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@erdad.bsky.social

ER doc, dad, ERdad, dogfather, husband, introverted people-lover

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Using force to displace unhoused people doesn’t make anyone safer.

14.08.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1445    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 11

The FIRST thing they teach you in medical school is the importance of second hand anecdotal evidence.

30.07.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Airdrops 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...

28.07.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an β€˜education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the β€˜Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Harvard 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...

22.07.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6

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€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Stacey 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.

Stacey 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€” πŸ‘ 7771    πŸ” 2742    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 100

This was the order of events:

1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s 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 Trump’s bribe worked.

18.07.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 10434    πŸ” 3271    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 153

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.

17.07.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1790    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 15

ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s 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 peopleβ€”not punishments.

16.07.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1754    πŸ” 552    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 21
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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 government’s will shouldn’t be imposed on patients (except when it comes to abortion and gender-affirming care, I guess).

15.07.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 983    πŸ” 415    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 22

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

15.07.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2376    πŸ” 792    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 17

Because disinformation & lies have drowned out experts like Dr. Titanji and her colleagues who provide evidence-based clinical care vs and who genuinely care about people’s health. Flooding the zone with bullshit drowns truth.

We need to stop playing defense & start fighting the propagandists.

14.07.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

HOSPITALS πŸ‘ ARE πŸ‘SACRED πŸ‘ SPACES πŸ‘ AND πŸ‘ ICE πŸ‘ DOESN'T πŸ‘ BELONG πŸ‘ IN πŸ‘ THEM πŸ‘

13.07.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 9

Shout this!

13.07.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5346    πŸ” 1728    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 41
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***
13.07.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow wow wow. People are nuts!

13.07.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Medicaid is health insurance not a handout. And it’s 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 couldn’t be further from the truth. Everyone should be able to access healthcare

13.07.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
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Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank A 21-year-old Florida man was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting family in the West Bank.

A 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€” πŸ‘ 790    πŸ” 425    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 47

Sludging symptoms? That’s nuts!

13.07.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Communities are going to learn the hard way, at the expense of children’s lives, why our grandparents prayed for these vaccines to be developed

13.07.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The pipeline line alone is amazing. Super interesting

13.07.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amid Epstein backlash, Bondi ends case against MAGA-backed Utah doctor Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors to drop charges against a plastic surgeon accused of faking vaccine cards and injecting saline into patients who wanted to dodge vaccine mandates.

I’m glad this getting more attention today, but I’m tired of media outlets calling anti-vaxxers β€œvaccine skeptics”. 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.

13.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

12.07.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 458    πŸ” 239    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 27

I’ll believe they’re 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is a racial purity police force.

11.07.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 184    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5

The notion that I pay taxes into the current administration at all is so painfulβ€”literally my money to enrich the rich, impoverish and sicken the poor and pay for ICE and military industrial projects, while cutting research. I’d pay more happily if they reversed those priorities. Fuck these monsters

10.07.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now 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€” πŸ‘ 9983    πŸ” 1563    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 89

Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitter’s 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€” πŸ‘ 15070    πŸ” 2508    πŸ’¬ 250    πŸ“Œ 96

Here’s the bottom line for what’s 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 he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

08.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 21302    πŸ” 5655    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 307

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