Gregg Gonsalves
I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Asst Prof YSPH.
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Trump Didn’t Bribe Ukraine. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
Mislabeling what the president has done could make impeachment more difficult to achieve.
Gregg Gonsalves
Trump Didn’t Bribe Ukraine. It’s Actually Worse Than That.
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Handling of Whistleblower Complaint Makes It Impossible for IG To Do His Job
It’s nearly impossible for whistleblowers to trust an IG when their agency-head acts as the acting DNI has.
Gregg Gonsalves
#JosephMaguire's long career will now just be remembered for this historic instance of obstruction. "Handling of Whistleblower Complaint Makes It Impossible for IG To Do His Job" justsecurity.org/66216/handling… via @just_security
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As a foreign reporter visiting the US I was stunned by Trump's press conference | Lenore Taylor
Despite being subjected to a daily diet of Trump headlines, I was unprepared for the president’s alarming incoherence
Inside the Trump Administration’s Chaotic Dismantling of the Federal Land Agency
Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral...
Letter to NIH
Add your name to our letter here! Amendment: We initiated this process with postdocs in mind, but quickly came to realize that graduate students face the same challenges, but with lower salaries. W…
Thread by @kurteichenwald: "1. It is very rare that I criticize a reporter by name. However, the recklessness and poor reporting of @kenvogel - and his "we're going to […]"
Thread by @kurteichenwald: "1. It is very rare that I criticize a reporter by name. However, the recklessness and poor reporting of @kenvogelgoing to keep pulling back the Biden story" garbage requires pointing out the abject poverty of his...
The World Knows an Apocalyptic Pandemic Is Coming
But nobody is interested in doing anything about it.
Donnie, You in Danger, Girl
Reminder that paid subscriptions have started and you only have FIVE days left to get a big-time discount for flagship supporters. Starting September 25th, you will no longer have access to all of my posts, including my What Had Happened Was Sunday...
HIV Drug Manufacturers Broke Antitrust Laws, Advocates Say
Class action lawsuit challenges deals that limit generic drug competition; Gilead says the case is without merit.
Gregg Gonsalves
HIV Drug Manufacturers Broke Antitrust Laws, Advocates Say poz.com/article/hiv-dr… via @pozmagazine
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Warren Buffett and Bill Gates agree that the rich should pay higher taxes—here's what they suggest
Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett told CNBC's Becky Quick that, in America, the "wealthy are definitely undertaxed relative to the general population." Bill Gates has recently made the same points. Here are their suggestions for a...
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Gregg Gonsalves
To those asking how to pay for #Medicare4all, why not start by rolling back Trump tax cuts (which largely benefited the wealthy), adding a tax hike for the wealthiest Americans. Even some billionaires are suggesting raising taxes on the rich. Just sayin'.
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If Elizabeth Warren Were a Man, She’d Be the Frontrunner
Biden is electable because he tops the polls. He tops the polls because he’s electable. Warren is not electable, allegedly, even as she keeps rising in the polls.
Gregg Gonsalves
If Elizabeth Warren Were a Man, She’d Be the Frontrunner thedailybeast.com/if-elizabeth-w… via @thedailybeast
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Trump wants you to think he's racist so you won't notice he's corrupt and killing jobs
'Who is the real racist, the person warning about illegal immigrants or the person saying that’s racist?' When that’s the debate, Donald Trump wins.
Gregg Gonsalves
Trump wants you to think he's racist so you won't notice he's corrupt and killing jobs usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday
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Barack Obama’s Biggest Mistake
It rhymes with ‘schneo-liberalism.’ It was an economic disaster and a political dead end.
Gregg Gonsalves
.@fmanjoo makes a strong case that a "back to the future politics" is bad for America and bad politics. We don't need a new Restoration era, but a new Progressive one.
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Martin Wolf: why rentier capitalism is damaging liberal democracy
Economies are not delivering for most citizens because of weak competition, feeble productivity growth and tax loopholes
Back to School Essentials | Sandy Hook Promise
Gregg Gonsalves
This video from @sandyhook is gut-wrenching. Watch it. Share it. Then act. It's politicians who stand in the way of gun control. Organize and vote them out.
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Patient Groups Express Strong Opposition to Medicaid Block Grants
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Gregg Gonsalves
What do these disease groups know that @GovBillLee won't tell the residents of #Tennessee? Block Granting Medicaid Would Harm Patients with Serious and Chronic Health Conditions.
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Medicaid Block Grants Cut Vital Health Care for Vulnerable Tennesseans
Tennessee's Medicaid Block Grant Proposal is another attempt to cut healthcare for Tennesseans. Here are the top 3 things you need to know.
Gregg Gonsalves
Every major disease group opposes Medicaid block grants.
Got cancer, diabetes, arthritis, COPD, heart disease? @GovBillLee is coming for your healthcare. Don't trust him, hell, don't trust me: look at list of the orgs opposing block grants. #Tennessee
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What a Medicaid Block Grant Would Mean for Tennessee | Commonwealth Fund
The Tennessee legislature recently enacted a law to seek federal approval to fund Medicaid through block grants. The plan would likely have indeterminate consequences for Medicaid beneficiaries. George Washington University’s Sara Rosenbaum delves...
Gregg Gonsalves
What a Medicaid Block Grant Would Mean for #Tennessee. @GovBillLee isn't thinking about the health of his state, but his ideological masters in Washington, DC.
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Could Republicans wreck Medicaid?
By block granting Medicaid, Republicans will finally produce the death panels they’ve always predicted.
Gregg Gonsalves
.@GovBillLee is scaling back healthcare for people in #Tennessee. Block grants do NOT HELP people, what they DO is encourage states to enroll fewer people & CUT, LIMIT services for millions of marginalized, underserved Americans. #deathbypublicpolicy
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A group of students at Weill Cornell and Columbia explain why their CEO is wrong to oppose 'Medicare for All'
Students at Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University say their CEO is wrong to oppose `Medicare for All.' Here's why they support it.
Gregg Gonsalves
A group of students at Weill Cornell and Columbia explain why their CEO is wrong to oppose 'Medicare for All' businessinsider.com/students-at-we… via @businessinsider
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