markhoofnagle.medsky.social
Trauma Surgeon. Basic Scientist. UVA/UMD/UPenn. Now WashU/STL. Blocking is curating.
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Medicaid pays resident salaries, no one realizes thus. That cut is all of
Medicaid. That means cutting all our workforce. So thatms actually all our healthcare - except private, for profit hospitals that have few or no residents. Just sayin.
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Let me guess. They talked to Vinay Prasad (never NIH funded) for his opinion?
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This time when he asks his top general to shoot protestors he won’t be told “no”.
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Well, Americans have no defense against land theft…but we can still hate kings!
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I remember when princess Diana died I was in college and all the kids were in the common room watching the news coverage and I was like, “who cares? the Simpsons is on”.
I will be forever proud of my patriotism that day.
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The “Paper of record” I feel like is a bit like “King of Pop” just genius self labeling as a marketing ploy. Their reporting is actually grossly inferior to, say, the WSJ (editorial page not included), or propublica, or even WaPo pre-Amazon. Their opEd page is a bunch of clowns (excluding Bouie)
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The comments were joyous bsky.app/profile/eric...
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You should have seen the laughable nonsense on the Pope’s pneumonia they published same day. It had all of Medsky rolling. Just laughably false stuff, we were wondering if she called someone pretending to be a doctor using AI to answer her questions. It’s just not a good paper.
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And I totally get it, that system historically made sense, it rewarded expertise, staying power and experience. But we’re in a war with a charismatic(to them) cult leader so we gotta change this up a bit. Literally anyone who projects strength at this point would be better.
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Democrats are stuck in the mold of their leader being “next in line” rather than he or she that can demonstrably lead.
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The new bullshit.
They can’t replace an uber driver without support staff, and pedestrian fatalities, but now they’re replacing doctors, and lab assistants with “AI”? Horseshit. An insulting obvious lie showing they have no plan except hand waving.
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Honestly, basic peer review of their reports would be fatal. Manipulation of axes, improper/false citation, they are a fraud.
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Really the Neville Chamberlain of his time. Just not suited for the challenge and afraid to face the truth of the threat he faced.
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I guess if you keep the smaller piece…but thats eliminating 3 sides. If you’re wedging out entire slices then you end up back with a five sided shape.
Damnit. Not gonna sleep tonight.
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How do you cut a couple of sides off and not just end up with a trapezoid?
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This speaks to my soul.
I run a Fuck NYT (except Bouie) stan account.
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Hate to say, transnational crime is in for a bad week no matter what since they don’t want to be investigated for that either.
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Yeah. Long term risk of an incurable and fatal encephalitis plus a complete wipeout of your memory B cells increasing your all cause mortality.
These fuckers are still going on “old friends” hypothesis when measles is nothing but an ancient enemy.
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Me cause inflation? That's unpossible!
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This is like putting Ralph Wiggum in charge of the economy. He’ll invest the social security trust in comic books in between eating mouthfuls of paste.
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Our economy is in the hands of a guy so stupid, he stands out in a group of the stupidest people of all time. He is like a black hole of intellect. But he keeps failing up in the right wing pseudointellectual ecosystem.
www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-kevin...
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And the cubic model of covid extinction. He has been failing up his entire life in right wing think tanks.
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He is in fact incredibly stupid. He is famous more recently for the “cubic model” of Covid extinction.
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The guy behind the cubic model and Dow 30k (in 1999) unable to accurately forecast economic effects of policy is super on-brand. Hassett has climbed the ranks of the right wing think tanks completely unimpeded by his mediocrity, (as intended); the poster boy for mediocre white man failing up.
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As I’ve pointed out before their “scholarship” is frankly fraudulent. You really should dissociate from them entirely, as if they tolerate fraud at scale they are simply untrustworthy.
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Very few libertarians who aren’t just closet authoritarians. Most come to it from “no one can tell *me* what to do” and not “govt shouldn’t exert control over personal and private decisions”. When it comes to telling others what to do? They looove it.
Radley Balko maybe that rare one.
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Guys. I’m starting to suspect the NYT isn’t a very good newspaper.
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Was this written by AI? From the 70s?
Embarassing. Again I really think there’s a good chance the NYT is so bad because it’s actually run by deeply stupid people.
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In one week, President Trump’s glaring weakness has done more damage to 80 years of bipartisan U.S. global leadership than all our adversaries could do, combined.
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such fragile masculinity
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For the true believers I’m sure that’s right. For the many I talk to I think they’re looking for a silver lining that’s not there.