Chaya Bhuvaneswar
@chayab77
Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
So simple. So enduring. But seeing it in print brought tears to my eyes. This is the premise of everything. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
just thinking today about the downstream effect of a majority of Americans not having a strong and solid science education...they don't actually know what "research" is. They don't know what "the scientific method" or "hypothesis testing" is. They need to know to grasp that Trump is LYING.
A teeny tiny bit of good news amid the gloom. Though it's not the GOP's intent, this legislation is going to benefit women of color specifically (whose experience of pregnancy and delivery are more at risk and in need of maternal mortality prevention).
Horrendous. Exploitative of people's fear, ignorance and pain + defunding NIMH research on finding actual treatments for this chronic and potentially disabling (but NOT necessarily disabling) illness. I.e. there are "schizophrenias." There's diversity. There's hope, capacity, science. Just fund it.
There's a healthcare shortage, and we need every type of provider: doctors (MD or DO); nurse practitioner (NP but some use "Dr" b/c they do a PhD in nursing) + physician assistant (PA). We need everyone. We should just be transparent about different amounts of training so patients aren't misled.
finally a reasonable and sound headline from the NYT - Pamela Paul must've had the day off...
Just amazing to me that BOTH his base/ supporters AND the rest of the country have suffered tremendously because of Trump. BOTH groups have lost, have suffered. Can't we find common ground in this rather than the only group completely satisfied (bigots/ Nazis) prevailing?
If there are details of something this incendiary in the Epstein files, it makes perfect sense that T---p would at all costs seek to avoid having the files released, avoid complying w/ the legal order to RELEASE ALL THE FILES AT ONCE.
Keep your eyes and ears open and check out which people, media outlets, organizations act like EVERYTHING IS NORMAL. That this is normal, everyday life. IT'S NOT. ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT NOT.
Why isn't this, plus the Jack Smith testimony, plus the Epstein files, enough to be Trump's "Watergate" and end his presidency?
They knew there was no basis to deport Rumeysa. They strategized about HOW TO DO IT ANYWAY. Scum.
almost UNBELIEVABLE. the reckless move of proceeding without information and coordination of resources to fight the next global pandemic. WHY would any country choose to be this vulnerable. It is so destructive.
This plus the reports about MRIs and a dementia work up is more than enough to INVOKE THE 25TH.
Renee Good could be alive right now if the doctor who came forward trying to save her was ALLOWED by ICE to treat her. ICE basically violated the Geneva Convention (that compels enemy combatants to receive care. Even in Vietnam, wounded Viet Cong soldiers were saved). SHE HAD A PULSE. #SayHerName
as usual, testing the boundaries of (rhetorical) qs such as: "How stupid can someone in power be?" and "Is there no bottom??"
Surely this is grounds for invoking the 25th amendment. WHAT WORLD LEADER TALKS LIKE THIS? WHAT WORLD LEADER CONCLUDES THAT HE HAS LEEWAY TO MAKE WAR BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET A PRIZE HE WANTED? (Oh wait, that one. The one responsible for the Holocaust).
Look. If anti abortion activists are legally allowed to record and photograph people (including patients! with a right to privacy!) entering and leaving abortion clinics...then anyone in the US is allowed to photograph or record ICE in any public space. Period.
Look. Despite all the lying promises to his vile base, Trump has deported FEWER people than Biden. Period. But he's deported people lawfully here. And he'll seek more (including to citizens) bc of the drop in number of border crossings. It's violence motivated by trying to cover up all his lies.
Ha. Bc appeasement just worked sooo well before for similar leaders...
One small essential reminder: no matter how much hatred the MAGAs spew, they can't change the world, they can't make it a world we don't know or recognize, they can't push back the centuries, they can't.
Doesn't Congress have to pass a resolution for war to be declared? Wait.