Now being targeted by Libs of TT. I will always put the dignity of our patients first. I will not stop speaking out for the nuanced, personalized clinical care our patients deserve.

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

NEW: We sent a letter urging the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board to reject an application to form the nation’s first religious public charter school. Public schools cannot be religious.

Fine’s also primarily supported by big donors from out of state. She’s the corporate choice and the choice of a far right foreign government, not the people of Illinois. Shame on the Tribune Ed Board for treating democracy as a commodity to be purchased.

Worth noting that Dershowitz blocked Finkelstein’s tenure appointment in retaliation for Finkelstein’s criticism of Israel.

For the record: I will not send another cent to Kristi Noem or Stephen Miller while the department they run is shredding the Constitution and murdering American citizens in the streets. A two-week extension is two weeks too long. I’m voting no.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

I bet he’s vaccinated.

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

Emily Oster now writes that RFK Jr’s new dietary advice—which included eating more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow & full fat dairy—is “fine and arguably positive advice well worth following” 👀 Half the advisers who shaped the advice have financial ties to the livestock or dairy industries 👀

It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...

Something else to add to the demolition list

Sir, the president shit himself

May their lineages never recover from the shame.

The follow list is amusing. Hope they notice ya, bud!

Civility is a cudgel to beat your sense of moral obligation and outrage into submission

That this turn surprised literally anyone is an absolutely damning indictment about how far right, and white supremacist main stream media has been for decades. Conservative are 80 years into this project and media still won't say it plainly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segrega...

Somebody tell the US Holocaust Museum and Greenblatt

A 30-pt swing in South Carolina in November makes me a Senator and retires Lindsey Graham. 🇺🇸

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Why do I feel like Melania made a call?

Mark is, according to his bio, a professor who specializes in inequities in society and networks. Yet here he is defending his pal who took meetings and fundings from Epstein. But… you’ll be relieved to know… his friend who was chummy with Epstein? Always seemed nice to Mark.

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

“And so, in order to uphold our professional covenants, we call for an immediate end to the violence and trauma that is being inflicted on our patients and our communities by ICE. We implore all in our medical community to use the power of your voices as well, to protect our patients and your own.”

Amidst the noise, this is a 5 alarm fire.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

“He got money for me so how could I possibly question him, much less feel an obligation to do better myself?” Money money money it’s all this fucking country cares about. I’m not angry that people feel forced to play the game, I’m angry they’re so brainwashed they don’t feel dirty for doing so.

I'm going to call this "Finally of use"

This is why I (and I’m sure most survivors) am not getting my hopes up about some societal sea change. I know how the people running things think. If they were inclined to be reflective and accept blame, they probably wouldn’t have been able to claw their way to the top of a corrupt pile.

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

No need to sync signal to anything but your phone. Don’t care how convenient it is for u Check your signal call log which don’t auto delete Check your signal chats because - idk why - sometimes things don’t actually delete that are on autodelete No reason to do face or touch unlock on any device

The problem is that a not insignificant portion of Americans would sign on for that. Maybe not explicitly, maybe not publicly, but I think the behavioural evidence is extremely clear that the median American will tolerate pretty severe corruption at baseline.

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

In December, I inspected the ICE facility in Burlington and demanded answers about the conditions the detainees were facing. ICE has not responded. We need transparency now. The inhumane conditions and actions of ICE in Massachusetts must end. I will not stop fighting.

A man walks into a bar and says, "Do you want to hear an ICE joke?" "Sure", says the bartender. "First, you should know that I'm ICE, the guy in the corner is ICE, and so are those two wrestlers. Are you sure you still want to tell the joke?" "Nevermind, I don't want to have to explain it 5 times"

Amen. “Stand together” is pretty much the whole prescription for dealing with this administration.

it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend

“Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings.” -Terry Pratchett Men At Arms

It’s almost like people don’t quit residency, immediately pivot to private equity consulting, open a clinic they aren’t qualified to run, & write books they aren’t qualified to write, if they’re otherwise generally decent people. Being wildly unethical in just one area of life isn’t a thing.

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

Remember how I frequently point out that when antivaxxers say “informed consent,” what they really mean is “misinformed refusal”? This is an example. Also, “shared decision-making” is just the latest antivax term rebranded to mean the same thing.

Totally normal recruitment process

This article doesn’t describe a police chief derailing an arrest. It describes him giving a friend’s wife a ride home after she was roughly arrested by ICE and then inevitably released.

I am begging privileged people to have a sense of urgency about why all of this matters, why we don’t have time for you to handle your bigoted, horrible loved ones with kid gloves while you try to rectify who they are to you and who they are in their souls

This administration is a lie factory. Impeach them all!

Your emotional support scream into the void Mango has arrived.

Gonna need to strip a lot of law licenses in addition to the medical licenses already on the chopping block.