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Jack Iwashyna

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I work at Johns Hopkins to help patients + their loved ones heal from critical illness. I mentor clinicians and other scholars to become exceptional scientists. Democracy is a Social Determinant of Health (#SDoH). Preserve it Also #ICU #Baltimore

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · Jun 26

“On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now”

I won an Extraordinary Achievement Award from the Critical Care Assembly last month

The @atscommunity.bsky.social premier journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social TODAY published the remarks I made on that occasion

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On Not Betraying Our Trainees, Especially Now | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 31m

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 28m

Just sayin’

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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

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source: www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 28m

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He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
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He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without…

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He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 28m

… He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 28m

Let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 1d

an article with more context
www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

Billionaire Behind Trump Pressure Campaign on Colleges Owns Predatory University of Phoenix - Republic Report

Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...

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JAMA @jama.com · 1d

💬 Viewpoint: President Trump's use of executive orders to restrict gender-affirming care undermines medical regulation, infringes on physician autonomy, and contravenes legal frameworks.

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A JAMA viewpoint article titled, "Federal Funding Conditions Threaten Gender-Affirming Care Access and Physician Autonomy" by Carmel Shachar, Julia Lynch, and Kevin Costello, published online September 4, 2025.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 2d

“5. Create a Family Preparedness Plan”

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 2d

Cuz

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 3d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 4d

Death and Daring in the ICU week 7 continues to teach me every week

An approach to starting a class discussion of an empirical paper

A discussion of some common ICu drugs over which I have for some reason, without erasing drawn a heart and badly illustrated a heart attack

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 4d

It’s really a remarkable book that has continued to trouble me (in a good way) in the days since I read it

Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 4d

#RXnorm master code file???

Everybody downloads it from NLM, but NLM downloads ( www.nlm.nih.gov/research/uml... ) appear to be offline because of the Trump admin's govt shutdown. Does anyone have a copy they can share with me?

RxNorm Files

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