brookswalsh
ER doc.
Okay at reading ECGs
Proud to have helped eliminate "excited delirium" in EM.
Aiming to correctly use the subjunctive in Spanish more often.
And I am never, ever sick at sea.
- Reposted by brookswalshA man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
- "We have been tasked with protecting and promoting health, and instead, we are being asked to facilitate inhumane operations." - Rebekah Stewart, a nurse practitioner who left the agency providing healthcare for ICE in October NPR share.google/AdWTTrTPqIVk...
- Reposted by brookswalshOrganizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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- "On Professor Watchlist, where Perkins has been featured since 2022, Turning Point calls [Perkins] “no stranger to racially incendiary remarks.” Pot calling the kettle "racially incendiary "
- Reposted by brookswalshHunter Biden and Benjamin Franklin arguing if Latina women or older French women are the better.
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- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- "Most of the soldiers in Washington's army had been born not in America but in England, Ireland, and Germany. ... The War for Independence was being waged, in large part, by newly arrived immigrants." From Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick share.google/13I0U8W9TAfD...
- Reposted by brookswalshThree rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
- Reposted by brookswalshAlso, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise
- Reposted by brookswalshJudge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
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- "If we believe in emergency medicine as a universal safety net, we must reckon with the fact that enforcement-driven fear is ripping holes in that net." - Chinwe Anyanwu, DO, MPH The essay is restrained, but ACEP is a staid organization. Pretty bold of them, on balance share.google/6YGIR2rTFKCK...
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- Reposted by brookswalshCiting fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
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- Reposted by brookswalsh1/4 Rep. Kelly Morrison, is a practicing M.D. Her description of conditions in the Whipple detention facility are horrifying. Here is a rough transcript of the video she just posted. @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social
- My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
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- Reposted by brookswalsh"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..." apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by brookswalshI may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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- There's a lesson here for medicine in the USA. Don't let us be co-opted by ICE. There are too many times that well-meaning clinicians violated the rights of people after fuzzily thinking that they were helping "the good guys."
- Reposted by brookswalshme at 17: a secret conspiracy of billionaires shapes global events me at 35: class interest creates emergent outcomes and aligned behavior, but there’s no smoky room where plutocrats plot to shape global events me at 41: a secret conspiracy of billionaire perverts shapes global events
- The author disabled quotes.A cabal of pedophiles conspired to destroy the US government from within by seeding fascist ideas into online forums, spreading conspiracy theories about the opposition based on their own actions, and devised an alternative currency to upend the global economy. Now they run the US government and CBS
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- "Paul Dominguez, 58, died of "positional asphyxia during law enforcement subdual and restrain" — meaning his body was in a position that restricts breathing — with contributing factors including "methamphetamine toxicity," high blood pressure and heart disease" share.google/qTJnTT0a4UJZ...
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- Goddamn Onion
- Reposted by brookswalshWhat should you do about it, though? I recommend staying noided. "Noided" means different things to different people, and no definition is necessarily more valid than others. Would you like a list of local gun shops?
- Reposted by brookswalshMINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
- 1a. Spaceship doctor is a robot/computer 2b. Spaceship doctor is a rough-hewn, plain-speaking human. (It's a dialectic, counts as a single trope)
- Reposted by brookswalsh"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
- Reposted by brookswalshI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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- Reposted by brookswalshImmigrants in the US consumed about 24% fewer welfare and entitlement benefits per capita than native-born Americans in 2023, new Cato Institute research finds. Learn more from Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo: ow.ly/2w4Z50Y4Bsj
- Reposted by brookswalshIt is unclear whether the highly corrosive and carcinogenic hexachloroethane, or HC smoke, has been deployed in the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. It was used during the 2020 protests in Portland, Ore., following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
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- "The way ICE agents act is just as important as who they choose to detain. Officers and their superiors could learn from Minnesota National Guardsmen, who have used gestures of goodwill, like handing out hot chocolate, to de-escalate protests" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- “All of the sources support the mass deportation agenda, but have serious hesitations about the way it is being carried out and the messaging that comes with it" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- "Former immigration officials told us they rarely heard of [chokeholds] during their long tenures. They also recalled little pushback when DHS formally banned chokeholds and other tactics in 2023; it was merely codifying the norm. That norm has now been broken." www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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- “We already have unacceptable maternal mortality and maternal morbidity rates. Could we see those numbers go up? At this point, I think anything, frankly, is quite possible.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- "If there’s one thing Trumpworld has shown, it’s that once you’ve knelt to offer the Dear Leader a lick-and-shine, you better keep it up until your tongue’s as dry as Death Valley." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by brookswalshi feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left
