Max Jordan Nguemeni
@maxjordan.bsky.social
UCLA GIM & HSR Asst Prof/Doctor, researcher, chaotic good & tennis guy.
Studying justice, drugs & the environment.
ALUM of BWH IM+CIR-SEIU, YaleMed, Howard U & Forbes30u30.
Writing at adversereaction.substack.com
Social media is for fun!
Studying justice, drugs & the environment.
ALUM of BWH IM+CIR-SEIU, YaleMed, Howard U & Forbes30u30.
Writing at adversereaction.substack.com
Social media is for fun!
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Finally in print - The 1st publication in the New England Journal of Medicine
describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence.
And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire
#SilenceIsComplicity
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence.
And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire
#SilenceIsComplicity
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Finally in print - The 1st publication in the New England Journal of Medicine
describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence.
And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire
#SilenceIsComplicity
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
describing the devastation of healthcare infrastructure & horrors in Gaza, calling on US Medicine to break silence.
And yes it’s still relevant after the ceasefire
#SilenceIsComplicity
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
Murderous attacks on Christians and Muslims alike are a real problem in Nigeria. Cutting humanitarian assistance there is even more lethal.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
“If Trump cares about Christians or anyone else in Nigeria, all he needs to do is restore aid and let babies live,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
Buprenorphine is safer than most if not any opioid we prescribe but people still act like dosing it is some esoteric practice. There’s no shortage of resources we can use to figure how to dose a medication for the first time. We should use them when prescribing a new medication.
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Buprenorphine is safer than most if not any opioid we prescribe but people still act like dosing it is some esoteric practice. There’s no shortage of resources we can use to figure how to dose a medication for the first time. We should use them when prescribing a new medication.
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Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
Prescription drug coverage options are shrinking for Medicare shoppers
Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
bit.ly
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Fewer choices may be on the menu again as Medicare patients shop for prescription coverage this fall.
Van Jones Isaiah 48:22!
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Van Jones Isaiah 48:22!
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
October 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.
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These are fascists. They should be arrested and prosecuted for assault. Nothing about this is legal. Nothing about this is defensible.
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
These are fascists. They should be arrested and prosecuted for assault. Nothing about this is legal. Nothing about this is defensible.
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If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
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My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.
Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM
In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic
famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond
and support immediate ch...
www.nejm.org
October 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.
How can i rationalize bed rotting as a good thing lol
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
How can i rationalize bed rotting as a good thing lol
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He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently.
But also such a smarmy so and so.
But also such a smarmy so and so.
Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.
October 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently.
But also such a smarmy so and so.
But also such a smarmy so and so.
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An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.
The Green Book Project is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to understand the full weight of the Jim Crow era, and how segregation —not of homes and where Black families could live— but the segregation of everything.
#EconSky #GreenBookProject
#EconSky #GreenBookProject
October 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.
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They didn’t infiltrate. They were invited in by the Admin. And the mainstream WH press corps didn’t stand up for their own (Yamiche Alcindor, AP).
How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps
How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps
Trump administration has transformed tone and tenor of media interactions by centering rightwing voices and reporter sycophancy
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
They didn’t infiltrate. They were invited in by the Admin. And the mainstream WH press corps didn’t stand up for their own (Yamiche Alcindor, AP).
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Most Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA supporters, say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Most Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA supporters, say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade.
If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.
If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade.
If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.
If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.
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*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned
This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned
This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned
This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned
This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thread 🧵
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thread 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨 New preprint 🚨
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thread 🧵
Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.
Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thread 🧵
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It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
September 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
“I can see you clearly vividly emblazoned in my mind” is such a bar. Mariah Carey’s pen is really unmatched.
October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“I can see you clearly vividly emblazoned in my mind” is such a bar. Mariah Carey’s pen is really unmatched.
Mind you perp walks are unconstitutional
An FBI agent was reportedly fired for refusing to arrange a “perp walk” of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras
FBI Agent Fired For Refusing James Comey Perp Walk
Comey, who has denied wrongdoing, is due to appear in court on Thursday.
www.huffpost.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Mind you perp walks are unconstitutional
Thank god for family members with rare/unusual first names. Can’t be using max or jordan in any kind of password lol
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Thank god for family members with rare/unusual first names. Can’t be using max or jordan in any kind of password lol
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Fetterman's numbers should alarm any pundits or consultants who believe Democrats should shift to the right and meet conservatives in the middle.
open.substack.com/pub/extremea...
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Analysis: Fetterman’s Polling Numbers Should Be a Warning For Democrats
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s polling numbers highlight the already failed strategy of trying to appeal to the political right
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Fetterman's numbers should alarm any pundits or consultants who believe Democrats should shift to the right and meet conservatives in the middle.
open.substack.com/pub/extremea...
open.substack.com/pub/extremea...