Family Doc, sneakerhead, Cowboys diehard, manga collector and gamer. Trying to be the best dad I can be. Fighting for Med4All. Not me. Us. Assoc Med Director of a clinic for the uninsured. Views are my own.
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
OMFG. All those years people talking about how the Germans turned their heads away while Nazis took their neighbors. So now I’m wondering what exactly it is one is supposed to do when their neighbors (or fellow passengers) are being carted off
If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it.
Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice.
But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word.
They aren’t firing for a reason.
In that some Republicans let this actually come out in public gives me hope that there is still some morality left in that party. Unfortunately, it was done at your expense. 🤣
Working on a story about democratic leadership's choice of geriatric congressman Gerry Connolly over AOC to head oversight. If you have any tips about Connolly, text me at 202-510-1268 (I will protect your anonymity). My DM is also open
Pete Hegseth's Mommy wants us to know that while all of her allegations against him were true when he was 37 years old, now as a big 44 year old boy he is a completely different person and none of those things are concerns anymore.
An experiment. Can you like this post if (and only if) you play and buy video games.
Some people over on Twitter/X seem to think it's only game developers here.
(reposts welcome to spread the word)
Even if Bernie doesn't start a Third Party (which is very unlikely) he needs to wield his power to push the Democrats away from Corporate control if we're ever going to save this country from further irreversible wealth inequality.
Sen. Bernie Sanders goes scorched earth, saying "The Democrats ran a campaign protecting the status quo and tinkering around the edges" and that its leadership "are much too wedded to the billionaires and corporate interests that fund their campaigns."
Sen. Bernie Sanders goes scorched earth, saying "The Democrats ran a campaign protecting the status quo and tinkering around the edges" and that its leadership "are much too wedded to the billionaires and corporate interests that fund their campaigns."