David Velasquez, MD
@davidevelasqu
Resident physician @BrighamWomens | fighting to make systems work for everyone l alum @USC ✌🏽@HarvardHBS @Kennedy_School @harvardmed | #firstgen
This is my mom. She was an asylum seeker. She slept in a church b/c she had nowhere else to go. She is a housekeeper & a waitress. She is my hero. These degrees are for her. Harvard Medical School, M.D. ✅ Harvard Business School, M.B.A. ✅ Harvard Kennedy School of Government,…
Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving.
People who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could soon see their monthly premiums sharply increase as subsidies expire and insurers propose a major premium hike for 2026. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
NEW GALLUP POLL: the pendulum has swung drastically since last year. 🟢 just 30% want immigration decreased (55% last year) 🟢 79% of Americans think immigration is GOOD for the country (record high) 🟢 Path to citizenship (78%) beats mass deportation (38%)
A quick 🧵on new immigration polling from @Gallup. Let's start with the bad news. More Americans want to see immigration reduced (55% -- highest figure since 2001). And this, despite the US contending with labor shortages & the lowest birthrates on record. 1/
1/n This is nonsense, the Covid death rates globally = a mirror image of where people weren’t getting vaccinated. Look at the next two attached figures
RFK Jr: "If you look at the studies that were done of the Pfizer vaccine… the people who got the vaccine had a 23% higher death rate from all causes at the end of that study."
My mother, who was an asylum seeker at the time this photo was taken, taught me how to walk at MacArthur Park. Today, that same park is filled with federal agents terrorizing the very community that raised me. The Trump administration wants you to believe this park is overrun…
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.
The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
Republicans just stripped healthcare from 17 million people. As a doctor, I know what that means: More times I'll have to look a patient in the eye and say, "I'm sorry, your insurance won't cover that." More frustration as diabetes or high blood pressure spirals because care was…
🚨HOUSE PASSES RECONCILIATION BILL, HEADS TO W.H. FOR TRUMP'S SIGNATURE VOTE WAS 218-214 GOP NO VOTES: FITZPATRICK MASSIE
I’ll never forgive this Administration for what they’ve done—and what they’re still doing—to the Latino community. If you’re Latino, you should be furious—and in 2026, 2028, 2030, and every election after that, vote out everyone who enabled this hate.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
Quick look at what inside a detainment tent looks like here at Alligator Alcatraz.
WOW. Senate Republicans voted to slash Medicaid for 12 MILLION people—the biggest healthcare cut in U.S. history. If the House passes this bill, millions will get sicker. The only thing sicker? The people who voted for it. Please call your House rep NOW to vote NO.
🚨SENATE PASSES RECONCILIATION 51-50, VANCE BREAKS THE TIE GOP NO VOTES: COLLINS TILLIS PAUL
How many people will lose health care in YOUR state under Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"? • Alabama – 219,803 • Alaska – 39,989 • Arizona – 365,984 • Arkansas – 158,745 • California – 2,368,466 • Colorado – 240,953 • Connecticut – 86,580 • Delaware – 54,957 • Florida –…
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort ow.ly/auRQ106cRf4
I mean who are we? Who have we become? Why isn’t everyone sick to their stomach about this?
Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…
Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - $4 trillion in deficits - $1 trillion in…
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows states to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. apnews.com/article/suprem…
Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions instead. "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along."…
the state of islamophobia in america is so fucking unchecked man. none of the shit you people are saying about zohran should be acceptable in civil society
This is UNACCEPTABLE AND INSANE.
Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States…
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.