Logan Pirkl
@loganpirkl.bsky.social
University of Minnesota - COP Alumni | PGY-1 Hennepin Healthcare | Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacist | Husband, Father, and Lifelong Learner. #SkyRx #MedRx #FOAMED
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You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
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Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
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“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
WTH is this? Is this public health in the U.S. now? The president just spewing non-sense on social media?
Thank God #MAHA is prioritizing "Gold standard science".
Also when did the Tylenol in pregnancy hysteria extend to children?
Thank God #MAHA is prioritizing "Gold standard science".
Also when did the Tylenol in pregnancy hysteria extend to children?
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
WTH is this? Is this public health in the U.S. now? The president just spewing non-sense on social media?
Thank God #MAHA is prioritizing "Gold standard science".
Also when did the Tylenol in pregnancy hysteria extend to children?
Thank God #MAHA is prioritizing "Gold standard science".
Also when did the Tylenol in pregnancy hysteria extend to children?
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MONDAY: US throws Argentina a financial life raft
TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers.
@axios.com
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TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
MONDAY: US throws Argentina a financial life raft
TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
TUESDAY: Argentina doubles soybean sales to China, “further pricing out” American farmers.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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This ought to be engraved somewhere.
September 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
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Time to Ditch Andexanet Alfa?
-ANNEXA-1: No mortality benefit, incr VTE
-Real world data: Rech 2025 (PMID:40700941) no improved outcomes, 9% incr VTE w/ andexanet alfa (NNH = 11)
Mounting evidence that andexanet offers no benefit while increasing complications
youtube.com/shorts/7DGcv...
#EMIMCC
-ANNEXA-1: No mortality benefit, incr VTE
-Real world data: Rech 2025 (PMID:40700941) no improved outcomes, 9% incr VTE w/ andexanet alfa (NNH = 11)
Mounting evidence that andexanet offers no benefit while increasing complications
youtube.com/shorts/7DGcv...
#EMIMCC
Andexanet Alfa + Thrombembolism #emergencymedicine #criticalcare
YouTube video by EMSwami
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September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Time to Ditch Andexanet Alfa?
-ANNEXA-1: No mortality benefit, incr VTE
-Real world data: Rech 2025 (PMID:40700941) no improved outcomes, 9% incr VTE w/ andexanet alfa (NNH = 11)
Mounting evidence that andexanet offers no benefit while increasing complications
youtube.com/shorts/7DGcv...
#EMIMCC
-ANNEXA-1: No mortality benefit, incr VTE
-Real world data: Rech 2025 (PMID:40700941) no improved outcomes, 9% incr VTE w/ andexanet alfa (NNH = 11)
Mounting evidence that andexanet offers no benefit while increasing complications
youtube.com/shorts/7DGcv...
#EMIMCC
Um...what?
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Um...what?
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NY MAG: “Those who resigned in protest over Gaza say its enablers are rewriting history… 15 Biden officials who resigned on the architects of the disastrous policy…”
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September 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NY MAG: “Those who resigned in protest over Gaza say its enablers are rewriting history… 15 Biden officials who resigned on the architects of the disastrous policy…”
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a heartbreaking - gutting - overview of the scientists we have lost so far under this administration by my colleagues @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @pratheekrebala.bsky.social
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
projects.propublica.org
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
a heartbreaking - gutting - overview of the scientists we have lost so far under this administration by my colleagues @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @pratheekrebala.bsky.social
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...
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Vital thread about the terrorist attack on CDC 👇
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
August 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Vital thread about the terrorist attack on CDC 👇
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Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.
Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it
Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.
Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...
kyivindependent.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.
Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
'Early mover' in Feeding Our Future scam sentenced to 28 years www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
'Early mover' in Feeding Our Future scam sentenced to 28 years
The Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office says Abdiaziz Farah played an important role in a conspiracy to fleece taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs out of hundreds of millions of dollars during the p...
www.mprnews.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
'Early mover' in Feeding Our Future scam sentenced to 28 years www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
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Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
August 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Jay Bhattacharya says that Program Officers made up banned words lists at NIH.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
This is a real email I got at NIH. (Granted, before Jay started.) But nothing has changed since he joined.
I refused to censor the summary, so it remains unposted. And I have tried since Jay arrived.
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SEVEN CAR LOADS OF MASKED ICE AGENTS. SEVEN. to grab a dad with a baby in the car. A dad who has a green card and in the process of becoming a citizen. COME ON.
(This is a @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy video about the stop/arrest. Worth watching.)
(This is a @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy video about the stop/arrest. Worth watching.)
It is hard to rank upsetting ICE videos but goddammit this is up there www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6hXsURW/
Newly released video shows ICE officials detaining an Iranian-born father as he is driving his child to daycare in Beaverton, Oregon. ICE says Mahdi Khanbabazadeh overstayed his visa – but his family ...
TikTok video by cbsnews
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July 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
SEVEN CAR LOADS OF MASKED ICE AGENTS. SEVEN. to grab a dad with a baby in the car. A dad who has a green card and in the process of becoming a citizen. COME ON.
(This is a @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy video about the stop/arrest. Worth watching.)
(This is a @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy video about the stop/arrest. Worth watching.)
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The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News & Reuters issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza today with alt text:
July 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News & Reuters issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza today with alt text:
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We implore authors, peer reviewers,and journal editors to stop perpetuating the concept of static and cidal antibiotics, given the aforementioned evidence demonstrating it is a myth. In a clinical context, these terms are not complex. Rather,they are simply incorrect
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Static vs. cidal: it’s not complex; it’s simply incorrect | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
In the first sentence of their recent study (1), Gil-Gil and Berryhill cite a 2018 review article (2) to support the statement, “The clinical outcomes of antibiotic treatments involving
the administra...
journals.asm.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We implore authors, peer reviewers,and journal editors to stop perpetuating the concept of static and cidal antibiotics, given the aforementioned evidence demonstrating it is a myth. In a clinical context, these terms are not complex. Rather,they are simply incorrect
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...
What's at stake here is genuinely deeper than the particular issue of COVID vaccination mandates. Effective policymaking and governance, or for that matter social coexistence, can't survive the rule "you may commit professional fraud if you feel like it."
What's at stake here is genuinely deeper than the particular issue of COVID vaccination mandates. Effective policymaking and governance, or for that matter social coexistence, can't survive the rule "you may commit professional fraud if you feel like it."
Justice Department Drops Case Against Plastic Surgeon Over Fake Covid-19 Cards
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...
What's at stake here is genuinely deeper than the particular issue of COVID vaccination mandates. Effective policymaking and governance, or for that matter social coexistence, can't survive the rule "you may commit professional fraud if you feel like it."
What's at stake here is genuinely deeper than the particular issue of COVID vaccination mandates. Effective policymaking and governance, or for that matter social coexistence, can't survive the rule "you may commit professional fraud if you feel like it."
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This doctor (allegedly):
- Destroyed $28,000 worth of vaccine doses
- Made about $100,000 by falsifying medical and public health records for around 2000 people
- Tricked children into thinking they were vaccinated by injecting saline
The implications of dismissing this case are enormous.
- Destroyed $28,000 worth of vaccine doses
- Made about $100,000 by falsifying medical and public health records for around 2000 people
- Tricked children into thinking they were vaccinated by injecting saline
The implications of dismissing this case are enormous.
A doctor was on trial for selling fraudulent COVID19 vaccination cards to people so that they could avoid vaccination.
Bondi dismissed the charges, saying, “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing”.
Bondi dismissed the charges, saying, “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing”.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announces dismissal of charges against plastic surgeon accused of faking COVID-19 vaccine cards
Attorney General Bondi announced she is dismissing charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, a Utah plastic surgeon.
www.cbsnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This doctor (allegedly):
- Destroyed $28,000 worth of vaccine doses
- Made about $100,000 by falsifying medical and public health records for around 2000 people
- Tricked children into thinking they were vaccinated by injecting saline
The implications of dismissing this case are enormous.
- Destroyed $28,000 worth of vaccine doses
- Made about $100,000 by falsifying medical and public health records for around 2000 people
- Tricked children into thinking they were vaccinated by injecting saline
The implications of dismissing this case are enormous.
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The limitation to children at high risk for severe COVID is particularly problematic for the youngest children eligible for vax where HALF of the ICU admittances were for those with NO underlying condition, per CDC data.
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for children has been given full FDA approval, making it the first Covid vaccine for kids in the United States that will no longer be administered under an emergency use authorization.
www.statnews.com/2025/07/10/m...
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FDA grants full approval to Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children but limits eligibility
Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children has been given full FDA approval, making it the first such shot for kids in the U.S. that will no longer be administered under an emergency use authorization.
www.statnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The limitation to children at high risk for severe COVID is particularly problematic for the youngest children eligible for vax where HALF of the ICU admittances were for those with NO underlying condition, per CDC data.
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IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
It is telling that learned societies uniformly oppose the vaccine policies of the HHS secretary.
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
It is telling that learned societies uniformly oppose the vaccine policies of the HHS secretary.
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
Leading Medical Professional Societies, Patient Sue HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Unlawful, Unilateral Vaccine Changes
www.idsociety.org
July 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
IDSA, along with AAP, APHA, ACP and others, has filed a lawsuit against HHS/Secretary Kennedy to stop unlawful changes to vaccine policy and defend public health.
It is telling that learned societies uniformly oppose the vaccine policies of the HHS secretary.
www.idsociety.org/news--public...
It is telling that learned societies uniformly oppose the vaccine policies of the HHS secretary.
www.idsociety.org/news--public...