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Med student, writer, wife, mom, outdoors enthusiast, gardener, caver, hiker, raging feminist, and the kind of future doctor who cares what happens to you. "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" --Mary Oliver
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Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

It's like he had no plan and took a chainsaw to everything...

It's going to be a long summer with some empty shelves. fortune.com/article/huge...

Trump says that any American who shows “dissension” against MAGA should be “immediately ejected” from their member of Congress’ town halls. This is fascism.

Ho ho ho! 🎅🏼

Good to know. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Some artifacts and exhibits are being removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It comes a month after Trump’s executive order to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian museums.” www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So embarrassed that these morons represent us. I'm wishing Canada would annex us instead. How is this even real?

It’s as though these people think the only human right is cosmetic surgery. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Golden Age of Corruption www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

If you want to find anyone who's worse than Pete Hegseth, you'll really struggle. But I think they managed to find his equal in a man accused of strangling his ex and abusing his kids--our new advisor and assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Sean Parnell. www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/p...

I'm so frustrated with even the faintest mention of an autism registry. A friend recently refused to have a disability diagnosed because they didn't want the record to exist. I thought that was extreme and really wanted them to have access to resources. It doesn't seem extreme now.

Random things I learned today: 1) You can buy crutch tips. (This is a big deal if you're crutching a while and wear out the ends.) 2) New Orleans' population is waaaaaayyyy smaller than I thought. ~362,701. NOLA metro is ~966,230. 3) Peacocks are not native to the US. India has the blue ones.

I used to hope I'd get to dive in some of these coral reefs that I was so enamored with as a child. I just didn't know then how fast they would die and thought I had time. apnews.com/article/cora...

Vaccines work. They are a way to protect yourself and your family. Please do so. Measles and whooping cough are on the rise in the US. apnews.com/article/whoo...

Maybe I was naive, but I thought being married to a US citizen meant you were eligible for a visa and had a path to citizenship. apnews.com/article/coas...

If you needed any further proof that the arrest of Judge Dugan was a propaganda opportunity and a fear tactic, here you go. Nothing about this is normal—it’s authoritarianism!

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

They are taking away our vaccines. Jay Bhattacharya is talking about eliminating mRNA vaccines. Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has managed to ratfuck the Novavax approval process.

Just to be clear, we reached the arresting-judges-and-deporting-US-citizens-without-due-process stage of the slide into authoritarianism today. And the citizens in question included a toddler and a child with cancer who needs treatment in the US.

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

Judges and journalists in the same day.

A few thoughts on our descent into fascism and what it feels like as a medical student. carabinersandcoffeebeans.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/t...

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

This is disgusting behavior from a government agency.

They better be careful what they ask for

And here I thought the worthy got cupcakes and the bad guys got unsweetened cocoa. 😂

I have been waiting for judges and journalists to be arrested when they don't do what the regime wants. To me, that's the point when everyone has to rise up, and there has to be a bipartisan effort to stop this. Starting to worry that it won't be possible to finish medical school in the US.

The regime is now arresting judges. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/f...

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

OPEN CORRUPTION: Buyers have poured tens of millions of dollars into Trump’s meme coin since his team advertised Wednesday that top purchasers could join Trump for an “intimate private dinner” next month.

Sign of the day…

You want to know the truth about why there are so many cases of autism, ADD, ADHD today? It's the same reason why there are more planets and stars today compared to decades ago. You're all caught up now. Leave the kids alone.

"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem" Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches. An organizer on how it unfolded @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

Sometimes I think AL is like, "How can we possibly make things worse? Oooh! I know!" yellowhammernews.com/tuberville-r...

What I am surprised about, for its glaring absence, is a socioeconomic impact analysis. Gone is the age when people cared about death and disease in hundreds of thousands of people. They have become indifferent to that due to the ongoing COVID pandemic. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...