Kiya Kersh, MSci, MBA, EMT 🧪

“He used to call it presidential fever because he would watch people he admired change drastically because they wanted the office so much that they were willing to give up their own values, set aside their own morals in order to get this position, & he was never willing to do that.”

Millard says: “What would have made Garfield great and what is extremely rare and maybe unique to the American presidency is he didn’t want the job. It’s not that he had never thought about it but he was thrust into it.

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, emerged, late Nov 9th, from a closed-door meeting and said: “I’m voting no.”

Asked to explain his position, Schumer tersely said the American people “need health care.”

Yeah, telling every other person they're the problem seems totally like the solution

Perhaps we should consider tweaking the status quo model to make issues like this irrelevant. Worker-owned transit? People-governed transit?

Usually when I go to unfollow someone, they've already unfollowed. Nice that's it's mutual. When I see I'm still being followed, I take pause. But it usually isn't like that.

This is coming our way courtesy of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine movement.

Jan or Feb 2026 this will be coming to our country, too!

It’s Coming And It Is A Complete Admission Guilt!!!!

Maybe the next frontier of medicine isn’t new technology

— it’s rediscovering humanity.

The article calls for a rebalancing: paying for presence, listening, and context, not just the next intervention. That resonates deeply for anyone who’s ever felt unseen in a medical system that prides itself on precision but struggles with compassion.

True care means being allowed to be messy — to show the parts that don’t fit neatly into a billing code.

That’s what the STAT article by Daniel Plotkin captures so well: the quiet, systemic failure to see people as whole beings. Our reimbursement model rewards procedures and documentation, not the human time it takes to notice when someone’s silently breaking.

I knew that if I showed too much distress, I could be labeled, pathologized, or even lose agency over my own health decisions. So I tried to hold it together.

I went through a period of major depression — and no one asked.

PsyDs did not ask. MDs did not. Licensed therapists did not ask. Licensed therapist got excited about how I reminded them of someone of a different gender expression on Dancing with the Stars, what?!!

When I first began learning about medicine that treats dysphoria, I believed the system cared about understanding the full person. But I quickly learned that even in “progressive” medical spaces, the model was built for treatment, not care.

Until we stop them. And by "them" I mean the people who enacted these laws, years ago who are dead or dying, and here we're dying from their policies

I happen to focus on realizing technical transitions, so medicine, food, water, waste, materials, and energy - to reduce pollution footprints as we reduce burdens to the environment

I propose we dissolve the imagined boundary between

1) owner-rain makers-investor

2) worker-maker-producer

it's possible. it's necessary.

totally possible within a people-owned luxury space social democracy model.

we need balances of power & to discourage bad behavior by autocrats.

No, they confiscated it using asset forfeiture laws that have been taking advantage of people of color for years, thanks to Biden, for real.

See dramatization in _Rebel Ridge_. Spoiler alert: it's a feel-good bad-guys-lose flick.

Hassan, Kaine, Durbin, and King YES

A group of centrist Democrats led by Sen. Angus King (Maine), an independent who caucuses with Democrats, and Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), negotiated the deal to reopen government with Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

I'm waiting for details

Lauper looked at Roan during her speech when she said, “I know that I stand on the shoulders of the women in the industry that came before me. And my shoulders are broad enough to have the women that came after me stand on mine.”

Chappell Roan, who inducted Lauper while wearing a huge, ornamented, showgirl-style headpiece, said Lauper redefined what a pop star could look like, sound like, sing like.”

As Lauper called for the ladies to sing with her, Salt-N-Pepa — who earlier in the night donned their old tri-color jackets to rock the crowd with “Push It” for their induction — came dancing out and joined her.

She was then joined by Raye to sing “Time After Time” and Avril Lavigne for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” backed by an all-female band that included Gina Schock of the Go-Go’s.

Partway through the song, Lauper shouted the line “don’t be afraid!,” thrust her fist in the air and kept it there as the music stopped for a long and dramatic stretch.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cyndi Lauper turned “True Colors” into a defiant call for courage and the music of Outkast, Soundgarden and the White Stripes brought waves of emotion Saturday night at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Cyndi Lauper calls for courage and Salt-N-Pepa romp through 'Push It' as they join Rock Hall of Fame The music of other inductees Soundgarden and the White Stripes brought waves of emotion Saturday night at the ceremony. Joe Cocker's was one of several posthumous inductions.

Cyndi Lauper fuckin rocks

She gave me, a nobody, permission to use a song in my first movie for peanuts

(As did Aimee Mann)

I will forever be grateful

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