Mamdani releases video overviewing Know Your Rights if you see ICE + promises to protect New Yorkers and the right to protest, specifically in response to anti-ICE action last Saturday that stopped a massive raid. Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

The people currently in charge of the dismantling of science and medicine deserve nothing more than scorn and contempt from the entire medical community. They have lashed their legacies to a sinking ship, and will suffer as a result. May no one ever forget what they have done nor forgive them.

Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection. Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE. They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves. One we can avoid w/ vaccination. .

To paraphrase DMX, you’re going to make me lose my mind.

Oh, I’m not letting go of this one.

Dr. Bill Cassidy’s legacy as a hepatologist, will be that he brought about more liver disease. Put that in his obit.

I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism

I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick. Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.

Kressly: So let’s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touch—from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else. So when we’re in situations where we can’t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.

Murdering random fishermen IRL for clout on Xitter.

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

Knowing her family history of grifting + attention seeking, the fact that the account that reported on this was created just days before the incident, + how off-rubric the essay was, I believe Samantha Fulnecky failed on purpose to create a lucrative media cycle based on manufactured outrage

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States... The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo

What the anti-vax members of ACIP seem to saying is: “We have no evidence of harm with the birth dose of HBV vaccine. We have no data demonstrating any harm, so we can’t show it. But this is suspicious so we need to keep looking until we confirm our unsupported belief that it causes harm”.

Kaden went into toxic shock syndrome after getting the flu & strep throat. He had heart, liver and kidney failure, resulting in his legs having to be amputated Listen to the kids. Many of them take infectious disease more seriously than adults 💔 people.com/7-year-old-b...

i'm keeping a mental list of medical institutions who have produced people like prasad and cassidy so i know not to entrust my patients to anyone else they've trained

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

the contempt i have for these people is bottomless

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

Conservatives on gender-affirming care: ✅ cis men ❌ trans men It's the exact same surgery. The only difference is transandrophobia.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

A year ago, Tracy Hoeg was selling people unproven therapies (like injecting your own blood into your knees) for cash. She is trained in physical medicine & rehabilitation, & does not have any relevant background for this position other than being a prolific & extreme antivaxxer and disease promoter

pointless to note probably since i'm sure none of them care about being hypocrites but 'big government sucks' followed by 'pro ICE' is really something. i hate big government but i love their anonymous kidnapping squads

Also worth noting that we know the solutions for these problems, and we have a large amount of extremely strong evidence proving that they are very solvable issues, but we choose to let corporate interests and the super rich keep us from living better lives

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

"25 percent of children who get hepatitis B early in life will die early....the stakes are high and the risk is low. But this ACIP, all they know is risk. They never talk about risk-benefit ratio." lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

No floor, all kneeling

75% of all healthcare costs this man and his family incur for the rest of his life are paid for by American taxpayers. He won’t ever have to “bargain shop” for medical treatment.

yes, it’s really that bad.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

Who among us

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers https://theonion.com/trump-announces-5000-increase-in-all-numbers/

godspeed to whatever cardiologist has to try to get a stent through those plaques of calcified mac sauce

If you don’t remember who the “Front Line COVID Critical Care Alliance” is, they did not work on the front lines but sold millions of dollars of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin - and merch - at flea markets and online and both of the founding members had their medical board certifications revoked.

the male loneliness epidemic is coming from inside the gender

"A mountain walked or stumbled." Wanted to finally do an interpretation of Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu!

It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!

It's maddening that it's considered smart politics to meekly mumble these idiotic slogans in response to being called Socialist instead of saying "Yeah asshole it's good when people have enough to live on and it's bad when billionaire sociopaths abuse us all"

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reading 'rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead' as a teen was foundational to my sense of humor

On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳

Bloodthirsty war criminals that send young men to their deaths to distract everyone from their rape and pedophilia

This is essentially Vinay Prasad, who has an MD, declaring his intent to use the government to torture children to dead via preventable disease by knowingly withholding the cure. To call this despicable is an understatement.

Prasad says FDA will state that "COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children," which he calls a "profound revelation." He directs FDA staff who disagree to resign. He offers no research data & doesn't submit it to peer review. Science is transparent, it is testable. This is not science