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Tom Isaacson

@parsley72.bsky.social

Known in Taiwan as The Tom. Immigrant, Pākehā, he/him. Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.

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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 18h ago

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.
Marly@verbsrproudest.bsky.social · 2d ago

My elderly mother is still warning me to beware of "internet hobbits" & also "all of that really creepy A-One stuff," and I corrected her the first few times on how to say it, but then I stopped when I realized I enjoy her and her way of putting things more.

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · 2d ago

I really hope someone in Labour is actually going to make sure this bill is useful. Just look at what’s happened on other countries that have done something similar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

National wants to show Labour the social media ban bill, but 'we can't', education minister says

The education minister says she hopes to get a copy of the social media ban bill to Labour's caucus this week, after previously saying legal reasons were preventing her from doing so.

rnz.co.nz

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 3d ago

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Democratic Socialists’ bus benches remain, city mum on next steps | Port City Daily

WILMINGTON — The handmade bus benches installed by the Wilmington Democratic Socialists of America have highlighted a problem nearly everyone agrees exists: most Wave bus stops have nowhere for riders...

portcitydaily.com

Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just learned that going permanently blind while on GLP-1 (NAION) is 20 times more likely than heart inflammation after a COVID vaccine (much less serious). I’m sure politicians will be calling to ban these drugs shortly.