Doc Irrelephant ⚕️⛑️🐘
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Doc Irrelephant ⚕️⛑️🐘
@docirrelephant.bsky.social
Former Special Operations Combat Medic with 1/75th Ranger Regiment. Global health policy consultant and data engineer.
Damn, the GOAT menswear poster has an article on Politico about Ukrainian fashion since 2014 and it's really interesting

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Real Reason Zelenskyy Doesn’t Wear a Suit
There’s a deeper reason the Ukrainian president eschews American-style formalwear.
www.politico.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So I know the tariffs are at least partially on "pause" at the moment, but everyone knows they will be back right? At some point, they HAVE to go into effect even more broadly than currently planned because Trump and the GOP have made it a key pillar of govt revenue

www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Big Chunk of North American Trade Remains Exposed to Tariffs
The Trump reprieve applies to products covered under a 2020 pact, which leaves a lot of goods still subject to the new 25% tariff levels.
www.wsj.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Has your article been pulled from a DOD website or journal because of an executive order about how diversity is bad?

I’d love to host it on my site so that the information is still out there

Email me at [email protected] and we can make it happen
March 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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FWIW, it's perhaps worth noting that when Benjamin Franklin visited France between 1776 and 1778 to ask for military support for the then-new-formed United States of America, he wore a coonskin cap. "Proper" French court attire at this time was a powdered wig.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Since I'm deprived of sleep and full of caffeine and hot takes this morning, I'll say that NATO is probably the only thing that has restrained a full-blown war between Eastern Europe and Russia.

At a minimum, Poland for sure would be strapping wings onto their Leos/Abrams/K2s and charging in
November 20, 2024 at 1:53 PM
I long to get to a place where we neither deify/villify individuals and instead reflect on their words and deeds.

There were some legitimate misteps by the NIH, which Fauci himself has acknowledged. But online discourse is entirely based on stans vs. a MAGA lynch mob.

www.npr.org/sections/hea...
November 20, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Hello folks, checking out the new place.

I'm mostly interested in health data and policy, humanitarian action, and tracking various global conflicts.

I also am a giant nerd of the Star Trek/Star Wars/LOTR/DnD variety.
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November 14, 2024 at 2:19 PM