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Mike Johansen

@mikejohansenmd.medsky.social

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Primary Care doc, likes research, teaches residents, #HSR, #MEPS, #FamilyMedicine

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · Nov 14

Don't be a point-estimatologist.
Don't think you will beat the algorithms.
Don't do #quantifauxication.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

“.. How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget ‘deal’ with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the ‘deal’ he wants?”

@vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 21h

memorization + understanding =

a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .

ALT: a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .

media.tenor.com

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 21h

Academic ENT is highly specialized with distinct personalities. Too bad they couldn't find any head and neck surgeons.

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 21h

Doesn't look like world war Z?

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 21h

🎯

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 1d

Should've used this photo

Guy in a frog costume facing ICE/police in Portland with the caption "analysis: what is the insurrection act"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

**The famous saying should really be "one retirement at a time".

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Wonder why science progresses one funeral at a time?

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Librarian Capital @librariancapital.bsky.social · 1d

There was no "$10 billion investment" in Intel $INTC

Trump and Lutnick forced Intel to sign over a 10% stake by withholding grants that Congress gave Intel in a bipartisan law under President Biden

Trump: "The US paid nothing for these Shares"

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

someone needs a bowtie.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

I'm 1/2 tempted to write a LTTE and ask the authors to account for their carbon emissions during the writing of the article.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Doug Forcett would never use an inhaler.

a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a desk with a woman .

ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie is sitting at a desk with a woman .

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Just forget about trade-offs; it's bad, very bad.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely key if you are choosing a medical insurance plan.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

Some final pieces of advice for this very long thread:

1. Deductibles come in two kinds: individual and family. If your plan has both, and most do, whichever you hit first counts. However, high deductible health plans *only* have a family deductible if you have 2+ members. Double check.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 1d

Modern day Springsteen?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

everything about this story has seemed like obvious horseshit from the beginning

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

This car would absolutely rock in California. Get like 4.8mi/kwh all year, which makes nearly everything outside of a lucid drool.

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

Can I still get 4.1 mi/kwh (more like 4.8 in the summer)?

www.carscoops.com/2025/10/2027...

2027 Chevy Bolt Just Showed Up Completely Undisguised At A Tesla Station | Carscoops

GM's next EV was spotted charging in public before launch, confirming design updates, platform details, and expected range improvements

www.carscoops.com

Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

This is really good example of a fundamental bias in our understanding of how the world actually works.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Nice chart from @ourworldindata.org showing the contrast between what Americans die of (heart disease and cancer) v what the US media reports on (homicide and terrorism). This naturally leads to it being trickier to build a fact based world view
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

What Americans die from
and the causes of death the US media reports on
Causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart disease (29%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)|
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneu
monia (19%6)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
The New York Times
The Washington Post
Fox News
Heart disease (2.8%)
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (4.1%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Cancer (26%)
Accidents (9.5%)
Stroke (6.9%)
Lower respiratory diseases
(6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (24%)
Suicide (2.1%0)
COVID-19 (2.1%0
Homicide (42%)
Homicide (52%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (18%)
Terrorism (12%)
Terrorism (11%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)
Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e,g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "fu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025): deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.|
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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

4 songs isn't really enough for a greatest hits album.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

More tariffs.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Beginning November 1st, 2025, all Medium and Heavy Duty Trucks coming into the United States from other Countries will be Tariffed at the Rate of 25%. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 2d

Zach Bryan wrote an anti ICE song. officially declaring Woke 2 in full effect.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Levine is funny. 😏

@matt-levine.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com $AMD
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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