When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.
19.09.2025 23:46 — 👍 12373 🔁 2938 💬 250 📌 133@andrewjensen.bsky.social
Family doctor in rural Southwest, democratic socialist, bit of a music nerd. Posts from 2014-21 were ported over from twitter, where my display name was “Vaccines are a human right, MD MPH.” Free Palestine.
When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.
19.09.2025 23:46 — 👍 12373 🔁 2938 💬 250 📌 133Congratulations on not reading the article.
13.09.2025 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0two pictures of Sam Altman below. A picture of Burke in the movie Aliens with the text. Hold on, hold on just a 2nd. This is clearly an important technology we're dealing with. And I don't think any that you or I or anybody has the right to arbitrarily pull the plug because of copyright issues,
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04.09.2025 08:26 — 👍 846 🔁 225 💬 11 📌 18It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.
The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.
Vaccines save lives. Period.
Since mayors don’t have running mates, this is an exciting innovation; have eleventy jillion votes.
25.08.2025 05:50 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh shit!
21.08.2025 21:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t know how to adequately express how this makes me feel, so I’m gonna do a thread here of jokes that only a human, specifically the human that I am, with the brain I have and the life I’ve lived could have written. Here we go!
21.05.2025 03:07 — 👍 267 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 3This story was compassionate, well written, thoroughly researched, and free of dogma, the best thing I’ve read in a newspaper in some time.
20.08.2025 04:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Q Who, when Q hauls the Enterprise D way way far out, and they meet the Borg for the first time.
05.08.2025 04:29 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Twitter *was* good for that five or ten years ago, but now maybe nothing is?
18.07.2025 03:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Practicing in rural New Mexico, a previously healthy patient who suddenly needs an ICU, and has thrombocytopenia as only finding on workup, would make me think of hantavirus, except they need intubation and then ECMO, not pressors.
22.06.2025 12:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for all that you do.
19.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There’s two political spectra in this country: public opinion and elite opinion. Political terminology, like “centrist” or “progressive,” is defined in DC by reference to elite opinion, which is much more economically conservative than popular opinion is.
04.06.2025 16:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We bought a real molcajete, thinking the ones on the shelves right now are cheaper than the tariffed ones will be in a few weeks.
07.04.2025 04:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TSP, the federal equivalent of 401k, doesn’t give me that option. I pulled out of US equities and into a three way split of the TSP index funds for treasuries, corporate bonds, and foreign stocks. Here’s hoping that holds up.
04.04.2025 02:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0new video
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Hey thanks! I’d read “The Marching Morons” as a kid, seen Idiocracy, and understood that both were pretty unsavory and eugenicist, but it’s very nice to have this concise essay laying out what’s wrong with them.
09.03.2025 01:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me too! Good luck with whatever’s coming next.
29.01.2025 04:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thus did a teenaged idiot hit the highest serum sodium concentration ever recorded in a person to survive without neurological injury.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23735849/
🚨 Jimmy Carter now eligible for congressional leadership position
29.12.2024 21:40 — 👍 8808 🔁 625 💬 267 📌 58The Monster at the End of this Explanation of Benefits
12.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 124 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 01. Dems had no contingency plan for Biden dropping out.
2. Should politicians earn people's votes by improving their lives? No: elections are won by correct messaging.
3. Not only must Harris never be criticized, but it's almost disrespectful to say her name; "the vice president" is preferred.
Thoughts?
08.12.2024 14:59 — 👍 75656 🔁 12085 💬 2803 📌 708Good questions, which the authors ought to have answered, or at least cited the answers to, in the introduction or methods section.
08.12.2024 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That’s terrible. I’m sorry that happened to him.
05.12.2024 06:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Care to name any podcasts that are on a higher than usual intellectual level?
The one that comes to mind for me is In Our Time, the BBC radio show on the history of ideas hosted for many years by Melvyn Bragg, also available as a podcast. I do with there was a less Eurocentric alternative though.
This may be the most twitterish reply I’ve seen since joining this platform.
04.12.2024 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0If Jesus were a Democratic or Republican politician.
03.12.2024 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0