Mark Bloom

Mark Bloom

@mbloommd.bsky.social

Husband, Dad to two great kids, physician, managed care executive, pilot, and unabashed liberal.🏳️‍🌈✈️

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Trump is running our economy into the ditch, as he ran so many lives into their graves during Covid through his incompetence and criminal negligence, aided and abetted by all the Republican Congressmen and Senators who said and did nothing. Wake up fellow Americans, and vote them all out!

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NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

Nothing to see here, folks. Don’t expect any further investigation…

California Dreamin’… 😎@jerasikehorn.bsky.social

Republicans PUT A CRIMINAL in charge of their party… And now, we learn over 300 Trump Org. accounts were flagged, and closed for MONEY LAUNDERING. Are you SURPRISED?! 😎✨

Where are all the former heads of USAID, from both parties, sounding the alarm and pointing out the massive death toll resulting from the funding cuts? That might get the public’s attention. Come on folks, step up!

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Measles up. Explosive diarrhea worsening. Salmonella in millions of eggs Cancer research cut. Disease monitoring stopped. Vaccine efforts devastated. Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating. But Fauci.

An unhinged ignoramus of a president is causing havoc on our economy with his misadventures in the Middle East (not to mention the tragedy of lives lost). Every Republican in Congress who lets this go on unchecked should be held accountable.

These voters are beyond hope. Democrats need not bother trying to win their votes. The only approach is to reach out to the disengaged, earn their support, motivate them to vote.

Mark Bloom@mbloommd.bsky.social

Willful blindness

Sadly, this won’t get much press, but Americans should know the literal suffering and death this administration is causing across the world. Immoral.

Atul Gawande@agawande.bsky.social

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

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Courtney Wild was 14 when Epstein started abusing her. While she waited for justice, the feds were negotiating a deal with Epstein's lawyers behind closed doors. She found out years later through a legal fight. The emails showed the government wasn't protecting victims. It was protecting Epstein.

Sad for all the Spirit employees today. High fuel costs (thanks to the Iran war) was the final nail. Worst part—shouldn’t be in this war to begin with.

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Any Democrat who is not explicitly committed to restructuring the Supreme Court does not deserve your vote, will not get mine, and should be actively primaried and opposed. There must be 13 justices on the court by the end of 2029. It is the only way our democracy has a chance of surviving.

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Al Gore: “This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has. It’s shocking to me.”

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Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

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Dear Trump Voters, He lied to you. Gas is higher than Biden. Groceries higher than Biden. Healthcare higher than Biden. People losing rights and treated with no respect. WH ruined. Another war. America has alienated itself. You were told, but you wouldn’t listen. This screws all of us. Thanks!

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NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

What a travesty.

Jack Hopkins-The Original@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social

Flynn lies to the FBI, pleads guilty, flips, gets pardoned… then gets PAID over $1M by the same government he lied to? That’s not justice. That’s a payout for loyalty. And they’ll call this “accountability” with a straight face. (CNN)

We all know the childhood story of The Emperor Has No Clothes, yet here we are, with that story come to life, and we’re pretending it isn’t so.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social

Happy to see my friend & fellow Chicagoan @markjacob.bsky.social continuing to call out the press for its addiction to quick hits & 'trump says' stories "instead of telling the broader one about this guy being out of his mind." Read @atrupar.com's PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

What parallel universe are we in to be led by an incompetent such as this, where Republicans normalize it rather than do their patriotic duty to intervene and rid us of this blight on our country?

Mary L Trump@maryltrump.bsky.social

In 40 minutes, Donald said: the Strait of Hormuz isn't closed, but he wants it reopened; we’re not at war with Iran, but our allies are cowards for not helping; he wants a ceasefire, but he doesn’t want one. He also declared victory three times. Such clarity. Such leadership.

Let that sink in…

Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov

Trump’s pardons have forgiven $1.5 BILLION in criminal debts. That’s money that was owed to victims and the government. That number comes from the conservative Cato Institute, by the way.

As we bury our dead, watch the Middle East (and likely elsewhere) erupt in flames, see our pockets emptied by rising gas prices and tariffs, I think of all the Trump flags I saw flying and am reminded how misguided so many among us were, to inflict this on our country…shame on them.

An understatement….

Bryan@elwick70.bsky.social

OF COURSE Iran is fighting back! OF COURSE the conflict is spreading! What did they think would happen? The US is being run by half-wits…

A reminder (to me, anyway) that in the midst of all the man-made horrors being inflicted on us by this corrupt administration, Mother Nature gives us her beauty, and hope.

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The one thing that truly pisses me off about people who insists that they were justified in not voting for Kamala, is that they acted from the same selfish space as the people who voted for TACO, while the rest of us voted solely on what was best for EVERYONE!

As the depths of depravity catalogued in the Epstein files gradually comes into view, I wonder where was Merrick Garland and previous Atty Generals, who had this before them and chose to do nothing. Shame on them all.

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

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Ten countries have launched investigations related to the released Epstein files. Norway, UK, France, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Australia, North Macedinia, Turkey, Poland. Conspicuously absent is the United States, the epicenter of this scandal. We know why. …

Perfectly said

Andrea Junker@strandjunker.com

If you still support Trump and his administration, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party. I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity. I judge you for your support of pedophilia, racism, treason & fascism. So will others. So will history.

I’ve now seen statements from Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden? Where’s the one from President Bush? Come on, Sir, you still have a chance to put country over party. Get on the right side of history, and help fight the blight that is upon us.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social

Thank you, Mr. President.

If your Congressperson and Senators do not speak out against the atrocities happening in our country, and you vote to re-elect them, then you are complicit.