Cheryl Phillips, MD 🇺🇦 Слава Україні

@AP Why fly SWA? The fares are often higher than the legacy airlines, delays are common, few long haul flights. They are great as a replacement for a Grayhound Bus, but I'll most likely pass now.

Southwest Airlines breaks with another tradition and plans to charge a fee to check bags apnews.com/article/southw…

What's up at BWI? Is the entire airport without power, or just the gate where I'm waiting to depart? What a way to run an airport.

I will stay here a while - just figuring out bluesky. But follow me at @phillic.bsky.social. if I had a tesla, I would sell it.

The world’s richest man who no one elected just walked into the US Treasury, stole your Social Security number, and Trump let him. You deserve to know why this is happening - call your member of Congress and Senators (202) 224-3121 and ask why.

President Elon Musk and DOGE are reportedly also looking at ways to get rid of the FDIC. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protects bank deposits up to $250,000 per account, ensuring customers don’t lose their money if a bank fails. But sure, let’s ditch the FDIC—because bank runs and financial ruin sound like fun! Who needs deposit insurance when we can just cross our fingers and hope our life savings don’t vanish overnight? Nothing says “economic stability” like a full-blown financial apocalypse. 🙄

@chronicallybeee @wonderartsy Damn, we even learned that from old movies..the English heroine coughs up blood, in the next scene she's dead from TB. Our collective brains have turned to musj

before 2020, healthcare workers knew that when a patient is coughing up blood, you put a respirator on

I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below: newrepublic.com/article/191014…

Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including their Social Security numbers and banking information. We should all be asking why he wants it. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

If you end the Veterans Suicide Prevention program you support Veterans dying by suicide. Donald Trump supports Veteran suicide. Call it what it is.

Democrats should not vote on a single Trump cabinet nominee until this federal assistance freeze is rescinded. Do not let up.

Trump just issued a memo across the federal government ordering a pause to all grants and loans dispersed by the federal government: documentcloud.org/documents/2550… While it exempts Medicare and Social Security, it does NOT exempt Medicaid as a footnote stipulates that the reference to pausing federal assistance “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.” Federal Medicaid dollars flow to states, not individuals, so Medicaid dollars are at risk. With the federal government paying more than $500B of the $800B spent on Medicaid and with Medicaid comprising about 1/3 of state budgets, states (especially red ones), stand to lose an ENORMOUS percent of their funding starting 5p TODAY: kff.org/medicaid/state… Whether you receive Medicaid or not, this will affect almost every citizen badly. Please contact your congress member ASAP to demand they stop Trump from this grossly illegal, unethical, and universally bad action: congress.gov/members/find-y…

@thehill @Zac_Petkanas It already is impacting individuals. Lies don't camouflage reality.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the federal spending freeze will not impact individuals. Follow along for live updates: trib.al/mbE5Glf

Kennedy’s confirmation hearing is tomorrow—Send letters to your Senators now to oppose him! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…

Where are the patriots who say they "care about veterans"?

Please take a minute to watch this powerful closing message from @Acosta: "It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant…don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth…and hope."

This kind of reactionary and reckless action does not "make America great" by any measure. science.org/content/articl…

🛑JUST CANCELLED—Trump HHS has just cancelled key meetings of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) & CDC’s Environmental Public Health Threats meeting—➡️all because of Trump WH’s new blackout of all HHS external comms. My god.

In '61, John F. Kennedy was Inaugurated on the Capitol steps, in windchills of 7 degrees. It was almost as cold for Obama in '09. In fairness, Trump IS more than 3 decades older than JFK & Obama were. Or did he just fear small crowds?

@geri_doc Agreed. And being "bicoastal", I often struggle at both ends. But the 7:30 am East Coast meetings are the worst!

Gentle message to my East Coast friends scheduling zoom meetings with us West Coasters If you are not willing to consider times after 5pm eastern, please don't suggest times before 8am pacific.

@MaskBlocLA Wow..just donated. Great work!

Between ~1am on January 8 and now, ~6:50pm on January 10, MaskBlocLA has distributed over TEN THOUSAND masks. This could not have happened without help, both on the ground & from afar via donations. We are still in active crisis response mode; more specific updates as available.