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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll

@brendonowicz.bsky.social

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Psychiatrist specialized in PTSD/EMDR, ketamine + transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuroscientist (PhD) in socioemotional brain devt., autism, adversity/trauma + medication augmented exposure therapy. Anticapitalist+antifascist nerd. Opinions=own #Medsky

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · Nov 18

Looks like I still need my old pinned tweet

Quote tweet of a Vinay Prasad post from September 16, 2022 titled "When scientists' anxiety disorder interferes with other people's lives" and subtitled "It's a problem when it interferes with your life, but when it affects others, it's a disaster"
The quote tweet is by Siyab Panhwar, MD, who notes "As per esteemed psychiatrist Dr Vinay Prasad - if you have concerns about COVID you could have an anxiety disorder".
My response to this was the following: In psychiatry, we treat "COVID anxiety disorder" with respirators, air filtration, sterilizing UVC, social distancing, work from home if possible, and recommend restarting the child tax credit + boosted unemployment support, since financial strain is a terrible driver of anxiety!

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 15h

“After the pandemic” 🤦

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 18h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 1d

3/ American adults & kids. An important part of separating folks from their healthcare w/o blowback is first laying groundwork to convince them that they didn't want or need it to begin with; in fact, that it was hurting them.

And the first, just world belief (that you deserve whatever happens to

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

YALL.

Remember what I said to yall about preordering. Even if you dont plan on reading an author’s book, preordering is EXTREMELY important because it tells book publishers the kind of books they need to invest more in.

Preorder TODAY

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 1d

🚨Just heard from a world leader: "We have a global pandemic of politicians, organizations, and other non-medical institutions interfering with the medical profession."

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 1d

[3 days later]: damn, it’s poppin off over on mastodon lol

stats: 570 toots, following 437 & 500 followers on mastodon @brit@ohai.social

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 1d

HFK FTW! IYKYK

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

ok this is fucking awesome

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists recently found two evolutionarily distinct mushrooms converged to produce the same psychedelic molecule—psilocybin.

The “surprising” results underscore the significance of the hallucinogen but leave questions about its ultimate purpose.

#Psilocybe #MagicMushrooms

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

In mind-bending twist, ‘magic’ mushrooms evolved twice independently

Study identifies entirely new suite of enzymes that can make psilocybin

www.science.org

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu must be presented at The Hague and given the maximum sentence of life imprisonment; along with being forced to pay reparations to all victims in Israel and Gaza alike.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 1d

This drives me fucking mad, because real delirium (AKA toxic-metabolic encephalopathy) is when the brain is overwhelmed by a physical condition, and it is a harbinger of death because of how bad the body is doing. Delirium itself is not deadly and in this case is a sign the shocks are killing them.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

You need to stop trying to save the Dem Party. Let it die. The more you do this, the longer it keeps that zombie party full of Republicans afloat. They hate the left, because they're right wingers. They'd rather self-immolate and give power to Trump than ever let the weakest DemSoc seize the reins.

The American Prospect @prospect.org · 1d

Caving to centrists failed the Democrats in 2024. The party’s future depends on working with the progressives in their coalition. From Dylan Gyauch-Lewis at The Revolving Door Project:
trib.al/SONCHqY

Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

trib.al

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

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Afnan Taw @fofojoho.bsky.social · 2d

My dear friends💗

It's time to rebuild, heal, and meet my love and fiancé..🥹

Help me get out of Gaza to meet him as soon as possible after I survive this genocide and build a beautiful future with him.

Donate and participate and don't let me lose my feelings again 💔
chuffed.org/project/1313...

Support Dr. Jomaa & her family

My name is Kyra Henderson, organizing this fundraiser on behalf of a dear friend, Afnan Jomaa and her family.

chuffed.org

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Caller: Hearing you say that everyone is smiling in the cities where troops and the National Guard have been deployed feels dystopian and insane

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 1d

New Jesus? We haven't even finished eating the old Jesus yet

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2d

No.

Don’t do this.

Patients will die.

#MedSky

ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 3d

My specialist cancer hospital is downgrading from N95s to surgical masks for apheresis, cell therapies and the haematology ward (which includes autologous stem cell transplant pts).
🤔

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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ScholerinED @scholerined.bsky.social · 2d

"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

ESC Tackles Cardiac Risks of Long COVID

An ESC report outlining the effects of COVID and long COVID on the heart emphasizes the need for early detection, vaccination, and cardiac rehab.

www.medscape.com

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hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social · 2d

I know too well what it's like to not be keeping food down. Can you help get some groceries? #disability #mutualaid
Please share

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