Peter A. Grekin
@peterandrewgrekin.bsky.social
Emergency Physician with disabling RA. Spent my career in public hospitals & the VA.
Passionate advocate for Universal Healthcare, practical progressivism (ie., making the world a better place for everyone). A devotee of the principles of Tikkun Olum.
Passionate advocate for Universal Healthcare, practical progressivism (ie., making the world a better place for everyone). A devotee of the principles of Tikkun Olum.
Evidence that pushback by a free press and by “we the people” can have profound and tangible effects.
I’m curious how the Coast Guard managed to make that course correction despite falling under the authority of our Secretary of Homeland “Insecurity” Noem.
However it happened, I’m relieved
I’m curious how the Coast Guard managed to make that course correction despite falling under the authority of our Secretary of Homeland “Insecurity” Noem.
However it happened, I’m relieved
The US Coast Guard issues a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika, just hours after The Washington Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under new guidelines. wapo.st/4rdDQew
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Evidence that pushback by a free press and by “we the people” can have profound and tangible effects.
I’m curious how the Coast Guard managed to make that course correction despite falling under the authority of our Secretary of Homeland “Insecurity” Noem.
However it happened, I’m relieved
I’m curious how the Coast Guard managed to make that course correction despite falling under the authority of our Secretary of Homeland “Insecurity” Noem.
However it happened, I’m relieved
Amongst the more repugnant pictures ( not to mention life choices) I have ever seen.
I’m voting for the two of them to choose to not procreate.
I’m voting for the two of them to choose to not procreate.
Poor prognostic indicator for marriage longevity – when you choose a death-wielding phallic symbol for your wedding pics.
Colton Moore is the state senator for Greene’s district. My guess is he’s probably going to run for her seat. From his wedding …
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Amongst the more repugnant pictures ( not to mention life choices) I have ever seen.
I’m voting for the two of them to choose to not procreate.
I’m voting for the two of them to choose to not procreate.
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Members of the US Military: You have plenty of physical courage – but you must also always remember your moral courage. Never obey illegal orders. Never obey Unconstitutional orders.
You swore an oath. Hold yourself to it.
You swore an oath. Hold yourself to it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Members of the US Military: You have plenty of physical courage – but you must also always remember your moral courage. Never obey illegal orders. Never obey Unconstitutional orders.
You swore an oath. Hold yourself to it.
You swore an oath. Hold yourself to it.
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According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
November 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
According to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, freedom of speech only applies to select individuals.
Is this radical transparency?
Is this radical transparency?
Brilliant and tragically apt question!
The guy is a lunatic and a literal menace to society!
The guy is a lunatic and a literal menace to society!
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Brilliant and tragically apt question!
The guy is a lunatic and a literal menace to society!
The guy is a lunatic and a literal menace to society!
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Pulitzer winner skewers 'disgraceful' Trump deal: 'Sold out by an American president'
www.rawstory.com/trump-ukrain...
www.rawstory.com/trump-ukrain...
Pulitzer winner skewers 'disgraceful' Trump deal: 'Sold out by an American president'
Donald Trump's plan for Ukraine is a "disgrace," according to a foreign affairs expert who has won three Pulitzer Prizes.Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs Opinion columnist for New York Times, s...
www.rawstory.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pulitzer winner skewers 'disgraceful' Trump deal: 'Sold out by an American president'
www.rawstory.com/trump-ukrain...
www.rawstory.com/trump-ukrain...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump’s and MAGA’s betrayal of Ukraine is so utterly beyond disgusting that even in the context of their ever-present corrupt immorality and betrayal of Democracy and a stable European and International Order, I can barely process it.
Trump’s and MAGA’s betrayal of Ukraine is so utterly beyond disgusting that even in the context of their ever-present corrupt immorality and betrayal of Democracy and a stable European and International Order, I can barely process it.
Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump’s and MAGA’s betrayal of Ukraine is so utterly beyond disgusting that even in the context of their ever-present corrupt immorality and betrayal of Democracy and a stable European and International Order, I can barely process it.
Trump’s and MAGA’s betrayal of Ukraine is so utterly beyond disgusting that even in the context of their ever-present corrupt immorality and betrayal of Democracy and a stable European and International Order, I can barely process it.
That would would be excellent! He can barely get reelected in Texas. Cannot imagine a circumstance in which he could be elected POTUS by the rest of the nation. His GOP mates despise him!
But that assumes they actually let us hold election anymore (I wish I wasn’t more dubious about that that).
But that assumes they actually let us hold election anymore (I wish I wasn’t more dubious about that that).
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
That would would be excellent! He can barely get reelected in Texas. Cannot imagine a circumstance in which he could be elected POTUS by the rest of the nation. His GOP mates despise him!
But that assumes they actually let us hold election anymore (I wish I wasn’t more dubious about that that).
But that assumes they actually let us hold election anymore (I wish I wasn’t more dubious about that that).
I’ve got no clue what Tim Kaine is thinking. I get that Virginia was disproportionately affected by the shutdown, but last week’s election couldn’t possibly have been more clear that even Virginians supported the shutdown.
Parenthetically, Chuck Schumer—my own senator—needs to be replaced!
Parenthetically, Chuck Schumer—my own senator—needs to be replaced!
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’ve got no clue what Tim Kaine is thinking. I get that Virginia was disproportionately affected by the shutdown, but last week’s election couldn’t possibly have been more clear that even Virginians supported the shutdown.
Parenthetically, Chuck Schumer—my own senator—needs to be replaced!
Parenthetically, Chuck Schumer—my own senator—needs to be replaced!
Wow! Ken Martin taking a principled stance!
I don’t actually blame the Democratic Party for failing to defeat MAGA thus far, we, the Democrats, did not invent the evil of MAGA. We just haven’t figured out how to beat them so far it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t make it our fault.
I don’t actually blame the Democratic Party for failing to defeat MAGA thus far, we, the Democrats, did not invent the evil of MAGA. We just haven’t figured out how to beat them so far it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t make it our fault.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wow! Ken Martin taking a principled stance!
I don’t actually blame the Democratic Party for failing to defeat MAGA thus far, we, the Democrats, did not invent the evil of MAGA. We just haven’t figured out how to beat them so far it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t make it our fault.
I don’t actually blame the Democratic Party for failing to defeat MAGA thus far, we, the Democrats, did not invent the evil of MAGA. We just haven’t figured out how to beat them so far it’s frustrating, but that doesn’t make it our fault.
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How NGOs die - Europe’s playbook for dismantling democracy.
This piece from @alemanno.bsky.social is chilling. Question is when will animal protection NGOs come under similar attack?
euobserver.com/EU%20Politic...
This piece from @alemanno.bsky.social is chilling. Question is when will animal protection NGOs come under similar attack?
euobserver.com/EU%20Politic...
How NGOs die — Europe's playbook for dismantling democracy
The playbook is brutally efficient: fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations into dependency on philanthropic support, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence — all w...
euobserver.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How NGOs die - Europe’s playbook for dismantling democracy.
This piece from @alemanno.bsky.social is chilling. Question is when will animal protection NGOs come under similar attack?
euobserver.com/EU%20Politic...
This piece from @alemanno.bsky.social is chilling. Question is when will animal protection NGOs come under similar attack?
euobserver.com/EU%20Politic...
Mindboggling! Admitting almost no refugees…AND…those we ARE admitting are overtly white, right wing racists of European descent.
It’s sick. It’s just plain sick.
It’s sick. It’s just plain sick.
Brief intro to those who don’t know me from Twitter.
Hello! I’m a Senior Fellow (formerly Policy Director) at @immcouncil.bsky.social, a pro-immigrant nonprofit aiming to defend immigrants through litigation, advocacy, and more. I help break down the confusing world of immigration law and policy.
Hello! I’m a Senior Fellow (formerly Policy Director) at @immcouncil.bsky.social, a pro-immigrant nonprofit aiming to defend immigrants through litigation, advocacy, and more. I help break down the confusing world of immigration law and policy.
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mindboggling! Admitting almost no refugees…AND…those we ARE admitting are overtly white, right wing racists of European descent.
It’s sick. It’s just plain sick.
It’s sick. It’s just plain sick.
So, instead of death by a thousand memes…or by endless exercises in the frustrated game of circular firing squad engendered by frustration (unfair to us and our party, as MAGA fascism is NOT our fault). Instead, we need to VOTE our faces off! The Dem Party IS fighting the good fight!
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So, instead of death by a thousand memes…or by endless exercises in the frustrated game of circular firing squad engendered by frustration (unfair to us and our party, as MAGA fascism is NOT our fault). Instead, we need to VOTE our faces off! The Dem Party IS fighting the good fight!
substack.com/@robertreich...
I have nothing to add to this. It speaks the truth, accurately, and succinctly.
I have nothing to add to this. It speaks the truth, accurately, and succinctly.
Robert Reich (@robertreich)
substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
substack.com/@robertreich...
I have nothing to add to this. It speaks the truth, accurately, and succinctly.
I have nothing to add to this. It speaks the truth, accurately, and succinctly.
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Plenty of Americans have partners and other family members who used to live under authoritarian rule in other parts of the world. Perhaps they are listening to loved ones with first hand experience.
Adding to @ryanlcooper.com and @brianbeutler.bsky.social here, JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom have a theory of this moment. Many other Dems do not:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Plenty of Americans have partners and other family members who used to live under authoritarian rule in other parts of the world. Perhaps they are listening to loved ones with first hand experience.
There is simply no moral defense for the complicity of the Oligarch and Corporate Executive class in their craven support of the MAGA Agenda and the Trump Self-Enrichment Corruption scheme. Slime. Every one of them. And a shame for their families to bear for generations to come.
Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.
Follow the money.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
There is simply no moral defense for the complicity of the Oligarch and Corporate Executive class in their craven support of the MAGA Agenda and the Trump Self-Enrichment Corruption scheme. Slime. Every one of them. And a shame for their families to bear for generations to come.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Hard to imagine this is what the Founders intended as the proper use for the Pardon Power!
MAGA = Fascism
Trump and Family = Criminally Corrupt Beyond Anything in American Political History
Hard to imagine this is what the Founders intended as the proper use for the Pardon Power!
MAGA = Fascism
Trump and Family = Criminally Corrupt Beyond Anything in American Political History
Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Crypto Billionaire He Pardoned
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Hard to imagine this is what the Founders intended as the proper use for the Pardon Power!
MAGA = Fascism
Trump and Family = Criminally Corrupt Beyond Anything in American Political History
Hard to imagine this is what the Founders intended as the proper use for the Pardon Power!
MAGA = Fascism
Trump and Family = Criminally Corrupt Beyond Anything in American Political History
3 guys control and horde more money than half the rest of the country.
Let them be rich as hell.
Except for their indifference to everyone else’s welfare, I don’t care. But they they can afford to actually pay their fair share of taxes, and “We the People” have the right to demand that they do.
Let them be rich as hell.
Except for their indifference to everyone else’s welfare, I don’t care. But they they can afford to actually pay their fair share of taxes, and “We the People” have the right to demand that they do.
Holly M. Berkowitz (@hollymberkowitz)
substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
3 guys control and horde more money than half the rest of the country.
Let them be rich as hell.
Except for their indifference to everyone else’s welfare, I don’t care. But they they can afford to actually pay their fair share of taxes, and “We the People” have the right to demand that they do.
Let them be rich as hell.
Except for their indifference to everyone else’s welfare, I don’t care. But they they can afford to actually pay their fair share of taxes, and “We the People” have the right to demand that they do.
If we hadn’t already, it’s time to scratch CBS off the list of journalistic counter-weights to the fully corrupt MAGA dictatorship. Amongst everything else, they are reported to be considering recruiting a FOX “News” anchor to deliver the evening news. Walter Cronkite must be rolling in his grave.
CBS News anchor John Dickerson becomes latest figure to exit network — Guardian US
Announcement comes amid concerns about network’s ownership and ability to maintain editorial independence
apple.news
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If we hadn’t already, it’s time to scratch CBS off the list of journalistic counter-weights to the fully corrupt MAGA dictatorship. Amongst everything else, they are reported to be considering recruiting a FOX “News” anchor to deliver the evening news. Walter Cronkite must be rolling in his grave.
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Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
White House’s East Wing to be torn down fully to make way for Trump ballroom - Reuters
Yet another version of Trump breaking what isn’t broken for no discernible reason other than it’s a day that ends with “y.”
Yet another version of Trump breaking what isn’t broken for no discernible reason other than it’s a day that ends with “y.”
October 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
White House’s East Wing to be torn down fully to make way for Trump ballroom - Reuters
Yet another version of Trump breaking what isn’t broken for no discernible reason other than it’s a day that ends with “y.”
Yet another version of Trump breaking what isn’t broken for no discernible reason other than it’s a day that ends with “y.”
youtube.com/watch?v=tOUN...
It’s not exactly a “let them eat cake” response, but it certainly is as tone-deaf a statement of intent as ever there was one.
MAGA is simultaneously losing its mind and declaring PRECISELY how they feel about the Constitution and their fellow Americans!
It’s not exactly a “let them eat cake” response, but it certainly is as tone-deaf a statement of intent as ever there was one.
MAGA is simultaneously losing its mind and declaring PRECISELY how they feel about the Constitution and their fellow Americans!
Trump descends into FULL BLOWN PANIC over No Kings
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
youtube.com/watch?v=tOUN...
It’s not exactly a “let them eat cake” response, but it certainly is as tone-deaf a statement of intent as ever there was one.
MAGA is simultaneously losing its mind and declaring PRECISELY how they feel about the Constitution and their fellow Americans!
It’s not exactly a “let them eat cake” response, but it certainly is as tone-deaf a statement of intent as ever there was one.
MAGA is simultaneously losing its mind and declaring PRECISELY how they feel about the Constitution and their fellow Americans!
They care about pretty much EVERYTHING more than they care about providing affordable and quality healthcare to the American People.
Jeffries: "They care about George Santos and freeing him than they do about providing healthcare to everyday Americans."
October 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
They care about pretty much EVERYTHING more than they care about providing affordable and quality healthcare to the American People.
Yeah. This is pretty simple math: If you don’t want to be thought of as racists, Nazis or Fascists…then don’t behave like racists, Nazis or Fascists.
By the way, has anyone noticed that the creepy little Hobbit from Louisiana keeps getting less and less adorably cute?
By the way, has anyone noticed that the creepy little Hobbit from Louisiana keeps getting less and less adorably cute?
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Yeah. This is pretty simple math: If you don’t want to be thought of as racists, Nazis or Fascists…then don’t behave like racists, Nazis or Fascists.
By the way, has anyone noticed that the creepy little Hobbit from Louisiana keeps getting less and less adorably cute?
By the way, has anyone noticed that the creepy little Hobbit from Louisiana keeps getting less and less adorably cute?
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When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points