Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
@tawmussohhh.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of Medicine @ BU
Academic Hospitalist & Medical Educator
Progressive, Antiracist, ANTIFASCIST
Loudmouth Bostonian speaking only for myself.
Assistant Prof of Medicine @ BU
Academic Hospitalist & Medical Educator
Progressive, Antiracist, ANTIFASCIST
Loudmouth Bostonian speaking only for myself.
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Hello, I joined Nov ‘24 and I have incredibly shitty opinions
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Fuck whoever did this, for whatever reason. I hope the guardsmen survive and get to go home to their families.
Does anyone else find this odd? No info on a shooter, months into the occupation, when they’ve been flailing everywhere, the afternoon before thanksgiving?
Does anyone else find this odd? No info on a shooter, months into the occupation, when they’ve been flailing everywhere, the afternoon before thanksgiving?
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Fuck whoever did this, for whatever reason. I hope the guardsmen survive and get to go home to their families.
Does anyone else find this odd? No info on a shooter, months into the occupation, when they’ve been flailing everywhere, the afternoon before thanksgiving?
Does anyone else find this odd? No info on a shooter, months into the occupation, when they’ve been flailing everywhere, the afternoon before thanksgiving?
I missed this. Insane and appalling, but consistent with the regime’s hostility to public health.
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I missed this. Insane and appalling, but consistent with the regime’s hostility to public health.
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
I looked at the lizza post because I’m possessed of morbid curiosity and let me tell you that the people warning you not to read it are absolutely correct
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I looked at the lizza post because I’m possessed of morbid curiosity and let me tell you that the people warning you not to read it are absolutely correct
This may be the single most damaging image of the whole trump era
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This may be the single most damaging image of the whole trump era
The CDC has been the preeminent public health organization for generations. People simply do not understand how damaging to the world this is going to be.
Other agencies & professional societies will step into the breach, but it won’t fully make up for what’s happened. Complete insanity.
Other agencies & professional societies will step into the breach, but it won’t fully make up for what’s happened. Complete insanity.
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The CDC has been the preeminent public health organization for generations. People simply do not understand how damaging to the world this is going to be.
Other agencies & professional societies will step into the breach, but it won’t fully make up for what’s happened. Complete insanity.
Other agencies & professional societies will step into the breach, but it won’t fully make up for what’s happened. Complete insanity.
A tale in 3 acts:
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A tale in 3 acts:
Oh man he is desperate about what is in those files.
In general I figured he’d eventually get to this point, but it took less than a year.
In general I figured he’d eventually get to this point, but it took less than a year.
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Oh man he is desperate about what is in those files.
In general I figured he’d eventually get to this point, but it took less than a year.
In general I figured he’d eventually get to this point, but it took less than a year.
No one should be surprised about Harvard’s Epstein connection or their behavior re summers or dersh (or the way they tossed Claudine Gay for that matter).
Harvard et al are essentially hedge funds w classrooms. Admin is to obtain & protect donor relations at all costs.
Harvard et al are essentially hedge funds w classrooms. Admin is to obtain & protect donor relations at all costs.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
No one should be surprised about Harvard’s Epstein connection or their behavior re summers or dersh (or the way they tossed Claudine Gay for that matter).
Harvard et al are essentially hedge funds w classrooms. Admin is to obtain & protect donor relations at all costs.
Harvard et al are essentially hedge funds w classrooms. Admin is to obtain & protect donor relations at all costs.
The new, consistent R messaging shows their hand on future direction:
- Drive a wedge btw healthy & sick
- Send people $ subsidies
- Lie that it’s the same as buying car/home ins
- Vilify insurers/providers who object
- Leave mess for Ds to clean up in future
Other stuff too but basically this
- Drive a wedge btw healthy & sick
- Send people $ subsidies
- Lie that it’s the same as buying car/home ins
- Vilify insurers/providers who object
- Leave mess for Ds to clean up in future
Other stuff too but basically this
Markwayne Mullin: "Reward people for being healthy. Think about this. Healthcare is the only industry that you're not rewarded for taking care of your responsibility. If you think about homeowners insurance, if you're within 500 feet of a fire hydrant, your insurance goes down."
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The new, consistent R messaging shows their hand on future direction:
- Drive a wedge btw healthy & sick
- Send people $ subsidies
- Lie that it’s the same as buying car/home ins
- Vilify insurers/providers who object
- Leave mess for Ds to clean up in future
Other stuff too but basically this
- Drive a wedge btw healthy & sick
- Send people $ subsidies
- Lie that it’s the same as buying car/home ins
- Vilify insurers/providers who object
- Leave mess for Ds to clean up in future
Other stuff too but basically this
It just gets worse and worse. There’s no bottom.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It just gets worse and worse. There’s no bottom.
Reposted by Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Reposted by Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
You know what? Go for it. It’ll probably collapse the health insurance industry and we’ll be in Medicare for all by the end of the decade.
Trump: "THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I'LL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE W/ NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH. THE PEOPLE WILL BE ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE & BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, INSURANCE. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You know what? Go for it. It’ll probably collapse the health insurance industry and we’ll be in Medicare for all by the end of the decade.
I’m going to say it over and over: if your goal is to drive up the number of medical bankruptcies, this is the way to do it.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’m going to say it over and over: if your goal is to drive up the number of medical bankruptcies, this is the way to do it.
If the bill was so great and bipartisan, why did only 2030 cycle and retiring senators vote for it?
The contempt these reactionary centrists have for the intelligence of their voters is staggering.
The contempt these reactionary centrists have for the intelligence of their voters is staggering.
Tim Kaine: "It would be political malpractice of the highest order for the House to not take up a bipartisan bill coming out of the Senate."
November 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If the bill was so great and bipartisan, why did only 2030 cycle and retiring senators vote for it?
The contempt these reactionary centrists have for the intelligence of their voters is staggering.
The contempt these reactionary centrists have for the intelligence of their voters is staggering.
Stay strong #Charlotte. As fine a city as we have in this nation. Don’t let these fascist fucks break you!
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Stay strong #Charlotte. As fine a city as we have in this nation. Don’t let these fascist fucks break you!
Reposted by Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
Priests being arrested
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Priests being arrested
This is such a terrible idea that it beggars belief. Laypeople do not understand how health insurance works. (Many clinicians don’t either!) It’s nothing like buying car or life insurance.
Paying out of pocket for services is nothing like a major consumer purchase either.
Paying out of pocket for services is nothing like a major consumer purchase either.
TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?
TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This is such a terrible idea that it beggars belief. Laypeople do not understand how health insurance works. (Many clinicians don’t either!) It’s nothing like buying car or life insurance.
Paying out of pocket for services is nothing like a major consumer purchase either.
Paying out of pocket for services is nothing like a major consumer purchase either.
Reposted by Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
I truly never needed to know why a moronic journalist fell in love with Leatherface or to get the visual of one president blowing another into my brain.
In other words, that’s probably enough internet for today.
In other words, that’s probably enough internet for today.
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I truly never needed to know why a moronic journalist fell in love with Leatherface or to get the visual of one president blowing another into my brain.
In other words, that’s probably enough internet for today.
In other words, that’s probably enough internet for today.
Reposted by Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
Ah yes, undocumented immigrants, famously buying up all the houses.
It’s not enough to tell endless lies. Apparently they have to lie in an insultingly lazy fashion.
(Also: jd believes he’s doing god’s work by lying about & demonizing immigrants. Seriously. Look it up).
It’s not enough to tell endless lies. Apparently they have to lie in an insultingly lazy fashion.
(Also: jd believes he’s doing god’s work by lying about & demonizing immigrants. Seriously. Look it up).
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Ah yes, undocumented immigrants, famously buying up all the houses.
It’s not enough to tell endless lies. Apparently they have to lie in an insultingly lazy fashion.
(Also: jd believes he’s doing god’s work by lying about & demonizing immigrants. Seriously. Look it up).
It’s not enough to tell endless lies. Apparently they have to lie in an insultingly lazy fashion.
(Also: jd believes he’s doing god’s work by lying about & demonizing immigrants. Seriously. Look it up).
So fetterman fell and went to the hospital but the statement said he had a VF event. They’re downplaying it but this is holy shit territory. He must have an ICD because VF is life threatening. People don’t have spontaneous VF events unless they have serious heart disease.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So fetterman fell and went to the hospital but the statement said he had a VF event. They’re downplaying it but this is holy shit territory. He must have an ICD because VF is life threatening. People don’t have spontaneous VF events unless they have serious heart disease.