Very glad that the city is shutting things down so folks can stay safe. As the week progresses and things open up, please remember to tip generously — and in cash — if you order delivery.
Great news
Times article has an incredible illustration
Not great Bob
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
This was a great read. What's happening now in Minneapolis juxtaposes the best and worst of America side-by-side.
I want to extend a huge thank you to our city's emergency responders and municipal workers who showed up in today’s storm to keep our city safe and running. These are the incredible New Yorkers who inspire me everyday.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.
As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.
AOC: "Early reports are that he was an ICU nurse at the Mpls VA. So we are talking about Donald Trump accusing a VA ICU as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating service members to our country ... his final act on early was helping a woman pushed to the ground."
May his memory be a blessing, what an unspeakable tragedy.
The pandemic broke so many brains
It was always going to go down this way for Bill Cassidy and he could have gone down with principle instead of subjecting us to the horrors of RFK jr
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
Infuriating
Ensured job security for hepatologists I suppose
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
monsters
It’s so appalling
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
We are past the point when advocates need to think long and hard if they are complicit in legitimizing current HHS leadership by participating in agency promotion of policy changes. Advocates shouldn't give any legitimacy to Prasad, Makary, Kennedy & others by sharing a microphone.
this is as absurd and stupid as it sounds wapo.st/49GmNLP
“‘I remain open to vigorous discussions and debate,’ Prasad wrote to his team, adding that staff who did not agree with the core principles of his new approach should submit their resignations.”
And one noted Bluesky subway guy
Some impressive public health chops on the Mamdani transition health committee
this is the way
The transit riders vs drivers election.
The image is a boxplot comparing mean SIS for routine vs nonroutine hospice services across various service types. Nonroutine services like blood transfusions & telemedicine show higher mean SIS values.
In this survey of hospice-eligible patients with blood cancers, transfusion access had the highest importance compared to routine hospice services, highlighting the need for novel hospice models with access to palliative transfusions. ja.ma/3WHqdGt
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
