Scott Mintzer

This story is so wrong, and so heartbreaking, that I could go on about it for days. And it pertains to far more than AI and health care. So I will just say: if you’re too benighted to grasp whom you should trust about complex matters requiring expertise, there is nothing anyone can do to help you.

From my childhood through the entirety of my medical training, HIV was a terminal illness. I blinked my eyes, looked up from my specialty journals, and it had become a chronic, manageable condition. This was over 20 years ago, of course, so people forget about it. But they shouldn’t.

This is the kind of town I live in: The Sixers had their home opener last night. There are — and I am not exaggerating — 9 stories about it in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning.

Seen on a street corner trash bin in Center City Philadelphia.

My feed is absolutely filled with NFL posts so I guess I’m gonna have to stop scrolling on BlueSky on Sundays for the next few months.

How bad are things for the GOP? This bad… G.O.P. Representative Breaks With Trump in Ad: Hispanic Voters ‘Feel Betrayed’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

@sixersnba.bsky.social what's a guy gotta do to buy season tickets?? I have submitted my name for information multiple times, starting over a month ago, and nobody has gotten back to me. I can't chat with a rep... I can't get anyone on the phone... I had tickets 2 years ago and it wasn't this hard.

This is without doubt one of the most fun parts of having a kid. One of my sons decided, around that same age, that the “Jose” of “no way Jose” could be more widely evoked in exclamations. He used to say stuff like “Oh man, Jose.”

If your judgement is so poor that you think you should listen to RFKJ rather than your pediatrician, there’s nothing I nor anyone else can do. If people have agency, you need to acknowledge the consequences of their agency rather than shifting the blame elsewhere.

If you’re a football fan, you’ve seen the latest study showing that at least 25% of NFL players get CTE, and probably much more. This is your regular reminder that American football is a bloodsport and should not exist.

Make a band bigger: Green Week

share.inquirer.com/3SgaoH Infantino just concluded a highly successful World Cup. That he now finds himself clinging to the FIFA Presidency by his fingernails has to go down as one of the greateat political missteps in decades. A truly breathtaking feat of hubris, misjudgment, and stupidity.

This is just a very large-scale and severe demonstration of the principle that when you play too hard to win your primary, you screw yourself for the general election.

Lindsay Graham died. Meanwhile, the World Cup semifinal matches should be pretty awesome.

Just went to Wawa to grab something to eat and the total came to $7.11 and I feel like that’s some weird juju right there.

Nadia is perfectly channeling my feelings today

OMG this is just too good... Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is facing a very stiff challenge from Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola , and the race could be quite close. Now somebody else has filed to get on the ballot, and his name is ... Dan Sullivan. 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... There’s enough snake oil in this piece to deep-fry a whole Indiana Jones movie scene full of snakes. Some blame modern medicine, but I think the problem runs much, much deeper than that. This is a failure to understand expertise. And it’s infecting every field.

This is actually very good news in the form of resistance (and a giant “fuck you” to Donald Trump).

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

All of this. The problem is that there is been not nearly enough of a PR push in this direction, so the country likely would not be a place to support these things yet.

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

I knew back in November that this team was liable to win it all. They looked *that* good. #GOBLUE 🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

It appears that even this corrupt Supreme Court won’t go for the utter ludicrousness of banning birthright citizenship, which is plainly enumerated in the Constitution. Which, of course, leaves us with the question of why they took the case in the first place… www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

The large majority of “Chronic Lyme Disease” is a psychosomatic condition egged on by quacks.

No Kings Philadelphia

This seems like a superb idea.

I think we're going win, but I want to win hard enough that we start paying artists to paint murals in post offices again. (This time the post offices are also banks.)

If more income inequality, more fantasies about beating the rich. Why don’t the rich understand this?

We should try capping political donations in PA. Tell Mike Bloomberg & Yass & Bezos & Musk—from now on, the max donation to a candidate for governor is $1,000 or whatever. Letting Bloomberg give $2.5M to our governor is bananas, no matter who the governor is. share.inquirer.com/1LtrB5

The Republicans are heading for a historic drubbing in the midterms, and no, Trump’s threatened proto-fascist bullshit won’t be even close to enough to stop it. And despite the fact that this is entirely predictable, the whole narrative around Trump and the GOP will change dramatically.

Exactly nobody is gonna have the slightest sympathy for the evil and regressive Iranian government. But you don’t just take out the fucking leader and expect things to get better. What exactly does Apprentice President think is gonna happen now?!Underwear gnomes form a new government?

Oh, sure, we could fund health care, dental & vision for us all with that amount, who’s asking? Call me, I have thoughts about how to keep America safe! (from misery) wapo.st/40sgBRz

What is wrong with these fucking people, Exhibit #347.

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

Hard agree

Also, in lieu of performing his lauded opera "Einstein On The Beach", the Kennedy Center has announced that they will be performing "Kid Rock At Hooters".

How bad is it for the administration? Even John Fetterman is calling for Buchenwald Barbie to be fired, that's how bad. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Welcome to the resistance, Jerome Powell.

I want to make another point: We in healthcare understand that prevention is nowhere near as sexy as treatment, but it saves a whole lot more lives. Krasner is directly preventing deaths by doing this. Other DAs who follow suit would also be saving lives.

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts