Zackary Berger שלום בערגער

Simlarity, Difference, and Suffering: Notes on Honduras and Baltimore There are trips that seem to accentuate the similarities between the destination and the origin, and there are trips where everything is different. Certain trips cause a shuffling of categories. 1/20

When should trans women have their first breast cancer screening? Most doctors don't know, said one expert. And an estimated 700,000 trans women in the U.S. are effectively excluded from the screening guidelines which have for years been the key to early detection of breast cancer in cis women.

yo dawg, I heard you like harm reduction, so I put a harm in your harm so you can reduce while you vote

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Reviewed the new Debs biography for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/b...

In one pocket: the Israeli election is vital to get Bibi out of power In the other pocket: the Israeli election will not change the occupation or apartheid at all

I just reviewed a wonderful volume of Yiddish short stories taking place in comtemporary Israel. The review itself is in Yiddish and English and is thanks to the folks at @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/shi...

Baltimore families: FREE event on school choice at Red Emma's in mid November. This is excellent timing to learn more *before* choice applications open in December. redemmas.org/events/integ...

Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...

Are you at #asbh26? Do you think that #bioethics should concern itself with mass detention, abduction, deportation, torture, and murder on the part of the state? That's part of our charge in the Health Justice affinity group. Tomorrow at noon.

I love candy. (This is my yearly Halloween-related post.)

You’ve seen the source sheets. You’ve heard the shiur. Now buy the book! "Sources of Pride: Jewish views on gender and sexuality anthologized from Biblical, Talmudic, Midrashic, Rabbinic, and Chassidic sources with contemporary and personal commentary" by Rabbi Abby Chava Stein

After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!

This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#ComingOutDay is extraordinarily important to me, not just personally because of the gay people in my life (I don't need to write here about that), but professionally bc working with & for LGTBQ colleagues/ patients makes medicine so much more worthwhile, intellectually, emotionally, politically.

If only they'd included the Homewood branch. An unmitigated disaster of a post office: long lines, packages routinely lost/misdelivered, zero responsive to complaints.

For those who equate criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians with antisemitism, there is no allowed place or time. Not in shul, not on the street, not in Congress, not in boycott, not in the classroom. The Jewish establishment would still prefer everyone just shut up and parrot hasbara.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says marriage equality turned US “against religious liberty” - buff.ly/srirzs6

“Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk”

carefully encourage; deliberate on their health goals; the power of shared decision making

my goal is to jerk them to completion with my baseball glove

My man looks like he owns a restaurant called Serf and TERF

bereishit vibes

i just want someone to tell me that Collins lost the debate. I just really want that.

traveling internationally: the world is a rich tapestry of cultures, a new adventure at every turn! connecting flights internationally: no torture regime in history ever devised a hell so hot

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

i must not produce takes. takes are the mind-killer. takes are the little death that produce total obliteration. i will face my takes. i will permit them to pass over me and through me without posting them to the timeline. where the takes have gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

I don't want my patients to be deported. I feel helpless and angry.

Der @fluerast.bsky.social berichtet, dass ein rassistisch-völkisches „Institut“ mit neuem Sitz in Magdeburg geplant wird und bereits ein Strategiepapier zu ethnischen Säuberungen veröffentlicht wurde. Es ist alles mit Ansage.

Some days my standards for myself is to have a non-focal exam

My serenity prayer: God, teach me to maintain rage at the things that I don't have control over and fuck up my patients' lives.

according to politico, since Jan. 2025, Trump admin has deported 170+ people “in violation of court orders,” “in defiance of legally mandated due process protections,” or “to countries from which they had sought or received protection from torture and persecution” ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

I would have been perfectly content to go through my entire life without hearing John Kennedy go, 'What about the bestiality?"

So I’m supposed to tell a patriot, who wants to serve and protect his country by the way, that he cannot due to he’s balls deep in a dog

do I care less about Macklemore or Sydney Sweeney? it's tough, it's a tough call. we'll have to see how it plays out over time. like and subscribe for more piping takes on today's culture

BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab

תָּעִיר וְתָרִֽיעַ. לְהַכְרִית כָּל מֵרִֽיעַ. וְתֻקְדַּשׁ בְּיוֹדְעֵי לְהָרִֽיעַ. “Awaken and sound the alarm; to uproot every force that causes harm; be sanctified among those who know how to sound the call.”

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people