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Ondine, MD ☕️
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Psychiatrist. Euro-transplant. Educator. I move pieces around and make them fit somehow. I post about medicine and politics and anything that interests me. Views posted here are solely my own. #medsky
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order
My understanding is that, at the height of the "drone war on terror" that when the military officer thought the legality of a particular strike was legally dubious, they'd have a CIA guy actually "pull the trigger". I wonder if that is happening in our current "War on Fishing Boats"?
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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👀 when it comes to "harassment" and student protest, northwestern has given the trump administration what appears to be a veto over changes in policy: "Northwestern shall not revise or modify these policies and procedures without the consent of the Assistant Attorney General".

horrible.
You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I can’t help feeling that turkey is a stand-in for something.
JD Vance: "How many of you really like turkey?"

Many soldiers raise their hands.

Vance: "You're all full of shit."
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Sarah Beckstrom seems like she was a wonderful person who had a bright future ahead of her. Such a tragedy.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Apparently she offered to cover other people's shifts so they could go home to their families for the holiday.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/27/u...
Two National Guard members were tasked with serving the nation. One is dead as the other fights for his life after shooting | CNN
On a day when many families gather across the country to give thanks, a National Guard member’s family is mourning her death after an ambush-style shooting in Washington, DC, as her colleague fights f...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:

If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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- but bringing everyone in. "My opponent is distracted by private and personal if not salacious concerns that bear no relationship to fact. I on the other hand want to make sure we all have money in our pockets and are protected by fair force of law."
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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You win by running your own campaign, not theirs. You win by not rising to the bait every time Rufo claims you want to put a homosexual instruction poster in every first grade glass. You win, yes, by promising to spend money like it hasn't been spent for years. You do it by not singling anyone out -
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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In Ohio, if a cop pulled over Neil Armstrong for speeding, he would salute, apologize, and wish him a pleasant afternoon. The smart ones would memorize his plates.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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There is a naval captain of a ballistic missile sub sitting quiet somewhere in the Barents Seas right now with 150 or so Tomahawk cruise missiles aboard the vessel. That captain has tactical control of enough firepower to wipe out a continent.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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⚡️ In a new Drop Site investigation, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain reveal that Jeffrey Epstein quietly helped Alan Dershowitz orchestrate the smear campaign against John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2006 paper “The Israel Lobby,” newly obtained emails show.

The scholars had argued in the paper...
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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If you aren't familiar with autism groups, this like the Abundance Democrats and the PSL put out a joint statement
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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It's a weird legal gray zone where you're not accruing days of "unlawful presence" but you technically still don't have status, but it didn't actually matter until now because why would they arrest you?
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Trump on Pritzker: “I would never want to talk about his weight. I don't talk about people being fat. I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a fat slob. I don't mention it.”
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites.
I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I would decline to voluntarily cooperate. No way. Issue a subpoena and fight it out in court.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Donald Trump called for the murder of members of Congress, but you know what‘s really murder on the economy? Mamdani’s economic policies, am I right? Today in the New York Times
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.

You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
www.pbs.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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That's a lot of words.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.
But worry not, he has a footnote explaining why his fixation on Soros "is not political."
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM