Moe thomas

Toes in the grass

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A 35-year-old man crushes a 3-hour workout after months of zero activity. His muscles are in agony.

​Next day, his urine turns dark. He tells his wife, who says, "Don't worry, just sleep it off."

That night, he goes into cardiac arrest.

What is the medical explanation?

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

The killer here is Rhabdomyolysis.

The exact fatal chain of events:

1. ​Extreme exertion destroyed his unconditioned muscle fibers.

2. ​Dead muscle dumped myoglobin & potassium into his blood.

3. Myoglobin clogged his kidneys (dark urine).

4. ​High potassium stopped his heart

I am Dr Priyam and as an internal medicine resident I cannot emphasize this enough: This is NOT a rare freak accident. Rhabdo can happen to ANYONE who pushes too hard, too fast.

Pace your workouts, take proper precautions and stay aggressively hydrated.

[David Pogue @Pogue]

76 years ago, Ray Bradbury published "There Will Come Soft Rains," an apocalyptic short story about a time when we have wiped ourselves out—but our AI obliviously continues automating our empty smart homes.

Bradbury set the story on August 4, 2026.

https://t.co/0jBNbjt4Ng

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Michael Winslow, the man of 10,000 sound effects replicating Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin.

[Erik Warsaw @WarsawErik]

I fact checked this and it's actually true

Our government is so crazy it's hard to believe sometimes.

[Urbn Ire @UrbnIre]

@WarsawErik You realise Iran is one of a handful of countries left without a Rothschild run Central Bank
In 2000 there were nine
Afghanistan

Iraq

Syria

Libya

Venezuela

were on that list too

You seeing the pattern here?

[peaches @Crosski99227132]

“She looks the same” “‘she’s the healthiest she’s ever been” “she looks stunning” “omg she’s so beautiful” “I’m gagging”. Y’all just be lying to this woman for what reason? This is 2019 vs 2026 face card, if u think she looks d same n she’s healthy u are mentally ill!

[Goth Kitten 💀uᴉoǝʅʅᴉƃ 💀 @gilleoin]

@Crosski99227132 Kelly Osbourne scares me too…

[Moe thomas @Moethomas12]

@RepThomasMassie We are owed WAY more than $2000

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Hey, take John Oliver’s advice and check out which surveillance cameras are being used in your area, and visit:
https://t.co/8WBuKIMP5c

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flagged for potential money laundering should be a far bigger story…

[🍄 @AngryAFMario]

Shout out to Reuters and ABC for pushing this story, but this should be fucking everywhere.

The most openly corrupt individual this country has ever seen. No one else comes close.

[ɴᴏɪʀ @mothjrn]

The human species would be a million times more advanced if these child-like, moronic beliefs could be left behind.

Religion is evil

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

Dinesh Thakur was 35. An engineer. Ten years at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
In 2003 an old mentor called him home. Build something for India.
He moved his wife and baby son to Gurgaon. Joined Ranbaxy. India's biggest drug company.
August 18, 2004. Early morning. His boss called him in.
Dr. Rajinder Kumar. Just hired from GlaxoSmithKline. A doctor with a spotless name.
He had flown in from South Africa overnight. He had not slept.
"We are in big trouble."
He slid a letter across the desk. World Health Organization.
Ranbaxy sold AIDS drugs to South Africa. A lab had tested them.
The WHO checked. Different patients. Identical numbers. Photocopied.
The tests were never done.
It is worse than one lab, Kumar said. Go through everything. Every drug. Every market.
Thakur drove home that evening. His three year old was playing on the lawn.
The year before, the boy had an ear infection. The doctor prescribed a Ranbaxy antibiotic.
The fever sat at 102 for three days. Nothing.
The doctor switched him to the GlaxoSmithKline version. The fever broke in a day.
He picked up his son. Nobody in his house would take a Ranbaxy pill again.
He gave each manager a region. Compare what we make to what we told regulators.
Ten days. That was all it took.
A company officer explained the system. Management decides the result. Everyone below makes the numbers fit.
And the shortcut of all shortcuts. Test the brand name pill. Submit the result as your own.
Late 2004. Kumar stood before five board members. A 24 slide presentation.
More than 200 products. More than 40 countries. Data fabricated to support business needs.
Brazil. 163 drugs approved since 2000. Only 8 properly tested.
Kenya. Uganda. Egypt. Vietnam. Peru. Never tested at all.
The HIV drugs failed purity tests. So they blended bad batches with good ones until they passed.
Kumar told them to pull the drugs. Retest everything. Tell the regulators.
He finished. The room was silent.
Only one director looked surprised.
Two days later Kumar resigned. He had been there under four months.
An American executive raised the Africa drugs on a call. A colleague answered her.
"Who cares? It's just blacks dying."
Thakur stayed. His protection was gone.
Three months later the auditors came. Routine review, they said. They stayed ten weeks.
Then they accused him of looking at porn on his office computer.
He pulled the server logs. IT had logged in and planted his address on those searches.
April 24, 2005. He put the proof on the table and quit.
He hired a guard to sit outside his house 24 hours a day.
August 15, 2005. He opened a Yahoo account. Fake name. Broken English.
He wrote to regulators in four countries.
Nobody replied.
So he wrote straight to the head of the FDA.
Ranbaxy was selling "untested, spurious, ineffective medication," he said. "I plead with you to put a stop to this crime."
Ten days after his first call, the FDA approved a Ranbaxy AIDS drug for children.
"Imagine if we could prove even half of what you have told us. It would bring down the entire corporation."
February 14, 2007. Agents walked into Ranbaxy's New Jersey office with guns. Took every computer.
Staff called it the Valentine's Day raid.
September 2008. The FDA blocked 30 Ranbaxy drugs from two Indian plants.
Now the part Americans skipped.
November 2011. Pfizer's patent on Lipitor expired.
Ranbaxy won the first generic. Made in New Jersey. Stocked in pharmacies across the country.
By October 2012 it held 44 percent of the American market.
Then came the glass.
November 2012. 41 lots recalled. Shards the size of a grain of sand, inside the tablets.
Millions of Americans swallowed those pills. From the company that faked its own data.
May 13, 2013. Ranbaxy pleaded guilty. Seven federal felonies. 500 million dollars. Biggest ever for a generic drug maker.
Thakur got 48.6 million as the whistleblower.
Not one executive was charged.
Katherine Eban dug through 20 thousand FDA documents. Her book landed in 2019. Bottle of Lies.
Investigators asked the FDA inspectors who went to India one question. Would you take a Ranbaxy drug?
Eight out of eight said no.
Think about what one man was carrying.
Not a rumour. A map of every fake pill in 40 countries. Held in one head. For eight years. While nobody moved.
April 2010. Ranbaxy recalled a children's antibiotic. Mixed with water it turned brown instead of white.
Same drug. The one that never touched his son's fever.
Ranbaxy is gone now. Sun Pharma bought it in 2015. The name came off the bottle.
The plants kept running.
He could have retired at 45 with 48 million dollars.
He is still at it.
He sued India's own drug regulators. He wrote his own book in 2022. He dedicated it to Kumar.
February 2024. He sat in front of a United States congressional committee.
He told them the same thing he told the FDA in 2005.
Nearly half of America's generic medicine is made in India.
Nobody is checking it the way you think they are.
Turn over the bottle in your bathroom tonight. Read where it was made.

🎩 Weird But True

[Amity @amitylee13]

Why???

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

We can’t fucking afford groceries

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Donald Trump had a bunch of bank accounts frozen for goddamn money laundering and it's already out of the news cycle in less than 24 hours

[bonky @shesbonky]

i literally sat down with my 11yo daughter last week and showed her a photo of karen carpenter next to a recent photo of ariana grande to teach her that EDs can kill and we cannot pretend otherwise

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Your mom's Medicare Advantage dental coverage? Republicans just voted to cut it. Her hearing aids? Gone. Her vision benefits? Slashed. The Big Ugly Bill hits January 1st. We must vote Republicans out of Congress in November. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A brand new “Christian men’s gym” in Georgia that bans women so pious men can have “lust-free workouts” lasted just 6 days before three men were caught “violating Leviticus in the locker room.”