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he/him. chicago. i am cool. i am handsome. i am both cool and handsome

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Sachs believed that the new administration was undermining patient care by making hiring and contract decisions based on political connections. Thompson and Robertson in turn accused Sachs of being financially extravagant, incompetent, and dictatorial. As Sachs resigned from the sanitarium he had worked tirelessly to build, Frank Billings, one of the most respected physicians in the city, called Robertson “utterly unqualified.” On April 2, 1916, Sachs committed suicide. For reformers and the medical establishment, Sachs was a martyr to grotesque political corruption. Although The Republican, a propaganda sheet literally published in an office in City Hall, sneered that suicide “occasionally has been a haven of moral cowards who preferred the shelter of death to public exposure of their shortcomings,” Robertson took a less confrontational tone after Sachs’s death. Still, he refused to step down.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · yesterday

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Catbus@catbus.phd · 2d ago

it would honestly be SO easy for this platform to be 'good enough' but that would require the people running it to not be weird bigots, an obstacle no techbro can ever conquer

Dave Byrnes@djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo didn't deserve to die in a concentration camp. No one deserves to die in a concentration camp. Every single death at ICE's hands, every day this modern day gestapo and these modern day concentration camps exist, is a crime against every single one of us.

Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 2d ago

A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...

it's me@coolguytim.bsky.social · 6d ago

RFK has nothing to say to me about nutrition. our main source of food is a weekly farm box. we eat so many veggies and our diet contains 0% tallow or peptides. shut up and drink from a mud puddle or something you goofy tan asshole

leaux@evangaylion.bsky.social · 5mo ago

every day with this one feels like luck and love and magic, I am so happy and I love her so much and I am bottling this feeling up so I can save it forever

Selfie of me and my Old lady tortie cat. She is nestled under my chin super happy Took another selfie, her tail is so long
leaux@evangaylion.bsky.social · last wk.

she really did love me the most. I can’t even say “I have no idea what I’ll do without her.” I’ll do plenty without her. I wish I didn’t have to though. Fuck.

Three photos of a tortie BildBild