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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll

@brendonowicz.bsky.social

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Psychiatrist specialized in PTSD/EMDR, ketamine + transcranial magnetic stimulation. Neuroscientist (PhD) in socioemotional brain devt., autism, adversity/trauma + medication augmented exposure therapy. Anticapitalist+antifascist nerd. Opinions=own #Medsky

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · Nov 18

Looks like I still need my old pinned tweet

Quote tweet of a Vinay Prasad post from September 16, 2022 titled "When scientists' anxiety disorder interferes with other people's lives" and subtitled "It's a problem when it interferes with your life, but when it affects others, it's a disaster"
The quote tweet is by Siyab Panhwar, MD, who notes "As per esteemed psychiatrist Dr Vinay Prasad - if you have concerns about COVID you could have an anxiety disorder".
My response to this was the following: In psychiatry, we treat "COVID anxiety disorder" with respirators, air filtration, sterilizing UVC, social distancing, work from home if possible, and recommend restarting the child tax credit + boosted unemployment support, since financial strain is a terrible driver of anxiety!

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ScholerinED @scholerined.bsky.social · 17h

While I was in the waiting room for a medical appointment a young woman walked in. When she checked in they asked her about any infectious symptoms and she said “just a cough” then proceeded to sit down a few chairs away and cough occasionally WITHOUT A MASK. Do better people, do better. #Covid #Flu

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 19h

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 19h

Hope this helps!

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THE NATIONAL
THE NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND

Headline: HOW GENOCIDE HAPPENED
"No Arab will remain in Gaza"
"No-one must inhabit this land if it is not the Jewish people"
"Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz museum"
"I am for war crimes, I don't care if l'm criticised"
"Aid trucks continue to enter Gaza... enough!"
"We are too humanitarian. We have to burn Gaza now"
"It's not Hamas that should be eliminated. Raze Gaza"
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators"
"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being involved"
FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT
As Israel continues to deny genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words - from the country's own prime minister, press and more - that show how atrocity came to pass

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LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 19h

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder.
www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality

Carel: Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation.

www.the74million.org

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 1d

A few weeks ago there was a #Covid19 outbreak on my Mom’s memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a resident’s room, they were req’d to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.😡

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 20h

This single screenshot from the Wikipedia page on the Sicilian Worker’s Leagues goes so fucking hard. They declared the unions and uprisings to be crisis actors paid by S̶o̶r̶o̶s̶ France, so they sent the military to invade the region, banned unions, killed/imprisoned socialists, and purged voter rolls.

From the Wikipedia page on Sicilian Workers Leagues (Fasci; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasci_Siciliani) the end of the section titled “Rising Tensions” is followed by the start of the “Crackdown”section. If you are familiar with the state of the US, this all should feel very familiar:

The disorders were not the product of a revolutionary plot, but Crispi chose to believe otherwise. On the basis of dubious documents and reports, Crispi claimed that there was an organised conspiracy to separate Sicily from Italy; the leaders of the Fasci conspired with the clerics and were financed by French gold, and war and invasion was looming. (33][431(44]

Crackdown

On January 3, 1894, Crispi declared a state of siege throughout Sicily. Army reservists were recalled and General Roberto Morra di Lavriano
was dispatched with 40,000 troops. 45][46] The old order was restored through the use of extreme force, including summary executions.[33] The Fasci were outlawed, the army and the police killed scores of protesters, and wounded hundreds. Thousands of militants, including all the leaders, were put in jail or sent into internal exile.[31] Some 1,000 persons were deported to the penal islands without trial. All working-class societies and cooperatives were dissolved and the freedom of the press, meeting and association were suspended. A solidarity revolt of anarchists and republicans in the Lunigiana was crushed as well.[33] The government also seized the opportunity to 'revise' the electoral registers. In Catania 5,000 of the 9,000 electors were struck off.[47]

Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 21h

Learning that “Columbus Day” was declared to placate Sicilian-Americans after 11 were lynched in New Orleans in 1891 does not, in fact, make me feel proud. My Sicilian blood makes me want to honor the first peoples and promote Italian anarchocommunism & antifascism. Land back for indigenous peoples!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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hand_to_eye @delightw2023.bsky.social · 1d

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Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social · 1d

To all those saying “We’ll take the government back in the midterms”: 27 states use Dominion voting machines. Dominion has been sold to a new company, Liberty Vote, run by a former Missouri Republican election director, Scott Leiendecker. /

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 2d

We’re making progress on intranasal delivery of our low cost recombinant protein Covid vaccine, in collaboration with @tulanemedicine.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Frontiers | Heterologous prime-pull mucosal vaccination with an adjuvanted RBD vaccine elicits robust IgA production and protects against SARS-CoV-2

Despite the efficacy of approved severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines in preventing severe disease and death, breakthrough i...

www.frontiersin.org

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty of saying “hospitals are ready” by increasing ICU beds and body bags… instead of fixing the ventilation.

Just mull over that for a bit #MedSky.

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Megan E. Human (free Link) @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 2d

Not spam, please help if you can

AHMAD-JOHAR 13🕊𓂆 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 5d

After this historic moment and the ceasefire coming into effect, my family, my friends, my neighbors, and I are crying tears of overwhelming happiness.

From now on, we will not lose our friends, we will not lose our loved ones, we will not be forced to flee, and we will not leave our homes.1/3⬇️😭🕊😭🕊

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 2d

It seems that US liberals have conveniently forgotten that during Biden's four years as President of the US, Covid-19 was deliberately allowed to spread without control, resulting in the current situation of unrestrained contagion, repeated infections, mass illness, and excess mortality.

#COVID19

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 3d

“After the pandemic” 🤦

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 3d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 4d

3/ American adults & kids. An important part of separating folks from their healthcare w/o blowback is first laying groundwork to convince them that they didn't want or need it to begin with; in fact, that it was hurting them.

And the first, just world belief (that you deserve whatever happens to

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 4d

YALL.

Remember what I said to yall about preordering. Even if you dont plan on reading an author’s book, preordering is EXTREMELY important because it tells book publishers the kind of books they need to invest more in.

Preorder TODAY

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4d

Drake lost that rap battle so badly that I wrote about it in my book about SPACE-TIME

A rap battle loss of literally cosmological proportions

Find out how by preordering a copy!!

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 4d

🚨Just heard from a world leader: "We have a global pandemic of politicians, organizations, and other non-medical institutions interfering with the medical profession."

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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