Pete Bachman (he/him)
@petebachman.bsky.social
Pediatric Psychologist at a hospital and medical school
Early-Onset Psychosis
There are several clinicians named Pete Bachman. I could be any of them. None of my posts are medical advice. These are my own views, whoever I am.
Early-Onset Psychosis
There are several clinicians named Pete Bachman. I could be any of them. None of my posts are medical advice. These are my own views, whoever I am.
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It's embarrassing that our state still hasn't taken action to disentangle state and local law enforcement from ICE. Let's get it done already. #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Immigrant groups want Beacon Hill to bolster protections for migrants in Massachusetts
Immigrant rights advocates called on Beacon Hill Democrats Tuesday to pass a trio of policies they argued would bolster protections for migrants who are being targeted for deportation amid a push by P...
www.wbur.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
It's embarrassing that our state still hasn't taken action to disentangle state and local law enforcement from ICE. Let's get it done already. #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Ugh, help us out here, BBC! I listen to many of your podcasts. Now I need you to do a favor for me.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ugh, help us out here, BBC! I listen to many of your podcasts. Now I need you to do a favor for me.
Although statistically impossible, it appears there’s no floor to Trump’s sinking approval rate in Mass, Vermont, Maryland, Illinois, NM, and Washington.
Trump’s approval collapses nationwide, turning several deep-red states negative — Economist tracker
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Although statistically impossible, it appears there’s no floor to Trump’s sinking approval rate in Mass, Vermont, Maryland, Illinois, NM, and Washington.
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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"I am so sick of hearing about the teens. It was the 1980s. People don’t understand that New Jersey in the ’80s was a different time. Move on."
How Dare You Embarrass My Esteemed Guest, Jason Voorhees
“President Trump assailed an American journalist in the Oval Office on Tuesday for asking Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, about t...
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"I am so sick of hearing about the teens. It was the 1980s. People don’t understand that New Jersey in the ’80s was a different time. Move on."
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An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
President insists his word is the one and only law in this land.
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
An argument that didn’t work for Calley at My Lai, that didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg
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RIP Caesar, you would have loved that the named a salad dressing after you.
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
RIP Caesar, you would have loved that the named a salad dressing after you.
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Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say that, privately, the couple disapproves of executing the president's political opponents.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Sources close to Jared and Ivanka say that, privately, the couple disapproves of executing the president's political opponents.
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Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
Secretary Kennedy, speaking to a bipartisan group of governors, has mixed up Medicare and Medicaid, and implied the people who will lose the latter are either unauthorized immigrants, dual eligible, or people who “don’t want to get a job.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
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The North America measles outbreak started at a Mennonite wedding in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada (close to my rural conservative hometown). Patient Zero was an unvaxxed English teacher working in Thailand. Measles is incredibly contagious—every unvaxxed person at the wedding was infected!
Opinion: How a single measles case became 5,000 – and the lessons not learned
It’s important not to lay blame, but to understand the virus’s epidemiology
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The North America measles outbreak started at a Mennonite wedding in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada (close to my rural conservative hometown). Patient Zero was an unvaxxed English teacher working in Thailand. Measles is incredibly contagious—every unvaxxed person at the wedding was infected!
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We're all using them wrong.
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We're all using them wrong.
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Happy symposium day!
Join us virtually for the 2025 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity, where a keynote address and engaging panel discussions will explore how comprehensive approaches can meaningfully respond to the global crisis in mental health care.
RSVP: act.pih.org/symposium-li...
Join us virtually for the 2025 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity, where a keynote address and engaging panel discussions will explore how comprehensive approaches can meaningfully respond to the global crisis in mental health care.
RSVP: act.pih.org/symposium-li...
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Happy symposium day!
Join us virtually for the 2025 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity, where a keynote address and engaging panel discussions will explore how comprehensive approaches can meaningfully respond to the global crisis in mental health care.
RSVP: act.pih.org/symposium-li...
Join us virtually for the 2025 Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity, where a keynote address and engaging panel discussions will explore how comprehensive approaches can meaningfully respond to the global crisis in mental health care.
RSVP: act.pih.org/symposium-li...
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After we’re done making America great again, could we make men be ashamed of disgusting behavior before they get caught?
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
After we’re done making America great again, could we make men be ashamed of disgusting behavior before they get caught?
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If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
I fixed the drain not all heroes wear capes
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I fixed the drain not all heroes wear capes
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
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YOU GUYS... I think I'm gonna go to a #NOKINGS rally tomorrow... I should make a poster... any suggestions? Maybe I'll modify an old art poster I made for the original protests in 2017.
June 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
YOU GUYS... I think I'm gonna go to a #NOKINGS rally tomorrow... I should make a poster... any suggestions? Maybe I'll modify an old art poster I made for the original protests in 2017.
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Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thinking a lot about how poorly our brains recognize long term subtle changes, like climate change or biodiversity loss. We've lost something like 1 out of every 4 individual birds in the US since 1970, more for some species.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
There should be at least 25% more birds around you right now.
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![There are six $2,000 Tariff Checks Hidden In Chocolate Bars Throughout America.
[pic of willy wonka]
@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/bafkreiglw4d7j5wswsrfq4nr47ko6zissrvh2uyzpyjwzybjmmnctdor3e@jpeg)
Maybe just invest another $1.7bn to benefit Canadians and the rest of the world? Because it’s the right thing to do.
Rather than making this a competition over the few researchers who are able to pick up their families and move to another country.
Rather than making this a competition over the few researchers who are able to pick up their families and move to another country.
Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate
Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
www.science.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Maybe just invest another $1.7bn to benefit Canadians and the rest of the world? Because it’s the right thing to do.
Rather than making this a competition over the few researchers who are able to pick up their families and move to another country.
Rather than making this a competition over the few researchers who are able to pick up their families and move to another country.
If this were true, wouldn’t he have done it?
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
If this were true, wouldn’t he have done it?
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It must be ancient.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
It must be ancient.
People forgoing the second proof on the Great British Bake Off is like people drinking stagnant water on Alone.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
People forgoing the second proof on the Great British Bake Off is like people drinking stagnant water on Alone.