musebdzs

Lifelong Democrat. Lived in several states and now an Oregonian. Vote Blue 2024 will determine how we survive or decline.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Hayden Panettiere died at 36. Toxicology is pending, and I won't speculate about what killed her. But I want to say something about what her death should force us to confront, because I think we're going to get this wrong the way we always do.

She had already done everything we tell people to do. She spoke publicly about addiction. She named the postpartum depression. She wrote the memoir. She was told her liver damage could kill her within five years and she said it out loud, in interviews, to an audience of millions. She did the disclosure. She did the reckoning. She got the applause for being brave.

And she died at 36 anyway.

Here's the uncomfortable thing I need you to understand: that is not a contradiction. That is the disease. Addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disorder with high fatality rates even among people who have insight, support, resources, and genuine periods of sobriety. Relapse is not a moral failure or evidence that someone wasn't really trying. For a substantial percentage of patients, it is the expected clinical course. The body does not care how eloquently you articulated your trauma, or how many people celebrated your journey.

We have built an entire cultural performance around public recovery, and we have quietly confused disclosure with protection. Someone tells their story. We call it progress. We share the interview. We buy the book. And we feel, collectively, that something has been solved. Nothing has been solved. The underlying drivers remain exactly where they were — untreated or incompletely treated psychiatric illness, unaddressed trauma, easy access to potent opioids, the neurobiology of tolerance and craving that does not respond to insight, and the systems and people who enabled it in the first place.

A memoir is not a treatment plan. And I want to say something specific about naloxone, because it's the piece most misunderstood. Naloxone reverses opioid-induced respiratory depression. It is extraordinary. It saves lives when it reaches someone in time, and everyone reading this should have it and know how to use it. In most states you can get it at a pharmacy without a prescription. But naloxone is harm reduction, not treatment. It buys minutes. It does not rewire the circuitry that drives someone back to the next dose after years of trying to stop.

And in my own field, I'll add the part rarely said: opioid overdose kills through respiratory arrest that becomes cardiac arrest. By the time the heart stops, hypoxic injury to the brain and heart may already be irreversible. The window is measured in minutes. Which is precisely why the drug has to already be in the room, and why someone has to be there to give it.

Here is what actually reduces mortality, and it is unglamorous:

Medication for opioid use disorder — buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone. These substantially reduce overdose death, and they remain badly underused, badly stigmatized, and hard to access. If you take one clinical fact from this post, take that one. Treating the psychiatric illness underneath, properly and continuously — not as an afterthought to the addiction. Naloxone in the home, in the bag, at the workplace, everywhere. And sustained care long after the public has moved on — which is the thing our attention span is structurally incapable of providing.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died of this same physiology, under the same mechanism, without a single headline. We notice when the face is familiar. We extend more grace when there's a redemption arc attached. That selective attention is itself part of the problem — because it means our response is shaped by narrative rather than by mortality data.

Toxicology will eventually clarify the mechanism. It will not answer the harder question: why a woman who had already named the danger, with every resource available to her, still ended here at 36. That question belongs to all of us — to medicine, to an industry that consumed her from childhood, and to a culture that prefers the drama of a fall and a partial recovery over the tedious, expensive, imperfect work of keeping people alive for decades.

Addiction is not a story. It is a high-mortality disease. We should treat it like one — with medication, with sustained care, with naloxone in every home, and with a great deal less applause for disclosure and a great deal more funding for treatment.

Rest in peace, Hayden. Thirty-six.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CAUGHT ON TAPE: A Republican finally ADMITS what they’ve been denying for months:

Rick Scott: Republicans are going to have to cut your Social Security and Medicare as well as “any program you care about.”

#RepublicansCutMedicare

[musebdzs @NancyCl32937136]

All three are war criminals.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Trump corrects Marco Rubio: The "only reason" we're attempting to destroy the International Criminal Court is to protect Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump portrait painted with shit sells for $1800 in Canada.

A portrait of Trump made partly with actual horse manure has sold for $1,800 at the Sooke Fine Arts Show.

Artist Wendy Chartrand calls it “Don of Dung”.

EPIC!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

How is this not assault?

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary has announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

There is an international warrant for Netanyahu's arrest on war crimes.

The only nation not participating is the US.

[musebdzs @NancyCl32937136]

@PaulFreid5 @jcarole He saved many lives for the people who listened & believe in science.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

grandpa is hallucinating again

[TPBlue 🇺🇸🦅 @TPBlue4]

Nick Fuentes is telling his over one million followers to vote for Dems.

He wants the Dems to take control of the house so they can hold Trump / maga republicans accountable for their flagrant corruption.

Didn’t see that coming, but LFG!

(Snark: his body my choice.)

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Louder!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

...@kwelkernbc

Think of the lives and families this man has destroyed.

And you stand there and laugh with him

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

OH, MY GOD!

TRUMP JUST SAID THAT HE DIDN'T THINK THAT THEY HAD PLANES IN HIS FATHER'S TIME!

THE MAN DIED IN 1999!

IF THERE BE A GOD, MAY HE HAVE MERCY ON US AND THE WORLD!

HE IS DANGEROUS AND NOT FIT TO HOLD THE REINS OF POWER; THE THREAT HE COULD START WORLD WW3 IS REAL!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Chef José Andrés HUMILIATES Elon Musk after the MAGA billionaire threw a massive hissy fit over a journalist daring to call out his bullsh*t to his face!

This one really got under his thin skin...

"Elon drink a glass of water before you tweet…you may build rockets and satellites and cars and anything else you want…and we thank you!" Andrés wrote on X. "but you can not call a great journalist that actually ask you good questions and enemy to humanity! You sound and act like a tyrant….change!"

He was responding to a tweet in which Musk accused The Economist's Zanny Minton Beddoes of being a "traitor to the west" after she repeatedly embarrassed him during a sit-down interview by dismantling his lies and exposing his ignorance.

She stated that it was "irresponsible" for him to spread right-wing misinformation to his 240 million followers on X and took him to task specifically for his deranged efforts to paint the United Kingdom as some kind of rape-riddled Islamic caliphate.

During one particularly contentious moment in the conversation, a visibly upset Musk sputtered that "more people hate you and the media more than you realize."

Musk, who is addicted to X just as much as he's allegedly addicted to ketamine, saw Andrés' tweet and reacted about as well as one might expect. He was clearly in a poor mood, perhaps in part because his brief stint as a trillionaire recently ended when the value of his SpaceX stock plummeted.

"You’re an asshole," Musk replied, showcasing his trademark lack of wit and nonexistent impulse control.

For the record, Andrés is not an "asshole" and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen has helped provide over 600 million meals to people worldwide. 313 million meals of those meals were delivered to Gaza, which is currently facing a genocide at the hands of an Israeli government, backed by Donald Trump, who Elon Musk helped elect.

When history compares these two men, Andrés will be seen as a true Christian who embodied the teachings of Jesus Christ. For all of his prattling about "western civilization," Musk will be remembered as a man who greedily hoovered up wealth for himself, allegedly sexually harassed women, and installed a fascist pedophile in the Oval Office.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with Chef José Andrés!

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

These Black kids told these Latino neighbors to stay in their place because ICE was around looking for immigrants.

So the Black kids all armed themselves with buckets of water, water guns, all the water they could get & threw it all over the ICE “agents”, the agents got so soaked they left.

I love Black people, thank you for being protective of our community in the funniest way.

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Every single time a Democratic candidate calls for Healthcare for All, Trump and his minions call Democrats communists.

For the record America's stats on healthcare compared to the rest of the world are pretty bad.

America placed last in access to healthcare, administrative efficiency and health outcomes out of the top 10 wealthiest nations.

We also placed last with our high out-of-pocket costs, millions of uninsured or underinsured residents, shorter life expectancies and higher rates of avoidable maternal and infant mortality compared to other wealthy nations.

As always the greedy MAGA GOP don't really care Americans or our healthcare.

They only care about more money for the rich also called an oligarchy.
#DemsUnited

[JulesHasQuestions 🇺🇲 Independent!! @Julescage1]

@TimHannan They literally worshipped trump while he pushed the vaccine with Operation Warp Speed!! They are the weirdest, most hypocritical freaks I've ever encountered in my lifetime. Whenever he does something they question, someone made him do it or it's Joe Biden's fault. So exhausting

[DEEWHO?@ @DEeGONNA8585]

@TimHannan So, if Fauci lied then what happened in the rest of the world because the world shut down. Can yall make that make sense? Yall need to focus on Iran war and stop with the nonsense. We wouldn't drink the bleach like Trump wanted, end of story.

[JusPlainTalk101 @JusPlainTalk101]

@TimHannan Exactly right! @RandPaul hates Fauci bcos he’s smarter, more accomplished than Paul! Just as Trump hates Obama for the same reason! Their EGOS are bigger than their brains! Both Rand, Trumpy are idiots! Losers!