Laura Michaeli, MD, FACEP
@michaelilaura.bsky.social
graphic👩🏻⚕️, musical🎭, homegrown🥗, imaginary stay@🏡 mom; urgent care made me a better ED MD. Chaotic Good, turned FlowerMojiBot; she/her/hers
www.DrXOmmy.com
www.DrXOmmy.com
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And we close with a “top ten” list of cautions and guidance for those encountering humor in clinical work day to day…
July 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
And we close with a “top ten” list of cautions and guidance for those encountering humor in clinical work day to day…
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In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
Call for Support: – About BHL
about.biodiversitylibrary.org
July 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.
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to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation
The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging was outdated and “absurd.”
trib.al
June 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation
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Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”
June 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”
Aspirational 👇
and @reimenayee.com has added this to her cool comics devices! bsky.app/profile/reim...
NEW COMICS DEVICE, the 69th (nice) one: Manicule.
A pointer, usually a hand, that emanates from or points towards a caption box to highlight or add to the narrative comicsdevices.com/manicule/
Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for submitting Manicule to the library!!
A pointer, usually a hand, that emanates from or points towards a caption box to highlight or add to the narrative comicsdevices.com/manicule/
Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for submitting Manicule to the library!!
May 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Aspirational 👇
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It's final paper season.
May 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It's final paper season.
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
“In the midst of clinic,
I saw that there was,
within me,
an invincible pediatrician”
-Dr. Camus
I saw that there was,
within me,
an invincible pediatrician”
-Dr. Camus
Every once in a while in #Pediatrics:
You come across a kid whose insight renders you speechless.
#graphicmedicine
You come across a kid whose insight renders you speechless.
#graphicmedicine
April 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“In the midst of clinic,
I saw that there was,
within me,
an invincible pediatrician”
-Dr. Camus
I saw that there was,
within me,
an invincible pediatrician”
-Dr. Camus
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Exceptional use of medium for message - art takes time, so what this needs is to be viewed more often to justify the energy of production - let it be the best part of more people’s day
#GraphicMedicine
#TeamWhimsy
#GraphicMedicine
#TeamWhimsy
This animation was an inordinate amount of work. Was it the best use of my time? Hmm. But once I had the idea I was compelled to give it a go. And what’s life for if not for satisfying creative whimsy?
#cansky
#cansky
March 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Exceptional use of medium for message - art takes time, so what this needs is to be viewed more often to justify the energy of production - let it be the best part of more people’s day
#GraphicMedicine
#TeamWhimsy
#GraphicMedicine
#TeamWhimsy
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
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An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky
My phone translated
“You have to hit big people”
but though tempting
I resist the impending barbarism
“You have to hit big people”
but though tempting
I resist the impending barbarism
March 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My phone translated
“You have to hit big people”
but though tempting
I resist the impending barbarism
“You have to hit big people”
but though tempting
I resist the impending barbarism
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For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
For all you who continually whine “I’m not racist, I just think we need to have standards,” this is absorb this.No Black man could become head of the Joint Chiefs without meeting the standard. What they want is to harden a system of affirmative action for white guys.They what their grandfathers had.
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He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.
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For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.
PRAMS
Surveillance project of CDC and health departments used to improve maternal and infant health.
www.cdc.gov
February 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.
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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
100% of his salary is paid by WA state.
Elon fired him. Share his story.
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This week there’s a vote on the SAVE Act.
For married women, if you don’t have a birth certificate or passport that matches your married name, you may be unable to vote. Educate yourself, then call your MOCs & tell to vote NO. 202-224-3121
shorturl.at/MSKIl
For married women, if you don’t have a birth certificate or passport that matches your married name, you may be unable to vote. Educate yourself, then call your MOCs & tell to vote NO. 202-224-3121
shorturl.at/MSKIl
February 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This week there’s a vote on the SAVE Act.
For married women, if you don’t have a birth certificate or passport that matches your married name, you may be unable to vote. Educate yourself, then call your MOCs & tell to vote NO. 202-224-3121
shorturl.at/MSKIl
For married women, if you don’t have a birth certificate or passport that matches your married name, you may be unable to vote. Educate yourself, then call your MOCs & tell to vote NO. 202-224-3121
shorturl.at/MSKIl
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I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I guess a quarter trillion isn't enough for that level of emotional poverty, so he's grifting from you, me, and the children abandoned by USAID.
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It’s probably a bad sign when the wealthiest person in the world, who’s already shutting down entire government agencies in a coup and has access to all our personal information, is now talking about “a second American revolution”
February 13, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s probably a bad sign when the wealthiest person in the world, who’s already shutting down entire government agencies in a coup and has access to all our personal information, is now talking about “a second American revolution”
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
February 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
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This is an absolutely astonishing report.
DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root.
This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat
DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root.
This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat
I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out
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SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
February 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is an absolutely astonishing report.
DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root.
This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat
DOGE did a complete takeover of CFPB’s systems at the root.
This is identical to worst case scenarios for the most devastating cyberattacks by foreign actors, only this is an *internal* threat
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SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk’s Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
Government-efficiency team’s initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
www.bloomberg.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So how’s it going so far?