Dr. Eric Ecklund

holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"

Half an hour ago, Fox News hosted an "aviation expert" who argued such a closure wouldn't happen "unless we are at war" facing a "major security threat," and that it signaled the government "might have discovered the next potential Pearl Harbor."

Every once in a while the internet becomes that truly silly delightful thing it once was. Like this.

In continuing the theme of GLP-1s are overpowered Mary Sue drugs, we have our first glimmer they may actually rebuild cartilage in knee osteoarthritis. This tracks with some real life anecdotes I've seen here and in clinic @eecklund.bsky.social @stresshoop.bsky.social

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I suspect the pre-existing term "trumped" will acquire a new primary meaning over the next half-decade or so.

Looks like Disney’s warning about fewer foreign tourists to the US was no joke.

@financialtimes.com $DIS
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Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Wanted to do a quick GLP-1 update based on Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's earning calls today. It really highlights how one company has become overtly aggressive in the development of these medications while the other has stagnated. First Novo's pipeline update...which is sparse

a brown wire-haired pup stands on a wooden deck in a grassy yard. he looks at us with golden eyes and his right ear flipped inside out. he has a pipe-shaped stick in his mouth, giving him the appearance of a sophisticated and dapper gentleman. just give him a deerstalker cap and a cloak, and he'd give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

Apple Review #41: Wild Twist BEHOLD: A WILD (twist) APPLE APPEARS. But first: a brief digression about agricultural-industrial apple storage! Did you know that the reason we get apples (and ostensibly a lot of other fruits and…

The world may be falling into chaos and disrepair, but at least we have apples for me to review.

New apple review at the blog -- WILD TWIST.

The fact that they made 36.5 BILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE FROM ONE DRUG. Absolutely insane. And their drug pipeline is enormous for obesity/diabetes and they expanding indications. Not sure I've ever seen anything like it.

Forgive me, Jesus, because I genuinely deeply enjoy how perpetually unhappy and desolate these losers are.

My colleagues and I are big Dragon Milk fans, though it's been a bit since I last had one!

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — we regret to inform you that Punxsutawney Phil is mentioned 35 times in the Epstein Files, including in the flight logs

This single payment is ~66x the total amount of “Biden family” revenues that the GOP and right-wing media spent years frothing over.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ano...

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire.

It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

Just popping back to say that episode 4 was awesome.

It's a little depressing that every single critical patient on The Pitt has a better BP than I do.

Luther and the 99 Infrastructure Weeks

This is such a terrible mash up of buzz words, correlation not being causation and fear mongering. I was a phase 3 trial participant for retatrutide as many here know. When I say the trial sites practically asked about every single thing that happened to me I'm not kidding. Let me explain

Nerd hat on.

Retatrutide + Bempedoic acid + telmisartan would probably utterly crush metabolic syndrome/obesity/DM2 if BA does indeed activate PPAR-alpha in humans.

Quick thread on hypothetical synergies...

Well worth the read

one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

I have a lot of respect for people who work at the VA and I’m sorry they have to serve during this dickhead’s tenure.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

DOJ sought to probe Renee Good for criminal liability, even after her death: Sources A judge refused an FBI warrant that proposed investigating dead Minnesota mom for suspected assault on an officer.

Breaking MS NOW:

Aides to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Attorney's office and FBI agents in Minnesota to shut down the civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.