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13 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#DuanteWright had a learning disability so severe he dropped out of high school. His dad says he was planning to get his GED.

More than half of people killed by police have some kind of disability. I've reported so many stories about this.
Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability: Report
namiillinois.org/half-people-ki…
“Police have become the default responders to mental health calls,” write the authors, historian David Perry and disability expert Lawrence Carter-Long. They propose that “people with disabilities” are presumed to be “dangerous to themselves and others” in police interactions.
.@VilissaThompson is a senior fellow for the #Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress. She wrote this:

Understanding the Policing of Black, #Disabled Bodies
americanprogress.org/issues/disabil…

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8 Apr
"That is the moment the life goes out of his body." Says the doctor testifying in the #DerekChauvinTrial.

This may be the most damning testimony yet, simply because it reminds everyone that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd as we watched. It is a terrible moment of realization.
Dr. Martin Tobin may singlehandedly convict Derek Chauvin. While eyewitness testimony was emotionally wrenching, this testimony today? Absolutely, unequivocally states that George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin. And Chauvin's refusal to allow help for Floyd just cinches it.
Genevieve Hansen testified she offered to check George Floyd's status. A woman who saves lives every day as a firefighter. In the video, Derek Chauvin threatens her, demands she back off. Fold that into Dr. Tobin's testimony that George Floyd was tortured to death. Conviction.
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8 Apr
This thread📌is one of the most egregiously out of touch I've ever read from someone purporting to be a doctor. It's infuriatingly smug and anti-patient. In the real world, NO ONE GETS TO CHOOSE THEIR HOSPITAL. But we do, as patients, get to say no to care that is substandard.
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Claiming that "patient outcomes," matter as a global quotient, rather than as individuals' humanity, belies the reality many patients experience at the hands of doctors-in-training who are often told NOT to listen to patients by smug anti-patient medicalists like Dr. Yeh.
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Demanding patients "STFU & do as you're told," which is Dr. Yeh's overarching message here, subverts the very concept he is claiming to promote: Teaching humans to be doctors. There is a centuries-long history of women, POC and the poor being unheard by medicine and science.
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6 Apr
How is it possible that people are still using Round Up in 2021.

Wow.
So Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018 and paid out a couple billion in RoundUp cancer lawsuits, continues to manufacture RoundUp, which is THE best selling herbicide in the world.

EPA claims it's safe and doesn't cause cancer in humans. Even though it kills wildlife and pets.
I did a series on pesticide poisoning of the children of California farmworkers back in the 1990s and those stories will stay with me forever. Once you sit next to the open coffin of a 4yr old dressed as if for the Quinceañera she will never have, you can't erase that memory.
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4 Apr
I just popped on here for a minute to get a news update and there are debates going on in my mentions about Mary Magdalene. This reminds me that one of the best things about Twitter is the side order of erudition.

Mary Magdalene is a pivotal figure in the Easter story.
The debate over Magdalene's status as an unmarried woman hanging out with married and unmarried men has been going on for millennia and is very much about erasing her role and that of all women in the Christian story. Something to contemplate, since Jesus was not sexist.
#Easter
Whether she was or was not an actual sex worker, that her story is framed as a "fallen" woman is meant to diminish her role as, with John the Apostle, Jesus's confidant. Magdalene was the person that the risen Jesus first appeared to. Then John. Those Jesus loved most.
#Easter
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4 Apr
Trump called for a boycott of Merck, which makes some of the top drugs in the US, like Singulair for asthma, Januvia for Type 2 diabetes and Keytruda for a multiplicity of cancers.

I can think of few things more irresponsible & cruel than telling people to boycott their meds.
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Other drugs among Merck's billion-sellers: Vytorin for high cholesterol; Cozaar for high blood pressure; Remicade for RA; Nasonex for allergies. They also market the top HPV vaccine, Gardasil.
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Also, Merck is a leading researcher for viruses, including HIV and Ebola, and for cancer.

Be grateful Trump told his voters to boycott mail-in voting or he might have won the election. Trump is the same unremediated petty monster he always was and he cares about no one.
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3 Apr
When people talk about addiction they always talk about drugs, not alcohol, but more people are addicted to alcohol than any other drug and people are less likely to access treatment for alcohol addiction than other substance abuses. The numbers are actually staggering.
Some stats on alcohol abuse:
▪1 in 20 deaths is alcohol related
▪88k people die every year in the US from alcohol
▪People die every day in alcohol-related car accidents in the US
The @CDCgov stats on alcohol abuse are stunning.
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