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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH

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Dad Assistant Prof of Medicine @ BU Academic Hospitalist & Medical Educator Progressive, Antiracist, ANTIFASCIST Loudmouth Bostonian speaking only for myself.

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ouch

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hello, I joined Nov ‘24 and I have incredibly shitty opinions

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 7h

His friend Bob Kraft owns the stadium. He won’t be moving them from Foxboro.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples Day, I acknowledge that I live on the ancestral land of the Massachusett.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever I remember jd exists:

“I have an inspiring story of beating the odds as a white man in America”

“I met some rich tech fascists and converted to post-liberal Catholicism and in the process sold my soul to AI egregore”

“I lie on TV for a living and pretend I’m not dead inside”

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 2d

This talking point is so incredibly dishonest. A huge number of people who have Medicaid HAVE JOBS THAT DON’T PROVIDE INSURANCE.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Winsome Earle-Sears: "The hospitals that are closing? They were closing long before the bill passed ... why should you have Medicaid when you're able-bodied?"

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

And just like that, Jerry launches the standup careers of hundreds of laid off CDC workers

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

Damn just a series of cool people people passing away recently. RIP #DianeKeaton

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

May I take your order? #Caturday

Tuxedo cat sitting on a scratch furniture facing towards camera with paw over the side

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Every school should reject this garbage.

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 4d

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah thats a fun pack of lies there.

Also I like how COVID and flu vaccines are tucked in there like we haven’t been hearing they’re the devil for the last few years.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 3d

Shit now I want some gumbo

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

AstraZeneca is a $270 billion dollar company. They can find $50 million under their couch cushions.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

Oh honey

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

If I thought Greta Thunberg was the Antichrist like peter thiel apparently does, I’d probably be constantly sweating through my clothes as well.

I swear these wannabe philosopher kings are quite the collection of sophomoric weirdos. God help us.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

The Qatari Air Force facility isn’t worth a freak out. The base they’re going to use is commonly used for foreign pilots to train alongside our forces. Qatar bought these F15s like 10 years ago and will train with them in Idaho. It’s not a base owned and operated by them.

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

Again, the best way to understand rfk jr’s worldview is to combine an obsession with the distant past having been a healthier time with a kind of twisted Darwinism amounting to eugenics.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah the guy bombing random people in the Caribbean and sending the military to the streets in his own cities was never going to win the Nobel peace prize.

To give it to the Venezuelan opposition leader, while calling out authoritarianism…point taken.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 5d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah well I resuscitated a cat once with an envelope folding machine back in college so there!

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 5d

This is utterly insane. Emergency medicine is not equipped to perform surgery, advanced specialty care, or conditions requiring more than a few hours of treatment. It’s not their training and it’s not what they are outfitted to do. Plus an “ER model” is not a viable financial strategy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 8d

If this is how you advance UBI as a viable plan then sure. Otherwise lol

Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 8d

Vascular dementia progression is uneven and patient-dependent. One fairly common feature is decline in fits and starts, followed by periods of relative stability. Additional cerebrovascular events, like TIAs, accelerate the decline.

Apropos of nothing in particular.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

If I were starting a civil war, I would send National Guard troops from one state to another.

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Tom Ostrander, MD, MPH @tawmussohhh.bsky.social · 9d

Men who are desperate to meet women will do anything except learn to dance a little.