Just your hourly reminder that declaration by Truth Social post has not always been a standard method that diplomacy or a functional democracy operates.

Trump: Cave or we kill you all. Iran: no Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you Iran: um ok Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon Lebanon: wtf Iran: wtf Vance: nobody mentioned you Pakistan: they were literally in the text Trump: … I totally won Iran: u ok?

why did everyone fall for "the document dump"? there's thousands of hours of video. Epstein's job was to record powerful men doing bad things in order to create leverage. Duh.

OBGYN Tip of the Day 💡 More than half of pregnancy-related deaths happen after delivery. That’s why Medicaid coverage to 12 months postpartum matters. Postpartum care is not just one six-week visit. Recovery, mental health, blood pressure, bleeding, and breastfeeding concerns can last far longer.

People who experience addiction aren’t failing morally, broken, bad, weak, criminals, or inferior.

Read this if you want to hear me praise ACOG for their unwavering support for COVID vaccines, take a shot at Robert Malone, and point out some advantages of a single payer health system. And I have to thank @tarahaelle.bsky.social for organizing my quotes in a way to make me seem coherent.

A Judge Handed Us a Victory Against RFK Jr. Will He Follow the Rule of Law? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

This is appalling. Full Chai Time on our YouTube

Literally this

You know what pisses me off about the announcement by Oz and Makary, now disproven, that leucovorin could treat autism? It’s the false hope given to people with autism and those who love them. If you’ve ever had a kid with a complex condition and you’re desperate for help, you are vulnerable.

Just throwing anything at the wall at this point

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

No Means No! If you don’t want Casey Means to be Surgeon General, you can write to your Senators in 2 minutes or less with @defendpublichealth.bsky.social’s handy form. A fun Friday night activity for the whole family!

Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA. Again. Let’s hope it sticks this time.

Like clockwork.

"A sitting U.S. senator just broke the hand of a Marine." Tim Sheehy "joined Capitol Police as they violently ejected an anti-war protester and U.S. Marine veteran." Protester: "[N]o one wants to fight for Israel." #Montana #NorthCarolina #USA #Israel #Iran #Protest #Policing #Military

Trump assumed a war would be helpful. It would justify emergency powers. It would deflect from his failures. It would make him seem larger. But it is making him smaller, more hostage to what’s occurring than leader, more Netanyahu’s patsy than partner, another president sucked into a forever war.

In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.

Just resharing this.

Mother, doctors call on Newfoundland and Labrador government to expand coverage of RSV shots to all infants N.L. is one of 4 provinces that only provide coverage for high-risk infants (the others are British Columbia, Alberta and New Brunswick). This is NOT the recommended strategy by NACI or CPS)

We totally obliterated them 8 months ago, so we need to totally obliterate them today and probably next month again also

THIS.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

FDA Chief Makary just said that most drugs should be sold over the counter and not require a prescription, unless it’s “unsafe, you need laboratory tests to monitor…or if it could be used for some nefarious purpose or it's addictive”. Bacteria celebrate as antibiotic resistance enters the chat.

This is a rough time to be a person with situational awareness.

Catherine O’Hara and James Van Der Beek both died from colorectal cancer. I lost a treasured friend to this disease two years ago. Please get screened starting at age 45.

Your American health chief, folks! 🙃🇺🇸

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Bad Bunny https://theonion.com/the-onions-exclusive-interview-with-bad-bunny/

RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to remove another webpage that fact checks pseudoscientific claptrap in order to pander to one of his buddies who is selling something.

I've been told the march will be immediately followed by a boot licking contest

Trump did this. Measles is deadly.

Under authoritarian regimes, public spheres — streets, parks, neighborhood — become testing grounds for authoritarian rituals of humiliation and domination.

I’m going to reiterate that RFK Jr. will not stop until he takes away every vaccine recommendation and thereby reduces access to them. This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career. He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.

Don’t really post on the other place anymore but felt compelled to comment on Richard’s ongoing effort to rebrand/legitimize himself

There is no statute of limitations on murder. Come a sane administration, Jonathan Ross will face justice

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

It’s only January 3rd but I have a feeling the word of the year is going to be unconstitutional.

2025 began for @jimalwine.bsky.social and I w/writing that there could be no compromise with RFK Jr. and that if confirmed: -Increased outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease would occur -Children would die from vaccine-preventable diseases - Vaccine and drug development would be undermined

Podcast Jay and his merry band of COVID contrarians only understand grievance politics. They do not deserve to return to academia or be welcomed back to normal society. They are weird losers abjectly failing at their responsibility to this country, and deserve to be treated with scorn and contempt.

**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization** New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels. Understanding brain function beyond brain areas. #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We need you to become scientists, doctors, nurses... so that the next generation scientist then will not abuse science to impose tyranny in the name of science." Is that what Bhattacharya thinks we were doing when we were working 7 days a week to try to save as many lives as possible?

New JAMA study of 20,000 pregnancies shows that COVID vaccination before or during pregnancy: ⬇️ reduced severe maternal COVID infections (62% less hospitalizations, 90% less ICU care needed) ⬇️ reduced risk of preterm birth. buff.ly/OuyTY4q

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

Bravo to MMWR for this middle-finger salute to RFK Jr #IDSky

Love this🤣

Kennedy has gone well beyond recruiting some contrarians with novel perspectives. He has populated the advisory committee almost exclusively with people with records of attacking vaccines. And this is what that gets you: lnk.thebulwark.com/4iMMsF6

“Legally, Prasad ‘needs to have some really good reasons’ to make such changes if he wants them to survive judicial review. ‘If they decide to sue, they would have some very good arguments about this being arbitrary and capricious’ and undermining the ability of companies to rely on the FDA’s word”

#FoodInsecurity affects #healthcare workers too. Efforts like #HCWvsHunger can help. hcwvshunger.org

Yes. Reading the old accounts reveal that nothing is new. wellcomecollection.org/works/z4442m...