Erika

🗣️ PAGING SENATOR MCCARTHY 🗣️

Rubio is telling all diplomats that telework and remote work are over by mid-2025. I’d be nervous to be any federal remote worker right now.

Secretary of State Rubio’s message to U.S. diplomats thanking them for their service and then terminating all remote work arrangements

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Just wanna update that I got my paycheck with the above OT on it, and I absolutely will not be learning my lesson 🤑

Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche The denial of Gisèle’s humanity by her rapists is the denial of violence done to every woman. At her side, we can now look the world in the eye I am looking at a colour photo of a woman with auburn hair entering the courthouse in Avignon. Around her, the…

Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche

My man was like you’re not gonna pull the wool over my eyes!

'A Gift to the Oligarchs': Trump Pick to Replace Lina Khan Vowed to End 'War on Mergers' | Common Dreams Andrew Ferguson, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Trade Commission vowed in his pitch to lead the key agency that he would end current chair Lina Khan's "war on mergers."

Remember when Lina Khan blocked the Kroger/Albertsons merger, which would've sent grocery prices skyrocketing?

Trump’s new FTC pick vowed to end the “war on mergers.”

And wouldn’t you know it, Trump is now walking back his promise to lower grocery prices.

Funny how that works.

It’s almost like we shouldn’t overreact to single data points in blood pressure management…

cc: everyone who sends patients to the ED because they have a high BP reading. Bonus points if it’s from an appt for a procedure the patient is probably worried about or held meds for

The best part about my OT shifts is that I actually get a quiet 30 minute lunch break outside of my workspace. I never ever get this on my regular working days.

Yes this is my cry for help because I agreed to an OT shift tomorrow

I’m in an endless cycle of getting paid after I’ve picked up OT —> signing up for more OT —> HATING MYSELF FOR PICKING UP MORE OT BECAUSE I’M BURNT TF OUT —> getting paid again and starting all over

@InternetHippo Medicare For All? No thanks, I don't want to pay for other people's health care. I like private insurance, where I pay for other people's health care AND for the salaries of bloodsucking middlemen whose entire purpose is telling me No when I need medicine

Dr. Oz and the Stealth Destruction of Medicare The TV doctor’s scams and fake cures are the least of what makes him so dangerous as Trump’s appointee to head Medicare and Medicaid.

The Medicare Advantage program is a stealth attempt to privatize Medicare and enrich the private insurance industry at the expense of seniors.

Multimillionaire CMS nominee Mehmet Oz, who owns stock in private insurers, is one of the biggest proponents of this scheme.

Insurers Collected Billions From Medicare for Veterans Who Cost Them Almost Nothing — The Wall Street Journal Taxpayers paid for their care at the VA—and for Medicare Advantage coverage that many didn’t use

Another reason Medicare Advantage (and the private insurers behind it) are bad. MA companies - private insurers contracted to provide healthcare for Medicare enrollees - are chasing veterans, even offering cash rebates, bc they make billions per year in profit off the federal government (taxpayers!)

Had a bad day at work so I got Taco Bell on the way home despite being in a “we have food at home!!!” budget period of my life. Got home and my order was wrong. I love it when the universe makes sure I regret not sticking to my plans. 🧘‍♀️

Having a slow morning in the ED and I just waxed poetic to my student about ASOIAF for at least an hour. Someone muzzle me.

This is real. Just had this conversation with myself the other day lol. Do you have the LitterRobot?

If only there were a way to reduce infectious pathogens in raw milk

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

I got rich and fired, and I’m dying to know how that is gonna work out. Lawsuit? Wealthy husband? Lottery ticket?

I truly think GLP-1 agonists are the most impactful drug development in recent history due to their ability to prevent/reverse chronic disease. This includes the well known benefits but also slowing progression of CKD, decreasing M&M in CHF, etc.

Before you ask a woman why she doesn’t center men in her life, remember this headline.

The only acceptable gender reveal party

A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments. Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.

Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

Last night’s anxiety dream was me going to a different hairstylist (I would NEVER) and she messed me UP so I had to go back to my original hairstylist, fess up, and beg her to fix me.

One of my favorite things about vaccines is that they make me harder to kill

I DNF’d this book and the fact that it has so many good reviews is how I know humanity truly has strayed too far from God’s light

Morning Star!