On ED rotation. In some ways, lots of medical shows prepared me for staff dynamics. In other ways, Jesus do we need more primary care facilities.

I’m so grateful to have parents who made sure I got vaccinated.

***Taps the sign again.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

not getting on another plane unless they bring DEI all the way back. the captain has to open with a land AND air acknowledgement. every attendant gets an ASL interpreter. allowable emotional support animals now includes Blåhaj

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

Most red states in the South are states with majority black populations. I reject the idea that blue states should punish (or mock) the people living in red states to prove a political point, as if it would even be feasible.

This kind of rhetoric solidifies the idea that liberals are out of touch.

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
pepfarimpact.vercel.app

My goal this year is to learn to bake a different thing each month. January was cookies, where I made potato chip cookies from a tiktoker's recipe. February's is my grandmother's recipe for sour cream coffee cake. I never knew her, but we're now three generations deep on this one coffee cake.

Rev. Benjamin Cremer If our politics as Christians cause us to be more suspicious about how a poor single parent spends their welfare check than we are about how billionaires use their wealth to gain unprecedented access to our nation’s halls of power, we need a grand reversal.

@brcremer.bsky.social

It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can afford to contract vaccine-preventable diseases to own the libs.

RFK Jr says he wants to tackle chronic disease. His war on the HPV vaccine shows otherwise. RFK Jr. profits by scaring people from a proven cancer prevention: that’s the opposite of combating chronic disease.

If I told you there’s a medicine that can prevent:

90% of cervical cancers
90% of anal cancers
90% of HPV-caused oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers

Would you be on board with it?

Read more ⬇️
news.immunologic.org/p/rfk-jr-say...

You say: they shutdown USAID.

You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

"Trans people make up maybe little more than 1% of the population. Our first priority is to ensure we stay alive. If our allies don’t support us, we won’t survive. Start small. Attempt simple conversations. Ask productive questions. Take pride in having the courage to support us."

The silence from our universities has been deafening. Tell them to grow a spine and stand up for their scientists!

Top NIH funded schools:
UC - regentsoffice@ucop.edu
UW - regents@uw.edu
John Hopkins - cbjorklund@jhu.edu
Penn - ofcsec@pobox.upenn.edu, (215) 898-7005
Duke - boardchair@duke.edu

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

lemon: mix me with sugar for a refreshing summer treat

lime: spritz me over some tacos to add an acidic punch

grapefruit: i'm in your cell walls. i'm fucking up your lipitor

Crazy Cake Mix: 2 c. Sugar 3 c. Flour 6 Tbs. Cocoa 1/2 tsp. Salt 2 tsp. Baking Powder 2 tsp. Baking Soda Make 3 holes and add: 2 tsp. Vanilla 2 tsp. Vinegar 6 Tbs. Oil Stir in 2 cups cold water and mix until free of lumps. Bake at 350f for 30-35 minutes. For cupcakes, bake at 375f for 15-18 minutes.

Vanilla Crazy Cake Mix: 2 c. Sugar 3 c. + 6tbs Flour 1/2 tsp. Salt 2 tsp. Baking Powder 2 tsp. Baking Soda Make 3 holes and add: 2 tsp. Vanilla 2 tsp. Vinegar 6 Tbs. Oil Stir in 2 cups cold water and mix until free of lumps. Bake at 350f for 30-35 minutes. For cupcakes, bake at 375f for 15-18 minutes.

Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.

Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment to as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.

PEPFAR is one of the most successful global health programs ever

It provides HIV treatment for 20 million people

And now it faces a funding delay of up to 6 months

Without access to treatment, HIV can rebound in less than a month.

This is self-defeating stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

The destruction of Health and Science

💥NIH grant funding review panels canceled.
Without them, NIH cannot fund research.

💥US to pull funding from the WHO.

💥CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS told to pause all communications, incl health advisories, weekly sci reports, websites, social media posts.

medsky 🛟

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are.

wow