Maybe I imagined this, but I swear I heard that after The Late Show ends Colbert might reboot The Colbert Report so Jon Stewart can sign the satirical-news baton back to him. If that's not happening it probably should.

I just saw Nuremberg and it reminded me that we used to be a nation of ardent Nazi killers. Let’s make America great again.

You can’t make this shit up. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...

Voters who supported Trump don’t understand —and won’t for years— that they voted against their economic self-interest. David Welch’s “Politics and Propaganda in the Third Reich” explains how the Nazi’s did the same. I wrote about it here.

That's their playbook. It's disgusting, self-serving, and harmful to us all.

I published this editorial November 2017. Title: In the U.S. “Healthcare” Is Now Strictly a Business Term 1/

“egregious blight”

It’s so frustrating! Honestly, I try to find any other way than to deal with the insurance company. Often times, it’s @costplusdrugs.com if they have it. These companies bank on us not having the time to do this. This creates more physician burnout than anything else I think

Want a specific example of the death by a thousand cuts that is #PriorAuthorization? Here is an example from yesterday in clinic A short 🧵 I get a note in my inbox that a patient of mine was denied inhaled budesonide for their asthma 1/

Good read by @walkerbragman.bsky.social. Nobody likes their health insurance company. Health insurers have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, not policyholders, aka Americans. That's antithetical to any healthcare system.

Do we really want a liar and conspiracy theorist as our next head of HHS? Great 30-minute video. Please repost far and wide.

seems like they are not aware of, or think $2 trillion in budget cuts — historically known as economic “shock therapy” — will not affect their social security and Medicare (and maybe Medicaid) benefits? Elon told them it’s going to lead to some “hardship.”

“Let it burn. That’s what people wanted.” This common explanation is untrue and requires us to step back and see the bigger picture. You can’t fight what you don’t understand. I’ll use an example to prove my point. Watch this short video then come back to this 🧵. x.com/HeartlandSig... 1/

There is time to be silent & there is time to speak up. Sucking up to dictators will quickly turn the practice of medicine into Nazi-type medicine. Do academics recommend we stay silent, follow the orders & experiment on people just like German Medical Association did?

The other night in the emergency department, I saw a woman in her 30s who came in complaining of ongoing coughing. She explained that she had been diagnosed with pertussis (whooping cough) back in August and now wanted help managing her symptoms.

Trump’s return to the White House w Republican control of Congress may end Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. Nine states—Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia—have trigger laws to end their expansion if federal funding decreases.

Medical Science Under Dictatorship A warning by Dr. Leo Alexander chief medical advisor to the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuremberg, United States Zone of Germany, 1946-1947. restoringourheritage.com/articles/nej...

Our system fails patients regularly. I believe it’s due to corporations and private equity firms buying the majority of physician groups, especially recently. Their policies strip physicians of our autonomy, violate the AMA Code of Medical Ethics and Corporate Practice of Medicine state laws.

“…according to the message sent by Catherine Su, a radiation oncologist married to Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford professor of medicine leading the study. the study came under fire… it was based on a heavily flawed data analysis that ignored questions about the antibody test’s false positive rate”

Outside of the US our scientific colleagues see things a lot more clearly. It’s time to get our heads out of the sand. End/ www.bmj.com/content/387/...

RFK Jr. was a key figure in protests over California vaccine laws. He could set U.S. health policy in the Trump administration. cal.news/3Va2DSd 📝 Ana B. Ibarra

The Third Reich Politics and Propaganda by David Welch

My tweets from 2017 are currently being ported from Twitter to BlueSky. This is a great way to uncover buried gold from years past. Too bad nothing’s changed. No wait, it’s changed. It’s worse now.

People think emergency doctors can successfully intubate their unvaccinated, let’s say, 4 year-old, with vaccine preventable Hib induced epiglottis/critical airway. They’re wrong. That’s on the parent, not the doctor. Vaccinate your kids or face the consequences of harming your own child.

Have the American Medical Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians devised plans to safeguard doctors from parents who opt not to vaccinate their children? What are the psychological consequences for doctors when children die preventably under their care? What about legal?

“You, Elon, appear to believe you can act with impunity and are attempting to silence your critics. I’m not intimidated,” he added. Alexander Vindman is a true American hero. 🇺🇸

Thinking about this, it’s hard to believe that it’s been almost three years since I wrote this post on how far right the antivax movement has become. www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/01/28/w...

I would suggest searing this into your mind. Because this is what we’re living now. We must overcome this. It’s going to involve behavior that’s new, never tried, and thinking outside the box. No more status quo.

I wrote this in April 2020, during the first wave of the COVID pandemic in NYC. Weeks later, I volunteered at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY, in a COVID ICU. I’m now certain that America’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse. You should see what I see at work in the ER everyday.

Pulled this out of a patient. This is what a taser barb looks like.

This service is legit. It won’t migrate every post from Twitter to BlueSky, but it’s better than losing them all when you delete your Twitter account. 5 ⭐️ | would recommend

My friend @nicksawyermd.com has shared horror stories on this topic. Not okay. Healthcare workers are not punching bags. #medsky

Trump/Musk’s proposed $2 trillion domestic spending reduction, coupled with additional tax cuts for the wealthy, resembles economic “shock therapy” used during neoliberal reforms in Chile under Augusto Pinochet. It certainly caused “temporary hardship” for ordinary citizens.

They were and still are the medical establishment.

He started the the pandemic saying it was “dangerous” to call someone an idiot for minimizing Covid. Now he panders to his paying customers. More here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/lying/

It doesn’t even have to be a real life issue that actually happened. They only need enough people to believe it’s true. That’s what Sen. Ron Johnson told a lawyer arguing for criminal prosecutions based on the ridiculous idea that COVID vaccines cause AIDS. Watch the video: x.com/HeartlandSig...

I’m taking bets on the issue that will trigger Trump’s Kristallnacht 2025.

“We Want Them Infected” may be the most appalling and infuriating book you’ll read about America’s response to the pandemic. It’s also essential reading.

Now imagine the alternative universe where this man ran HHS. We'd be in such a better place. Peter Hotez is a national treasure.

As I wrote in this @medpagetoday.bsky.social perspective, doctors spreading medical disinformation want you to believe their assertions are matters of reasonable scientific debate. Some are, but many are not. That’s the entire point. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

These doctors advocate for violent retribution against vaccine advocates and those favoring COVID public health measures, particularly actual frontline physicians and nurses, based on a false reality they’ve created. @gorskon.bsky.social

Agreed. It’s institutional rot and is known to cause societal collapse. I wrote about it here.

“Dr. Vinay Prasad Says No Amnesty for the COVID Tyrants” “I mean, like if you want forgiveness, the first thing you have to say is what you actually did wrong, and they're still f***ing lying." Prasad is faculty at the prestigious medical school UCSF. What the f**k is he talking about?

This deserves our attention. There’s real discussion about removing the American Medical Association’s control over doctor payments, which would make incomes more equitable and encourage more future doctors to enter primary care. This is way past due. @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/3Zix1fK

This is an important Op Ed and worth your time. (Minor nit: I wish the headline writer would have eschewed the word 'punish' to 'hold doctors accountable.' My hindsight is of course 20/20). #medsky #misinformation

where do the parents of unvaccinated kids take them when they’re really sick? Not to RFK Jr’s house. They take them to see me. For me it’s personal.

Corporate and private equity executives, who promote healthcare as a profession of ethical values, exploit doctors and nurses’ compassion to maximize profit. Nurse Tristin Kate Smith, who committed suicide months before her death, named the healthcare system as her “abuser.” is.gd/2CiXIa

Baby Boomer physicians sold private practices to corporations and private equity firms rather than passing them down to younger doctors, as is customary. Then they called us lazy. They sold the professional practice of medicine when it was never theirs to sell. Even lawyers didn’t do this.

NEW on RFK Jr: In audio we uncovered from his radio show he read and praised a description of Trump and his supporters as "belligerent idiots," "outright Nazis," and "cowards" and "bootlickers." He also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler. www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/p...

This is not good. Read the entire paper, “Medical Science Under Dictatorship” by Dr Leo Alexander, chief medical advisor to the lead American prosecutor during the Nazi doctors trial in 1946-47. Alexander’s full article linked in the post below and here: restoringourheritage.com/articles/nej...