Becca Peter

That “vigilante blogger” in LuLaRich. My son Eddie died from an embryonal brain tumor in November 2023.

[Becca Peter @DefectiveBecca]

My husband wrote the most wonderful post about Eddie and I wanted to share it on this site:

Grief is the price paid for love, and Eddie was loved deeply by a great many people. Our grief is acute and intensified by the wonderful individual Eddie was.

[David It Up! @Dave_it_up]

We’re a primary care practice in Vermont. We implemented a practice-wide protocol screening every patient at every encounter for recent SARS-CoV-2 infection history. What we’re observing in our panel is not consistent with a psychosomatic framework.

We’re seeing measurable, objective increases in new-onset hypertension, acute cardiovascular events, new-onset allergic disease, and new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus, all temporally correlated with infection history. These are not symptom reports. These are clinical findings.

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A recent Israeli study has concluded that starvation in Gaza resulted from a premeditated policy, despite sustained public denial by the Israeli government and much of the media ⤵️

[Hillcrest Card Company 🔥🍉🇨🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪🔥 @HillcrestCardCo]

I am a researcher and I have no problem expressing myself openly. Alan Levinovitz is not a researcher, he is a religious studies professor who wrote about a medical topic he doesn't understand for an entertainment magazine.

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

2022: Call my doctors office, tell receptionist I am running five minutes late, apologize, hang up

2026: Call doctors office, get routed to a new company-wide "AI assistant," navigate phone tree, get put on hold to wait for a human at a call center, wait 6 minutes, explain to human agent what is going on, get put on hold while human agent calls my physical doctors office to tell them for me

This is not better

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Onion produced this as Satire less than 3 years ago.

It is now reality.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera exposes a terrifying reality. The Trump administration is intentionally collapsing the US healthcare system, leaving millions of rural Americans to suffer!

By 2038, the US will face a staggering 39 percent shortage of primary care physicians.

[tern @1goodtern]

Oh my word.
He actually went there.
He compared Long Covid to food aversion.

😮

Occasionally I'm uncertain whether someone is truly an asshat, and then they say something like this.

[Bisan owda @bisan__bisan]

The water crisis in Gaza
that Israel has created and what Palestinians in Gaza
have to do to get water in genocide.

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

NEW: A fast-growing AI weapons company founded by a "radical Zionist" is quietly building autonomous warships in Seattle's ship canal. Kayak-tivists paddled over the weekend to raise awareness. https://t.co/0mnoBHOw9P

[Bisan Owda @bisanowda01]

From the great heart of Gaza... we present to the world two unique short films on which I had the honor of working on!

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

In cancer, patients are often taught to be optimistic, smile, and put on hope, as though that will shrink their tumors. It does not. It invalidates suffering and inflicts blame on those experiencing progression. The phony optimism culture persists today.

[mac. @nmacheaux]

i am begging everyone to put the AI-generated flyers down. politicians, greeks, colleges, everyone. stop.

[Megan Stevenson @MeganTStevenson]

Turns out I was featured in this very dumb article about long covid. And the guy lives in my small town and didn’t even reach out to ask for my perspective! Just sent him this email.

[💜OldFashionedAnne @oldfshndanne]

We need to bring back remote work. You'd think that people blowing their paychecks on gas just to get to and from work would be demanding it right about now, but...

🦗🦗🦗

[adrienne @barelytolerabIe]

Imagine blowing 30 years of search engine dominance—so much so that your website became a verb—only to kill your search engine in favor of a inferior product only tech bros and their sycophants like.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Take a slave owner or residential school founder’s name off a street or remove a statue and there’ll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments it’s silence.