My incarcerated patient used someone else’s minutes to check on me. “You was crying on Monday and that got me fucked up. In 5 years I ain’t never heard you cry. You good?” I’m good bud. Play chess, breathe the fresh air in the yard, plan your “when I’m out” life. That will always bring me peace.

Part of what sucks about the Grifterceutical & Trump Anti-Science Administration is that I can’t just ignore it. I serve communities with deep, justified mistrust of the medical establishment. Which means I have to be on my A game to answer my patient’s questions & concerns about this shit.

Back out this afternoon in D.C. for our communities! Medic groups BOLO for patients exhibiting signs of URIs. COVID is surging and flu season kicks off soon but Ohio has already seen 20 pertussis cases and we see measles outbreaks spreading from TX to Canada.

In the interest of reducing lives lost I would like to remind Kash Patel SPECIFICALLY that I labored for 4 FUCKING DAYS to bring my son in this world. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, I ate ice chips to numb the pain AND I’D DO IT AGAIN. DO YOU THINK I WILL ALLOW ANYONE TO TOUCH A HAIR ON HIS HEAD?!

shout out to the brilliant men of infosec who were dead convinced that I worked for the CIA because I “came out of nowhere” with skills so I must have been trained by an elite unit, which was obviously a much more logical explanation than those people paying no attention to devops or the Midwest

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✅ Vital records scanned to pdf & on a USB ✅ Paper documents & passports in fireproof bag IYKYK. Be safe and stay dangerous my loves 💜

Given that the US is buying extremely invasive spyware from Israel, it’s kind of dumb as fuck to go compiling lists for them

Don’t. You. Fucking. Dare. Absolutely not and @indivisible.org needs their heads checked. Sweet Baby Jesus and the Grown One too, have y’all lost your absolute minds???

Not gonna lie when my incarcerated patient gets his 15 minute phone call with me 2x a month it makes my day to see the prison number pop up. He gets 20 phone calls a month and *I’M* one of them 🥹🥹🥹 People show you your worth in entirely unexpected ways 💜

The phrase “3-5 Business Days” is never gonna hit the same after the Nepali reformed an entire government in that time.

Relieving a firefighter and EMT for posting “I ain’t sorry he’s gone” while EMS collapses around the country is certainly a choice I hope sticks in the collective memory when it comes time for Truth & Reconciliation.

I was really fortunate to be able to take a graduate class in History of Medicine and it added so much to my education and how I approach similar issues with different tactics. Give Sara’s work a read (link in OP) bc sometimes it can be hard to fathom what the world looked like before vaccines 💜

I SWEAR I DO NOT JUST MAKE SHIT UP

So I have the link to this video in our Community Training handout and people LOVE IT. One of the funniest, most earnest comments after watching it was “This n**** better than Google” but it’s true! Keep educating. It’s working 🔥🔥🔥

Pretty sure??? Babe I earned my place on all of em 😈

I do not argue with people who should’ve been swallowed at the haploid stage.

No I don’t support all women, some of you heauxs are politically active transphobes and fuck y’all.

Oooooh I could spend days on this subject right here. I’ve spent time in courts as a community medic with parents & kids going thru CPS/foster care/Juvenile Court and my GOD the way these experts act like literal children are fodder for CSI: Child Psychology is disgusting.

So many ppl in this administration have never even heard of Christmas Day 1989 and it shows. Power is ephemeral. It is fleeting and it is fickle. One day you have the power of life, death, and freedom over nearly everyone you encounter & the next day it’s just you & 2 security guards in a field.

Ah yes the bi-weekly humiliation ritual of going to Wegman’s and standing at the checkout only to have USAA flag my groceries as fraud and lock my card for 72 hours. Every. 2. Weeks. I call and ask them to fix it every time. They tell me sorry and put me on hold for an hour. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I NOMINATE @lookitup.baby!!! Just…what an ICON. A LEGEND who doesn’t know it. Did You know they led a fundraiser that opened a completely free community clinic for an entire neighborhood? And ANOTHER fundraiser every year for 4 years to provide portapotties for volunteers & visitors?

Just FYI- it was SO FUCKING CUTE 🥹🥹🥹

There is zero empirical or causative evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy is related to autism in any way. That “study” being quoted is from a single PhD at Duke who used his own “research” company to publish a garbled mess of data and staggeringly fraudulent science.

Unless you know me IRL or very well do NOT come at ME with this fuckass energy. Ever.

Urging everyone to get their seasonal vaccines and boosters EVEN IF YOU LIVE IN A BLUE STATE. Check your county’s department of health for vaccine clinics & low or no cost options. None of these policies are islands unto themselves and microbes do not respect borders.

Chat there’s no way to say this gently- Florida’s vaccine policy is going to result in mass disabling and death. I have stressed, over and over, from a background in microbial genetics & as a medic that MEASLES scares the shit out of me. More so than Ebola or Naegleria etc.

There’s a reason I back @unicornriot.bsky.social with my whole being. They were my first introduction to independent journalism and what it looks like to risk everything to tell someone’s truth. If you’re looking for independent media to follow and support they are incredible.

It really is a special place. One of my favorite I've ever been to. This is very sad.

Man my heart breaks for Lisbon today. 15 people dead in a funicular crash. I LOVE Portugal and its people. Being there reminds me every time that life is to be LIVED not endured and that kindness and community can shape reality. I’ll try to post any verified fundraisers or requests from family 💜

Loving but STERN reminder that “dark humor” and abuse/intolerance are 2 independent circles with zero overlap in healthcare. Dark humor NEVER comes at the patient’s expense. It doesn’t re-victimize the people who come to us for help and it sure as FUCK does not include slurs. Don’t test me on this

When it DOES happen I want Sofa Superstore and Ashley Furniture to be ready to distract the Faux-hio Couch Fucker while we get shit done. I hear he prefers corduroy and overstuffed cushions.

No lie I have lived, worked, & spent time all over the world and Minneapolis remains the Home I chose. Maryland is beautiful & growing up in TX & Mexico was a life I wouldn’t trade for anything but Minneapolis… Minneapolis became part of my soul 💜

Longtime NYC Rep. Jerry Nadler tells the NYT he's retiring. “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Mr. Nadler said, adding that a younger successor “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”

Me currently residing at the genetic intersection of ADHD and Big Booty realizing I’ve been set up to fail by my own DNA 😭😭😭 🍑🪑

Ladies and Theydies- your friend group should have at least one 304. She ain’t gotta be active duty anymore, reserve & retired are just fine but we are losing recipes and reproductive healthcare at the same time. Your retired Baddie with a stable relationship will STILL know how to prevent a UTI…

“Low functioning GenX” is an absolute BAR and READ at the same time 🔥

My best days as a community medic have almost nothing to do with tourniquets or 12-leads. When it all overwhelms me bc I AM HUMAN TOO my brain replays the hugs. It puts the locked-eyes & box breathing moments on loop. It reminds me over and over that my best days are all about Y’ALL 💜

There’s some unholy irony in being a medic and getting the flu THE MONTH BEFORE the new flu season fucking starts.

CVS is now scheduling for new Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines (no Novavax; nowhere else is scheduling yet). Get your vaccine while you can 💉

Back to school reminder that these FUCKING CHILDREN come home with a runny nose and YOU the adult who needs to earn a paycheck will come down with some kind of Biblical Plague. Now, if y’all will excuse me I’m going to soak my body aches in a metric tonne of epsom salts and mainline NyQuil.

Listen ladies, theydies & gentlethems- if you’re gonna lock down a guy well outta your league you gotta come in hot. I was RELENTLESS and it worked FLAWLESSLY 😈

Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?

With all my heart and soul I could not wish for a better person to entrust such an important part of Minneapolis to. Jason Garcia will forever remain in that small group of people my brain calls “The Best of Us”.

I speak 2 languages fluently and have varying levels of competency in 4 more spoken languages & ASL. It took me less than a half hour to nope the fuck out of Irish and Mandarin. Languages either tickle your neurons or don’t but I highly encourage ppl to keep trying new ones to see what works!

I was telling @sdrockcab.bsky.social yesterday that I rarely feel compelled to post here bc most ppl on BlueSky are proactive & attentive to science & health. BUT I’m also a woman who’s had her ass beat by grown men while other men watched. The video of the Rose Bowl assault is triggering.

BUT AM I WRONG GOOD SIR???

Hey y’all there is a recall on frozen Great Value shrimp contaminated with Cs-137. This is 100% something I need people to take seriously. Cesium 137 binds to soft tissue & has affinity for pancreatic soft tissue. PLEASE check your freezers!!!

The Nazi party was in full power for 6 years before Poland was invaded. Just giving y’all a reference for where we’re at and the “if you were a German in 1933 what would you do” question should be a fairly clear answer unless you agree with Nazis.

Every day my feelings don’t turn into felonies is a win. It’s important to set realistic expectations in 2025.