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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS

@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

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Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis VA ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · Nov 13

Intro post since seeing lots of new faces. I’m an infectious diseases physician & researcher, with a focus on urinary infections and C. difficile. Passionate about public health, politics, & healthcare reform. Post about all of the above, plus COVID, life in Minneapolis, & dog pics 👍🏻 Hi and welcome!

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 12m

Remember, Sally Jenkins thought similar things about Lance Armstrong 🙄🙄🙄

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 40m

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 1h

💯

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1h

Matthew Shepard was murdered right when I was trying to come out of the closet. So like, this hit me pretty hard. Maybe that’s why I understand how important it is for trans kids to know they deserve to live.

Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 1h

27 years ago, hateful violence took the life of Matthew Shepard. His story reminds us of what happens when intolerance goes unchecked.

Today, as extremists target our LGBTQ+ neighbors for who they are, we must recommit to building a nation rooted in love, safety, and equality for all.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah; never setting foot in FL again. There are far better warm places in the world

f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 2h

Customers May Openly Carry Firearms in Florida’s Publix Stores, Company Says (10/09/2025)
f the nyt

Customers May Openly Carry Firearms in Florida’s Publix Stores, Company Says

www.nytimes.com

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2h

We’ve all worked with people like this: they fuck up, and blame anyone else, no matter how ridiculous. Except in most jobs the stakes aren’t so high 😳😳😳

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2h

Seems…bad😳

🇺🇦Noelle🇺🇦Dem Good @ Everything. DeICE America @nreveillee.bsky.social · 9h

Trump's dementia is so bad that he does not remember that he was President on January 6, 2021 and watched the insurrectionists he invited to violence. President Trump watched his Proud Boys, Oathkeepers that he arranged to attack the Capitol Building to keep Congress from certifying electoral votes

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 2h

These clouds are cool 👍🏻 (mammatus I think), but delaying the race 👎🏻

Threatening Manmatus clouds over Mount
Kato at the state mountain bike race

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 5h

Too many companies will feel the pressure to get AI- and later realize the emperor has no clothes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 12h

“Laid off by mistake”😳😳😳

Amateur hour 🤦🏻‍♂️

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 14h

It’s validated! 😂😂😂

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15h

Cancer is at least usually predictable. This is just chaos😳

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16h

@wedge.live listening to the ward 11 candidate interviews (thank you!). Not sure I can make it through the Demello interview after that bit on “cancel culture”😳😳😳

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16h

What a fucking way to run a country 🤦🏻‍♂️

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16h

Bad if true (and yes, it is true)

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16h

This was in my annual government ethics training! It’s not allowed, but you know…🤷🏻‍♂️

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 21h

Meritocracy www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 18h

Having Malcolm Gladwell shill for IBM AI agents during my podcast is gross. FFS; how much $$$ do you need??

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 20h

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

1) WHY isn't this a bigger story? High food prices were cited time and again as a major 2024 campaign issue?

2) Democrats said said over and over again this was going to happen.

3) Why didn't the MSM take it more seriously, when trump LIED over and over again about bringing food prices down???

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 21h

🔥🔥🔥

stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 1d

Monica's back! 😀
And still on the good side!
🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 21h

Yup. Protection for me, not for thee 🙄

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 1d

He got the shots that his own HHS is telling you are not necessary

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 21h

International waters isn’t “abroad”, @nytimes.com ??? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤮🤦🏻‍♂️

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 21h

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

On a related note: how many different pedophiles are pictured with Trump? I can think of 3 in the last week; has anyone compiled the total?

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

Gross, but totally unsurprising. Pedophiles hang with pedophiles.

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 1d

A story of two pastors.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

Gross, but totally unsurprising. Pedophiles hang with pedophiles.

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 1d

A story of two pastors.

An image of several ice officers masked and in camo are pepper spraying Pastor David Brown in the face. Pastor Black is wearing black and a traditional white clergy color.

A TEXAS WORSHIP PASTOR, JON PAUL SHEPTOCK, HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION AND PRODUCTION OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

And finally, the reward before heading home 👍🏻

Sitting at the trailhead with a beer watching bikers and kids go by

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

Bridge over channel between lakes Isles and Bde Mka Ska

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

And more; it was glorious

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 22h

In case Trump tries to claim Minneapolis is a hellscape needing military intervention in the next few weeks, here’s pics from my ride across the city on October 11. A perfect fall day across the city 👍🏻

Grand Ave heading north, flowers on the blvd in late bloom

Waiting crowd at Victors on 38th and Grand for lunch

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