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Podcast
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@smackhealth
health tech advisory
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@EricTopol
@EricTopol
I cannot imagine the abuse you are getting that we don't see. Just want to thank you for all your work explaining the science of COVID-19 & let you know the vast majority of us admire you greatly
@Fahrenthold
@realDonaldTrump
And despite this grift they still can't make money on their hotels!
They are the most incompetent business people I've ever heard of
@BGrueskin
@tab_delete
When I went to Stanford The Daily did a brilliant expose on how the university bookstore was overcharging on textbooks and the staff were all driving fancy cars paid for by the bookstore. This guy
@tab_delete
seems to have set his sights a little higher!
It's quite hysterical that the black man running for Florida governor is being accused of taking a $900 payoff (2 Hamilton tix) when the white man who is CURRENTLY Governor and running for Senate defrauded the nation of over $1.5 BILLION and no one says a goddam thing
@michaelharriot
How could anyone have possibly known that
@michaelharriot
was the expert on this topic. I mean the guy Iives under a rock. It's not as if he wrote about it or anything....oh wait
@eisingerj
@NormOrnstein
Seem to be a lot of wannabe billionaire libertarians in this thread upset that someone leaked IRS returns. Given the state of tax cheating in the US, perhaps tax returns should be public as they are in Iceland
I am loving
@ASlavitt
's weighing the chances of a gov shutdown by eavesdropping on young republican staffers in a bar complaining about whether they're getting paid next week!
Sorry for the digression, but the staffers are now calculating their 401k saving and one of the staffers looked at the one I think is an intern and said “This is what adults sound like.” 7/
@leimanis
@drose007
That investment paid off in spades for Putin in 2016 just 7 years later. He put $400m at risk and got Brexit & Trump elected. Greatest deal of all time for him. Not so great for democracy
@HeroinHatesYou
@MarciaLudd
@JohnathanPerk
Wow. I never knew there was systematic kidnapping of free black people & selling them into slavery. The more I learn the more appalling it's clear this history was
@lachlan
@HotlineJosh
@amychozick
Most Dems like me thought that if Trump was the candidate no decent Republicans would vote for him. Turns out that there are basically no decent Republicans
Trump is not simply a clown, a fraud, an incompetent... He is, above all, a threat. He is a danger. He is tied to our worst international enemies and...the greatest [threat] we face (domestic terror). ~
@djrothkopf
@The_DailyBeast
🔥🔥🔥
Really happy to announce that
@HIMSS
is allowing patients, patient activist and caregivers FREE admission to
#HIMSS18
in Las Vegas. To read the fine print and apply
Science works
In 2009, Norway began offering all girls the HPV vaccine. That first cohort is now 25 years old, and none of them has had cervical cancer.
From
@future_crunch
25 Oct Newsletter
Amy Coney Barrett was a "handmaid" to a bunch of, at the least, wacko religious cultists. And we know what types of people tend to run those cults. So now there's more disturbing allegations.
How do so many of these crazies end up as senior Republicans?
@MichaelSkolnik
@hillary
I'm with a tweeter who said, once we didn't act after 20+ kindergartners were shot, it's clear we are never going to do anything /1
@LPDonovan
I was laughing at the impossible internal logic of these people. My wife rightly said, “they all get to vote and there’s nothing funny about it.”
Sad news--
@john_chilmark
has died. His son John Moore III announced it on Linkedin yesterday. He ran
@ChilmarkHIT
putting out great content with a great sense of humor for about 15 years. He'd announced he was moving to hospice care last March. I'll be lifting a glass to him
@toddstarnes
@GaSecofState
The old saying is true. Some people cannot conceive of changing their minds, no matter how naked the evidence, and this clown
@toddstarnes
is one of the 73m of them
The
@GoodLawProject
rights a 40 year old wrong in the UK. Let's do the same thing in the US and tax hedge hedge funds the way the the rest of us get taxed
This thread tells the story of how HMRC - the Inland Revenue in old money – caved in to pressure from a Tory Chancellor to offer a sweetheart deal to politically connected private equity fund managers. 🧵
I just got told I was nominated to be one of the top 100 leaders in health care! At a conference in Vegas called "Smart Health Conference" and all I have to do is fill in an application, go to the conference and pay $1499!
Brilliant marketing!
@mehdirhasan
There is a political poodle who this week was abandoned by the whole Cruz family, but yes lets focus on Biden's dog who looks like he's been having fun playing out in the rain
“That Trump is able to do it -- that the US is the only country in history to allow a coup to go unpunished and a seditionist to run for president again -- is due to Garland, the DOJ, and their accomplices in Congress."
@DavidArmstrongX
Great piece and not the first time
@UnitedHealthGrp
has been busted for egregious behavior.
But you don't mention the other issue. WHY are Remicade & Entyvio so fricking expensive? Where is
@TakedaPharma
&
@JNJNews
in this article?
Remicade patent was supposed to end in 2018!
@JohnGHendy
Kucinich was the only Dem running for Perez in 2004 brave enough to be really anti-war, pro gay marriage and pro legalizing pot. Now that's all mainstream. And instead of embracing it, he's gone further crank. Do we blame his unfeasibly hot wife?
This is unbelievably important. Prices have been falling like a rock. It's a huge moment for us to get ahead of the curve & rebuild our infrastructure NOW. Get
@tonyseba
in front of
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
@harrisonjaime
@GovKemp
@GeorgiaDemocrat
@staceyabrams
What great optics -- 4 white men arresting a black woman, who happens to be a state rep, in the capitol building for protesting the reintroduction of Jim Crow style voting suppression
Your reminder that Thomas perjured himself in his 1991 hearings. He was addicted to porn as confirmed by a girlfriend some years later. He clearly harassed Anita Hill. And he is clearly an evil little shit. So is his wife
Clarence Thomas, concurring, explicitly calls on the Supreme Court to overrule Griswold (right to contraception), Lawrence (right to same-sex intimacy), and Obergefell (right to same-sex marriage).
@charles_gaba
@RepThomasMassie
@JohnKerry
I have 2 degrees in political science. Not sure that qualifies me to discuss climate change. But if I was the former Sec of State and was briefed by the world’s foremost climate scientists, I might know something
@drvox
We're down to the Republicans only being the party of the KKK, the Proud Bois, the Bugaloo Bois, the 3%ers and the rest of the fascists. They can't reject them because that's all they have. What's terrifying is that it's still nearly 40% of the country
Oh and unlike the
@OscarHealth
website non-scandal, if you want a real one here's
@HHSGov
paying $13m to
@Philips
to develop a ventilator that they did NOT deliver to the US but are selling overseas for a higher price.
@propublica
team has the story
Manafort helped Yanukovych, a Putin loyalist, get elected president of Ukraine in 2010. His regime stole $40 Billion, & he killed a deal w/ the EU in favor of Russia, sparking protests. Police shot protestors, triggering a revolution. He fled to Russia. 1/
You thought the crazy shit was gone from Silicon Valley?
Less than 6 months ago
@munjalshah
CEO of
@healthiqinsure
wiped out his investors & screwed all his employees.
Today
@generalcatalyst
&
@a16z
gave him $50m to try again. But at least there's AI in the title!
@bubbaprog
I have genuinely never heard of ANY of those words & I have an A in English A level and a bunch of degrees.
Let alone been able to spell them
And that fast!
Who is she and what was that???
Having judged 2,351 startup entries in the
@ucsfhealthawards
I am declaring it a felony for any
#DigitalHealth
co NOT to have a clear video demoing EXACTLY WHAT THEIR FUCKING PRODUCT DOES.
I'll be making citizen's arrests, probably including gratuitous violence, at the event
The
@Netflix
Dirty Money episode on Jared Kushner shows just what an unmitigated con artist with a cruel streak he is. Time for
@katieporteroc
@AOC
&
@ewarren
to hold hearings on him
@BestForBritain
"We haven't started
#Brexit
" yet according to this mug
Clearly he's never left his patch of little England or read an economics report or gone outside
"The Center for Digital Health Innovation at San Francisco-based UCSF Health has been honored for employing artificial intelligence to sort through millions of faxes"
This headline sums up health tech
Pretty damn entertaining thread from
@SethAbramson
about how Elmo was probably here illegally during much of the 1990s...is it past the statute of limitations to deport him?
(MEGA-THREAD) Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant in the United States for years, and has lied about it for decades.
This long thread unpacks the evidence fully sourced at the PROOF report below (FREE with trial offer at link).
🔗:
Please RETWEET widely.
I'm virtue signaling at
#ViVE2022
in my mask but 95% of the crowd has decided that it's safe to go without as everyone is vaxxed & has a negative test. I suspect I'll lose mine in the next few mins. Plus it's Florida where covid doesn't exist
@rising
@EricColumbus
@NitrateDiva
@reckonalabama
I told everyone that Trump was doing performance art. Now it’s 2 am, and somehow instead of the show ending we’re all locked inside the weird museum with him for a damn long night being forced to watch and listen. And plenty of other crazies seem to be coming in the back door.
Well
@SethAbramson
says that UAE paid off the National Enquirer, MacDougal et al. Given what they did with Trump & Javanka later, it makes perfect sense
(THREAD) I’m a Trump biographer and presidential historian who’s also a NYT-bestselling journalist covering the criminal trial of Donald Trump on 34 felonies in New York.
This thread explains why I’m warning people to be careful about assuming David Pecker’s testimony is true.
If you want to get really depressed & angry read
@NathanielRich
's long tour de force about how politicians on all sides muffed the chance to save the planet in the 1980s -- and how screwed the planet will be soon as a result
@BGrueskin
@tab_delete
Actually reading more, a lot more came out about the Bookstore scndal including the CEO & controller gambling $1m on stock speculation
@radleybalko
@radleybalko
I haven't watched the video. Can't handle that & the Paul Pelosi hammer attack in one day, but was it worse than you expected, or routinely have seen?
I am a judge for the UCSF Health Awards. We are evaluating more than 1,000 companies to select the next best in 17 digital health and life sciences categories. Join us on October 7th to see the winners announced.
Wow. Steve Leiber, CEO of
@HIMSS
from 2000 to 2017 is not impressed by the invite to Trump for
#HIMSS2020
Screenshot is culled from a comment he made on Facebook today
OK Troyan Brennan from
@CVSHealth
pisses me off immediately. "There's no evidence for most of this digital health stuff"
As if there is for the rest of what we spend $4 trillion on
#DHISwest
@paulkrugman
As John Cougar Mellencamp once said, "all the Republicans I know ain't rich enough to be one". That's the problem with Teslas. Both expensive and sold to the cultural-tech elite....rich liberals
@Mike_Podhorzer
Time for Dems to play hardball. It would be a little ironic if Biden used his newly conferred powers to arrest Thomas & Kavanaugh for corruption, and Gorsuch & Alito for perjury, But why not? They're all guilty of it
I'm humbled and honored to be the only person in my Twitter feed to be in neither the
@Rock_Health
nor
@CBInsights
top 16,524 in Digital Health. It's enough to make you miss
@JohnNosta
@cmclymer
After touring mine around Europe for the last 2.5 weeks, and putting up with unlimited temper tantrums and demands for souvenirs in 25 fricking shops every day, can I just give mine to JD Vance instead?
I’m not entirely thrilled by Kavanaugh’s lewd boasting from high school, but I’m much more appalled by his history of appallingly awful and cruel decisions as a Federal judge, and the fact that a $150k debt has just vanished into thin air