Anirudh Kumar, MD, MPH @anirudhkumar01

LA-based Pulm fellow. Health systems, chronic lung dz outcomes, sustainable dev, biking/hiking. ultimate litmus test: how a society treats its vulnerable 🔑 Culver City, CA Joined March 2012

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Public Citizen @Public_Citizen

2 years ago

CEO-to-worker pay ratio at: Amazon: 6,474:1 Expedia: 2,897:1 McDonalds: 2,251:1 Coca Cola: 1,791:1 Bath & Body Works: 1,662:1 Apple: 1,447:1 Chipotle: 1,131:1 Norwegian Cruise Line: 1,018:1 Walmart: 1,013:1 See the problem?

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Nina Turner @ninaturner

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben

2 years ago

If we don't want our kids breathing wildfire smoke, then we need to stop burning fossil fuels. Let the sun burn for us: external combustion, at a good safe distance.

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Ben See @ClimateBen

2 years ago

Scientists: It's too late to save Arctic summer sea ice. We’ve been warning about the loss of Arctic summer sea ice for decades. This is now the first major component of the Earth system that we are going to lose because of global warming. People didn’t listen to our warnings. 🧵

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DougJBalloon @DougJBalloon

2 years ago

Mass shooters are the fastest growing demographic in American politics. Democrats need a strategy to win their votes.

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Hayden @the_transit_guy

2 years ago

Ten years ago, in its first week, Citibike recorded a total of 46,800 rides. Last week, the system marked a historic milestone, achieving 864,500 rides. It's almost like investing and expanding in bike infrastructure changes how people decide to move around!

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Livable Communities Initiative @LCI_LA

2 years ago

Editorial: Culver City, don't roll back your ambitious safe street redesign - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/b2b/business-v…

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid

2 years ago

USA the last 1 week: •Black teen shot for ringing a doorbell •Two teen girls shot for sitting in a car •20-year-old woman shot dead for turning into a driveway •Four young people shot dead at a birthday party Imagine thinking the solution is even MORE guns.😐 #GunReformNOW

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Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart

2 years ago

Rebuilding US public health will require reclaiming it from its biomedical perversions. It will also require investing in bottom-up community care systems that empower disabled and otherwise currently excluded groups to shape our health systems. statnews.com/2023/02/24/fix…

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Kelly Sheehan @kellyavl

2 years ago

The science is clear: our planet cannot handle any more fossil fuels. @POTUS’ decision to approve Alaska LNG, another massive fossil fuel project in the Arctic, is a complete betrayal to our people, planet and future generations. #NoLNG

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Caroline Park MD, MPH @CPark_MD

2 years ago

Wake up Sew Rinse Repeat Wake up before dawn Rinse your stomach with black coffee Pager: “gunshot wound” Rinse your hands with soap Sew the holes Sometimes it’s too late Rinse the blood off Anger Sadness Sleep Repeat

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Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart

2 years ago

Medical students, if the executives running your non-profit hospitals are paid millions while you learn in environments in which you're forced to deny people care based on their insurance/wealth status, you collectively possess power to do something about that contradiction.

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Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho

2 years ago

Happy #DoctorsDay! Thanks for the 🍕🌮🍪🍩, but next year could you: -Help us not get bullied by insurance companies @UHC -Stop slashing @CMSGov reimbursement rates -Make drastic social reform so #healthcare isn’t the dumping grounds for lack of food, shelter, transportation…

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David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111

2 years ago

I have not been this angry in a long fucking time. They were NINE YEARS OLD AND TEACHERS HAD TO DIE PROTECTING THEIR KIDS. BECAUSE OF REPUBLICAN COWARDS and NRA PUPPETS LIKE SENATOR BLACKBURN. If you aren’t livid you aren’t paying attention.

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ProPublica @propublica

2 years ago

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files. “We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @propublica & @Capitol_Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.” The inside story 🧵

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More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS

2 years ago

A recent study shows that if the top 1% paid the taxes they owe, it would generate $175 billion every year. Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says that amount could lift everyone below the poverty line up out of poverty. It's time to make the 1% pay. npr.org/sections/healt…

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Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart

2 years ago

Mass preventable death is endemic in the United States of America. It has been for decades. Accepting this is the cornerstone of US health policy that has a primary embedded function of preserving a for-profit health system irrespective of the human or financial costs it imposes.

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Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman

2 years ago

Cut off the bank financing of fossil fuel projects and you phase out the fossil fuel industry.

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Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg

2 years ago

Today, after yesterday's #IPCC report, everything is back to normal – as always. We continue to ignore the climate crisis as if nothing happened. Our societies are still in denial, and those in power go on with their never ending quests to maximise profits. We cannot afford this.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

2 years ago

The science is clear: We must have the guts to take on the fossil fuel industry or else the planet we will be leaving our kids and future generations will be increasingly uninhabitable. Now is the time for action.