marikMoen

Nurse. Public Health. PhD. Social determinants of health. HIV, sex, drugs, violence, global local urban rural #Health #Equity #covidhotel

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@AShihipar Framed it like it is!

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@JeromeAdamsMD Absolutely- not to mention the food & healthcare workforce

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Coca Cola is not healthy. It’s the exact kind of junk food MAHA is supposed to be against.

Using cane sugar and putting it in glass bottles won’t change that.

You know what would? Universal healthcare. Food assistance. Clean air and water. Robust public health.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

An 82 year old man named Luis Leon came to the US in 1987.

He sought asylum from political persecution in Chile.

He’s been in the US ever since & was granted a green card.

He lost his wallet (and green card) in June & when he went to replace it he was disappeared by ICE 🧵

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@madamknipe Horrible. Are we too afraid, disengaged, asleep, overwhelmed, or too cruel to do anything so we stand by as witnesses to this tragedy.

[Andrea C. Love, PhD @dr_andrealove]

2 measles deaths in the US now.
Measles cases popping up all over the country.

Utah banned fluoride today—though 75 years of data show it prevents tooth decay.

RFK Jr is touting cod liver oil and “nutrition” as cures for the most contagious human disease.

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[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

Grateful to be part of this organization of #nurses from around the world who speak up and advocate for restoring full funding to PEPFAR now- before more lives are disrupted and to restore U.S. #leadership in this #globalhealth monumental effort that serves us all.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!"

Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of which was unrelated to the pandemic. This time around, Trump has proposed roughly $8 trillion more in tax cuts and spending hikes over the decade. And right now, a GOP Congress is preparing to abandon most reconciliation cuts and instead add $325 billion this year in new spending. We’re headed towards $4 trillion deficits within a decade.

So, no, I don’t get excited when DOGE cancels $1 billion in govt contracts. Or saves $3 billion in federal workforce reductions out of a $7,000 billion budget. Not when Trump and Congress are also preparing to add $800 billion more annually in proposed new tax cuts and spending.

And no, the huge savings are not coming. Even (unrealistically) eliminating 20% of the federal workforce would save $60 billion, and overhauling federal systems to sharply reduce payment errors may save perhaps $80 billion (and is probably unlikely too). For all of DOGE’s bluster, administrative and executive reforms would at best save 1-2% of federal spending and offset only a small fraction of Trump’s red ink agenda.

That leaves trying to unilaterally impound spending such as USAID—which is wildly illegal—or actually going to Congress to pare back spending the constitutional way. But Trump has already taken Social Security, Medicare, defense, veterans, border (and interest) off the table, which is 2/3 of all spending and is driving deficits. And the GOP Congress seems ready to give up on cutting the remaining one-third of spending. Want to cut spending and the deficit? How about they stop passing budget-busting bills. Don’t brag about your coupon-clipping frugality at the same time you are buying a $250,000 Ferrari. I’m not going to cheer Trump and DOGE for adding “only” $750 billion to deficits instead of $800 billion. We’re still going backwards.

I’ve spent decades studying the federal budget. I know that $7 trillion(!) behemoth inside and out – where the money really goes, and where the savings opportunities lie. So I can also detect bullshitters who talk tough about trillion-dollar spending cuts without doing their homework. It’s the ones who claim most spending goes to undefined “waste,” federal salaries, immigrants, foreigners, Ukraine, or non-working welfare recipients. It’s the ones who claim we can easily balance the budget or cut $1 trillion without specifying exactly what line-items to cut. Or that we can return to 2019 spending levels for each program, which means a 20% inflationary cut, defaulting on the federal debt, and kicking off every senior who has since retired into Social Security and Medicare. It’s all hot air and empty bluster. Tough talk without following through on anything substantive. Just wait until you see the final deficit numbers in October.

And this is why GOP movements to cut spending always fail. They make absurdly ambitious promises without doing their homework, understanding where the money goes, and specifying real plans to fix it. You can’t significantly cut the deficit just by cutting waste, firing bureaucrats, and defunding immigrants and foreigners. There are no easy short cuts. You have to stop cutting taxes and then address Social Security, Medicare, defense, and a lot of other popular programs. Wake me when the GOP goes there.

So, no, I will not get excited about a couple billion in DOGE savings on one hand while Trump pushes Congress to add $8 trillion over the decade in tax cuts and spending with the other hand. I’m not that gullible.

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@TIME but disrupt medication, resistance can set in, difficult to suppress virus, infection spreads.. this chaotic political move hurts all of us

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@TIME have served w PEPFAR. literally life saving..w HIV, if you keep the virus suppressed w medication, 1 can't transmit the virus, so everyone globallly benefits...

[TIME @TIME]

Data from the State Department suggests PEPFAR, at a current cost of about $6.5 billion a year, has saved 25 million lives and brought the AIDS epidemic under control in several countries.

Former PEPFAR head Deborah Birx weighs in: https://t.co/pLWxyFFLHI

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Just a few hours before we learned about his death, I watched Carterland, a documentary on Carter's presidency at the recommendation of @jeffzeleny. One moment that stood out was what he did as peace talks were breaking down at Camp David between Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. With each prepared to leave with no agreement, Carter signed photos for each of Begin's grandchildren.

As Carter later recalled, "Instead of just signing Jimmy Carter, I put 'With Love to' and wrote the name of every one of his grandchildren. I took them over to his cabin. He was hardly speaking to me. I knocked at the door and went in. I handed him the photographs, a stack of them. He said, 'Thank you, Mr. President' and turned around, dismissing me in effect. And he looked down and he read the first photograph, and he called out the name of his granddaughter. And then one by one he read out the names of his grandchildren. Tears ran down his cheeks, and when I saw them I also cried. And he said, 'Why don’t we try one more time?'"

https://t.co/RqU3yVNtcn

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

When I look at Jimmy Carter, I see a man not only for our times, but for all times. A man who embodied the most fundamental human values we can never let slip away.

And while we may never see his likes again, we would all do well to try to be a little more like Jimmy Carter.

[Delta @Delta]

Every time Jimmy Carter flew Delta, he shook hands with each person on the plane. Because that's who he was. Someone who treated people as people.

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@madamknipe How cool! Have a great trip!

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@sewistwrites Normal

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@JHUNursing @ycommodore @glass_prof Congratulations Yvonne Commodore Mensah @ycommodore and Nancy Glass @glass_prof !!

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@madamknipe what a harvest!

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@JHUNursing @kamilaalexander Congratulations @kamilaalexander !!

[marikMoen @MarikMoen]

@madamknipe So sweet. Rockstar mom. I hope the little , now big dragon appreciates it all!