Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv

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5 March 1937 | French Jewish girl, Charlotte Rotsztajn, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 11 September 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://bit.ly/3MtiLwY

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This Easy Mediterranean Shrimp Is a Healthy Dinner in 15 Minutes This easy Mediterranean shrimp recipe comes together in minutes in one skillet with garlic, feta, lemon and fresh dill. It's a flavorful dinner that fits perfectly into a Mediterranean diet lifestyle!

"There’s a specific kind of magic that happens when a short list of ingredients makes an actual delicious dinner in under 20 minutes." #CallFood #HealingTheHealers

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Today in Jeremy's salad: collard greens, coreopsis, pansy, and henbit

La sagesse de Calvin… 🖤

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Let your heart be broken by that which breaks the heart of God.

Why I stopped accepting pharmaceutical-sponsored lunches A physician explores the ethical conflict of pharmaceutical marketing to physicians, questioning how industry-sponsored lunches reconcile with patient drug rationing.

"There is a comforting rationalization that we tell ourselves: The food is incidental, the prescribing is evidence-based, and the sandwich changes nothing." #Medsky

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

I don't think "affair" is the really right term when he was texting a congressional aide explicit messages and she wrote back "this is going too far, boss"

Pure godless evil.

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I have so many thoughts… and none of them are angry. How did we lose our way so profoundly?

I’m struggling with the term “boots on the ground”. Those boots are worn by our family and friends…

Broken glass from a bomb, shattered around a child’s plastic slide

Let your heart be broken by that which breaks the heart of God.

The scientific community has spoken: health for the people means evidence-based public health.

Houston LULAC council cancels 2026 Cinco de Mayo parade over ICE concerns | Houston Public Media LULAC District VIII, which puts on the annual parade, said the cancellation applies to this year’s event only and that the organization looks forward to bringing the parade back next year.

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Hope everyone will read this brilliant piece from @katherineeban.bsky.social on Casey Means.

Surgeon generals usually represent the very best of the medical community. Means isn’t even a part of it, by her own choosing.

Link: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Joe Neguse is just consistently better at this than anyone else, and it’s not really that close. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It's like they read a book about the Gilded Age and thought, wow, we should do all of this again -- tariffs and trade wars, massive corporate power, white supremacy and immigration fights, a creepy sex panic and, of course, unlimited acts of brazen corruption and graft.

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You could be touching grass

Jasmine Crockett is a class act. 💙

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War. n. (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such armed conflict

US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

As a long time fan of the em-dash ... yes!

We are losing stars one streetlight, one neon sign, one suburb at a time For most of human history, the night sky has been a shared inheritance, a source of wonder. Now, more than a billion children see barely any stars in the night sky above their homes. So what does that...

“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...