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jhop.bsky.social
Pediatrician, parent, podcaster, serial hobbyist. White, cis, straight, privileged, ?Christian?. Missouri refugee with survivor’s guilt. I like science, science fiction, and fantasy. Trans ally🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Climate change is real.
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My parent’s cat Annie says happy #Caturday!

I decided to make a sharable Google Doc of my previous post. Please feel free to share. #pedsky #medsky #vaccineswork docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I've had so many thoughts and worries about vaccines this week and the threat to them. So I wrote some of them down. Please take time to read "Why I Care About Vaccination". #PedSky #MedSky #vaccineswork

Final day of historical diseases we need to be prepared to diagnose again. Diphtheria. Nasty one. Good thing #vaccineswork #PedSky #MedSky #IDSky

Jenna always comes back inside this time of year looking like she put her whole head in a snowdrift.

Day 6! And it’s the oft forgotten mumps. See below for the DL and think about mumps in addition to salivary stones causing parotitis. #vaccineswork #PedSky #IDSky #MedSky

This should work out well.

I love that her Wikipedia picture is her with the goodest of boys.

Judge Ana Reyes is a rockstar. She destroyed this attorney. I’m surprised they didn’t resign on the spot.

JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

Setting up for the next pandemic.

Into the home stretch of diseases to be aware of - Rubella is day 5(of 7). Don’t forget #vaccineswork #MedSky #PedSky #IDSky

Happy to have no personal experience with this one. I have a family member, however, who is post polio and has gone from walking to often needing a wheelchair due to joints that have just worn out thanks to asymmetric gait. This germ has grave consequences for many who just have "mild" disease.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

I've had a couple of cases this winter. Once the patient starts really coughing it is too late to do anything to really help. This is the vaccine that we made less effective in the 90's to improve safety only to see anti vaxxer's move on to falsehoods surrounding thiomersal and autism.

Sunday afternoon mood.

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

By the time I finished residency, I was so good at lumbar punctures. Squeezing down on a crying infants head and pushing them into a ball and then slipping in the spinal needle. On a typical admission night I might do 2 or 3. All gone now. I haven’t done one in years. They want to bring this back.

Historian. Chronicler. Journalist. Patriot. It’s on days like today that I rely on @hcrichardson.bsky.social the most. If we manage to make it through all this, she will be remembered as one of the reasons.

They’re not at all competent. Unfortunately, competence isn’t required to break things.

Totally a timeline cleanser. I get a lot of joy from my work laptop. Kids are fascinated with animals and love finding different things. Shout out to www.todrawattention.art who drew some of my favorites!

Their ultimate goal is to marginalize/eliminate everyone from public life who doesn’t fit their definition of normal. Next step is eugenics.

Sharing this great interview with Marsha and Sylvia conducted the year after the Stonewall uprising. They discuss their understanding of themselves as transvestites, transsexuals, and women, but the part of their identity most commonly erased is that of radical revolutionaries

The National Park Service is trying to erase any mention of trans people’s involvement at Stonewall. Here is their page with a section where you can comment at the bottom.

Kennedy will kill children.

1. Major trans news: Corewell Health, Michigan's largest healthcare provider, becomes the first hospital to resume care for trans people under 19 years of age after pausing it. "Care decisions are best made between physicians and their patients and families." Subscribe to support my journalism.

Trump’s executive orders are not law. This doctor knows it. Many hospital systems know it. Those that comply with something not passed by congress and with power not constitutionally granted to the president are cowardly.

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

This is horrific.

Happy #Caturday from Molly the feral cat who is “oh so slowly” learning to like humans.

Right wing anti-trans commentators actually molesting kids. Just a normal news report.

Pandemics do not begin with official announcements. They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern." Pay attention.

Oh, hell yes…

This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

Losing on this issue feels like my life's biggest failure. My words and scientific reality could not overcome a century of bigotry and false assumptions about trans bodies.

All lies.

The fact that I went through almost 30 years seeing sick kids without a mask seems crazy to me now!

People are getting up off the mat.

Some states are not going to stand for discrimination.

Compassion fatigue is a real thing. Activism fatigue is a real thing. Do what you need to do for your mental health. But understand that disengaging is a privilege many people don’t have.

Happy #caturday from my big sweet boy.

Happy Black History Month!

When you consume THC for your entire pregnancy but refuse to vaccinate. Ugh.

Imagine you're a young adult who happens to be trans. You've completed your transition. You graduated from college and have a job you enjoy. You have good friends, have been dating and have a great relationship with family. Then imagine the entire federal government decides you shouldn't exist.