If we don’t allow people the opportunity for redemption, there is less motivation for them to change. But their desire to change must be sincere, and the redemption earned. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/p...

I’ve been circling around this idea for awhile but didn’t have the skill to summarize what others have now done extremely eloquently: Proposing the concept of misinformation exposure as a social determinant of health. Read on if you’re interested.

Each time Trump deflects Epstein accusations, it only makes it clearer that Trump himself has raped children. Yes, the President of the United States is a child rapist. We can't expect to deal with it until we can say it plainly and aloud. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Each time Trump deflects Epstein accusations, it only makes it clearer that Trump himself has raped children. Yes, the President of the United States is a child rapist. We can't expect to deal with it until we can say it plainly and aloud. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fetterman had a “v fib flare up”?!? I think what they meant was he had a cardiac arrest & his ICD successfully shocked him. Ironically, a single ICD shock actually isn’t necessarily a huge deal that needs to be downplayed by his team - if that’s what happened. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point!

These two arguing about the proper conduct of science is like a pair of sewer rats arguing about French cooking techniques after finding a four day old soufflé in the dumpster

Young people today have more friends than any generation before them. They also report the highest levels of loneliness. How is that possible? Turns out the answer is fascinating and maybe a little depressing. 🧵

As part of our country’s post MAGA reconciliation, I’d love to see a federal holiday honoring immigrants. (Yes, there is currently a National Immigrants Day on Oct 28, but it gets virtually no recognition, and if the date was kept for a federal holiday it would prob be used for Halloween prep.)

This post is 5 years old, but feels just as relevant today.

Plenty of people are dunking on Trump for his claim that "No one knows what magnets are." Yes, it's very concerning he isn't aware that people can know things that he doesn't. But I'm even more concerned about how utterly incoherent he has become. www.tiktok.com/@independent...

PSA: Most people who present to the ER with syncope do not need an echocardiogram. In a patient w/o symptoms or signs of AS or HCM, an echo has a trivially low probability (< 0.2%) of identifying the etiology of syncope. Please stop ordering them! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19636031/

The irony here is that most New Yorkers would welcome the millionaires "fleeing" their city. www.youtube.com/shorts/aPIkE...

Absolutely right

Dems experienced victory and learned what they really love is losing

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

Absolutely sadistic. A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment. The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.

This one is pretty shocking, even if you're done being shocked: ICE arrested a guy during a raid outside a Home Depot. After putting him in one car, they drove off in his w/ his toddler in the back (a violation of policy; they need to call a SW). The punchline: 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Maybe the film addresses this, but Musk didn’t kill these people on his own. People in the administration empowered him, Trump most of all. And some 20 year old DOGE bros aided in this as well. These ~400,000 dead children are also on all of them, and the world should not let them forget it.

No disrespect to my home county of Bucks, but the SF Bay Area is clearly the “epicenter” of MAHA - if any place could claim that unenviable title.

Last night’s election results, in a nutshell. (watching this legitimately made me laugh out loud)

There are plenty of terrible people in the Trump administration, but Stephen Miller might be the only one I’d label as evil. newrepublic.com/post/202708/...

Shutting the fuck up for the next two decades would a superb start, Bill.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Attn Pennsylvania voters: A massive wave of texts is being sent from random numbers telling Democrats and Independents to vote “No” on the Supreme Court retention questions. These messages are fake and misleading, part of a coordinated disinformation push.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

If you’re seeing a surge of MAGA accounts commenting everywhere, take a closer look. Bot activity has spiked since Saturday evening the goal is to sway tomorrow’s elections. Click on their profiles and you’ll often find the same accounts posting identical comments across hundreds of posts.

I haven't seen any news stories about this until it showed up on Reddit tonight. This photo was reportedly taken in the Oval Office on Oct 21. Person holding the folder is James Blair, Trump's deputy chief of staff. Paper on top appears to be a plan for regime change in Columbia. (Text in ALT)

I don't believe research claiming horrific ill health effects by switching on and off to daylight savings time. Most adults shift their sleep-wake cycle by 1-2 hrs for 2 days every week without a 2nd thought. No one ever discusses the catastrophe of staying up late Fri night or sleeping in Sat AM.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Happy to have just voted yes on CA Prop 50 to fight unjust & undemocratic power grabs by Republicans.

If you write a book claiming to be about science and include an abundance of statistics, but don’t include references for them, you might as well have written a work of fiction. The more I read Casey Means’ book Good Energy, the more irritated I am becoming.

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

Pet peeve of mine: Please stop referring to people as a "Stanford-trained doctor" if they did med school at Stanford, but residency somewhere else (or did no residency at all).

In preparation for a new Strong Medicine video on Casey Means, I just started reading her 2024 book on “metabolism and health”. I’m still in the introduction, and I’m already irritated at how bad it is. A minor point: Making your readers go to your personal website to see the references is absurd.

Police just standing there watching a state-sanctioned kidnapping. 🤬

Utah is planning to build a literal concentration camp for homeless individuals. www.commondreams.org/news/utah-ho...

This is from the genius who repeatedly pronounced AI as "A one"...at an annual conference on education and AI. Thanks Linda, but California doesn't need to model its educational standards after Alabama.

To the surprise of absolutely no one. www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

I saw “Tylenol lawsuit” trending and thought Tylenol would be the ones suing. Silly me, not thinking of the stupider option

Since one of Ronald Reagan's former speeches about tariffs has been in the news this past week, I was reminded of an excerpt from another of his speeches that I think Trump and his Nazi lapdog Miller would object to even more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8JS...

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

An MRI of the brain is not a screening test. No doctor orders one without suspicion of pathology. This is not a case of someone getting unusually thorough care just because he's the president. This is someone whose doctors are suspecting neuropathology, and the White House is not being forthcoming.

This man is utterly disgusting. This is who shepherded Trump’s judicial nominees through confirmation. That should tell you A LOT.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Powerful anti-vaccine advocates and people selling potentially harmful goods such as raw milk are benefitting – financially and otherwise – from the push to write anti-science policies into law across the U.S.

Amazing that just mere weeks ago, Republican governors were so concerned about the health of SNAP recipients that they staged photo ops when they banned the use of SNAP for purchasing soda. Now apparently they think SNAP recipients shouldn’t even be able to buy food at all. MAGA!

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

I was just reminded of this old video on how I think medicine's partitioning of the human body into 11 discrete organ systems is anachronistic and contributes to misunderstanding of pathophysiology & misdiagnosis of diseases that fall into the cracks between systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSe...