Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project
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from the dissent: flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
from the dissent: flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/down...
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
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I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television
Despite seeing The Mavericks three times, I'm somehow late to the news of Raul Malo's passing. His solo career was equally incredible.
"One night you're making memories, then that's all you are..."
youtu.be/NlgHvy-bEls?...
"One night you're making memories, then that's all you are..."
youtu.be/NlgHvy-bEls?...
December 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Despite seeing The Mavericks three times, I'm somehow late to the news of Raul Malo's passing. His solo career was equally incredible.
"One night you're making memories, then that's all you are..."
youtu.be/NlgHvy-bEls?...
"One night you're making memories, then that's all you are..."
youtu.be/NlgHvy-bEls?...
The friends we made along the way. #SavedYouAClick
The jackpot will grow again if no winner is selected on Monday night.
Here’s What The Winner Of Powerball’s $1.1 Billion Jackpot Takes Home After Taxes
The jackpot will grow again if no winner is selected on Monday night.
www.forbes.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The friends we made along the way. #SavedYouAClick
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Bleeding control training is one of those things that lay people do precisely the same initial steps as first responders, and they are usually the ones that make the difference between someone bleeding out or not.
Find a class near you.
Find a class near you.
Actually, given recent events I’d be irresponsible not to encourage folks to *actually* learn bleeding control.
It’s one of those skills that is absolutely life saving, relatively easy to learn, and will keep someone alive long enough for someone like me to do more.
www.stopthebleed.org
It’s one of those skills that is absolutely life saving, relatively easy to learn, and will keep someone alive long enough for someone like me to do more.
www.stopthebleed.org
ACS Stop the Bleed
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December 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bleeding control training is one of those things that lay people do precisely the same initial steps as first responders, and they are usually the ones that make the difference between someone bleeding out or not.
Find a class near you.
Find a class near you.
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In a very dark and frustrating year, one of the few positives is Josh Johnson’s incredible and unprecedented run of weekly hour-long comedy sets that feature new material each time. They are often both hilarious & thoughtful. Always worth the 60 minutes. (Or 30 at 2x speed.) youtu.be/ZlAgdQaUt38?...
50 Goes #1 on Netflix with Diddy Doc
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In a very dark and frustrating year, one of the few positives is Josh Johnson’s incredible and unprecedented run of weekly hour-long comedy sets that feature new material each time. They are often both hilarious & thoughtful. Always worth the 60 minutes. (Or 30 at 2x speed.) youtu.be/ZlAgdQaUt38?...
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'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed
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It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...
December 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports
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The joys of people finding out who Biff Poggi is 😂
December 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The joys of people finding out who Biff Poggi is 😂
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Shoutout the all the college football podcasts that just posted their coach carousel closer eps like yesterday
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Shoutout the all the college football podcasts that just posted their coach carousel closer eps like yesterday
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Florida represent!
People often forget that Zora Neale Hurston was a trailblazing cultural anthropologist whose ethnographies are, to this day, still some of the finest examples of the genre
“Tell My Horse” is a great book by the way.
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Florida represent!
UPDATE: false 9 Barry and find more minutes for Alcaraz (AFVON will find them for us). Find a way to get money for Dwight in a way that doesn't help Forest.
False 9 Alcaraz, bench Barry, and listen to offers for Beto. Get McNeil to Narcs Forest and let Dibling find his footing.
#utft
#utft
a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man at a table in a restaurant .
Alt: Ryan Gosling: "well, you gotta die of something"
(It's actually a quote from THE UNTOUCHABLES but I couldn't find that gif)
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
UPDATE: false 9 Barry and find more minutes for Alcaraz (AFVON will find them for us). Find a way to get money for Dwight in a way that doesn't help Forest.
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It’s come to my attention that Melville House, who kindly published my book about Tennessee’s death row community living and dying through a historic execution spree, is offering 30% off on all books right now. Check out mine and/or read HOW TO DO NOTHING if you haven’t. mhpbooks.com/books/death-...
Death Row Welcomes You
Melville House is an independent publisher with offices in Brooklyn and London.
mhpbooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s come to my attention that Melville House, who kindly published my book about Tennessee’s death row community living and dying through a historic execution spree, is offering 30% off on all books right now. Check out mine and/or read HOW TO DO NOTHING if you haven’t. mhpbooks.com/books/death-...
The NIL era hasn't been perfect, but the people who contended that Alabama would simply buy all the talent should be asked to contend with a Heisman finalist from Vanderbilt.
December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The NIL era hasn't been perfect, but the people who contended that Alabama would simply buy all the talent should be asked to contend with a Heisman finalist from Vanderbilt.
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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
December 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped.
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file?
ME: that's not-
CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-
I love the Gators/Toffees/Jags/etc., but it's impossible to go to a high school or small college game and not come away thinking "this is exactly as big as it was ever meant to get."
The 2025 Taylor University "Silent Night Game"
The NAIA school holds it every year the Friday before finals; students remain quiet until the 10th point is scored and then...
📹: @GopherHole on 𝕏
The NAIA school holds it every year the Friday before finals; students remain quiet until the 10th point is scored and then...
📹: @GopherHole on 𝕏
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I love the Gators/Toffees/Jags/etc., but it's impossible to go to a high school or small college game and not come away thinking "this is exactly as big as it was ever meant to get."
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I hate this like everybody else, but I have to wonder what else could have happened.
A significant portion of the fan base that wants nothing to ever change*, which isn't really realistic for a music genre. The compromise has been wholesale change but with "authentic" keyword strings for lyrics.
A significant portion of the fan base that wants nothing to ever change*, which isn't really realistic for a music genre. The compromise has been wholesale change but with "authentic" keyword strings for lyrics.
Get ready for an AI country music explosion
The future of country music is here, and it’s AI
For AI and country.
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I hate this like everybody else, but I have to wonder what else could have happened.
A significant portion of the fan base that wants nothing to ever change*, which isn't really realistic for a music genre. The compromise has been wholesale change but with "authentic" keyword strings for lyrics.
A significant portion of the fan base that wants nothing to ever change*, which isn't really realistic for a music genre. The compromise has been wholesale change but with "authentic" keyword strings for lyrics.
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This is why all the corrupt pardon recipients if they're not total idiots should be terrified and outraged at any suggestion that a purported pardon document not be taken at face value. For some of them, there may be no living soul that would testify how the president actually authorized the pardon.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is why all the corrupt pardon recipients if they're not total idiots should be terrified and outraged at any suggestion that a purported pardon document not be taken at face value. For some of them, there may be no living soul that would testify how the president actually authorized the pardon.
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Thanks to @jonschuppe.bsky.social and Mackenzie Mays at @nbcnews.com for this important feature on the inhumane treatment pregnant women face in prison. My client Jemika Johnson, who lost her baby when she gave birth in solitary, alone and without care, is included.
'Why won't you help me?' Pregnant women and their babies are dying in jail
Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Thanks to @jonschuppe.bsky.social and Mackenzie Mays at @nbcnews.com for this important feature on the inhumane treatment pregnant women face in prison. My client Jemika Johnson, who lost her baby when she gave birth in solitary, alone and without care, is included.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A lot of folks use the term “EMT” and “paramedic” interchangeably, but that obscures the dramatic difference in capability and training required between the two roles.
The chart in the linked post goes into more detail, but they’re important distinctions!
The chart in the linked post goes into more detail, but they’re important distinctions!
Common mistake! EMT and paramedic aren’t the same thing, but you can say that “paramedic” is a level of EMT.
The difference between an EMT and a paramedic is several hundred classroom and field hours + years of experience. I made a chart for a publication a few years back to explain this.
The difference between an EMT and a paramedic is several hundred classroom and field hours + years of experience. I made a chart for a publication a few years back to explain this.
![Table from a book chapter I wrote a few years back that touches on the different levels of emergency medical responder. These are generalities and not necessarily how everywhere works, but is meant to broadly describe the US system.
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H. M. Pitchford et al.
Table 16.3 Overview of emergency medical technician (EMT) training and scope of practice [59, 84, 86]
Emergency medical responder and EMT'
Advanced EMT or
EMT intermediate"
Paramedica
Level of training
Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
Approximate hours of training
120-150 hours
1000 hours
1200-1800 hours
Medication training
Oxygen, may assist medications already prescribed to them, like oral glucose, nitroglycerin, and epinephrine auto injectors
Protocolized administration of certain medications including some narcotics, narcotic
nitroglycerine, intramuscular epinephrine, intravenous glucose, and nebulized medications
Expanded list of medication defined by local operational medical director. Includes intravenous and intraosseous medication, vasoactive
Interventions and psychomotor skills
Fundamental assessment, airway adjuncts, bag mask
basic bandaging.
Advanced assessment, airway management with multi-lumen
ventilation, splinting, airways. In some areas
EMT-Is are eligible for
spinal immobilization advanced training such
as ACLS and are trained to perform
Advanced assessment; EKG interpretation; definitive airway management including tracheal intubation, cricothyroidotomy;
needle decompression;
management of certain medical devices like central lines, BiPAP, and capnography; and
endotracheal intubation blood chemistry analysis
"Local regulation may reference prehospital providers' level of responsibility by different names; this chart is to serve as a general overview with the understanding there may be significant variation at the local level](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3ojlrw6rdx5as5pjjes5bpxp/bafkreifqytpxd6hwfcqbr7636445c6o2rggcw6q5ayxtskpgyzs3odltyu@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A lot of folks use the term “EMT” and “paramedic” interchangeably, but that obscures the dramatic difference in capability and training required between the two roles.
The chart in the linked post goes into more detail, but they’re important distinctions!
The chart in the linked post goes into more detail, but they’re important distinctions!
The fire departments that do EMS well (they exist, and I've been part of multiple) understand and internalize what it is. Too many consider it just another ancillary duty.
So as a necessity many departments increased their EMS responsibilities, that’s what the calls for service were and they were the entity that was deigned to respond.
EMS training and proficiency is entirely separate from firefighting, I can say that because I’ve done both. Choose one to excel at.
EMS training and proficiency is entirely separate from firefighting, I can say that because I’ve done both. Choose one to excel at.
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The fire departments that do EMS well (they exist, and I've been part of multiple) understand and internalize what it is. Too many consider it just another ancillary duty.
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This is true and it goes deeper than this.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is true and it goes deeper than this.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.
EMS in the United states is a poorly regulated enterprise, and is typically supported in whole or in part by local *fire* departments that have had to adapt over the last generation or two to increasing emergency medical services needs.