade.
MAGA is literally the transformation of USA capitalist class into an international crime syndicate. to call them the #EpsteinClass is not wrong at all.
this is mafia politics.
Smartphone photos may be misleading doctors and putting patients at risk – new research
New #research from our team suggests the answer is often the latter. #Smartphone #cameras and software routinely alter images in ways that can mislead #doctors, and in some cases, put #patients at risk of #misdiagnosis.
#medical #HealthCare #GPs #Remote #RemoteConsultations #diagnosis
VECT claims ransomware attack on a*f***a, exfiltrated data and threatens to publish stolen information within 18-19 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #ThreatIntel
🇺🇸 VECT claims ransomware attack on United States' s***om****x. Threatens to publish the stolen data within 17-18 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
This is what good public healthcare looks like. Let’s expand this program and promote healthy moms and babies!
#nola #Louisiana
#healthcare https://thelensnola.org/2026/02/24/new-orleans-brings-back-the-house-call-sending-nurses-to-visit-newborns-and-moms/
Wow this is just plain evil.
And how can "Dr. Oz" ever have been a medical doctor? He certainly seems to hold to no oath to do no harm. <smh>
#USA #US #USgov #USpol #Medicaid #Medicare #healthcare #CMS #Oz #Minnesota
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This is a US government website link
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Today at the White House, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) Dr. Mehmet Oz announced new steps to crack down on fraud in Medicare and Medicaid to protect patients and taxpayers and improve affordability. The actions include deferring $259.5 million of quarterly federal Medicaid funding in Minnesota to prevent payment of questionable claims while further investigation is completed; a nationwide moratorium on Medicare enrollment for certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DEPOS) suppliers; and a nationwide call to action for Americans to support fraud prevention, including stakeholder input on how CMS can continue to expand and strengthen its efforts.
Together, these steps reflect a coordinated, data-driven strategy to prevent fraud before it occurs, hold bad actors accountable, and protect
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-prioritizes-affordability-announcing-major-crackdown-health-care-fraud
Accessed: 26 February 2026 at 2008 MST
PETTY POLITICS!
Trump halts $259.5M in federal Medicaid funds to Minnesota today.
VP JD Vance & CMS head Mehmet Oz announced the "temporary" pause over fraud claims in programs like autism care & non-medical transport.
Funds deferred until MN submits a corrective plan to curb alleged misuse. Part of broader crackdown—first state targeted.
Impacts low-income healthcare; state says providers already paid, but reimbursement frozen.
#Medicaid #TrumpAdmin #Minnesota #Healthcare #FraudCrackdown
“Not when the costs of #rent, #food & #electricity keep rising. Not when #Republicans raise our #medical costs to fund tax cuts for #billionaires. And definitely not when federal agents — armed & masked — terrorize our communities by targeting people because of the color of their skin or for speaking #Spanish — including immigrants with legal status & citizens,” Sen #AlexPadilla said.
#Trump #SOTU #USpol #immigration #StateSponsoredTerrorism #affordability #CostOfLiving #healthcare
“My message tonight is simple: Only the people save the #people. Our #democracy shines brightest when we stand up & defend one another,” he said, before nodding to the recent Super Bowl performance given by #BadBunny.
“As Bad Bunny reminded us a few weeks ago∶ ‘Together, we are America.’”
#Trump #SOTU #USpol #immigration #StateSponsoredTerrorism #affordability #CostOfLiving #healthcare
🇺🇸 Nova claims ransomware attack on United States' Nebraska Hearing Instruments LLC. Exfiltrated 250 GB of data and threatens to publish within 6-7 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
transphobia in NYT [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
“Singal’s latest piece, ‘Medical Associations Trusted Belief Over Science on Youth Gender Care,’ is riddled with misleading claims, glaring omissions, and sources drawn directly from anti-trans hate groups.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-jesse-singal-lies-about
#Trans #Transgender #Healthcare #NYT #JesseSingal #LGBT #LGBTQ
🇺🇸 Qilin claims ransomware attack on United States' Rocky Mountain Care. Threatens to publish the stolen data within 3-4 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
Please copy and paste into the forms on the websites of your members of Congress and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Sen / Rep
This Republican Administration is proposing changes to the 340B Drug Pricing Program and I want you to get very vocal about why the proposed changes are a bad idea.
Right now, hospitals, community health centers, and other 340B program participants get chemotherapy drugs and other high-cost pharmaceuticals at a discount.
This Republican Administration wants to change the rule such that program participants would pay full price for covered medications up front, then receive a rebate from manufacturers later, after submitting paperwork.
Why on earth should this Republican Administration put more bureaucratic hurdles between patients and their needed medications? How many more admin staff positions would a hospital need to hire to manage the rebate paperwork?
Talk to the rural hospitals in your state -- they will tell you that requiring them to pay full price up-front will leave many of them on the verge of bankruptcy. They will tell you that hiring additional staff to do the bureaucracy required to get the reimbursement will put them on shaky financial footing.
Make it clear that you stand with the doctors and the patients. Please get loud on both social and conventional media about what this change would mean for your constituents.
Then make sure they do not change the 340B program.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #Healthcare
🇺🇸 Qilin claims ransomware attack on United States' bluefish dental & orthodontics. Exfiltrated data. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
#MAGA #TrumpLies #TrumpCoverup #Iran #Israel #Gaza #FuckICE #AIslop #healthcare #studentloans #taxes #NoBillionaires #datacenters #globalwarming #climate
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onyx_agate_ 14h
I don't want to starve Cuba. I don't want
to fund Israel's genocides anymore.
I don't want to build Al data centers.
I don't want ICE concentration camps
I don't want to go to war with Iran.
I want free and accessible health care.
I want student loan forgiveness. I want
cheaper housing. I want my taxes to go
to something that HELPS people.
#NuestraAméricaFlotilla
#OilForCuba!
#EndTheBlockadeEmbargo
#CubaSolidarity
#LetCubaLive
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#VivaCuba #CubaSí #AbajoElBloqueo #SolidaridadConCuba
#PetróleoParaCuba
#LatinAmerica #Caribbean
#news #politics #USpol #Cuba #HealthCare #blockade #health
Cuba's health care system pushed to the brink by US fuel blockade, Cuban minister says
https://apnews.com/article/cuba-health-care-us-energy-embargo-crisis-33ad8447dc4b442ea9b614eb91392be5?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
Ransomware forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all statewide clinics.
Epic records offline.
Hospitals running downtime procedures.
Working with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Attackers in contact.
Healthcare remains a prime ransomware target.
How can hospitals strengthen cyber resilience without disrupting patient care?
Follow @technadu for independent cybersecurity reporting.
Join the discussion below.
#CyberSecurity #Ransomware #Healthcare #CriticalInfrastructure #Infosec #HospitalIT #DigitalHealth
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Mississippi medical center closes all clinics after ransomware attack
NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.
That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.
🇺🇸 NightSpire claims ransomware attack on United States' md charts. Including EMR and MHA projects. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
🇺🇸 Qilin claims ransomware attack on USA's Telecare Corporation. Threatens to publish the stolen data within 9-10 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
I know there has been rapid change in #Alberta #healthcare since at least the most recent premier stepped in, and much of it not so great.
But I swear to gawd I didn't have "what potion do you need?" on my healthcare #erosion #BingoCard when calling the #pharmacy for an #Rx refill today.
😳
🇺🇸 GENESIS ransomware claims attack on Stockton Cardiology Medical Group in the US, exfiltrated 645GB of data including healthcare records, personal and financial information and is threatening to publish within 5 days. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
New from Mary Tuma: “There’s an almost shocking lack of evidence around these #abortion care accusations. What you’re seeing is an attorney general grasping at straws and rushing to indict anyone during an election year.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-prosecution-midwife-power-low-income-houston/
"I'm an EMT!"
"One of the women involved in the confrontation [..] said that in the immediate aftermath of [Pretti's] shooting she identified herself as an [EMT] and moved to perform CPR."
"Federal agents restrained her."
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Author: C. Frances
Publication: The Intercept
February 13, 2026
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#Minnesota #USA #Healthcare #Protest #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/
"Where were their voices when the Trump administration threatened to cut food stamps for the poor while cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans? Where were their voices when the administration kidnapped a foreign leader, threatened military action against an ally and invaded American cities?"
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder
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"Where were their voices when federal agents gunned down two U.S. citizens protesting inhumane treatment of migrants? ...
Had our church's leaders spoken out earlier against the administration's cruelty toward migrants, with the urgency and unity they once devoted to issues such as same-sex marriage, religious liberty or abortion, perhaps political realities would have shifted sooner."
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic
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"Bishop Robert Barron, once viewed as a thoughtful evangelist bridging faith and culture, has in recent weeks accelerated a troubling alignment with the Trump-Vance administration and MAGA priorities.
Barron’s latest partisan provocations are now raising alarm within the Vatican."
~ Christopher Hale
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #CatholicBishops #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #RobertBarron
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/bishop-barrons-latest-maga-crusade
"His continued silence on the murder of Catholic ICE nurse Alex Pretti, paired with effusive praise for Marco Rubio’s Munich speech and unprovoked attacks on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democratic Party, signals a deepening partisan drift that stands in stark contrast to Pope Leo XIV’s consistent moral witness on migrants and religious liberty."
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife #Catholic #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #murder #RobertBarron
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"As the Trump administration escalated its assault on human dignity, many Catholics have wondered: Where are our bishops? Why don't they do something?
Where were their voices when cuts to USAID consigned millions across the world to hunger, thirst and death?"
~ National Catholic Reporter
#Trump #immigrants #violence #ICE #MaskedThugs #USAID #hunger #children #healthcare #ProLife
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https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/editorial/editorial-bishops-united-states-history-has-its-eyes-you
I don't know whether this artist is #OnHere (and I wasn't able to find them under the username noted), but this links directly to their excellent, well-researched and beautifully-illustrated #zine they've created on #Masking in #2026.
Excellent #resource! ❤️❤️❤️
By @ profesh_baby (Gillian Levine?) via other social media:
#CovidIsNotOver
#CommunityCare
#healthcare
#prevention
#solidarity
#masks
#respirators
#ElastomericRespirators
"Kennedy’s ongoing hostility to vaccines isn’t just keeping new products off the market. It’s having a chilling effect across the whole vaccines industry, as the New York Times reported yesterday."
~ The Bulwark
"The motivations behind the crusade against clean energy and the crusade against vaccines are also similar. The conspiracy-theorizing hostility to science and expertise in general that underpins both movements also predisposes people to become right-wing extremists, which means that their movements are now in power."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy
"The headline on a 2023 article in The Guardian captured this perfectly: ‘"Everything you’ve been told is a lie": Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.'
Last but by no means least, in both cases it’s crucial to follow the money."
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EconomicElites #corruption
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"Ws many observers have noted, the Trump administration is a kakistocracy: rule by the worst. A history of personal corruption is no longer a bar to high office — it’s practically a requirement.
Under Trump 47, people who have enriched themselves by peddling medical misinformation are no longer just influencing policymakers. They have become policymakers."
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #science #healthcare #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #EconomicElites #corruption
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"RFK’s position as Trump’s chief snake-oil death dealer could affect global development of new vaccines for shingles, herpes, and the Epstein-Barr virus, the latter of which has been linked to some cancers.
The Trump administration is a disaster not just for public health in the US, but worldwide."
~ Noah Berlatsky
🇺🇸 Worldleaks claims data breach on United States' Modoc Medical Center. Contains sensitive patient and internal records. #DataBreach #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
Waited three hours to learn that the service I was waiting to see a doctor for wasn't available today.
There was nothing on their website or intake form that said this.
I got an appointment out of it, at least. And a form for blood tests. And a recommendation for vitamin D. And my current weight.
And also a reminder of how impossible I find it to answer out-loud / on-the-spot questions from medical gatekeepers that require (a) interoception, (b) a sense of time, and/or (c) a family history.
Montana hospital restores phones as cyber-related network disruptions persist #CyberIncident #NetworkDisruption #Montana #LivingstonHealthCare #Healthcare #cybersecurity https://dysruptionhub.com/livingston-healthcare-cyber-incident-montana/
🇺🇸 Pharaohs Team market offers access on United States' Historic Core Dental Care. Unauthorized access claimed. #InitialAccess #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
Hospital acquired Covid has a 10% fatality rate.
It’s almost completely preventable with respirators and clean air, but healthcare facilities have chosen a policy of forced infection instead.
Let this case set a precedent & start forcing hospitals to adopt airborne precautions!
#covid #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #sarscov2 #LongCOVID #disability #healthcare
Indian #pharmacy chain giant exposed customer data and internal systems
#India #DavaIndia #Zota #healthcare #privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach
I can't depend on these institutions anymore. They have been failing me, and will bring me to ruin the longer I rely on them. I resent them so much, I'm willing to work for the destruction of them and build something better. This injustice is too much. This needs to STOP.
🇺🇸 akira claims ransomware attack on United States' Northeast Pharmacy Service Corporation. Exfiltrated sensitive internal data, including financial records, personal files, and customer information. #Ransomware #Healthcare #USA #ThreatIntel
@dyckron “#Alberta is the first #Canadian province to introduce two-tier legislation and encourage a private #health insurance market for services covered under the Canada Health Act. This is a decisive shift towards U.S. health care based on greed and profit-taking, not “European” #healthcare based largely on principles of social solidarity and universality,” Exactly! And here in the #NWT where our system is interlinked with Alberta's, we are about to be pushed over the cliff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/california-billionaire-wealth-tax.html
How genuinely pathetic is this behavior? #billionaires would rather move elsewhere instead of paying a tax to support #healthcare for the #poor in #California - they would rather #profit from #stock #gains by spending #billions on #AI #genai - when they talk of #UBI - beware - they will not help a single person who loses their #job to AI
Of course that first number in Canada would be 1 in all history.
On the US side, where mass shootings occur much more regularly and give us much more data to work with, they account for less than 1/10th of a single percent. Transgender people account for about 1% of the US, meaning that their share of mass shooters is 1/10th of their representation in the population. Meanwhile, cis men account for nearly half the population of the US, while representing 97% of the mass shooters.
Yet MapleMAGA politicians in Canada are claiming a supposed "epedemic" of transgender mass shooters, citing 5 cases, compared to the over 4,000 cases committed by cis men, as an "epidemic".
All while the system had refused to address the actual mental health issues which surrounded this tragedy because according to them the entirety of mental illness present was being transgender.
#hate #HateSpeech #cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #healthcare
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Mass Shooters Since 2018:
Transgender: 4
Non-transgender Female: 127
Non-transgender Male: 4,012
Source: Gun Violence Archive
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Tara Armstrong
@TaraArmstrongBC
There is an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the West. Today, a transgender school shooter murdered 9 innocent victims and injured 25 more in Tumbler Ridge, BC. My heart breaks for the victims, their families, and the community. But I can’t stop at condolences — we need solutions.
Look at the pattern:
Aberdeen Rite Aid Facility in Maryland.
Club Qin Colorado.
Highlands Ranch School in Colorado.
Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota.
Covenant School in Tennessee.
Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British
Columbia.
This epidemic of violence will continue until we change our society’s response to transgender ideology.
When people are a danger to themselves and others, the common sense solution is to treat their mental illness rather than affirm dangerous delusions.
I encourage parents and teachers to help fight the transgender violence epidemic themselves — since their government is obviously uninterested in doing so.
This issue is entrenched at every level of our education and healthcare systems.
If a minor in your care expresses a desire to transition their gender identity, help them. Offer compassion. Affirming delusions is neglect, not care.
Our kids are perfect just the way they are. So tell them plainly: they don’t need to change their name or experiment with harmful drugs and
surgeries to be loved.
Real compassion is affirming their real identity — affirming that they don’t need to change.
10:38PM Feb 10, 2026