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ID/IM doc, powerlifter, Leatherman. Healthcare is a right. 🐕Kipper’s dad 📍Atlanta Men’s sana in corpore sano.
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"working to swiftly rectify the situation..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Happening tomorrow! GA Equality will be speaking at a Candlelight Vigil for the Uninsured tomorrow, February 16, at 6pm at the site of the former Atlanta Medical Center. Please plan to join us to honor the 40,000+ Americans who lose their lives each year due to being uninsured or underinsured.

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

This is my boyfriend @mogalal.bsky.social, or as I call him, “Ya Amar” (“My Moon”), because he has been a bright light in a dark time. 1/

It turns out “the lesser of two evils” is A LOT less evil.

🚨🚨 ACTION ALERT: Today, the Senate Insurance Committee will hear SB 39, a sweeping bill to cut off best practice medical care for transgender people of all ages receiving care through the GA State Health Benefit Plan. We need your help! Contact committee members & urge them to oppose SB 39!

Every time I try to use local stores with local delivery there seems to be an issue, and it’s always hard to resolve. I try to avoid using Amazon, but they definitely fix things when there’s a mistake. Dilemmas.

One thing has become very clear: Despite COVID and everything since then, the current administration has no idea how infectious diseases work. You don’t get to “take a break” from them.

If you want to know how crazy things are, I read something from the @borowitzreport.bsky.social and didn’t immediately recognize it as satire. In fact, if I didn’t know it was a satirical profile I would have 100% believed it.

(h/t: @the.language.nerds)

They’re coming for Social Security. This is where the Boomers officially enter the “find out” phase of this election.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

If they’re only going after criminals, why would ICE be at elementary schools?

“‘I never thought the leopards would eat MY face!’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.” -tweet from Adrian Bolt

“Girl, look how orange you look girl!” From Real Bad 2025 with @mogalal.bsky.social

Throwing it back to the IML street fair this past year

Remember, no matter what some government run by a fascist says - you are who you say you are. You define yourself. No one else. The state & powerful try to dictate our bodies to control & exploit us - our labor, our energy, our lives - for themselves. But you get to choose yourself. Fuck ‘em.

It’s becoming clear we’ll eventually need to take to the streets. And it’s also becoming clear they intend to have the army ready to counter any major protests. So I’m wondering if I’m going to survive this administration.

“Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick.” Full stop.

A throwback to New Years Day at Breakfast of Champions

A day at the aquarium

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

With everything going on since the election, I’m having to constantly remind myself that it’s been worse, and in my lifetime. There are reasons we got out of that era, so we can do it again.

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Mercy Care is looking for a Chief Development Officer. Come help us eliminate health disparities for people experiencing homelessness in Atlanta. jobs.trinity-health.org/mercyatlanta...

I’m really amused at the current trend of “r claiming masculinity” that appear to be mostly centered around bullying. Don’t people realize how pathetic that makes them look?

I admit that reading Anita Bryant’s Wikipedia entry brightened my day significantly.

I honestly thought Anita Bryant had been dead a long time. Oh well.

Someone could make a fortune selling protein drinks in the airport.

“My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.” -Jimmy Carter

Someone told me I can’t celebrate Christmas because I’m an atheist. So I said, “Why not? You celebrate Valentine’s Day even though nobody loves you.”

One of my most shocking memories from medical school was when a fellow student said, “You can’t put a value on human life.” “Sure you can,” replied the professor. “Insurance companies do it all the time — that’s what they hire actuaries for.” And they do exactly that.

Christmas in late-stage capitalism.

As Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-backtr...

My end-of-2024 mood.

Some volume squats tonight, 316# x 10.

There is a special place in Hell for people on red-eye flights who pull on the seat in front of them to stand up.

So the incoming Secretary of HHS endorses raw milk and doesn’t believe in vaccines, meanwhile there is an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among cows in the Midwest. I guess I should be grateful for job security.

This is an actual game-changer for PrEP. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....