RIP Tatiana Sclossberg

merry christmas to all, and to all a good night, except for the ghouls who cut tiny tim’s medicaid

Astute thread about current Black Sea situation, very worth your time:

A great solution to a problem that ALL OTHER CIVILIZED NATIONS HAVE ALREADY MANAGED TO ADDRESS

Posobiec trying to drum up enthusiasm for dehumanization and genocide down at Cipriani in Manhattan with a tepid bunch of racists in attendance

Make Hep B Great Again!

#MedSky why are at least half the posts pushing AI on #Medsky? It feels like coordinated messaging. (All these posts are coming from orgs or institutions, not individuals.) Anyone else notice this

A Battle with My Blood This is a cancer memoir by Tatiana Schlossberg, a talented Kennedy who is dying in NYC. It will stop you in your tracks. She fights her brave fight at the same time her uncle dismantles health research in the US, including the projects that could possibly have cured her

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Comedian Godfrey having a laugh with some of the troops in DC. 🤣

Just finished this great “CYA” satire by @alexzfinley.bsky.social Highly recommended!! On to number three in the series

This is Fascism

@glaucomflecken.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/TA2rG... #Medsky

Happy Sunday. Hopefully this might help someone!

A functional CDC would have detected the outbreak of botulism at Mar-a-Lago.

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

Read this guy as a teenager, made a huge impression on me.

This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

This is nuts, a $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually *Quickly checks show of hands at the unit, anyone got $5K?, No one? Ok cool cool I’ll let them know*

I’ve read my Hannah Arendt. Monday was my last day as senior partner in my practice. I’m walking away from it all. I put my stuff in a shipping container to the EU where GPs are welcome. It’s a huge pay cut. I spent 25 years building my practice. I’m sorry. Too old for this shit. Bye

My prized FDA is being sold for parts

@keristars.bsky.social Hi dear is your site down? It’s the thing I turn to for peace in these upsetting times and it won’t load

My sister the Ojai artist

So how do you think the men who served think reading these comments. What do the children of those who fell or whose fathers lost a leg or were permanently disabled think? What do the people in the countries that sent troops think? What will today's political leaders think if they, like me 4/9

Estonians were among the first to go in. They were mainly stationed at Forward Operating Base Wahid, 30 km inside Taliban territory. You could only get there via helicopter flying fast at low altitude. I visited them when I was in office in December 2010. I'm the one with the white shirt 3/9

🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n

I'll bang this up again. If you haven't seen it, it's worth nine minutes of your time. It's one of the most remarkable ... "things" I've ever seen. I can't just call it a song, it's more than that. Anyway, it's a chuffing great piece of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_nc...

I took the liberty of creating an alternative cover for the report, with my co-author as a hussar of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth and yrs truly as an Estonian peasant from Halliste Parish in South Estonia, standing on the cliffs on the Gulf of Estonia/ (or Finland). @kaikaarelson.bsky.social

Amazing short movie that explains how germ theory civilized the planet and made us less brutal as a species

A very important thread about fascism, science, and New Jersey

Do any physicians or NPs feel this way about having to document a “comprehensive review of systems” on every note? Does the constant dishonesty of pretending we did it cause moral injury? If we don’t lie about it insurers refuse payment

You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225. “This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author. “Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social

Trumpism attempts to create an autism registry should be viewed through this historical lens

This, by Tom Nichols, @radiofreetom.bsky.social is exceptionally good: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If you’re an alumna/alumnus of any school at Columbia, please read this and sign if you support academic freedom at our university — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Columbia College, ‘76 In case you want to sign: www.columbiaalumniforacademicfreedom.org

Read this 1941 Harper’s piece by the inimitable Dorothy Thompson and tell me where she got her crystal ball for “Mr. D” harpers.org/archive/1941...

Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in the country's capital Lima, surrounded by his family. He was 89 reut.rs/3EndXFx

every one of these deregulated markets guys is a regulated market guy who hasn’t been punched in the face yet

PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

"I understand many of you aren’t familiar with dignified transfers and why what Trump has done here is so disgusting and unbecoming and insulting to the memories of these soldiers... so, I'll explain." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-pick...