Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️

Grateful father and husband, rural Emergency Physician by choice. Tweets my own. No medical advice from me. Proud @univofdayton and @cincymedicine alumnus.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@cardiojaydoc02 Absolutely. My undergraduate advisor, a biochemist, told me to make sure I studied literature, art, architecture, history, sociology, psychology. He said, “You need to be erudite. You need to know something about everything.”

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@TrueFactsStated That library is perfect

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@smithECGBlog @PMcardioApp Not a normal ECG

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@smithECGBlog Yikes

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@ThatEricAlper Ok, that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump's Iran War has been a disaster in the U.S., as gas prices eclipse $4.

But in the developing world, the shock of spiralling energy prices has been cataclysmic.

1/ A short thread the scope of the damage Trump has caused. There are crises everywhere and you need to know.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@cardiojaydoc02 HEART is a guideline, not a rule

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@PeteHegseth @KidRock @USArmy Sickening. It’s all just a fucking game to you.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

We can’t lose sight of this.

Our President cut health care, cancer research, and food for hungry families.

And then turned around to spend billions on war.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@JamesLucasIT Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@StephenKing Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@svdate Gross.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@TimothyDSnyder He’s a class act.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@BillCassidy Good grief, Senator. In what way could it have been “originally intended” and not still be racist? And yet you thank him? How embarrassing for you.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The meningococcal vaccine just got moved to "shared clinical decision-making" on the new CDC schedule. This is one of the infections I feared most during my training. Here's what it is, why it's often confused with "meningitis," and what this policy shift will mean in practice. 🧵

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Today, many leaders will rightly condemn President Donald Trump’s unlawful and unjust actions in Venezuela, and I join them.

But just as glaring, and far more damning, is Congress’ ongoing abdication of its constitutional duty. For almost a year now, the legislative branch has failed to check a president who repeatedly violates his oath, disregards the law, and endangers American interests at home and abroad.

Time and again, Congress, now led by Republicans, has chosen spineless complicity over its sworn responsibilities. From the reckless leaking of classified information that put American troops at risk, to the illegal use of military force destroying vessels and killing people in the Caribbean and the Pacific without congressional authorization, there has been a stunning absence of accountability.

No hearings.
No serious investigations.
No enforcement of checks and balances.
No accountability.

Again and again, the president has exceeded his authority, defied congressional intent, trampled the separation of powers, and broken the law - while Congress looked away in cowardice and submission.

Republicans in Congress own this corrosive collapse of our constitutional order. With only a handful of honorable exceptions, they have bent themselves to the will of Donald Trump, afraid to state in public the feelings they often communicate privately. That submission, this abandonment of independent judgment and constitutional courage, now stands as one of the greatest dangers to our nation and to the global order America claims to defend.

Nicolás Maduro is a brutal dictator who has committed grave abuses. The United States military remains the most capable fighting force on Earth, and our praiseworthy service members carry out their orders with professionalism and excellence.

But none of that suspends the Constitution.

The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp, to the President. On this count, Congress has failed.

We face an authoritarian-minded president who acts with dangerous growing impunity. He has shown a willingness to defy court orders, violate the law, ignore congressional intent, and shred basic norms of decency and democracy. This pattern will continue unless the Article I branch of government, especially Republican congressional leadership, finds the courage to act.

They must stop behaving as partisan puppets and start acting as patriotic constitutional stewards.

What happened today is wrong. Congressional Republicans would say so immediately if a Democratic president had done the same. Their silence is surrender. And in that surrender lie the seeds of our democratic unraveling.

There are still three years left in this administration. From the pardoning of individuals who violently attacked police officers while attempting to overturn our election to this latest extrajudicial assault on another nation’s sovereignty, the damage will continue unless it is confronted.

Enough is enough.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

This 100%.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Genuinely think our society is lost if we can’t find a way to start caring that the ostensibly most powerful man in the world acts like this.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

This is disgusting and reprehensible. There is no low for this man.

[Keith Tofte, MD FAAEM☮️ @KeithTofte]

@AnnieAndrewsMD Yell it again Dr. Andrews!

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

1/ https://t.co/dWldqRQcMM

Many many many more experts weighed in than could be fit into the story. The scientific consensus is clear. Vaccines do not cause autism.

See thread🧵 below.