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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 9h

Sorta sounds like Bolivia *was* sending their best.
That kind of tenacity, commitment, love ... America could have been really improved with more men of Mr. Merida's caliber.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 10h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 10h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 11h

ICYMI
By me: Increasing numbers of Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

www.theguardian.com

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dochocson.bsky.social @dochocson.bsky.social · 10h

Double booked all day

brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Down three nurses tonight...

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The drives were clicking.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 10h

I'll explain in deposition?

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Down three nurses tonight...

Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The drives were clicking.

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 14h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Animate taking off jacket

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 13h

Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...

Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 1d

No one knows what is happening. Now, we are hearing some of the CDC RIF notices might have been in error.
Error = Miscoding

Where are we hearing this? Through media of course! No one is being transparent with CDC staff.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

We continue to track the cuts. Stay tuned.

a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

Alt: a picture of a giraffe dancing with the words welcome to the circus

media.tenor.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

youtu.be

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · 14h

This conversation about "unhealthy" #physicians gets to... what does a "perfect" physician (or #professor) for that matter, look like? I have fellow Professors at my U (not necessarily in #medicine) who are men who had long hair in manbuns, pink or blue hair, heavily tattooed - who gives a sh**

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15h

Do you see where this is headed?

Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: “Asked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.”
Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 16h

What the hell is wrong with this guy

Rosa Douthat intervening Doug Wilson, who is in favor of criminalizing homosexuality.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, I'm kind of a ResearchGate rock star.

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 2d

MAGA: Pediatricians must take care of antivax families.

Also MAGA: Based on executive orders VA doctors may choose to deny care for patients based on marital status or political affiliation.

Screenshot of a tweet from @janjekielek it is an interview with Joseph Ladapo. A balg black man wearing a grey pinstripe suit with two flags and florida health as a backdrop.

Many pediatricians refuse to treat kids who haven’t received certain vaccines, says
@FLSurgeonGen
Joseph Ladapo. He’s determined to end such denial of medical care in Florida:

“It's a really repulsive policy stance…It is very clearly coercive to punish families by kicking them out of your practice if they do not agree to taking a medication.”

Headline of a Guardian article from June by Aaron Glantz:

This article is more than 3 months old
VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination
This article is more than 3 months old
Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that called my attention was the role of the "Drug Recognition Expert."
I'm dubious about such training for LEOs for a number of reasons - quotes from me and from @ryanmarino.bsky.social in gift article here:
www.nhregister.com/news/article...

Why CT experts say it’s hard to tell when people are too high to drive

With recreational marijuana legal in Connecticut and more cops becoming drug recognition...

www.nhregister.com

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Carlos Alonso @calonsonet.bsky.social · 1d

A la espera de algo horrible en EEUU. Una crisis permanente sin visos de solución.
Por @4freedoms.es open.substack.com/pub/4freedom...

A la espera de algo horrible

Una crisis permanente y sin visos de solución

open.substack.com

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

This should be shown to medical students for years about how doctors, entranced by power and fancy titles, lent the legitimacy of the medical profession to a deranged authoritarian.

Can doctors sink lower than this?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1d

" Officer Martin Jensen, a specially trained Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), was called to assess whether Bimpong was under the influence of drugs.
... When another officer questioned whether Bimpong should be taken to the hospital, Jensen replied: “For what?” "

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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