Scott Brassfield MD

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Israel arrested them for the crime of bringing food to starving people

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid flotilla, detains Greta Thunberg The activists are expected to be detained and then taken to Ashdod, where they will be told to sign deportation orders and flown out of the country.

@thunberggreta.bsky.social getting arrested by IDF for taking food to starving people www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

There is way too little coverage in US media of the currently ongoing Israeli attack on ships of the food for Gazans Sumud flotilla and arrests of activists including @thunberggreta.bsky.social Al Jazeera includes a live link: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

There is way too little coverage of this humanitarian flotilla attempting to take food to Gazans. Israel is impounding their ships and arrestng the activists including #gretathunberg www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

‼️EXTRAORDINARY DAY
We are witnessing something unbelievable:
Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with the hugest margins ever seen allover Oceania,Asia,Europe,North,Central,Southern Africa,Central and South America.
>150 countries are breaking records.
Wait for multiple updates coming..

Right now Disney and Kimmel are meeting. It’s a great time to cancel your Disney and ESPN subscriptions

Right now Disney and Kimmel are meeting. It’s a great time to cancel your Disney and ESPN subscriptions

I know what you mean. Since high school, I’m obsessed with Crime and Punishment. The Michael Katz translations of Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov are outstanding

Hopium intravenously would be more potent

Can you feel it?

I’m not buying Rolexes

WSJ (of all sources!) titled an editorial “Ubiquitous, Unbearable Trump”

My strategy for avoiding Trump for a few hours was watch Alcaraz & Sinner.

“Delusion is the one resource this civilisation never runs out of. Delusion is more than a necessity for humans: it is the oxygen that sustains the self-destructive economic engine of this civilisation”
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How Humans Invented Waste Cakeconomics 101

Money and waste are fictional concepts engineered by humans to enable and conceal ecological fraud. While money made ecological fraud possible, waste made it invisible.
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Everyone in @indivisiblecs.bsky.social and @50501cos.bsky.social IT’S TIME to protest for worker’s rights instead of CEO’s & billionaires

He’s the most antiunion president in history. DON’T MISS THIS ONE! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @50501cos.bsky.social

@govofco.bsky.social #heatbeneathourfeet project is investigating 35 projects to coproduce geothermal heat pumps and electricity. Oil companies spent the money to drill down 9000feet NOW steam from those old wells can meet fossil-free front range electricity and heating needs!

The @philweiser.bsky.social townhall was super! Phil is a fighter. Need proof? As CO Attorney General he’s filed 35 lawsuits against the Trump regime. Need more proof? Trump’s suing him

At the same time trump regime stopped the Atlantic wind farm to block cleaner cheaper power for Delaware customers, they blocked the planned closure of a Míchigan coal plant so polluting power could continue and cost customers an additional $1 million daily: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today at Denver Botanical Gardens the bees were hard at work getting everything pollinated

Trump shut down an Almost completed Wind Farm on the Atlantic.Why are Republicans & Trump against Cleaner Energy🤔 China 🇨🇳 is winning the Clean Energy Race & profiting from selling solar panels & saving Energy costs & leaving a smaller Carbon Footprint. Why are Republicans taking us backwards🤔 VOTE 🗳️

Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody at appointment Abrego, who was just released from federal custody on Friday, now faces deportation to Uganda.

After being kidnapped, trafficked overseas, and spending 160 days away from his family, Kilmar Abrego Garcia—who just finally reunited with family—was taken into ICE custody after his immigration check-in.

The Trump regime is a white supremacist terrorist organization posing as the U.S. government.

Since Sagan spoke out, we’ve gotten a lot worse. In infant mortality we are 53rd out of 220 measured countries and among wealthy countries we have the worst infant and maternal death rates while spending the most on health care: www.ajmc.com/view/us-has-...

Game on.

I’m bemused at those actively trawling the media desperate to find examples of anti-semitism, just as the biggest genocide in modern history is perpetrated by their nation. What do you even call these people?

Wildfire smoke far more dangerous to health than thought, say scientists Deaths from short-term exposure to fine particulates spewed by forest fires underestimated by 93%

New European study shows lethality of PM2.5 particles in wildfire smoke has been underestimated by 93%. This lethality is at least partly due to wildfire particles being worse than other PM2.5 @drsforamerica.bsky.social @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Dissecting An Economic Parasite: The Story Of The Greatest Fraud On Earth The faster an economy rushes itself into growth, the sooner it will perish.

“There is no nice way of putting it: humanity is a global criminal network of planetary-scale ecological fraud”
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