Stan Dorn

Health Policy Director, @WeAreUnidosUS. Working on health since 80s. Jewishly involved. Amazing family. Cats. Jazz. Opera. Opinions are purely personal. he/him

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

We had eliminated measles and are about to lose our measles eradication status

We had eradicated screwworm but its making its way back

Keeping these scourges at bay requires active surveillance and action

[dylan matthews 🔸 @dylanmatt]

This is a good moment for very boring, traditional capital gains hikes
- return the estate tax to 2000 levels
- end step-up basis and treat death as a realization event
- treat carried interest as earned income
- raise the top rate from 23.8% to 30%

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

@Katie_Bergh More than two in five infants in America—children under age 1–rely on WIC for food. And the House majority just voted to take away some of their fruits and vegetables, while their parents are struggling with higher food costs. Literally taking food out of the mouths of babies.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

The largest ICE detention center made over $250 million last year. 

Billionaires have quite literally turned human suffering into a business.

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

Horrific and shameful. What’s wrong with the Israeli leaders responsible for this?

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

“I nodded off and was woken by my daughter’s hysterical crying. When I picked her up, I discovered rats had gnawed at her foot while she slept. I was so afraid, I felt my soul leave my body. I started screaming and crying, grabbed her and ran together with my husband between medical service points to find medicine or disinfectants against infection and poisoning. But the military doesn’t even allow medicine and disinfectants into Gaza.”

Rana Qarmut, 22, describes the helplessness of parents in displacement camps trying to protect their children from the rodent infestation in Gaza.

Israel’s systematic destruction of the water and sewage infrastructure have turned these camps into a public health crisis: the extreme levels of garbage and open sewage flowing between the tents are an ideal breeding ground for rodents and pests.

According to Save the Children figures from April 2026, the tents in more than 80% of displacement camps have rats, fleas and ticks inside regularly. As summer temperatures rise, the combination of pollution, unhygienic conditions and a shattered healthcare system is leading to the spread of severe skin and intestinal diseases, and turning simple injuries into life-threatening conditions.

By blocking the entry of basic necessities for survival, including medicines and pesticides, Israel is perpetuating an environment in Gaza that is unfit for human habitation, deliberately leaving millions of displaced people exposed to epidemics.

The genocide in Gaza continues.

To read the full testimonies >> https://t.co/Uw8zS8TPqZ

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

We need four additional Justuces, stat. This us a democracy emergency.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

We know that the number of children receiving SNAP has fallen by more than 700,000 since H.R. 1 was enacted last summer because 12 state agencies publicly report the number of kids receiving benefits each month. That's not spin, it's just data.

https://t.co/GHJlzazTTM

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

Great point.

[Colin Baillio @colinbaillio]

High deductible health plans are a temporary bandaid on high health care premiums. But if you actually need care, they create real financial hardship for patients.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Trump promised to deport violent criminals and “the worst of the worst.” Instead, ICE is terrorizing law-abiding families, detaining an 18-year-old girl weeks from graduation, and denying basic medical care at Delaney Hall.

This brutality is NOT America.

#ShutDownDelaneyHall

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

Horrific that RFK jr has dramatically cut funding for this important area of research. Killer Kennedy.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A cancer vaccine, using the same core mRNA technology as the COVID vaccine, has shown an almost 50% reduction in the risk of melanoma recurrence or death when combined with immunotherapy.

This is why we fund MRNA technology.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

If taxing unrealized gains is somehow “unfair” for billionaires holding stock, then why are middle class homeowners hit every year with rising property taxes based on the unrealized value of their home?

Most people haven’t sold their house. They haven’t “realized” anything. Yet the tax bill keeps going up anyway.

[One Nation, Overcharged @1NationOvrchgd]

For far too long, unchecked healthcare corporations have put profits 💸 over our health 🩺. This summer, people are coming together to fight for a healthcare system that puts people first, and an end to skyrocketing healthcare costs. Are you with us?

[Forrest Miller 🎥🏆 @AlwaysFlacko]

Lost in the "Talarico has a lobbyist girlfriend and she's VEGAN" story is a detail that apparently Brianna Menard is descended from Michel Branamour Menard the Canadian Fur Trader who founded Galveston, Texas and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, who Menard County is named after lol

[Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @RepKamlagerDove]

Trump and Stephen Miller want half a million people who are here legally to leave the U.S. in order apply for a green card. This would rip apart families and sink our economy even further.

This was never about immigrants coming here "the right way." We must fight this.

[Hey Jo🤍 @joe_jo9]

Ken Paxton’s divorce trial begins June 24 at the Collin County Courthouse in McKinney and is open to the public.

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

Congress must stop this now

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

A U.S. citizen just testified before the Senate that ICE agents ignored his passport, detained him, placed him on suicide watch, and released him WITHOUT charges or explanation.

Read that again.

An AMERICAN CITIZEN says he showed agents his passport multiple times…

and still ended up locked in a cell under 24/7 lights, stripped naked, wearing a hospital gown while guards watched him constantly.

His family reportedly had no idea where he was.

Then after all of that?

No charges.
No explanation.
Just released.

[Stan Dorn @standorn]

Time for court reform, starting with adding 4 justices.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[One Nation, Overcharged @1NationOvrchgd]

Healthcare should be a right. Our system is wrong. One Nation, Overcharged is here! Together, we’re demanding a healthcare system that works for everyone. Are you with us? Join the fight to get healthcare right. 💪