Michael Medwar

Patient advocate/ex-editor/Crohn's since '79/Oley Foundation/In memory of late bro, advocate for disabled/Boston sports diehard/URI '92. Tweets my own.

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

My patient lost almost no weight on semaglutide. His liver healed. His blood pressure dropped. His sleep apnea lifted. His knees stopped hurting. He barely moved the scale and got better everywhere else.

I'd been measuring the wrong thing for years. 🧵

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Jesse Watters does NOT understand how rent stabilization works in New York City. The rent goes up on rent stabilized apartments every year or two years depending on the lease. Most buildings with rent stabilized apartments are privately owned. No one gets any government money.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

McGowan: Every single country in the World Cup has universal health care except us. That's not a far left position.

[ABC News @ABC]

The 2000 Year Old Man is turning 100. Mel Brooks on Sunday will celebrate his centennial birthday. https://t.co/2mySMr4pEh

[ABC News @ABC]

The voting machine company formerly known as Dominion Voting Systems on Wednesday dropped its billion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Trump ally Mike Lindell, eight months after the company was purchased by a former Republican election official.
https://t.co/JvEMPdks9C

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Pete Hegseth fired a Navy Vice Admiral to make her disappear, and yesterday the voters of South Carolina handed her a path to a seat in Congress. Her name is Nancy Lacore.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

David Clayton-Thomas, Blood, Sweat, and Tears Singer, Dead at 84

A memorial concert for the vocalist, who sang "You've Made Me So Very Happy," is in the works.

More: https://t.co/tkaJuEsjB8

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Nearly half a million Arizonans lost SNAP benefits, or food stamps, from March 2025 to March 2026, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It's a roughly 50% drop in enrollment, the steepest decline in all 50 states. https://t.co/kpei05WnLe

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

1,056 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes are now facing closures or cuts in the wake of the GOP cutting healthcare to give tax cuts to the rich — per @ProtectOurCare.

[Jeff Barker @JeffBarkermedia]

I’ve resigned from The Baltimore Sun after 25 years of politics and sports reporting. I was proud to have been there during a long period when our reporting followed the facts wherever they happened to lead. I’m not saying anything readers can’t see for themselves, but The Sun has changed since its purchase by David Smith, executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. I no longer fit there. I’m grateful to the sources whose trust enabled me to report responsibly, and to the readers who supported our work. I’m exploring new opportunities inside and outside journalism. My DMs are open.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Absolutely

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

"Only very sick kids should die from measles"

No, Secretary Kennedy

NO child should die from measles.

Because there's a vaccine to prevent it.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[NBC Entertainment @nbc]

“Jimmy Burrows was the man behind the curtain. He knew how to make us laugh, what buttons to push and was the absolute master of getting the most out of every joke. His loss to the television comedy world is immeasurable. Every time you have a smile on your face watching ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ ‘Taxi, ‘Cheers,’ ‘Will & Grace,’ ‘Friends’ and countless others, think of Jimmy and know he made all our lives funnier.”
— NBC

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

Requiring service personnel to be vaccinated for the flu and other viruses is a force protection measure, not an imposition on their freedom. Removing the vaccine mandate, unnecessarily places our service members who work and live in close quarters at increased risk. A mistake that should be corrected.
https://t.co/5ncMYyLELU

[WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB]

Tom Dreesen, a pioneering comic and Frank Sinatra's longtime opening act, dies at 86 | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/3EOJYaEe5Q

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Chicago Saxophonist Walter Parazaider Dead at 81

The band formed in Parazaider's basement in 1967, and he remained a pivotal part of their sound until he was forced to step aside in 2018 to battle Alzheimer's.

Access the free article here: https://t.co/e6SOPzRsEV

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 by about 40 percent, according to a new study.

The findings suggest that such benefits observed in earlier studies have persisted for years. https://t.co/eFWhZ9XfpF

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The paper was removed when it was realised that the stats used and interpretation were completely wrong

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Josh Hokit won the biggest fight of his career at the White House and decides to finish his interview by calling Michelle Obama a Man.

What a disgrace.

It takes a really small man to use his biggest moment to attack a woman by calling her a man.

Especially with the history behind calling black women men.