Pamela Campos-Palma (pamcp on bluesky🦋)

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[Pamela Campos-Palma (pamcp on bluesky🦋) @pamcpx]

During a hearing to Congress last year, 4 top generals spoke before me about diversity military recruitment. They testified about how great they were doing.

I testified to the facts of corruption at the highest echelons & the systematic failures of impunity in the military.

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

can we get a followup question about whether Jon Finer thinks that taking a plush gig with Anduril, a weapons company founded by Palmer Luckey, is in any way "self-serving"

[Ali Harb @Harbpeace]

Here's what we know is not false:
• Blinken certified to Congress - contrary to the findings of all rights groups - that Israel is not cutting off aid to Gaza
• During the war, Blinken issued emergency arms transfer to Israel, bypassing Congress
• Before Oct 7, Blinken refused to launch an investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a US citizen
• Blinken refused to apply Leahy Law sanctions to the Israeli unit that killed Omar Assad, another US citizen

[Nicholas Noe @NoeNicholas]

Jon’s criticism of people brave enough to resign is ugly. Worse is his argument that the election was existential, so anything that undermined the administration put America at grave risk. Yet he & his team lied about Biden’s health until it was too late. Don't ever forget:

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Nah. You totally waited. Waited until there were no functional hospitals, until the death toll rose in the thousands, waited until they were dropping white phosphorus on civil population, you just waited....did NOTHING to stop the genocide.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

Liberals love prioritizing the personal career aspirations of politicians over policies that actually benefit the people. This is exactly why the Democratic Party is completely irredeemable; these people stay focused on things that don’t matter.

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

One of the clearest signs of HIGH INTELLIGENCE is having no desire to be seen, admired, or understood by people, at peace with being misunderstood, and incredibly skilled at the art of letting go.

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

something interesting about this industry is that failing up is so common partly due to people who lose election after election but have the wealth + privilege to stay in the game while we lose some of the smartest, most talented people (read: actually win) bc they cant afford it

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

During this genocide I've met courageous diplomats and officials who denounced it at real personal cost. They are a rare breed.
Imagine foreign policy built by more of them. Because the problem is never one unfit minister/head of state: it's whole spineless cohorts around them.

[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.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

"The internet represents hegemonic views. It does not represent [everybody] in the world."

AI researcher Timnit Gebru untangles the deceptive nature of large language models like Chat-GPT, and explains how so-called "superintelligence" entrenches societal biases and inequality.

[Sandy Nurse @SandyforCouncil]

I support good messaging that resonates widely, and have advocated for this, but it’s a mistake to flatten the uprising to hysteria. It was principled, with values that inform the work many of us in office do today.

Thanks for coming to my lecture. ✌🏽

[A Moment with Erik Fleming Podcast @MomentErik]

On the next episode of A Moment with Erik Fleming!
A @NBGPodcastNet program.
@pamcpsio
#politics #podcast

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Never forget that when a few members of congress had the dignity and moral standing to call for an immediate ceasefire knowing full well what Israel would do in Gaza, on Oct 10th the Biden White House said of those calls "we believe they are wrong, we believe they're repugnant, and we believe they're disgraceful."

Imagine how many lives could have been spared, how much war prevented, how many New Yorker whitewash pieces not written.

[Alex @chorizanthe]

I am disgusted by @ryangrim and @DropSiteNews decision to run a story about Platner survivor Jenny Racicot’s text messages with the obvious intent to spread doubt about her credible accusations of rape. I am canceling my DropSite subscription and I encourage you to do the same.

[rachel🦦 @rachelandis]

today i am thinking about the countless woman who don't come forward and name their abusers because of their importance to The Movement. jennifer racicot, dolores huerta, and i'm sure countless more. the better world we're fighting for cannot come at the expense of women.

[Liv @Liv_Agar]

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage The Movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot more often than you hear about!

[Pat Ryan 🇺🇸 @PatRyanUC]

Righteous fighters not only care about their community, but are ready to take on anyone – Trump, special interests, or the establishment – to make their lives better.

They listen. They pick fights based on what voters want & need — not what some consultant says polls well.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Karl: Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic member of Congress, who says, “Many of us believe, as do I, if you’re a socialist, you are not a Democrat.” And in fact, they put out a manifesto today.

Mamdani: Sounds pretty socialist to me…. I'm not interested in writing a manifesto or frankly, in reading one. I'm interested in delivering. And that's exactly what we've been showing.

[Pamela Campos-Palma (pamcp on bluesky🦋) @pamcpx]

Does everyone realize there’s been no official press conferences by any agency so we’re all out here cobbling together scraps of Open Source information via Twitter on a planned siege that could’ve assassinated many lawmakers & staff 14 days before Inaugurating a new President?

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.