drug doc

Gaza, Sudan, Iran…

I don’t know how many more photos of parents grieving over fragments of children I can take, how many tiny bodies prepared for burial.

They’re all our children; my heart is big enough for them all.

Def not saying their experiences are worse or more depressing than the people being tortured in the camps, including god knows how many children. Just that it’s depressing to be a public health clinician sent to fix a problem your government made as you’re also being kneecapped by your government.

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress' A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying they're not able to provide good care.

This was a pretty depressing read about clinicians/public health officers being sent to the detention centers: www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

Yeah, she’s alive (87). Two of her four kids are dead though; one by suicide and one by overdose (possible suicide).

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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Maybe it’s hubris, maybe I’m just not a bad person or someone who defends bad people, but I think I could survive a Chotiner interview.

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

The “shield” is intolerable here as well.

“Parents tried to shield their children from water. Instead they died of dehydration.”

That’s what the @nytimes.com headline here says. Both “shield” and “instead” appallingly reinforce anti-vax attitudes and frames.

it’s not just one chatgpt model. and you shouldn’t believe a word the companies say about their mental illness particle accelerators (term from @victoriascott.bsky.social)

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Have we brought docs who rock here yet

Two images of a planetary nebula in space. The image to the left, labelled “Euclid & Hubble”, shows the whole nebula and its surroundings. A star in the very centre is surrounded by white bubbles and loops of gas, all shining with a powerful blue light. Farther away a broken ring of red and blue gas clouds surrounds the nebula. The background shows many stars and distant galaxies. A white box indicates the centre of the nebula and this region is the image to the right, labelled “Hubble”. It shows the multi-layered bubbles, pointed jets and circular shells of gas that make up the nebula, as well as the central star, in greater detail.

Wowowow - our @science.esa.int Hubble's picture of the month for March is the Cat's Eye Nebula, from combined images of #Hubble and #Euclid. Euclid's wide field and low surface brightness sensitivity brings out an external shell. Incredible image. esahubble.org/images/potm2... 🔭

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

He didn’t read the article and also says he disagrees with the article premise

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A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

This story is nuts

The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱

retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Democratic state lawmakers in New York to back tax hike on rich The state Senate and Assembly budget proposals are set to include plans to boost taxes on millionaires, a plan opposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

lets fucking goooooooo LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

A truck driving on the highway with a large label on the back side that says dedicated methanol.

I guess it's better than apathetic methanol?

After launching Iran war, White House scrambles to evacuate stranded Americans The State Department has announced charter flights in just three of the 14 countries where it advised US citizens to evacuate.

It’s not going well.

After launching Iran war, White House scrambles to evacuate stranded Americans

The State Department has announced charter flights in just three of the 14 countries where it advised US citizens to evacuate.

www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

He could go for the hat trick of being ousted

Yesterday, Laura Loomer said, “Now it’s time to round up the Muslims before it’s too late.”

She IS the Nazi problem.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

Screenshot of an instagram post. There’s a photo of Alex Pretti standing outside in front of a sign. White cursive text reads Today should be your 38th birthday. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My lov for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken.

Today would have been Alex Pretti’s 38th birthday.

He was executed by ICE over a month ago. Shot ten times in the back after trying to assist a woman who had been pepper sprayed and shoved.

He was a helper and they killed him for it.

Justice for Alex Pretti.

Justice for all victims of ICE/CBP

A journalist asked me today if the war would make the middle east more safe, given the Iranian regime's belligerence.

I explained that until the root causes of conflict - Israeli warfare & occupation, and Arab authoritarianism - are addressed, even (unlikely) regime change in Iran won't do much.

The US rarely ever feels the backlash because their vassal monarchies and dictatorships handle it for them but it is continually underrated just how comprehensively lacking the popular consensus is for US hegemony.

The incoherence of this statement is why we don’t give parents of fallen soldiers consolation missile strikes. Nevertheless, she probably has more insight to the psychology of the current leadership than the rest of us.