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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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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 11h

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 · 15h

[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 · 16h

HFK FTW! IYKYK

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

ok this is fucking awesome

Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 20h

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 · 19h

Please donate or share

Afnan Taw @fofojoho.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 20h

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 · 22h

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 · 21h

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

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 1d

No.

Don’t do this.

Patients will die.

#MedSky

ThatIngrid @thatingrid.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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

To be fair: the guy who literally said he’d be a dictator from day 1 also claiming “plenary power” should be a *lot less surprising* to so many of you.

I’m sure your precious courts and strongly worded letters will fix this as you let them imprison and enslave large swaths of your “big tent” party.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

the epstein files could contain footage of trump raping children and it wouldn’t bring down his administration.

if the law was gonna save us all from fascism it would have done so by now.

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

📌Trump shut down the government, and Mike Johnson shut down Congress, which makes it clear as hell that whatever is in the Epstein Files would wreck this lawless regime.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 1d

This explains why Bluesky constantly harasses trans people and Palestinians with bans and suspensions

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 1d

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 2d

If fascism makes you want to choose the lesser of two evils again then you’re a fkn goofball and you should delete your account. You don’t give a fck about fascism. You’re just a corporate DNC cheerleader looking for another pay day and you are part of the problem.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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

To the physician who suggested a patient consider esketamine instead of real/racemic ketamine: maybe learn to read before you make a recommendation to a patient. Even the drug company meta-anlysis showed massively better effect size for racemic (but leveraged study variability to claim noninferior).