Chaplain John
@chaplainjohn.medsky.social
Grateful for community, especially after so much plague! Palliative Care Chaplain focusing on caring and listening. He/him. Lover of music, movies, MCU, Zelda, and all things silly.
By now you have probably heard about the deadly outbreak of vibrio vulnificus along the Gulf Coast, and in case you were wondering: yes, this is another case (yes, this is yet another case) where surveillance of this threat to public health was recently cut.
The president of the United States once again offered bad data but this time accompanied it with a bad chart. So I wrote about it link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...
The entire “woke” conversation is disingenuous… The foundational argument to what has now been co opted as “wokeness” is… what if people were treated with simple dignity
I enjoy making jokes about "Woke 2" as much as the next person, but I do think people should remember that "woke" wasn't an organization or movement, it's an incredibly vague term being used to summarize up the retrospective impression of the zeitgeist over several decades, it doesn't mean anything.
Interestingly, this is also what happens when you post on Twitter.
After Pope Joan, every Bishop of Rome had to sit in three chairs during his coronation, the last of which—the sedia stercoraria—was the crucial one. Apparently, a Swiss priest in 1490 described the procedure as follows:
“It was the president’s only public event on Monday, but it was just the latest in a series of events in recent months while on camera, where he appeared to be struggling to keep his eyes open.” www.thedailybeast.com/dozy-trump-8...
Dozy Trump, 80, Slumps Over as He Struggles to Stay Awake
The president could barely keep his eyes open during his one public appearance on Monday.
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The President is not a doctor and he’s surrounded by conspiracy theorists and quacks. This is a reckless pronouncement built upon lies and misinformation. *Posting from vacation in my personal capacity www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...
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"okay but even if the vaccines are no longer 'recommended', people can still get them!" yeah so lemme tell you which vaccines american insurance will pay for. recommended ones
Most annoying tic of people who pop over from Vichy Twitter to here to whine about how much Bluesky sucks is when they say "you're just chasing clout/engagement" like why would anyone leave a following on Twitter and move to the site that has 1% as many users for clout? Think for a second
If you’re sick, Rogue will come over and watch movies with you, Kurt will bring you soup, and Logan will kick the shit out of the guy who bullied you in high school to cheer you up.
AND as religious minorities in this country— which is 97% Christian or Christian-raised— we do have a right to fight for freedom FROM religion. None of these things are mutually exclusive.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on religion & abortion on Samantha Bee, short clip.
YouTube video by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, Life is a Sacred Text
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Hi! I’m the rabbi that organized 2500 other rabbis around this principle before, during and after the fall of Dobbs. A thread!! 🧵 First of all, there’s a lot of clarity in the tradition about this. From the Mishnah on down:
The Torah of Reproductive Freedom
The Jewish Case for Abortion Justice
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This piece revives Josh Blackman’s “tentative thoughts” that liberal Jews are lying about their religious beliefs in claiming free exercise exemptions from abortion bans. He says these claims “also give progressives a way to accuse conservatives of hypocrisy.” /1
This is going to be one of the worst foreign policy failures in all of American history.
The lede of this story says Trump might be willing to walk away from Iran without a nuclear deal if it reopens Hormuz, which to me sounds like trading an Iranian nuclear weapon for recognizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait.
ymmv, but to me, hope is the radical, irrational(!) belief that what we do now — when everything’s bleak — matters. *whatever* we do matters. and maybe we don’t live to see the realization of our hopes, but hope demands we believe that someone, one day, *will* pick up where we left off.
paul walsh deadnamed a trans teen in an article recently and refused to use his proper pronouns and when i emailed him about it, he dismissed me quite rudely so be aware if you are an LGBT person speaking to this reporter
People do no fully appreciate that inflation is a bigger issue to voters now than it was in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/fiftyplu...
Affordability concerns are even more important to voters than in 2024
Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president
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"I'm not here to mock any community," says guy actively mocking a community.
Here's Enes Kanter Freedom "declaring" himself a WNBA prospect. He's pulled this shit before. After becoming a MAGA personality once his NBA career crashed, he ran to Fox in 2023 and said he'd call himself "Enisha" to "show my point" and "average 60 points" in the league. x.com/justinbarago...
In 1942 when ~10 Japanese-American students from Willamette University in Salem, OR were transported to internment camps, a group of white students went to the train station to express solidarity with them. They encountered a group of angry, racist American Legion members celebrating the occasion.
"Roughly 550 people came to the ICE facility, holding signs that said 'Let Haitians Stay' and 'Keep TPS'. They applauded as their Haitian neighbors entered and exited the ICE Field Office..." www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
Listen to those of us who were there. The denial and lies are so tempting, but the reality of COVID was worse than so many thought/think. Staying in denial and bargaining does not help, not with grief and not with healing. Listen to these stories so you can know the truth and stand against lies.
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
They're really going all out. The less they find, the harder they look. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Senate Panel Says It Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Covid-Era Phone
Republicans in Congress have ramped up scrutiny of the retired government doctor, and one panel could vote on holding him in contempt on Thursday.
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the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
This guy says we need to listen to frontline doctors, 99% of whom want him to resign.
BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
The Republicans have been lambasting the quiet medical professional who guided us through COVID because they prefer the style of this roided up road rage case
RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking
There is never such a thing as a good cop and American laws are designed to enforce power structures. Police do not protect people. They setve and protect property, capital, and the benefits of themselves.
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
Important conversation between @matthew.flux.community and @aselrod.bsky.social. The answer is yes. plus.flux.community/p/is-liberal...
Is liberal Christianity making a comeback?
Alan Elrod on James Talarico and why the U.S. left needs to speak to all Americans
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The funny thing is, the two people who showed Trump’s team how to steal all the power from the House and Senate were Newt Gingrich and Mitch McConnell. …
“Why isn’t Chili’s going all in on AI” because it is a restaurant
huh the only fast casual restaurant that's thriving hates AI wonder if that means anything
New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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