Matthew Cortland, Esq. they

Lawyer, immunocompromised, writer, public health nerd | Then: SSI. Be A Hero. Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. they 🏳️‍🌈

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

I've tried my best* to not accumulate this much medical trauma. But here we are

(*eg. I have literally begged, while inpt, for propranolol after a bad procedure—got scoffed at by psych & given benzo, research confirms that's the worst thing you could do, makes PTSD more likely)

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Do you have an Apple Vision Pro you're not using? If you're looking to sell an AVP, I find myself suddenly* in the market, DM me?

(*Lab results are back and I need infusions; we're trying to prevent panic attacks in hospital.)

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Trump and MAGA have already done an incredibly overwhelming amount of damage, and they've baked even more destruction into existing law set to trigger over the next months and years.

We have one hell of a fight ahead of us, it's a fight we must win.

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Tonight, the fate of millions of Americans is suddenly in play again, no longer necessarily doomed to die from lack of care.

Hope and a fighting chance.

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Love to be misgendered in a book - it's my favorite goddamn thing

So apparently we're doing this again, on coming out day:

Matthew Cortland - they/them

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Love to be misgendered in a book - it's my favorite goddamn thing

So apparently we're doing this again, on coming out day:

Matthew Cortland - they/them

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

You should get all the vaccines.

https://t.co/Jr1hKUGnxT

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Givefront got absorbed by the Peter Thiel axis of evil — anyone have any replacements they like?

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

“It’s time to pick your story and snuggle.”

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Trying to convince the American electorate that ‘Medicaid work requirements’ are bad is like trying to convince a toddler that 'bedtime' is good.

It's going to fail until you change the frame.

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

I'm sharing this because if you're ever in the position of having to decide whether to accept hospice care for a loved one with dementia (and I sincerely hope you never find yourself in this position), I hope you don't balk.

https://t.co/23hVBdPF98

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

@mkarolian the entire structure of pharma is arrayed against all of the studies i most want /sigh

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Xocova, post-exposure prophylaxis against COVID, is finally starting to have substantial availability in the U.S. Five days worth of pills you take right after exposure, cuts odds of getting COVID.

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

We do have a name for making individuals responsible for their own water: a boil-water advisory. It is, by definition, an emergency measure. It exists because the system failed.

https://t.co/9FGHsiTpC1

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

Taylor Lorenz has spent the last days of August in a fight over because she harasses women of color. In June she attacked @maysoonzayid over an unmasked video. In 2023 she led a hate-mob at @the_tattooedjew for pulling his mask down in a photo.

[Matthew Cortland, Esq. they @mattbc]

In 1908, Jersey City became the first American city to routinely chlorinate its drinking water. Within a decade, nearly every large city had followed. Clean water infrastructure accounted for ~1/2 of the entire decline in urban death rates in the early 1900s