Joseph P. Hillenburg

Trumps loyalty to Putin is one of the most astonishing continuities of Trumps presidency.

JAMA viewpoint: "Donation After Circulatory Death Transplant: Navigating Regulatory Uncertainty" by Elizabeth J. Bashian, MD; Thomas F. O'Shea, MD; Michael T. Cain, MD; Jordan R. H. Hoffman, MD. Published online March 9, 2026.

💬 Viewpoint: Regulatory uncertainty regarding donation after circulatory death and normothermic regional perfusion is shaping clinical practice and limiting adoption, particularly for lung transplants.

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This is bad news and essentially amounts to a breech of telecomm providers.

Apparently this guy never saw Poirot ordering hard-boiled eggs.

Trump's assholery has killed a wonderful advanced X-ray astronomical mission that has been in development for almost a decade.

By the way, I know everyone thinks of Top Gun (1986) when it comes to naval aviation/carrier ops, but The Final Countdown (1980) really does a much better job in this respect.

It's the final countdown...

‘No historical precedent’

Historians:

They've been doing multivax to militaries around the world for close to 70 years. Pretty obvious that's not a factor or they would have stopped that practice since they wouldn't want to compromise their troops' abilities to fight. But that doesn't ft with antivaxer narratives. 🙄

Antivaxxers put everyone at risk

Even that is a simplification of what happened. The corporate family tree of the various Bell spinoffs is like an ivy.

There's no way a Republican wins a statewide office in Illinois this year.

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FBI arrests suspect linked to $46M crypto theft from US Marshals ​A U.S. government contractor's son, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U.S. Marshals Service, was arrested Wednesday on the island of Saint Martin.

​A U.S. government contractor's son, accused of stealing more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from the U.S. Marshals Service, was arrested Wednesday on the island of Saint Martin.

Quick reminder: Epstein.

To clarify this: the context is college sports. Trump is saying that Russia helping Iran target Americans in a war is less important than the pay structure for athletes.

What a thin skinned tiny little baby and an absolutely unqualified disgraceful ass canoe.

Trump will be forever seen as a low point for America

Athletic gyms are the new beer halls.

I think this is the definition of imposter syndrome. If you’re actually an imposter, you’re probably also a narcissist and thus immune to imposter syndrome

The AST vignette below is great! If you would like more detail, check out @transplantfamilies.org's video on transplant travel medicine: youtu.be/1yllul7aJ-8?...

The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

FDA’s controversial vaccine chief will exit agency next month | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration’s head of vaccines and biologic medicines will leave the agency at the end of April, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Friday.

Vinay Prasad has been an a noxious influence on public health and drug regulation. Good riddance. UCSF should not take him back. He should wander in the wilderness forever. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine policies are "unreviewable," DOJ lawyer tells judge The startling claim came amid a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The comments came amid a lawsuit filed against Kennedy challenging a number of his actions on vaccine policy since he took office, including his unilateral changes to COVID-19 vaccine policies, his firing of all 17 vaccine advisors for the CDC, and other decisions.

The lack of evangelical Christians? Let's take a little count of some of the evangelical Christians in power:

Speaker of the House
Secretary of Defense
The departing Secretary of DHS
Trump's nominee to replace her
US Ambassador to Israel
OMB Director
Director of White House Faith Office

COVID Deaths since July by state partisanship Animated bar graph chart of total COVID deaths, state-by-state, since July 1

"health experts widely excoriated this laissez-faire approach as dangerous and ill-conceived" .... thousands died after the GBD was widely implemented... do not forget!
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The conclusions here are important: The people that telemedicine might help the most are the same ones who face the greatest barriers to access. Did you know that the federal government used to have grants to support rural telemedicine? No points for guessing what happened to those efforts.

Same vibe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_...

The United States if it was an Oregon donor