Christopher Z Yang

@CU_Kidney fellow ⬅️ @IUIntMed resident. #DiuresisJedi Padawan. Please #GetVaccinated. #BlackLivesMatter. he/his.

[brian @brianonhere]

the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.

And they’re right.

[Shandel Richardson @ShandelRich]

More Waiters: "I’d rather go 0 for 30 than 0 for 9 because you go 0 for 9 that means you stopped shooting.That means you lost confidence."

[ふ @fjt_toon]

生き返れ村上 ！
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待ってろ！アメリカ！🇯🇵×🇺🇸

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[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@ASNKidney @CameronCharlow My man!!

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@Caulimovirus Conversely, we finished rounding at 0930 after I did an outpatient biopsy at 0800. It's all about the program!

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@RiderToast @AttaboyMD They appear to be very bad at tweeting, so it seems on brand.

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@willyhfrick All you need to know is that the patient went from poor to fair; that's patient-centric quality care (and documentation).

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@TommyCerriMD @IUIntMed I'm seeing consults at @DenverHealthMed and someone just popped a bag of microwave popcorn in the staff room and it has me remembering better times (only better because of popcorn - and maybe all my co residents, lol).

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@sargsyanz Completely agree. I've also recently noticed that one of the hospitals I round at has more mandated documentation (RN, MD, PharmD) for a "fall" than a cardiac arrest. It's completely absurd.

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

NICK CASTELLANOS OH MY GOD WHAT A CATCH

[Rajiv Agarwal MD, MS @AgarwalRajivMD]

Here I argue that cv risk and relative and absolute cv risk reduction (with finerenone) is similar across the gfr spectrum in t2d upto an egfr of 25. And this risk is greater than kidney failure risk. Best to screen for uacr and treat ckd in t2d early.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

CHAOS FAVORS THE MARINERS

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@Gabby_Brauner27 To echo a few other comments, you will almost certainly annoy a certain type of doctor with your tweet, but you don't want to go to a program where you can't be your true self. If you don't feel like your PD will go to bat for you, the "reputation" of a program is meaningless.

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@Diuretic_papi @CU_Kidney @J_B_Kendrick @CameronCharlow @Volume_Overlord @ManuelUrra7 @katierizzolo Right side of photo was not ready for fun mode, haha

[Christopher Z Yang @CZYMD]

@hswapnil @KatieKwonMD @NephJC @kidney_boy Thanks! I suppose better late than never to introduce myself. I'm Chris, a fellow at Colorado, who's also wrangling my infant son while browsing #NephJC. No COI.