health

The New Yorker

Since Trump returned to office his Administration has fired or muzzled government scientists with disfavored views on nutrition and climate change; cancelled funding for long-running surveys on food insecurity and global health; dismissed independent committees focussed on air pollution, health-care disparities, and hospital infections; and pulled support for research into vaccines.

The list of things that has devastating real world impact on millions of real Americans goes on and on and on and on. And for what?

The New Yorker

Maybe my brain is replaying my life now because I have a terminal diagnosis, and all these memories will be lost. Maybe it’s because I don’t have much time to make new ones, and some part of me is sifting through the sands.

A pretty devastating personal reflection on leukemia from Tatiana Schlossberg—and how her cousin, RFK Jr. is decimating the healthcare system and pulling funding for research into many of the drugs she has or could’ve used during her fight with cancer.