Thomas Baker
@firescape1066.bsky.social
Tele-ICU RN, CCRN, sepsis hunter, old ICU nurse. Dad. Grandpapa. Get vaccinated. Proud to be from the STL. Longtime friend of Jimmy K.
THIS. The job was hard enough when I left the bedside 19 years ago, when we still had unit secretaries, reasonable patient/staff ratios, and was before the collective trauma of COVID. That highlighted sentence doesn't reflect any of that.
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · yesterdayinteresting that even in an article that is very much pro-nurse the early frame is that nurses are not willing to work in jobs that have become increasingly demanding and not jobs are underpaying nurses
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.
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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Fuck yeah, we did!
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 20h ago🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Christ Almighty, this just gets worse and worse.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · yesterday“The first time Miller shared the folder, it contained private images of Miller and Ms. Moreno's daughter and left her name unredacted. At least one of those images could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material (SAM) because the daughter's genitals appear to be visible. ...
Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
They’re all spineless cowards afraid of his voters.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Cornyn lost his primary. Tillis is walking. Neither has a donor, a term, or a future to protect. Both caved before lunch Monday. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
People who deny the genocide at Gaza are denying not only the effects but also the clearly articulated intentions of the Israeli leadership. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/genocides-...
![A UN commission laid out the logic. Israeli leaders clearly and repeatedly stated their intention to destroy the people of Gaza in whole or in part. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Gaza was a "wicked city"-explicitly condemning the entire territory, not just Hamas or civilians. President Isaac Herzog said, "it's an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians who were not aware and not involved." Brigadier General David Bar Khalifa told his soldiers, "We shall go out to it [the enemy] in war, we shall pulverize every accursed plot of land from which it came, we shall destroy it and the memory of it ..."
These leaders frame Palestinian people in Gaza as evil enemies to be exterminated.
When leaders use such rhetoric, it shows intent to commit genocide.
That intent has been backed up with actions.
Israel soliders have killed tens of thousands of Palsteinians. As the report states.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreifk2gextsdbcx2jzgrx5d67bg5bujyp7oiehudr2enwuv5cgicmvq)
We have camps! There are camps all over the country right now!! But these morons don't mind because of who's in them
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
The whole midterm message could be a picture of Ken Paxton with the caption “he wants to look at your daughters genitals” and it’s a dem landslide
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 2d agoThe message "they want to inspect your daughter's genitals" would be astoundingly effective. Which is also why conservative Democrats who want to cave won't say it. In general, they would rather lose and be comfortable than win and have to push hard.
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
This is, and I cannot state this emphatically enough, fucked up to the highest degree.
AskAubry 🦝 🐆@ask-aubry.com · 2d agoInteresting how they want to check just the little girls but not the boys and doesn't say who is going to do the "checking".
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Max Miller has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins
Jon Husted isn’t looking out for you in Washington. Husted voted to cut Ohioans' health care to give tax cuts to his billionaire buddies.
My healthcare organization's hospitals had to make additional ICU beds in the PACUs, in the cath labs, in the SDUs... fuck him right in the face with a dead raccoon dick
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
Doctor here-Story time: I received a call today from a sick friend in another state, & I recognized it as a neurological emergency sent him to ER. Likely diagnosis: Giant Cell (Temporal) Arteritis, which can cause blindness. 1 of the authors of original 1990 diagnostic criteria: Anthony Fauci MD🙌🏻🫡
I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.
Somehow, that just doesn't seem like enough punishment. But it's better than nothing.
Susie "Nickname In Quotes" Beeca@susiebeeca.bsky.social · 4d agoAh, this warms the cockles of my cold, dead heart. Wait til you see the price a TERF had to pay for lying about a trans woman. "...also be required to publish a court-approved apology that must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months" www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...
Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat's the difference between a landlord who sneaks into your apartment to rifle through your underwear drawer and an AG who sues for your abortion records? The state health director keeping a spreadsheet of women’s periods isn’t any less creepy than the abusive ex who still tracks your location.
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.
