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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS

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Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires

I honestly can’t picture working in a system where you have to decide how to treat a patient based on whether they have insurance. The VA is not perfect, but practicing medicine based on what the patient needs vs what they can afford is the only way to go. Everyone deserves care like this.

Philip Gourevitch

Trump kicked millions off health insurance while failing to check inflation & hiking gas prices so uninsured forego care or end up in ERs racking up unpaid bills & hospital profits fall & they raise rates on the insured & insurers hike premiums - a hell spiral. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/b...

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Doh. Hate when I don’t check the date 🤦🏻‍♂️

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I’m both fascinated and baffled by high-altitude climbers. Watched the documentary of Nirmal climbing all 8,000 meter peaks in 6 months, and while amazing was also depressing in that you knew the chance of a death like this was extremely high. His poor wife 💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nirmal Purja: Ex-Royal Marine among 10 climbers feared missing after avalanche in PakistanAn American, a Chinese national, an Omani and five Nepalis are said to be part of the group feared missing in Pakistan.www.bbc.com
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CONCACAF "rejects" the plan for private equity to purchase World Cup- but notably stops short of a boycott (which if they and UEFA had both done so, would have ended it today) www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...

Concacaf says it rejects FIFA's proposal to sell World Cup stakeswww.nytimes.com
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Presenting at an international conference is a big deal. I've done it a few times- you pack a suit. Rehearse with colleagues. Agonize over slides. Practice timing. Try to anticipate questions. Ensure you credited everyone. Check references. And I guess: check that your map isn't AI-generated slop😳

Eric Geller

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

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I was unaware (but if asked, would have said "of course they are") that prediction markets are taking bets on drug approvals. This is HORRENDOUSLY bad. Brief thread; TLDR: if I had no morals I could cash in on drug approval betting as I just reviewed a paper that predicts the FDA result: 1/5

Betting on Drug Trials and Approvals Prompts Concerns About Undermining Researchwww.nytimes.com
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I want to live in a world where this man is treated as a quack, and not a professor of medicine at a respected institution. Aspirational.

Pandemic 𓅃. Index

Vinay Prasad of @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social is now screeching and howling on Substack that Anthony Fauci "should have signed the Great Barrington Declaration"

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Interesting choice to describe Mike Tyson as a "boxing legend" and not a convicted rapist and spousal abuser... "The slogan "Eat Real Food" accompanying the new guidelines is an oft repeated mantra among his circle of influencers, including boxing legend Mike Tyson"

Brandy Zadrozny

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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Big surprise that the editorial board of the WaPo (owned by someone worth over 200 billion) does not want to keep drugs affordable for seniors. Real Dan Patrick/COVID vibes: "Texas' lieutenant governor suggests grandparents are willing to die for US economy"

Miranda Yaver

Or not

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UEFA drops the nuclear option on FIFA. If FIFA goes through with plans to open World Cup to private investment, no European teams. That’s the defending champions and 3 of 4 semi finalists Kudos to UEFA 🫡💪🏼👍🏻

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I just want to write in Word without the damn copilot prompt hovering in front of me 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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And when people point out that this is structural racism, they will say “some of the schools that used these drones have black principals, it can’t be racism” (because no one fucking understands structural racism 🤦🏻‍♂️)

Alex A. Pagliuca

If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.

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Exactly. Fauci did not set school policy. He did not make vaccine policy. He did not set masking policy. He gave his best answer he could when asked- usually correct, sometimes not. But somehow he became the bogeyman 🤷🏻‍♂️

Andy Craig

Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.

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Sometimes the worst people in the world (evil, despicable, truly deplorable people) can still notice something incredibly obvious. Doesn’t make them any better. Just means whatever it is, it’s REALLY obvious

Larry Williamson (L422Y)

not in my bingo card

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