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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv
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Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Pediatric surgeon, theologian, healer of healers, and maker of good trouble.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · Sep 3
I've cared for a child who required general anesthesia for over a month for tetanus, treated near fatal infections in several children after chicken pox, and watched a kid (who asked for the COVID shot) die after their parents refused to let them be immunized. Lifetimes lost to preventable diseases.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 11m
"I've been pondering how to use this website to best serve the people I know (and the people I want to know!) … and I think Austin Kleon just gave me the answer."
Life, Faith, and Frogs
I have a practice of curating cool things that I share with friends…and (#coincidence?) this post from last week made me think about that practice in a different way. Austin Kleon writes an amazing…
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 13h
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 14h
Amy in Georgia takes medicine to stop a brain tumor from blinding her.

If ACA tax credits expire, she can’t afford it.

Her vision—her life—is on the line.

This is what GOP “shutdown politics” looks like.
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d
🎃 October 14 🎃
" Four score and seven skeets ago..."
It's a goat dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h
“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 1d
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It newrepublic.com/post/201625/... via @newrepublic.com

"...We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 15h
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h
Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20h
California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 21h
I may have found the perfect 3am on call breakfast. #CallFood #HealingTheHealers
Crustless Egg and Cheese Quiche Recipe
If you love quiche, get to know this crustless version, dotted with cheese, mushrooms and herbs (and no fussy pastry to chill or roll) Once you master the perfect dairy-to-egg ratio, you’ll find this…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her. Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk. Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d
The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.
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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 1d
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice.

Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice.

Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice.

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
Donald Trump thinks he’s all powerful. It’s up to us to remind him on October 18th that he’s not.

We will show him who really has the power in this country — and we will do it peacefully. nokings.org
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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23h
📣Protesting is important. It is a visible reminder that we are not alone and that we are not powerless. It sends a message to those weak men in DC: that we will not give up our freedoms without a fight 🇺🇸

See you on Saturday. Bring friends 💪

#NoKings 🚫👑

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No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d
Another reminder for night sky, I post one of these every morning.
Collage of various animals on our farm wearing Halloween costumes
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 1d
"They don't want anyone going in there, seeing the horrible conditions inside and offering any support to these people that they are detaining." #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #RememberThePoor #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/news/activis...
Activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions
A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
Solidarity is the only way
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 22h
This wins Bluesky today. It is BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1d
Jesse Watters tried to make a protester he dubbed "Antifa Kermit" look menacing. I added the words of Secretary of Homeland Security describing Antifa along with some footage of Antifa protesters from an ABC affiliate Local 10 News. The music is royalty free.🎶🪩💃🕺
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter
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