Hussain Gilani

Hussain Gilani

@hagilani.bsky.social

Nephrologist in Oakland, CA

1,104 Followers 1,879 Following 78 Posts Joined Nov 2024
18 hours ago
Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.(Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Sen. Warnock: “Despite launching a new war in the Middle East, President Trump has not taken his eye off the ball—

He’s still determined as ever to complete his goal of kicking millions of Americans off of their health care”

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The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

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2 days ago
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Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

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Idea: mandatory retirement age for Congress equivalent to the average U.S. life expectancy (79) so they actually care about improving it.

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I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

It is remarkable how much clearer the air is in Silicon Valley than it was ten years ago. Electric cars have made a huge difference

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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4 days ago
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

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4 days ago

Roberts Courts legacy is to make it harder for ordinary people to engage in the most basic form of participation (voting), for that participation to matter (letting gerrymandering stand), while removing any constraints from billionaire influence on politics

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3 days ago

Oh hey, it's a Very Fucked Paper.

See the pubpeer thread, it's a fun one:

pubpeer.com/publications...

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3 days ago
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Showing this to myself in 2022 and having an aneurysm

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Happening tomorrow - in person

@pisces01.bsky.social will be presenting at the @uottawa.ca #NephGR

Fish oil for Dialysis

#NephSky

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Please vote for the #NephJC kidneys! 🏆
Sign up for the newsletter to get a ballot.
2026 #NephJCKidneys vote begins — NephJC

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4 days ago

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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The COSMOS study of multivitamins and cocoa supplements continues to be a ridiculous circus that mostly shows how broken science is.

This time, it's DNA methylation.

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5 days ago
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stops to talk with reporters in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Murphy: “I think it’s likely the U.S. carried out this attack on this school — I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact that this was one of our 1st targeting decisions, that this mistake was made on the 1st day of war — I think speaks to the incompetence of our leadership”

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5 days ago
Dashed line denotes the date of initial OPTN Wait Time Modification Policy implementation on January 5, 2023. The shaded gray box and points plotted without a trendline from January through March 2023 denote the implementation washout period, which we prespecified based on the low number of wait time modifications approved throughout this time (Figure 1). To illustrate pre- and postimplementation trends, trendlines based on predicted probabilities from our interrupted time series models are also plotted.

This is a big effect

increased transplants for Black transplant candidates after GFR formula adjustment

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

in @jamainternalmed.com

#NephSky

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Bret Weinstein criticizing Sam Harris for complaining about Joe Rogan on a podcast with Bill Maher.

It’s the singularity of useless punditry.

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goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

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6 days ago

Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.

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1 week ago

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

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1 week ago

Is anyone using obinutuzumab for maintenance in SLE (I know there is no data)?
Have young pt with LN III/IV, MMF + prednisone induction. Doing well, but persistently high dsDNA, C3/C4 normal.
@kidneydoc101.bsky.social @juancarlosqvelez.bsky.social @kronbichlerlab.bsky.social @grahamabra.bsky.social

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They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

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1 week ago

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

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1 week ago
While the volume of out-of-sequence transplants has increased rapidly, this has been particularly stark for unilateral out-of-sequence transplants. The rapid increase in this practice is hard to understand and counters the argument that out-of-sequence placements are necessarily due to organ quality concerns, given that a kidney from the same donor was successfully placed. Additionally, the rapid decrease in the sequence at which OPOs start out-of-sequence allocation, of kidneys across the KDPI spectrum, suggests an increasing level of comfort by the OPO community to use this pathway for organ placement despite the potential adverse consequences for patients who are skipped.8,15-19 Our results indicate that the increasing use of the out-of-sequence pathway is associated with inequalities in transplant outcomes and care, with recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants having disproportionately higher rates of educational attainment, private insurance, and preemptive transplant than recipients of their unilateral in-sequence counterparts.7,11 Our results also suggest that there are inequalities among recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants that are performed at the same center as its mate kidney, compared with recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants performed at different centers, although the underlying reasons are still unclear.

The increasing numbers of ‘out of sequence’ kidneys being allocated by certain OPOs

This is a scandal of unaccountable behaviour - and certain patients are benefiting while others are losing out of coming off dialysis

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... from Sumit Mohan and colleagues in JNO

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American support for abolishing ICE hits record 50% in new poll It's the 1st time in YouGov's polling history that support for abolishing ICE has reached 50%.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social perhaps it's time to revisit our conversation about Abolishing ICE?

Open to having you on anytime.

We can also revisit you accepting money from AIPAC

www.axios.com/2026/03/04/t...

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after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

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Their legacy

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Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

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1 week ago

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

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When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

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