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Lewis Rubin

@lewisrubin.bsky.social

Neonatologist, physician-scientist, recovering administrator, writer

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

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Certainly close enough to the real truth!

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Very Well Said…..πŸ˜ŠπŸ’™

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Just a reminder that blue state legislators *could* be keeping people safe from ICE, but choose not to.

They *could* be creating law saying no police officer in their state, county, or city, is to afford the privileges of law enforcement to anyone wearing a mask and failing to identify themself.

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BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t comingβ€”it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

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Could you imagine if the head of the United States healthcare system didn’t believe that HIV caused AIDS?

…And that instead they believed that AIDS is caused by recreational drugs (β€œpoppers”) used by gay people?

Oh wait…πŸ₯΄

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With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an NIH Institute and What Comes Next | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | Articles in Press

This is definitely worth a read... This is what conscience and courage look like...

www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/...

1/n

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A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
β€œWhy do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
β€œProbably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

A screengrab from Twitter. HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks: β€œWhy do you think we have so many more kids with Autism” David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply: β€œProbably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

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As a third child in Texas has died of measles, I want everyone to know that the true cause of death is antivax disinformation.

As a third child in Texas has died of measles, I want everyone to know that the true cause of death is antivax disinformation.

Third.😒

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Lots of people out in DC

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"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."

"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."

School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands

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Kinda feels like this right now

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Delicious πŸ€£πŸΏβ€¦.JD Vance booed at Kennedy Center

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Another company to add to your #Boycott list

#Starbucks

#BlueStormComin1

Repost me please

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

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Dear manager, please find a review of the past week's activity:

1) hammered in the morning
2) hammered in the evening
3) hammered out danger
4) hammered out a warning
5) hammered out love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this land

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πŸ‘‡πŸ»πŸ‘‡πŸ»

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One of our supporters shared this with usβ€”people are getting creative tonight!

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BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

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If you think my friend Sandi
Is correct
Drop a πŸ¦‹ and share

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This.

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