@kfunk937.bsky.social
My thing, cradle to grave, is mostly healthcare. Later, disaster litigation tourism. Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.)
Raised by pirates. Bad pacifist.
Raised by pirates. Bad pacifist.
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The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!
COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.
Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.
How did that happen?🧵
sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.
Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.
How did that happen?🧵
sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
sciencebasedmedicine.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done!
COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.
Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.
How did that happen?🧵
sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions.
Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine.
How did that happen?🧵
sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
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On this date in 1864, several hundred volunteers of the Third Colorado Cavalry at Sand Creek in what is now Colorado killed 150-230 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at a camp the Army had told the Natives to gather at if they wanted to be safe from attack. www.cpr.org/2025/11/28/w...
New Sand Creek Massacre book revives letters and the moral courage of Capt. Silas Soule, the officer who refused to fire
“Witness at Sand Creek” traces Capt. Silas Soule’s life through his letters that reveal why he refused to fire on Cheyenne and Arapaho families during the Sand Creek Massacre. The book highlights his ...
www.cpr.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
On this date in 1864, several hundred volunteers of the Third Colorado Cavalry at Sand Creek in what is now Colorado killed 150-230 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at a camp the Army had told the Natives to gather at if they wanted to be safe from attack. www.cpr.org/2025/11/28/w...
My person is likely to stop car jump out with keys
If he doesn't run over me, which he has also done
GI people should adjust their focus
So, I asked my insurer whether I should lie, and he almost died laughing
"YesYesYesYesYes"
If he doesn't run over me, which he has also done
GI people should adjust their focus
So, I asked my insurer whether I should lie, and he almost died laughing
"YesYesYesYesYes"
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My person is likely to stop car jump out with keys
If he doesn't run over me, which he has also done
GI people should adjust their focus
So, I asked my insurer whether I should lie, and he almost died laughing
"YesYesYesYesYes"
If he doesn't run over me, which he has also done
GI people should adjust their focus
So, I asked my insurer whether I should lie, and he almost died laughing
"YesYesYesYesYes"
Very sorry for the National Guard
prolly results in escalation, though
I don't think they would've wanted that
also, not why they signed up
(long-time next-door to Guard, like BOOM)
(also BOOM, BOOM, more BOOM, etc.)
prolly results in escalation, though
I don't think they would've wanted that
also, not why they signed up
(long-time next-door to Guard, like BOOM)
(also BOOM, BOOM, more BOOM, etc.)
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Very sorry for the National Guard
prolly results in escalation, though
I don't think they would've wanted that
also, not why they signed up
(long-time next-door to Guard, like BOOM)
(also BOOM, BOOM, more BOOM, etc.)
prolly results in escalation, though
I don't think they would've wanted that
also, not why they signed up
(long-time next-door to Guard, like BOOM)
(also BOOM, BOOM, more BOOM, etc.)
Between them, my grands had 13 languages.
Some duplicated. But, multilingal, because
if your neighbors in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky etc are monolinguial
I guess it's a European thing
Some duplicated. But, multilingal, because
if your neighbors in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky etc are monolinguial
I guess it's a European thing
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Between them, my grands had 13 languages.
Some duplicated. But, multilingal, because
if your neighbors in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky etc are monolinguial
I guess it's a European thing
Some duplicated. But, multilingal, because
if your neighbors in Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky etc are monolinguial
I guess it's a European thing
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I did, and if you possibly can, you should too.
If you haven't yet done so, Pls submit a brief comment for the #ACIP meeting to www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...
Due by Mon pm. At a min, say something like, "CDC ACIP advisors should support access to ALL vaccines on the current child and adolescent vaccine schedules.
Due by Mon pm. At a min, say something like, "CDC ACIP advisors should support access to ALL vaccines on the current child and adolescent vaccine schedules.
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I did, and if you possibly can, you should too.
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I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
AAP: ‘Stop wasting government resources to amplify false claims’ about vaccines, autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its website to include false claims linking vaccines and autism, prompting a swift rebuke from the AAP and other medical experts.
publications.aap.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I don’t think people outside of healthcare realize how much AAP is standing out as a moral backbone of medicine right now, especially in pediatrics. There is so much fear at institutions. Seeing an org directly and repeatedly targeted refuse to budge an inch is extraordinary.
I'm not a big fan of holidays, but the ones I tended to like were mostly expressed about food or lack thereof, so
Thanksgiving, albeit problematic
Pesach
Ramadan
Theme, underlying: food insecurity
Big surprise about my hardwire
Thanksgiving, albeit problematic
Pesach
Ramadan
Theme, underlying: food insecurity
Big surprise about my hardwire
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'm not a big fan of holidays, but the ones I tended to like were mostly expressed about food or lack thereof, so
Thanksgiving, albeit problematic
Pesach
Ramadan
Theme, underlying: food insecurity
Big surprise about my hardwire
Thanksgiving, albeit problematic
Pesach
Ramadan
Theme, underlying: food insecurity
Big surprise about my hardwire
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In O Brother Where Art Thou the George Clooney character has a fight in Woolworths resulting in his banishment. I use the phrase typically after a friend describes any event that ends up requiring tow trucks, fire extinguishers, locksmiths, and/or store staff with mops
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In O Brother Where Art Thou the George Clooney character has a fight in Woolworths resulting in his banishment. I use the phrase typically after a friend describes any event that ends up requiring tow trucks, fire extinguishers, locksmiths, and/or store staff with mops
The only reason I ever noticed her
Giuliani ass-dial
at the time, it seemed neutral
Giuliani ass-dial
at the time, it seemed neutral
I feel like Nuzzi's chumminess with Rudy Giuliani has not yet shown up in this story. She was vicious about this Joe Biden profile AND ALSO her early stewardship of the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was groundbreaking but which she refused to revisit as we learned more).
Old enough to remember Very Serious Journalists who lapped up the Nuzzi piece on Biden last summer as gospel and if you think anyone in that category is going to offer a mea culpa you’ve got another thing coming.
November 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The only reason I ever noticed her
Giuliani ass-dial
at the time, it seemed neutral
Giuliani ass-dial
at the time, it seemed neutral
Not only looking bored, but let's memorialise the photos of them wearing bright yellow hazard safety vests
like people sentenced to community service
spiking trash
maybe, but prolly not, they will begin to question their orders, or at least, object
like people sentenced to community service
spiking trash
maybe, but prolly not, they will begin to question their orders, or at least, object
I just feel awful for the National Guard troopers caught up in this. They’re just standing around looking bored all the time, but they have been made into a deliberate symbol by the Trump admin and that may have made them a target for this gunman.
BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration would send hundreds of additional National Guard soldiers to the nation’s capital after two soldiers were shot in the city Wednesday.
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Not only looking bored, but let's memorialise the photos of them wearing bright yellow hazard safety vests
like people sentenced to community service
spiking trash
maybe, but prolly not, they will begin to question their orders, or at least, object
like people sentenced to community service
spiking trash
maybe, but prolly not, they will begin to question their orders, or at least, object
Raises questions
Why can't the crunchy wing be logically consistent?
Question raised by T-shirt, answered on T-shirt.
Why can't the crunchy wing be logically consistent?
Question raised by T-shirt, answered on T-shirt.
New @pnas.org
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"This work represents the most extensive study to
date regarding the effect of tattoo ink on the immune response and raises serious health concerns associated with the tattooing" including reduced response to Covid vaccination
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS
Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported
the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...
www.pnas.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Raises questions
Why can't the crunchy wing be logically consistent?
Question raised by T-shirt, answered on T-shirt.
Why can't the crunchy wing be logically consistent?
Question raised by T-shirt, answered on T-shirt.
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Contrary to what you might read on Axios, DOJ is not filing an Emergency Appeal on Jia Cobb's Guard deployment order BECAUSE of the shooting. They noticed their appeal on Tuesday.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Contrary to what you might read on Axios, DOJ is not filing an Emergency Appeal on Jia Cobb's Guard deployment order BECAUSE of the shooting. They noticed their appeal on Tuesday.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That is the danger
Some thing, randomish
We've seem this before, in history, and so far, it's en pointe.
Some thing, randomish
We've seem this before, in history, and so far, it's en pointe.
I’m suggesting that this admin will take a lone wolf attack like this as an opportunity to oppress hundreds of thousands of people who have absolutely nothing to do with it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
That is the danger
Some thing, randomish
We've seem this before, in history, and so far, it's en pointe.
Some thing, randomish
We've seem this before, in history, and so far, it's en pointe.
Better yet
why does Steve Witkoff keep talking
full stop
why does Steve Witkoff keep talking
full stop
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Better yet
why does Steve Witkoff keep talking
full stop
why does Steve Witkoff keep talking
full stop
There are arguably legit criticisms
but these are not them
but these are not them
JeebusHFC on a handtruck
"Reasonable minds could differ as to how to interpret" Trump's call to Raffensperger, writes Skandalakis in his memo dropping the case, without quoting any portion of the call. Here's his assessment at left, and an excerpt from the call, at right.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
There are arguably legit criticisms
but these are not them
but these are not them
JeebusHFC on a handtruck
"Reasonable minds could differ as to how to interpret" Trump's call to Raffensperger, writes Skandalakis in his memo dropping the case, without quoting any portion of the call. Here's his assessment at left, and an excerpt from the call, at right.
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
JeebusHFC on a handtruck
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FFS, #NYT, quit calling this a " #crackdown". It makes it sound like what the government is doing is a legal operation. Call it what it is: A #persecution of immigrants. Stop legitimizing the Tyrant.
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
FFS, #NYT, quit calling this a " #crackdown". It makes it sound like what the government is doing is a legal operation. Call it what it is: A #persecution of immigrants. Stop legitimizing the Tyrant.
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This will undoubtedly get put on hold pending appeal, but the cases sited are disturbing. A University of Utah student was arrested as she drove through Western Colorado. She was deemed a flight risk and detained because she had Utah plates while driving in Colorado. A worker who had been here for
Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This will undoubtedly get put on hold pending appeal, but the cases sited are disturbing. A University of Utah student was arrested as she drove through Western Colorado. She was deemed a flight risk and detained because she had Utah plates while driving in Colorado. A worker who had been here for
Thanksgiving turkey and tryptophan don't make you sleep www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
Thanksgiving turkey and tryptophan don't make you sleep
The Thanksgiving turkey tryptophan myth suggests that turkey causes sleep is not supported by science. Blame the mashed potatos.
www.skepticalraptor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Thanksgiving turkey and tryptophan don't make you sleep www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
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Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice
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Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I’ve heard this widely living in DC:
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
1/
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
1/
Easily the stupidest person at my law school was given a professorship solely on the basis of his being pathologically into Ayn Rand.
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve heard this widely living in DC:
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
1/
That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media
1/
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Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
How ICE’s Crackdown Hurts Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Increased enforcement and Trump’s policy changes are causing some people to remain in abusive relationships rather than risk deportation, experts say.
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world