Don’t get me started on how wasteful it is that hundreds or thousands of #patients can’t see a #doctor or #nurse because they are being forced to become direct care providers, because we are #deporting everyone willing to do that work.

As someone who has dedicated the last 3 years of my life caretaking for my dad, my aunt, my mom, and my stepdad, I can tell you that not only is it a full-time job, but far harder. The emotional toll it takes is completely beyond what I’ve had with any job. It breaks you. It just breaks you.

A good friend of mine with stage 4 cancer lost her Medicaid this year and it’s not okay. It will never be okay or normal to knowingly & willingly enable mass death. Make healthcare a human right!

I met someone recently who has to give up her practice as a #physician to become a full time caregiver for her frail elderly mother. Gonna go out on a limb and guess she isn’t watching TV 6 hours per day. My own #doctor cousin had to go part time and all virtual to care for parent dying of #cancer

I know it's employer insurance and the ACA enrollment period is slightly different, but our open enrollment period starts in, like, two weeks. We've already gotten notification about the period and that costs will be going up.

Chelsea White’s husband was kidnapped by ICE right in front of her at a traffic stop and was disappeared and deported to Mexico. Trump is separating families like hers.

Sean Duffy's boss is worth $7 billion. $1 billion of that would pay every single #ATC in the country ~$70,000, which could last them for almost a year.

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

I wonder if Wall Street has factored in the impact of Trump waging actual war on the cities where much of the AI is being developed? (Or for that matter, where much of any GDP is generated.)

Ok maybe I should give this guy’s music a chance now 😂 at least they booked a non-MAGA country singer at the #BigHouse

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

waiting for the videos of thousands of #undocumented #Irish #immigrants being zip-tied and chained up

I told my mom about one of the #Nobel winners being from Seattle and she asked “what was he researching?” Me: “correction, what was she researching, she’s a woman” And I am thankful for that at least right now, women are still allowed to be world changing #scientists

Love this story about one of today's Nobel winners, Mary Brunkow. (She and colleague Fred Ramsdell, working at Celltech (RIP), uncovered the role of Foxp3 in the development of Tregs.)

We have American #Nobel #medicine winners! From #Seattle and #SanFrancisco (along with #Japan), research on what causes #autoimmune diseases like what I have

While we were sleeping: A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon. That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

#Healthcare workers (whom Republicans don’t give less of a shit about) would appreciate it if ATCs stopped coming to work…soon. Like in the next week. We are having an emergency meeting next week because we will officially shut down #virtualcare, which is a lot of care in our largely #rural state

I don’t have a crystal ball, but I have a good idea how this shutdown ends. Trump and Republicans will cave (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave). Here’s why: Air traffic controllers.

#MusicChallenge #1Artist1Album1Song since we're talking 12th albums this week, and a #DetroitLions win 127/365 Stevie Wonder Signed, Sealed & Delivered (1970)

There's been debate about whether Jan 6 was stochastic terrorism - it wasn't. THIS is likely stochastic terrorism: a judge's house torched right after Stephen Miller ranted about "liberal judges" who blocked Trump's actions, said they "shielded terrorists". This is the result he wanted. 1/

This article presents a difficult #medical #ethics question: is it better to not have #ruralhospital at all, or to have one run by vultures: " the lone sterile technician on staff seemed to never leave the hospital, eliminated weekend housekeeping staff and short on basic supplies like IV tubing."

Trump going to be very angry he didn't get it for his Tylenol autism discovery.

Still Life with Dead Birds (and a Basket of Oysters), by Germain Ribot, 1860-80

So on top of our funding being cut because saying words like rape and women and queer and non white is woke And spouse's hours being cut because tariffs are killing factory jobs I just found out we might losing health insurance too

Another thing about watching the #Detroit #Lions - every single time they get a TD (which is a lot), they feature a prominent #Detroit area musician while playing replays...Eminem, Stevie Wonder Southeast #Michigan is a wealth of riches right now (also #Detroit has record low crime currently)

Also the coolest defense - enjoying all these #interceptions 😀

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

I was waiting for the video to post - work of art #Detroit #Lions

The only good news: the #Detroit #Lions are really fun to watch. As someone who only likes #college #football, the Lions feel more like a college team than NFL. They are creative and genuinely look like they have fun.

Trump administration to #doctors: you must work full-time for decades, even if you're exhausted and sleep-deprived (which leads to higher risk of error), but we'll throw you under bus for #systemic harms we're creating, oh and btw, only RFK Jr. can make decisions on all your #patients instead of you

This is from some months ago, but I just saw it now. I'll say, preventing qualified #immigrant #doctors from entering the #UnitedStates and forcing American doctors to practice "FULL TIME" for 15 years with a gun to their head is an...interesting strategy.

From "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door." To "If you're in the U.S without legal status, now is the time to leave."

I’m so angry and heartbroken reading this. Lots of moving pieces but I can’t ever shake the idea that elder Gen X to Boomers don’t understand the true cost of living these days. It only perpetuates the idea that people on the street are all unsafe and it could never be bc rent is too high 🤢

I hope my last thread convinced you - #hospitals and #emergency departments do not have room for this. The entire state of #Oregon has around 6400 staffed beds, as many as just 3 hospitals in #Michigan. Hospitals in urban areas (like a hospital in University of Oregon's city #Eugene) have shut down

So I have a lot of thoughts on this: 1) this young man died of #COVID19 - the pulmonary hemorrhage was likely due to significant vascular inflammation, well documented in literature. I'll be honest, I don't think being admitted would have changed his course and eventual death.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

These institutions will still be here after the Trump administration and can in fact weather a few years without federal money. But their reputations will not be intact if they cave to this sorry shit.

I continue to like woke #Chicago Pope

there's a picture of her with the front of her shirt just soaked in blood. imagine trying to crack an 84 year old woman's skull and body slamming an 84 year old vet leaning on a walker. is this the warrior ethos we've heard so much about?

#Timelinecleanse to close out the night

#MusicChallenge #1Artist1Album1Song 126/365 (as we got another e-mail about opening more #moonlighting shifts for #critical #hospital census) Lenny Kravitz 5 (1998)

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

So I looked up this story and the child in question is a Black girl. The amount of shit a Black girl has to experience from society even by age 13…she can handle it. (Very different judgment if it is a white boy, let’s be honest)

If #UCLA can beat #PennState, #Minnesota can beat #OhioState. Come on, let’s keep this #upset train running

Serious question, were there even any #UCLA students there to storm the field? 😂

UCLA winning just shows that in the B1G Ten, it just means the most.

only tiny silver lining of all the sh** going on in #federal #government - I got an absolutely ridiculous price for my 1 month stay in #WashingtonDC for the #APSA (American Political Science Association) #Congressional fellowship starting later this month - $110/night in #DupontCircle? Is this real?

I think there is an argument that it's easier for west coast schools to come out east than vice versa. That game went to almost midnight and #Oregon players probably didn't feel the fatigue since it was like 9 PM their time. That being said, #Michigan is gonna pummel #USC next week traveling west 😂