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[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@legalwritingpro Congratulations!

[Coalition for Patient-Centered Care @CPCC_America]

Keeping corporate actors out of our healthcare system will keep care quality high and costs low. Decisions in healthcare should be made between physicians and patients, not PE backed-investors and corporate middlemen.

[Coalition for Patient-Centered Care @CPCC_America]

🚨Today @SenWarren, @RonWyden, @ValHoyle, @SuhasforVA, @AOC, and @SenJeffMerkley introduced the Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act backed by all of CPCC's physician groups to ban the corporate practice of medicine, including by PE and MSOs: https://t.co/AkYvattTsN

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@AyannaPressley Thank you!

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Take 5 minutes to watch @DrKimSchrier give a masterclass on how to use your committee time. 👇

[Megha Shah Fitzpatrick @MegFitz28]

This is so dangerous. Shame on you senator tuberville and shame on anybody considering this man’s appointment.

[Megha Shah Fitzpatrick @MegFitz28]

Very troubling. VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM. That is a fact. That is NOT UP FOR DEBATE. Like the earth is round, the sky is blue, grass is green, and vaccines do not cause autism. No vaccines cause measles, polio, pertussis, mumps, rubella, tetanus….

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Meet Dr. Susan (Sue) Kressley, newly elected President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Susan used her position of power to send a letter to Sec. of State Antony Blinken ostracizing and scapegoating Israel for the ongoing war in Gaza.

AAP is comprised of nearly 70,000 paying members; none of them, except for Sue's close inner circle, was made aware or approved this letter. Thousands are now pulling their fees in disagreement with Sue's abuse of power.

Read one member's scathing response sent to AAP CEO Mark DelMonte, Sue Kressley herself, & DEI Chief Health Equity Officer Joseph Wright:

"I am writing to agree with what other members have sent to you concerning the letter to Blinken - the blatant, one dimensional aspects of these concerns are very troubling and risk discrimination and disregard for the diversity and equity the AAP proclaims to desire.

Why is there never any concern for the hostages that include two young children, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, a baby who now has been in captivity longer than he was in freedom, as well as multiple adolescent males and females, who we know from released hostages are being subjected to sexual abuse, starvation, branding, and other tortures.

Reports are coming out daily about the atrocities Hamas is continuing to subject these teenagers to. They have even reported forcing children to perform sexual acts on each other.

Why is the AAP not speaking out about this?
Why is Hamas never mentioned as exploiting health care facilities and using civilians as human shields?
Or forcing children into violence as child soldiers by training from an early age to use guns and kill Jews?
Why is the AAP not demanding that the Red Cross visit these captives?
Or demanding the unconditional release of all hostages?

There is also legitimate concern about this pediatricians involvement with Hamas. Just this week a video showing a Hamas terrorist stating that Hamas uses the hospitals for weapons and military purposes was released. The director of a hospital must know what is happening and is complicit on some level. Unless the AAP is supportive of Hamas, I feel they should be putting all these concerns in context and holding Hamas accountable for their actions that contribute to the devastation to Gazan children, including Hamas hijacking the humanitarian aid trucks. Asking for humanitarian corridors without also demanding that Hamas comply is very prejudicial. Due diligence must be done to find out all information from multiple sources before jumping on the propaganda bandwagon of making these requests of the State Department.

Why is the AAP not advocating for Israeli children who have been evacuated from their homes for over 15 months, and spend every night in bomb shelters hiding from bombs from Iran. Lebanon, Gaza and Yemen, groups who want to annihilate the Jewish people? Who have lost parents, siblings and other family members? Whose parents have been away from home for months due to serving in the army? Israel is a small country. Every person knows someone who was killed. Does their trauma not matter to the AAP?

Why is the AAP not sending letters to the State Department regarding conflicts in Sudan, Yemen, and other countries around the world?

I appreciate this is a complicated geopolitical situation, and I’m not sure what the AAP wants to happen. But the handling of this feels very uneven and one dimensional and it’s very disappointing."

Susan Kressley, and every person involved in this letter, must step down immediately to avoid further staining the reputation of the AAP.

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@MegFitz28 Love this song! Used to sing it all the time.

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

The IDF confirms it retrieved from Gaza the bodies of 6 hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7.

Hersh Goldberg, 23 🕯️
Eden Yerushalmi, 24 🕯️
Carmel Gat, 39 🕯️
Almog Sarusi, 26 🕯️
Alex Lubnov, 32 🕯️
Ori Danino, 25 🕯️

May their memories be a blessing 💔

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

This. Is. Fantastic!

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Arkansas has the weakest gun laws in the US and has one of the highest rates of gun deaths. Despite the state’s high rate of violence, legislators acted in 2021 to dismantle the only remaining foundational gun law by passing permitless carry.

[Caitrin Assaf @caitrinassaf]

Here are some pictures of 23-year-old Callie Weems her mother, Helen, sent me. Callie was one of the victims today who passed away after she was shot while grocery shopping on her day off from work. She leaves behind a 10 month old daughter. #ARnews

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

NEW: The gunman who opened fire in an Arkansas grocery store today, killing three people and wounding 11 (including two police officers), is a 44-year-old white man. He wasn’t taken down by law enforcement or armed citizens — he’s alive and in jail. https://t.co/MSvzbWMqA0

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

"And when the next Las Vegas happens, it will not be enough to blame it on the madness of a single deranged individual."

That's right. We can blame it on the six SCOTUS extremists hellbent on sacrificing American citizens on the altar of gun industry profits. https://t.co/efaWxeIJdC

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

.@RepWexton’s courage and fierceness on display. She remains a public service icon.

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@BarbaraFavola Thank you!

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@SalimVASenate @AsiagoK Thank you!!!

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

@MegFitz28 We need to take your mom to Chicago’s Art institute. My grandmother used to take me every year. Loved Monet exhibit!

[Dr Mom @DrMomVA]

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