Joe Wright MD
@joewright.bsky.social
SCHOOL: Research affiliate, DUSP @MIT—writing a hx of “Mass/Cass” #urbanplanning // WORK: doctor for people experiencing homelessness. (Opinions my own.) #medsky // HOME: Town Meeting member #mapoli
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
I don’t doubt she was deeply affected by AIDS—her district was devastated + she wasn’t a f-ing ghoul. But she was also a strong voice against Chinese human rights violations. And put those things together (with others) as a story of how San Francisco politics work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I don’t doubt she was deeply affected by AIDS—her district was devastated + she wasn’t a f-ing ghoul. But she was also a strong voice against Chinese human rights violations. And put those things together (with others) as a story of how San Francisco politics work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
My patients need me to know their complexity, listen to their histories and understand their priorities. They need time to negotiate a collaborative path instead of me just telling them what to do. I will not cut my visit times down. I will bill for time. Thanks
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/b...
Blue Cross plans to target doctors for overcharging. Physicians are furious. - The Boston Globe
The move has angered some doctors, particularly those who often see older, medically complicated patients in need of more care and time. The insurer says it's crucial to tame costs.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My patients need me to know their complexity, listen to their histories and understand their priorities. They need time to negotiate a collaborative path instead of me just telling them what to do. I will not cut my visit times down. I will bill for time. Thanks
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/b...
That flag is good on its own but is clearly most especially a primary race subtweet / subskeet. Heard, Ed.
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
October 19, 2025 at 4:27 AM
That flag is good on its own but is clearly most especially a primary race subtweet / subskeet. Heard, Ed.
it’s like the end of Blues Brothers but in reverse
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
October 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
it’s like the end of Blues Brothers but in reverse
famous nerdy MD (to other nerdy MDs anyway ) paid by a number of capitalists who ask him if they can use AI to make money in healthcare. Famous MD has an answer: yes, by using robots for the poor you can focus your high labor costs on people who are ready to pay substack.com/inbox/post/1...
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
famous nerdy MD (to other nerdy MDs anyway ) paid by a number of capitalists who ask him if they can use AI to make money in healthcare. Famous MD has an answer: yes, by using robots for the poor you can focus your high labor costs on people who are ready to pay substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Everyone makes fun of "gentle parenting" until you encounter a four year old with a higher emotional intelligence than all of the adults in your life.
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Everyone makes fun of "gentle parenting" until you encounter a four year old with a higher emotional intelligence than all of the adults in your life.
It is hard to top Orwell’s Why I Write but on a first brisk and excited reading, I think Zadie Smith may have just done it.
The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.
www.newyorker.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
It is hard to top Orwell’s Why I Write but on a first brisk and excited reading, I think Zadie Smith may have just done it.
The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Art of the Impersonal Essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Meute, the German techno marching band, has as its perennial underlying theme, the joy of cities; new video here youtu.be/c_TKYX-UP_8
MEUTE - REJ (Âme Rework - NYC Version)
YouTube video by MEUTE
youtu.be
September 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Meute, the German techno marching band, has as its perennial underlying theme, the joy of cities; new video here youtu.be/c_TKYX-UP_8
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I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often?
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
September 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often?
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.
It feels like every thoughtful or nuanced thing I might try to say about policy just sounds dumb next to this level of hatred
I’m going to try anyway
but this has been sitting in my stomach ever since I made myself watch it
I’m going to try anyway
but this has been sitting in my stomach ever since I made myself watch it
'Fox & Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, “Just kill ‘em.” More:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Fox Host Says to 'Just Kill 'Em' While Discussing Homeless People Who Decline Help
'Fox and Friends' co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested euthanizing unhoused people with mental health issues who decline help, saying, 'Just kill 'em.'
www.rollingstone.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It feels like every thoughtful or nuanced thing I might try to say about policy just sounds dumb next to this level of hatred
I’m going to try anyway
but this has been sitting in my stomach ever since I made myself watch it
I’m going to try anyway
but this has been sitting in my stomach ever since I made myself watch it
deleting the rest of this thread because there is a pundit in my heart but on reflection he doesn’t need to come out in public
Waiting for more precinct-by-precinct from @dotnews.bsky.social and @yawumiller.bsky.social who reliably out-report the Globe and the NPR outlets on the political ground truth, please Globe columnists please please please look at the precincts and not the “narrative”
September 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
deleting the rest of this thread because there is a pundit in my heart but on reflection he doesn’t need to come out in public
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JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JUST IN: A judge quashed the subpoena to Boston Children's Hospital by the DoJ that sought the records of trans patients.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
hat tip @brendanlittle.bsky.social for highlighting this article elsewhere, also correction that the IF comes much farther down than the tenth paragraph
Lede: “forced treatment is good, actually”—tenth paragraph “IF it’s funded better than it ever has been or ever will be” which is the health policy equivalent of saying “I’d have a ham sandwich if I had ham. And some bread.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | Forced Drug Treatment Isn’t Horrific. It’s a Relief.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
hat tip @brendanlittle.bsky.social for highlighting this article elsewhere, also correction that the IF comes much farther down than the tenth paragraph
Lede: “forced treatment is good, actually”—tenth paragraph “IF it’s funded better than it ever has been or ever will be” which is the health policy equivalent of saying “I’d have a ham sandwich if I had ham. And some bread.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | Forced Drug Treatment Isn’t Horrific. It’s a Relief.
www.nytimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Lede: “forced treatment is good, actually”—tenth paragraph “IF it’s funded better than it ever has been or ever will be” which is the health policy equivalent of saying “I’d have a ham sandwich if I had ham. And some bread.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
yep it’s all fun and games until you meet an actual pigeon-fancier
Overheard in pulmonary clinic:
“Yeah, he runs a full blown duck farm.”
“Yeah, he runs a full blown duck farm.”
August 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
yep it’s all fun and games until you meet an actual pigeon-fancier
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Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
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I was talking to some friends this week about growing up in Southie and Dorchester, and I mentioned the Bellflower Street Fire
I lived on Bellflower Street from ~1971-1976. This photo was taken in 1965. The arrow points to my bedroom in the triple decker that me and my 3-generation family lived in
I lived on Bellflower Street from ~1971-1976. This photo was taken in 1965. The arrow points to my bedroom in the triple decker that me and my 3-generation family lived in
August 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I was talking to some friends this week about growing up in Southie and Dorchester, and I mentioned the Bellflower Street Fire
I lived on Bellflower Street from ~1971-1976. This photo was taken in 1965. The arrow points to my bedroom in the triple decker that me and my 3-generation family lived in
I lived on Bellflower Street from ~1971-1976. This photo was taken in 1965. The arrow points to my bedroom in the triple decker that me and my 3-generation family lived in
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Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside
August 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside
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Boston Homicides might be up over 90% YOY (23 vs 12), but we’re still below 2023 (26 as of Aug 10).
And we gotta mention, there were NO HOMICIDES IN JULY! That hasn’t happened in over 60 years! We love to see it.
#StacoStats
D-11
And we gotta mention, there were NO HOMICIDES IN JULY! That hasn’t happened in over 60 years! We love to see it.
#StacoStats
D-11
August 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Boston Homicides might be up over 90% YOY (23 vs 12), but we’re still below 2023 (26 as of Aug 10).
And we gotta mention, there were NO HOMICIDES IN JULY! That hasn’t happened in over 60 years! We love to see it.
#StacoStats
D-11
And we gotta mention, there were NO HOMICIDES IN JULY! That hasn’t happened in over 60 years! We love to see it.
#StacoStats
D-11
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you know who could be considered, in some ways, an "andrew tate of the left"? your fucking therapist
August 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
you know who could be considered, in some ways, an "andrew tate of the left"? your fucking therapist
My thread three months ago re Trump’s exec order last week—predictably awful. #medsky #drugsky #planningsky
Here’s the playbook:
Step 1. Demand that cities find homeless people with recurrent and visible symptoms of psychosis or intoxication, and force them to accept mandatory “treatment.” Step 2. Defund all treatment. Step 3. Blame them for “not wanting to change” and blame mayors for being “weak”. /1 🧵
Step 1. Demand that cities find homeless people with recurrent and visible symptoms of psychosis or intoxication, and force them to accept mandatory “treatment.” Step 2. Defund all treatment. Step 3. Blame them for “not wanting to change” and blame mayors for being “weak”. /1 🧵
July 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My thread three months ago re Trump’s exec order last week—predictably awful. #medsky #drugsky #planningsky
“The politics of the Kraft family’s relationship to Trump continue to loom over this mayoral campaign” —some pundit
AI-using campaign manager: “what about this one”
AI-using campaign manager: “what about this one”
This thing is so much worse irl and it’s huge. Onion for scale.
July 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“The politics of the Kraft family’s relationship to Trump continue to loom over this mayoral campaign” —some pundit
AI-using campaign manager: “what about this one”
AI-using campaign manager: “what about this one”
not gonna lie, Bondi’s campy vibe makes me want to always say “metha-amphetamine” from now on; but for killjoys keeping score, methamphetamine in pill form is Desoxyn and it is regulated as a Schedule II substance by the DEA which is part of DOJ
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs...
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs...
July 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
not gonna lie, Bondi’s campy vibe makes me want to always say “metha-amphetamine” from now on; but for killjoys keeping score, methamphetamine in pill form is Desoxyn and it is regulated as a Schedule II substance by the DEA which is part of DOJ
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs...
my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs...
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