Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee?

BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee.

Dictator Donald is axing the centuries-old Jackson magnolia—not for safety, but for spectacle. A man with no culture, no reverence for history, and no purpose beyond feeding his ego guts a living monument for cheap optics. He values nothing but himself, and it shows in every petty act.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5222689-white-house-magnolia-tree-andrew-jackson/?

Rick Wilson
‪@therickwilson.bsky.social‬

Instead of Trump serving a third term in office, let's see to it he's serving his first in prison.

March 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM

#SignalGate

@AlliFlowers @samiamsam
For other reasons, free will was the subject of a big theological debate in the late 1800s.

Issac Singer's famous comment:
"Of course we believe in free will.
We have no choice."

Lev Parnas: For 5 yrs, I’ve warned you—I hate to say I told you so. I said if Donald Trump ever got back in office, he’d do everything in his power not to leave. Now, it’s unfolding. My sources say it’s more serious than ever. They’re laying the groundwork. Steve Bannon & others are pushing it. Trump’s inner circle has had discussions—real plans—to make this happen. He’s dead serious. This isn’t a joke.

Here’s tonight’s 60 Minutes piece on the silencing of the Voice of America. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/voice-of-america-sunday-on-60-minutes/

@KanaMauna Right. I heard that. I guess it's preferable to break up unions than protect US citizens from acts of terror.

I don't always journey into the void, but when I do, I appear as a backwards apostrophe. #cats

Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley who both work at Yale University leave the US and go to #Canada 🇨🇦 . They say the decision to leave was "entirely because of the political climate in the United States". Stanley wrote books about propaganda and fascism, Snyder is a scholar of history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He speaks five European languages and has written 16 books.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03/27/three-prominent-yale-professors-depart-for-canadian-university-citing-trump-fears/

Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/california/proposed-california-ballot-initiative-luigi-mangione-act-would-make-it-harder-for-insurers-to-deny-medical-care/

Me at ER for cardiac issues

Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”

Me: “No I had a hysterectomy”

Dr: “You look too young for that? Are you sure?”

Me: “I’m confident”

Dr: “I think you might be confused. Maybe it was your appendix.”

Proceeds to order pregnancy test

I’ve had this interaction more times than I can count

Healthcare workers think I’m “too young” to have had a hysterectomy and automatically assume I’m confusing my womb with another organ.

They ask endless questions, only to end up doing a pregnancy test anyways

Perhaps there are patients who confuse their uterus for their appendix, but I would imagine that’s exceedingly rare

The battle I went through to get my hysterectomy was long and arduous. It involved many physicians lecturing me about how I would never be able to have children

Asking insensitive questions like:

“Don’t you want to be a Mom?”

“You might want biological children, many women do”

“What happens if you meet your dream man and he leaves you for being barren?”

You don’t have to endure this type of insulting and misogynistic third degree to get your appendix or gallbladder removed.

They inform you of the surgical risks, you consent, the end.

There’s simply no plausible way to confuse the removal of a WOMB with an appendix

Despite these obvious facts, I’ve had countless doctors assume I’m wrong. That I couldn’t possibly have lost my uterus and it must have been something less important.

I’ve even had “patient CLAIMS hysterectomy”’written in my chart.

Why someone would lie about something so easy to prove or disprove is beyond me.

The end result is always a delay in care while we argue and then wait for an unnecessary pregnancy test which always comes back negative.

Surely we can do better?

I understand that doctors must have a degree of skepticism, and that the price of missing a pregnancy can be incredibly high.

I’m not opposed to them running a pregnancy test if that’s what they feel they need to do.

I am opposed to the delays and gaslighting

It was traumatic to lose my uterus at a young age. The healthcare workers who inundated me with misogynistic questions & put a hypothetical man before me and my health? They didn’t make it any easier.

I feel that trauma all over again whenever I’m questioned about pregnancy

I wish we could endeavour to either TRUST our patient, or just run the pregnancy test without all the unnecessary and (often) rude comments.

I don’t object to the test, I object to the way I’m treated leading up to the test.

Patients know their body best. We know the difference between a womb and an appendix. We know when we’re being talked down to and mistreated.

It causes trauma. Makes us less likely to trust the provider and far less likely to seek care in the future

Please treat your patients with the dignity they deserve. Don’t judge them on how they look, the chronic illness or disability they have or their gender or sexual orientation. Listen to them. Work with them. Let them be a partner in their care.

We can do better together /end
After the hysterectomy I also had a post op complication that was ignored by the ER three times. I had a life threatening internal bleed, but was sent home without tests because they thought I was “exaggerating”.

We MUST listen to patients. I only survived because my accidental advocate stepped up

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/my-most-dangerous-er-experience-and

#misogyny #medicalmisogyny #womenshealth #obgyn #ableism #disability #endometriosis #hysterectomy #discrimination #mybodymychoice

@dukepaaron

The following are my thoughts and are not a criticism of your reaction:

Betar's collaboration with Trump is an existential risk to the US and the lives of minority people. It's not their turn yet, but they are putting Jews at risk.

Every Jewish organisation in the US should be actively condemning them. They should be unable to show up to any Jewish community spaces.

But they know that their loudest, most obnoxious critics will be antisemites on the left. And nobody wants to be in common cause with antisemites, so people that would normally condemn them are staying quiet. Betar knows this and are implicitly collaborating with every kind of antisemite to keep operating. They're the pet Jews of fascists, giving themselves temporary cover on the right, and use leftist antisemites to provide political cover on the left. There is no Jew-hater who Betar is not using for political advantage.

They are despicable. But it's also very much in our interest and theirs that we get them first. If they wait until the fascists turn on them, it's too late for any of us.

No Christian Seders, Please–One More Time https://buff.ly/E0p9DNZ

Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/