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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 13m

Going to the city so you don’t have to feel your teeth on edge every time a truck rolls by makes sense to me.

Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 49m

I trust people to make their own assessments, there are valid reasons to be too worried or unable. I’m not talking to the blue dots in klan country, I’m talking to the folks uncomfortable w any disruption. They need to understand it’s not going to get better, especially if *this* is too high a bar.

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 54m

Thiel is paying for this I just know it

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 58m

Thank you @cphickie.bsky.social who has been tracking these guys for as long as I can remember. 10-15 years ago.

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*****
A sad but necessary sequel to "We Want Them
Infected"
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2025
Dr. Howard's previous book "We Want Them Infected" meticulously documented the lies and disinformation of anti-science contrarian physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. WWTI was a wake-up call to the damage these physicians could do if allowed to continue unopposed. Well, continue with minimal opposition these physicians did, and, just as thoroughly, Dr. Howard has documented here in
"Everyone Else is Lying to You" how these disinformers parlayed their prevarications into positions of power within the HHS. Like WWTI, EEILTY was a book I had to take a chapter at a time, due mostly to the overwhelming dismay at how few people did anything to oppose this clearly coordinated overthrow of the US public health system. As someone who professionally worries about anti-vaccinationism, I followed in real time much of what Dr. Howard has written, but the amount of disinformation put forth by and on behalf of these physicians is much better appreciated through the narrative-specific chaptering of EEILTY. In the final chapter of this book, Dr. Howard writes "I can only hope that future medical leaders learn from these mistakes and show some backbone." To that I agree and state that a great place to start learning from these mistakes is this book. --Chris Hickie MD, PhD

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 56m

Bit of an ornithologist are you? 😉

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 57m

Can screencap.

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Sarah Jane 🇨🇦 @nurse-nomad.bsky.social · 2h

New medical school at Simon Fraser University in BC is now accepting applications! It is a 3 year program which will train family physicians.

www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...

Applications open for first cohort at B.C.'s new medical school

While the bricks-and-mortar building is yet to be constructed, instruction in August will begin at an interim location on Simon Fraser University’s Surrey campus.

www.timescolonist.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h

In our new piece in @bmj.com, @michaeldgreen.com & I argue that diversity matters when it comes to medical school admission not only for fairness, equality, & equity but also because research shows that population health outcomes are better with a diverse medical workforce

A matter of life & death

HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 3h

"[DEI] policies are not just about providing fair opportunities to all students. They are a matter of life and death."

Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten Americans’ lives www.bmj.com/content/391/... by @gavinyamey.bsky.social @michaeldgreen.com via @bmj.com

www.bmj.com

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 2h

Oof

A recent study of electronic health records found racial bias in clinicians' assessment of patients' credibility19 Specifically, "clinicians were more likely to insinuate in the electronic health record that black
compared to white patients were not truthful and not competent in reporting their own experiences." In the emergency department, black patients wait longer to be seen by a clinician.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who normalized or defended this guy was normalizing and defending a MAGA propagandist.

Bravo. 🧵

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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 2h

Omg get your white asses out there.

Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 2h

All I have to say about white people worried that protesting this weekend won’t be safe: this is the safest it will be until this problem is handled. Gather thine gonads and get your ass out there (appropriate exceptions aside ofc)

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 2h

There must be consequences. There must.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 1d

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 2h

All I have to say about white people worried that protesting this weekend won’t be safe: this is the safest it will be until this problem is handled. Gather thine gonads and get your ass out there (appropriate exceptions aside ofc)

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Karen “the good kind” @kpsinging.bsky.social · 4h

Does it send you unsolicited chip picks?

Get it? that's computer jargon humor

Check out my rack server baby

The Verge @theverge.com · 9h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 4h

That’s what I’m talking about!

Darwin Jones @darwinjones.bsky.social · 4h

A neighbor of mine.

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 4h

✍🏻

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 4h

I miss pumpkin trebuchets

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 4h

I’m begging the people who still use meta products to please consider what their interaction enables. I get that it’s less overtly toxic than X, but it is just another form of billionaire controlled propaganda. The harm shouldn’t have to be direct to make you avoid it. 🙏🥺

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4h

The Facebook page ICE Sighting-Chicagoland with over 70,000 members has been taken down by Meta.

Meta spokesperson Francis Brennan, who was director of strategic response for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, said the page violated its policies on coordinating harm.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4h

A Facebook group that shared information on sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Chicago area was taken down by Meta following pressure from the Justice Department, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Doctor Hurdy Gurdy @notarealdoctor.bsky.social · 15h

smdh, can't even afford to put avocado on your sugar babies anymore in this economy

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h

c.w. torture

Torture device manufacturers in the U.S. stay innovating.

ICE has chosen the "Wrap" a full-body restraint device, to use for removals of people to 3rd countries. (Not being taken to home countries, other countries.)

@apnews.com: one man says ICE kept him in the Wrap for 16 hours.

[So disturbing. I'll do my best to describe.]

Video still:

This appears to be a video created by the company to demonstate the product, not a real prisoner. The whole lower body of a man is placed in almost a blanket that is strapped around him. There are multiple straps the size of large seatbelts with big buckles. There are straps that go over his shoulders. He is also back-cuffed. This video is a still from the moment when a helmet the size of a motorcycle helmet is being placed on his head and strapped on under his chin. he is also wearing a pale blue lightweight surgical mask.

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1 of 5 | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations. That continued despite concerns about safety from a watchdog division of its parent agency, the US Dept. of Homeland Security. (AP Video/Allen G. Breed)

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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 10h

This is literally the Andrew Wakefield playbook for claiming the MMR vaccine caused autism. Nobody should let this creep (and Prasad) ever escape embracing the brand of Wakefield-er.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 15h

“Makary, too, has made scientifically dubious statements, saying in an interview that self-reported adverse events are proof enough that Covid-19 vaccines killed children. Most recently, he overstated the benefits of leucovorin for kids with autism.”

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Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re afraid to go to a No Kings rally in defense of you’re first amendment rights; then you have given away you’re first amendment rights. Stand up for your rights, with your community, stronger together, the marches are for us to feel strong because we are.

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Leah B. Gilliam, MD @drgruralmd.bsky.social · 1d

When I was in high school and went to Spain they took us to a place that housed the remains of what was thought to be Christopher Columbus’s son. That, my friends, is some serious nepo baby 💩. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 1d

I love this for you. Medication is life saving. 🫂

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 1d

No more cold breakfast sandwich baybee

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