Using force to displace unhoused people doesnβt make anyone safer.
14.08.2025 23:50 β π 1445 π 408 π¬ 36 π 11@erdad.bsky.social
ER doc, dad, ERdad, dogfather, husband, introverted people-lover
Using force to displace unhoused people doesnβt make anyone safer.
14.08.2025 23:50 β π 1445 π 408 π¬ 36 π 11The FIRST thing they teach you in medical school is the importance of second hand anecdotal evidence.
30.07.2025 13:42 β π 59 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0Airdrops of food are not the answer as tons of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid sit on the other side of Gazan borders, blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Strip.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/airdr...
We played him on repeat one summer in my undergrad lab. Never memorized the song, but that guy was brilliant
27.07.2025 17:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.
This is censorship and cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
What a lot of people don't realize is that a LOT of Nazi leadership were never even charged or punished. The incompleteness of Nuremberg (and also early abandonment of Reconstruction in the US) allowed for many of the problems we see today fester and reemerge within a generation in the EU and US.
19.07.2025 12:32 β π 41 π 14 π¬ 2 π 2Stacey Sobelman staceysobelman ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary. I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters. It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.
17.07.2025 23:10 β π 7771 π 2742 π¬ 54 π 100This was the order of events:
1. Paramount acceded to Trumpβs extortion by paying a bribe.
2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that.
3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump.
4. Proving Trumpβs bribe worked.
Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services.
DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.
ICE now has a larger budget than most of the worldβs militaries.
A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime.
So if you want safer communities, invest in peopleβnot punishments.
Pam Bondi pardoned a plastic surgeon who allegedly pretended to give children Covid vaccines and sold Covid vaccination cards ($50 a pop) to over 1,900 people. She said the governmentβs will shouldnβt be imposed on patients (except when it comes to abortion and gender-affirming care, I guess).
15.07.2025 20:05 β π 983 π 415 π¬ 64 π 22Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.
15.07.2025 03:17 β π 2376 π 792 π¬ 38 π 17Because disinformation & lies have drowned out experts like Dr. Titanji and her colleagues who provide evidence-based clinical care vs and who genuinely care about peopleβs health. Flooding the zone with bullshit drowns truth.
We need to stop playing defense & start fighting the propagandists.
HOSPITALS π ARE πSACRED π SPACES π AND π ICE π DOESN'T π BELONG π IN π THEM π
13.07.2025 15:45 β π 786 π 139 π¬ 17 π 9Shout this!
13.07.2025 14:31 β π 5346 π 1728 π¬ 107 π 41Wow wow wow. People are nuts!
13.07.2025 15:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Medicaid is health insurance not a handout. And itβs quite limited. Republicans are very intentionally lying to try to trick people into thinking that Medicaid recipients are getting cash in the mail or something, which couldnβt be further from the truth. Everyone should be able to access healthcare
13.07.2025 14:56 β π 172 π 48 π¬ 5 π 6A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.
13.07.2025 14:49 β π 790 π 425 π¬ 60 π 47Sludging symptoms? Thatβs nuts!
13.07.2025 15:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Communities are going to learn the hard way, at the expense of childrenβs lives, why our grandparents prayed for these vaccines to be developed
13.07.2025 14:09 β π 93 π 30 π¬ 2 π 0The pipeline line alone is amazing. Super interesting
13.07.2025 14:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm glad this getting more attention today, but Iβm tired of media outlets calling anti-vaxxers βvaccine skepticsβ. They are NOT skeptics. They are liars and frauds who are causing serious harm to the people of the United States.
Which also describes the other group cheering this on: Republicans.
This doctor (allegedly):
- Destroyed $28,000 worth of vaccine doses
- Made about $100,000 by falsifying medical and public health records for around 2000 people
- Tricked children into thinking they were vaccinated by injecting saline
The implications of dismissing this case are enormous.
Iβll believe theyβre being destroyed when something actually happens to them. They seem quite resilient when comeuppance may be involved. Incompetence and fuckery most foul seems to be wholly forgivable in and among that crowd.
12.07.2025 17:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is a racial purity police force.
11.07.2025 15:12 β π 184 π 54 π¬ 12 π 5The notion that I pay taxes into the current administration at all is so painfulβliterally my money to enrich the rich, impoverish and sicken the poor and pay for ICE and military industrial projects, while cutting research. Iβd pay more happily if they reversed those priorities. Fuck these monsters
10.07.2025 15:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now would be an incredibly good time for the Democratic Party (or someone like AOC or Raskin) to call for a boycott of X on the grounds of fighting antisemitism.
09.07.2025 01:30 β π 9983 π 1563 π¬ 215 π 89Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitterβs userbase still displayed β against all odds β a modicum of empathy. He then made the robot speak like him and within hours it was calling itself Mechahitler.
09.07.2025 00:13 β π 15070 π 2508 π¬ 250 π 96Hereβs the bottom line for whatβs going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what heβs doing to the algorithm that you canβt so easily see, and what itβs doing to you
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