Diary of a Wobbly Balancer, February 27 This is not a feel-good post, it's not even a feel-bad post, it's a post from the slipstream, feeling the undertow, but training my eyes elsewhere. I did make a bunch of calls this week, and, yes, - ThreadSky

drberger.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Diary of a Wobbly Balancer, February 27

This is not a feel-good post, it's not even a feel-bad post, it's a post from the slipstream, feeling the undertow, but training my eyes elsewhere. I did make a bunch of calls this week, and, yes,

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karenkustedjo.bsky.social•13 hours ago

But it’s important to share how you are fighting to keep your candle alight during the hurricane. Your reflected light encourages others to also fight to keep theirs alight too.

drberger.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Thank you.

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Congressman Kweisi Mfume voted yesterday (with all the Democrats) against the Republicans' budget resolution. And I called Senator Van Hollen and Senator Alsobrooks to ask them, also, not to cooperate.

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then I got a Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America email asking me to message them against a bill trying to kick trans people out of sports. So I emailed them.

And I've been involved in Doctors for Camp Closure (D4CC) work, and in anti-Hopkins police work,

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

and trying to plan a talk on the silence of medicine in Gaza. Andrew Goldstein and I talked about how to fight Medicaid cuts, which was hope-inducing. I talked to WYPR about gender-affirming care.

It's all not nothing, it's all (as mathematicians call it) epsilon, de minimis.

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

Then my last patient today told me she was about to lose her job, and the people she worked with at National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are losing theirs [yes I can say this, it identifies no one person, but hundreds of people],

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

and I read earlier in the week about measles deaths. Then I read about Texas trying to ban any gender-affirming care at all.

I wish I had a feel good conclusion, I wish this wrapped up nicely with a bow, but I also know this is not a monotonic trend towards worse and worse years, not forever.

drberger.bsky.social•1 day ago

"In your absence I've
learned to fill myself
with starts.
Here's my paters.
Here's my blue.

I just wanted to write
again and say
how much I've
failed you." -- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42355/dear-lacuna-dear-lard

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