Todd Porter MD MSPH
@smalltownpeddoc
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Community Pediatrician in small town. Special interests in literacy/dyslexia and injury prevention
Illinois, USA
Joined January 2022
Amazing night at #jeffcokidsfirst annual Gala getting to meet the ��@Riley_Gaines_ & celebrating the amazing advocacy work being done to protect our children. Thank you @ldatko for being the heart and soul of this group. Riley did not disappoint!👏💪.
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Tell school board members to make sure the materials they adopt have proof of working, before they adopt them. Normalize that.
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Listening now to the Supreme Court arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Oh wait, they’re arguing about whether a 240 lb. guy can knock out a 90 lb. high school girl on the soccer field and then shower with her later. We’ve advanced since Medieval times.
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My most-read piece of 2025 is the most important thing I wrote, for sure. And proof that a little alliteration goes a long way. I’ve been pleased to give the Southern Surge its name and its rightful place in the national conversation. The incredibly high reader stats for a
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Teachers whisper it in lounges. Principals admit it behind closed doors. Kids aren’t being taught to read! When districts ignore the science of reading, parents become the accountability. Sometimes lawsuits are the only answer! 🎧 Full podcast: https://t.co/xq9WApkMIN
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Thank you for a great year of advocacy! In 2025 we: ✅Helped pass bills requiring - Literacy PDs to align with the literacy plan - Districts to report what early literacy screeners they use and how ✅Helped get $1.5M for literacy & numeracy Here's to even more wins in 2026 🥳
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We excused educators because colleges failed them. That excuse ended the moment the science of reading proved most effective. There are no barriers now—SoR resources are free. Excuses are harmful. Kids are being traumatized, pushed into prison pipelines, and destroyed mentally
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Hey @nickshirleyy - come to Illinois!
🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL
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MN Rep. Ilhan Omar's net worth: 2019: -$45,000 2025: $30 million Congressional salary: $174k
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Many of us warned against shutting down the world, especially those of us who could see the damaging effects on children. Unfortunately, we were ignored by our Infectious Disease colleagues who were running the show.
Still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that only one out of 36,000 placebo-treated subjects in the two pivotal modRNA trials died from covid over median 3 months in the midst of a “once-in-a-century” pandemic. I missed this entirely at the time, blinded by the headline RRR.
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“When the entire rationale for a universal medical intervention rests on a claimed benefit to public health, but the data show that benefit to be minimal to nonexistent, the central question becomes unavoidable”
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Discussion at ACIP exposed how directive to vaccinate infants rested on assumptions and partial data rather than on a scientific foundation.
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I saw someone post incredulity at the new FDA's stance, saying these are doctors, they have a science background, they MUST know what they are doing and the darkness they are inducing. As a scientist, I'd like to offer my perspective. It's simple confirmation bias and a broken
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My patients. A remarkable family. Praying for access to a cure. Quincy family determined and hopeful in face of children’s battle with Sanfilippo Syndrome
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QUINCY – The Kempf family had a happy life. Their daughter, Poppy, was a vibrant and intelligent child. Besides the occasional ear infection, she was a completely normal child. It wasn’t until her...
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Let me tell you about the last straw for me in Minnesota. It wasn't the taxes or crime. It wasn't the fact that our city burned or was locked down or even that we have the dumbest governor. It was this: Six months ago, a whistleblower contacted me to talk about fraud in MN.🧵
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If you take away the rhetoric of people seeing everything the President does through an “F Trump” filter, at his core, here is what he’s actually trying to do: -Stop poison that has killed 100,000 Americans a year from coming into this country - Securing the border and removing
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Unfortunate misinformation from an Eye MD who has 0️⃣ experience in treating kids with ADHD. I admired you during COVID but your uneducated comments on risk/benefit of stimulants for ADHD are unfounded and reckless. Stay in your lane please. @houmanhemmati
I joined @MikeEmanuelFox this morning on @FoxNews to discuss the major advances in cancer prevention, detection & targeted treatment that have improved outcomes AND the public health catastrophe of pushing ADHD and other meds on kids as young as 3! I hope @DrMakaryFDA
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Anything short of this, and America is doomed. Thank God for President Trump.
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NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen. The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8. They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and
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After 40 days as a consistent voice against shutting our government down, I voted YES for the 15th time to REOPEN. I’m sorry to our military, SNAP recipients, gov workers, and Capitol Police who haven’t been paid in weeks. It should’ve never come to this. This was a failure.
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@JohnArnoldFndtn Well, Illinois is lowering the standards and pretending everything is okay when it’s not. UNACCEPTABLE https://t.co/p93ATzknp9
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