Rupinder (Rup) Sahsi, MD 🧠💭
@hotsahs.sahsi.net
👨⚕️ Emerg MD • 🚑 EMS Asst Director • 🇨🇦 Canadian • 💨😷 Clean air enthusiast • 🌎🔥🥵 Climate pessimist • 👨🏽💻 Geek with bad code • ☕ Coffee achiever • 🗣️ Syllable abuser • 🤬 Profane misanthrope • 🩺 #MedSky • 👍🏽 Just this guy, y'know?
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Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Magical thinking will not prevent future pandemics or improve public health
For much of human history, infectious diseases were the main causes of morbidity and mortality. The sciences of public health, epidemiology, microbiology, and vaccine and drug development have dramati...
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Ghastly OpEds by Jay Bhattacharya in 2025
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
-His justification for canceling funds for mRNA vaxx R&D
-His argument that no pandemic preparedness is needed
As Seth Berkey says: "Magical thinking has no place in public health." We must condemn these "misguided policies"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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BBC’s Michael Buchanan: Do you give #homeless people cash? Many fear any donation will be misspent but a ground-breaking study in the UK is currently recruiting 125 homeless people to receive a large one-off cash payment, £2,000. There are no restrictions on what they can buy with the money. Prog 👇🏻
File on 4 Investigates - Can cash grants help end homelessness? - BBC Sounds
Is a one-off cash payment a way to ending someone’s homelessness?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
BBC’s Michael Buchanan: Do you give #homeless people cash? Many fear any donation will be misspent but a ground-breaking study in the UK is currently recruiting 125 homeless people to receive a large one-off cash payment, £2,000. There are no restrictions on what they can buy with the money. Prog 👇🏻
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GIFT ARTICLE
If your kids have been sick a lot this year….we have the technology to clean the air, and reduce infectious disease spread, we just have to force schools to implement them 🤷♀️
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6cbce29...
If your kids have been sick a lot this year….we have the technology to clean the air, and reduce infectious disease spread, we just have to force schools to implement them 🤷♀️
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6cbce29...
Schools must improve air quality to slow spread of respiratory illness, advocates say
Proper air filtration could help mitigate the rapid spread of flu and other illnesses, say experts and parents
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
GIFT ARTICLE
If your kids have been sick a lot this year….we have the technology to clean the air, and reduce infectious disease spread, we just have to force schools to implement them 🤷♀️
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6cbce29...
If your kids have been sick a lot this year….we have the technology to clean the air, and reduce infectious disease spread, we just have to force schools to implement them 🤷♀️
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/6cbce29...
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Ontarians who value their free healthcare, read this 🧵 and get ready to protect it! ✊
@onthealthcoalition.bsky.social
is planning province wide protests to demand the Ford govt restore public funding to our public hospitals and stop their privatization scheme. #ONpoli
First, SIGN their petition:
@onthealthcoalition.bsky.social
is planning province wide protests to demand the Ford govt restore public funding to our public hospitals and stop their privatization scheme. #ONpoli
First, SIGN their petition:
December 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ontarians who value their free healthcare, read this 🧵 and get ready to protect it! ✊
@onthealthcoalition.bsky.social
is planning province wide protests to demand the Ford govt restore public funding to our public hospitals and stop their privatization scheme. #ONpoli
First, SIGN their petition:
@onthealthcoalition.bsky.social
is planning province wide protests to demand the Ford govt restore public funding to our public hospitals and stop their privatization scheme. #ONpoli
First, SIGN their petition:
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"The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage intl travelers...in response to Trump’s hostility to free speech, his obsession with silencing dissent & his deranged notion that America is being inundated by foreign criminals."
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
Come to Trump's America...If You Dare
The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage international travelers. The reputation of America's aggression is growing.
www.americaamerica.news
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage intl travelers...in response to Trump’s hostility to free speech, his obsession with silencing dissent & his deranged notion that America is being inundated by foreign criminals."
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
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🧪 A 15-year review in JAMA highlights a gap between medical cannabis popularity and clinical proof. Evidence for pain and sleep benefits remains weak. Notably, nearly 30% of medical users meet criteria for cannabis use disorder.
#MedSky
#MedSky
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit
Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🧪 A 15-year review in JAMA highlights a gap between medical cannabis popularity and clinical proof. Evidence for pain and sleep benefits remains weak. Notably, nearly 30% of medical users meet criteria for cannabis use disorder.
#MedSky
#MedSky
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ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
"When we underinvest in what keeps people well, more people end up needing medical care, adding pressure to a system strained by population aging."
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
Claims of a doctor shortage oversimplifies the issues with health care
Sustaining universal access to health care will require governments to face the demographic reality of an aging population
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"When we underinvest in what keeps people well, more people end up needing medical care, adding pressure to a system strained by population aging."
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
Winter Snow Advisory: "ya no say daddy me snow me I go blame I lick he boom-boom down"
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Winter Snow Advisory: "ya no say daddy me snow me I go blame I lick he boom-boom down"
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Bleeding, bleeding, and more bleeding. Our quarterly AskMED streaming Q&A with a big hemorrhage control theme this time around, plus a bit about ketamine because, well, ketamine.
www.youtube.com/live/RIHhV6c...
www.youtube.com/live/RIHhV6c...
AskMED November 25, 2025
YouTube video by Centre for Paramedic Education and Research
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Bleeding, bleeding, and more bleeding. Our quarterly AskMED streaming Q&A with a big hemorrhage control theme this time around, plus a bit about ketamine because, well, ketamine.
www.youtube.com/live/RIHhV6c...
www.youtube.com/live/RIHhV6c...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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People who claimed to have biomedical credentials (some of whom actually did!) were disproportionately influential in the anti-vaccine community through thr pandemic, but our institutions refused to do anything about it and now we're here.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
People who claimed to have biomedical credentials (some of whom actually did!) were disproportionately influential in the anti-vaccine community through thr pandemic, but our institutions refused to do anything about it and now we're here.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”
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It may be a sign of my age but I remember a time when the Internet was designed so there wasn't a singular point of failure which took out half the Internet.
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It may be a sign of my age but I remember a time when the Internet was designed so there wasn't a singular point of failure which took out half the Internet.
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
Cloudflare goes down way too often and way too many sites and resources use it
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Straight from the mouth of founder and investor @floydmarinescu.bsky.social:
Corporate are not what motivates investment or entrepreneurship, they undermine the things that do, and historically have never worked.
So why try and tax credit our way to prosperity?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Corporate are not what motivates investment or entrepreneurship, they undermine the things that do, and historically have never worked.
So why try and tax credit our way to prosperity?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Why Canada’s proposed corporate tax relief is not the answer
Tax cuts are not what motivates investors or entrepreneurs, they’re not what creates jobs, and they undermine the things that do.
www.thestar.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Straight from the mouth of founder and investor @floydmarinescu.bsky.social:
Corporate are not what motivates investment or entrepreneurship, they undermine the things that do, and historically have never worked.
So why try and tax credit our way to prosperity?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Corporate are not what motivates investment or entrepreneurship, they undermine the things that do, and historically have never worked.
So why try and tax credit our way to prosperity?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
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Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
Trump Administration Prepares Tariff Exemptions in Bid to Lower Food Prices
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Forty years of study by economists around the world come to the same conclusion: high tariffs coupled with a discretionary regime of exemptions is a growth matrix for the crudest sort of corruption.
Make Inflammation Great Again.
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Make Inflammation Great Again.
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🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain?
Here is an (organized) mountain of 60 studies detailing COVID-19's impacts on the brain, as well as a useful video by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social & @davidjoffe64.bsky.social
👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
Here is an (organized) mountain of 60 studies detailing COVID-19's impacts on the brain, as well as a useful video by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social & @davidjoffe64.bsky.social
👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain?
A Collection of Medical Research (60 Studies)
www.panaccindex.info
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Harm the Brain?
Here is an (organized) mountain of 60 studies detailing COVID-19's impacts on the brain, as well as a useful video by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social & @davidjoffe64.bsky.social
👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
Here is an (organized) mountain of 60 studies detailing COVID-19's impacts on the brain, as well as a useful video by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social & @davidjoffe64.bsky.social
👇 READ, SHARE WIDELY, SUBSCRIBE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...
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81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Welp
The Qanon nuts got it half right
There IS a secret child trafficking ring
But it's not Bill and Hillary in the (nonexistent) basement of a pizza shop
It's Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on a secluded island
Thank G-d Adelita Grijalva was sworn in today
Now we can #StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup
The Qanon nuts got it half right
There IS a secret child trafficking ring
But it's not Bill and Hillary in the (nonexistent) basement of a pizza shop
It's Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on a secluded island
Thank G-d Adelita Grijalva was sworn in today
Now we can #StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup
Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Welp
The Qanon nuts got it half right
There IS a secret child trafficking ring
But it's not Bill and Hillary in the (nonexistent) basement of a pizza shop
It's Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on a secluded island
Thank G-d Adelita Grijalva was sworn in today
Now we can #StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup
The Qanon nuts got it half right
There IS a secret child trafficking ring
But it's not Bill and Hillary in the (nonexistent) basement of a pizza shop
It's Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on a secluded island
Thank G-d Adelita Grijalva was sworn in today
Now we can #StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup