Eric Feigl-Ding

22 Dec 2024

Folks, this is a great group of folks who fight for social justice, public health, and a more fair & equal world. Highly recommend these folks. go.bsky.app/4dXVNkw

14 July

DISGUSTING—META used AI software to identify workers with medical conditions for layoffs. 26 former employees have ‌filed ⁠a ⁠lawsuit accusing META of using AI targeted ⁠people with disabilities, or who took ⁠medical leave, ⁠in selecting people for mass layoffs.

19 May

How it started: “Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months." How it’s going 16 months later:

12 May

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

nytimes.comF.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe

5 May

🛑FDA officials have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles, HHS confirmed. Gift🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.3_7D.zhKWilYsjCzs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

5 May

2) The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds, were conducted by scientists at the agency, who worked with data firms to analyze millions of patient records. They found serious side effects to be very rare.

5 May

3) In October, scientists were directed to withdraw two Covid-19 vaccine studies that had been accepted for publication in medical journals. In February, top F.D.A. officials did not sign off on submitting abstracts about studies of Shingrix, a shingles vaccine, to a major drug safety conference.

29 Apr

Welp, we ain’t getting real scientific guidelines for a while.

washingtonpost.comAnnual flu vaccine no longer required for U.S. military, Hegseth saysThe move alarmed some public health experts, who warned that it would weaken troop readiness.

21 Apr

NOT SO FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

19 Apr

Medical research is being decimated. It’s has flatlined and now half of 2025 and 1/3 of 2015-2024 average. Future generations will suffer dearly because of delayed and missing treatments and cures. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

cnbc.comAI agents could easily send college grad unemployment over 30%, ServiceNow CEO saysTechnology companies, including Block and Atlassian, have already cut jobs this year due to AI adoption.

18 Apr

AI agents could easily send college grad unemployment over 30%, ServiceNow CEO says www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...

cidrap.umn.eduStudy links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

18 Apr

BAD GRADES & POOR ATTENTION SPAN: School-aged children with long COVID had more than double the risk of decreased academic performance. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...

14 Apr

Beef prices continue to sizzle. Summer BBQ cookouts are going to feel the heat.

14 Apr

DAMAGE FROM RFK Jr—Almost half of adults think the science on vaccines remains up for debate. Trump voters especially feel that way. MAGA and MAHA is hurting their own base. 🔗 politi.co/4cbCPOM

14 Apr

Vaccination rates for measles and polio in kindergarten children, by Red vs Blue states. Anti-vax rhetoric is endangering children. RFK Jr’s “MAHA” is endangering our future generations.

nebraskapublicmedia.orgSoon after massive honeybee deaths, Trump moves to close the nation's premier bee labWhen beekeepers saw widespread honeybee die-offs last year, researchers at the USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center stepped in to help. The Trump administration now plans to close the facility...

7 Apr

What the hell—Despite suddenly losing 1.6 million bee colonies to a mass die off in the U.S. in a year, Trump WH is instead planning to close the USDA’s premier bee 🐝laboratory, worrying beekeepers, scientists and farmers. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

31 Mar

Jesus—Trump now advocates for piracy to steal jet fuel—“Goto the Strait (of Hormuz), and just TAKE IT” 🛢️.

31 Mar

📉HIRING RECESSION has officially begun. The fear is if we suddenly transition into a recession with heavy firing, not just stalled hiring. I think the data for March will be brutal once they come out in late April (since we only see jobs data as they were over a month ago)

27 Mar

Brutal. S&P 500 has lost -$4.8 TRILLION in market cap since US/Israel started bombing Iran one month ago. Tech stocks further collapsed 8-15% today alone. Recovery to this will likely be slow & bumpy—likely worse than March 2020 stock market collapse. But this one was Trump-made.

16 Mar

We are destroying our future and our children’s futures. Funding medical research and should be one of the highest priorities of our generation. Yet we are decimating and dismantling it all while diseases keep rising.

16 Mar

2) the slashing of medical research is so epically bad. Grant opportunities down 91% this federal fiscal year.

16 Mar

Measles outbreak heat map… gosh what could it be?

13 Mar

The nuclear winter and decimation of medical research in America. Murdered by RFK Jr and Trump regime. Next time you/your family suffers an illness, remember who killed our future cures and preventions. Never forget.

12 Mar

It’s funny cuz it’s true.

12 Mar

Dear MAGA—Trump now tells you that higher oil and gas prices is a good thing for you. You’ve been conned.

6 Mar

WELP—The Federal Reserve bank of Atlanta just downgraded the GDP estimate for Q1 by a ***full -1%*** from 3.2% to 2.1% overnight.

5 Mar

THANK TRUMP—Gasoline ⛽️ prices spiking because of Persian Gulf War 3rd Edition. The last time there was a gas price surge this sharp was March 2022, at the start of the Russia/Ukraine war.

newrepublic.comKash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s WarThey were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

4 Mar

Welp—Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War. They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. 🤦🏻‍♂️ newrepublic.com/post/207263/kash-patel-fired-iran-experts-donald-trump-war

27 Feb

Study finds 93% of U.S. jobs can now be performed at least partially by AI. 📍According to the report, the top six most-impacted jobs by percentage of tasks that can be done by AI are: www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/02/25/report-jobs-that-are-most-and-least-impacted-by-ai

axios.comHegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight"The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now."

24 Feb

DELETING AI SAFEGUARDS—SecWar Hegseth: ‘Give the Pentagon the complete power to make Claude AI 🤖 do mass surveillance & kill without human approval, or we else will blacklist you, Anthropic.’ Are we just begging for Skynet takeover, à la the Terminator? www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...

24 Feb

10% TARIFF NOT 15%— Reuters reports that U.S. imposed a new tariff from Tuesday of 10% on all goods not covered by exemptions, the rate first announced by President Donald Trump on Friday rather than the 15% he promised a day later. Did Trump chicken out again?

21 Feb

BREAKING—ANOTHER 15% TARIFF—Trump just announced a new global tariff rate increase from 10% to 15%, following what he called a flawed and “anti-American” SCOTUS decision. Also promises more tariffs in coming months. Buckle up.

wapo.stAfter leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate itHHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

19 Feb

After pulling out of WHO, the Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the pandemic systems of the WHO, and that we dismantled with USAID—at 3 times the cost it paid WHO. We live in the dumbest timeline. Gift 🎁 link 🔗 wapo.st/4tKRwyM

9 Feb

🔻JOBS DISAPPEAR AT FASTEST JANUARY PACE SINCE GREAT RECESSION—The 108,435 job cuts last month represented a 118% jump from the same period last year and the most in any January since 2009, when the U.S. was reeling from the Great Recession triggered by a housing market.

9 Feb

Whisper: DOJ wrote an official letter declaring that Jeffrey Epstein died in jail… a day before Epstein was actually found dead in a federal jail. Who was President then in 2019? Trump. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

💰💰💰READ: Big Pharma lobbyists & a simping Trump WH collude to keep your Ozempic 💊 prices up. Cheaper semaglutide ***blocked in < 2 days*** by Trump FDA that bends the knee for pharma.

2) Shocking how TrumpRx doesn’t actually help the poor. Just helps Pharma keep prices up. bsky.app/profile/drer...

Eric Feigl-Ding@drericding.bsky.social

📈TrumpRx price for acid reflux drug Protonix💊= $200, with no generic options offered. Generic version of this common acid reflux pantoprazole drug at Walmart and Safeway= just $10-12. Price inflation => 18x. Don’t fall for the scam.

NOPE not cheaper—it even touts inflated prices to make it look like a discount when it’s not really. bsky.app/profile/drer...

Eric Feigl-Ding@drericding.bsky.social

💊NOT CHEAPER—TrumpRx claims he cuts prices on the “fat shot” (GLP-1) drugs—but not only is Zepbound cheaper directly from pharma’s website than on TrumpRx—but TrumpRx’s list price is higher! Furthermore, TrumpRx retail price is artificially inflated (akin to inflated Macy’s $).

WHERE ARE THE DAMN EPIPENs??? TRUMP RX CARRIES ZERO EPIPENs. I don’t wanna hear about any new drug website if they don’t carry cheap EpiPen. Millions of people need it, and need it to be cheap.

What a waste of a website. Utterly useless. bsky.app/profile/drer...

Eric Feigl-Ding@drericding.bsky.social

3) even GLP-1 drugs no cheaper. bsky.app/profile/drer...

Eric Feigl-Ding@drericding.bsky.social

This TrumpRx website is a sick joke for anyone who needs these meds bsky.app/profile/drer...

Eric Feigl-Ding@drericding.bsky.social

4 Feb

Democracy dies in darkness… when Jeff Bezos lays off 1/3rd of all @washingtonpost.com employees.

nytimes.comWashington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists

4 Feb

2) Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists The layoffs will cut into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage, and reduce the number of all its employees by about 30 percent. Gift link… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...