San Francisco Tesla dealership is busy today (at least the sidewalk is)

Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend #teslatakeover https://t.co/EKlbelA0xH

@PAULJLAMONT @EWidera @pash22 @gpgrazioli @SuzanneESchind1 @ProfRobHoward @LonSchneiderMD @LogarithmicDis @MemoryDoc @AlbertoEspay @nvillain_alz @seb_walsh @LTCShop @MadhavThambiset @RenegadeSynapse @dr_shibley @_michael_scholl @StefanoSensi14 @Gill_Livingston @DrTFromKC @jasonkarlawish @JamesRuFletcher @AdamMBrickman @ManlyEpic @SFAckley @howard_gleckman @kathy_y_liu @r_merrick @nlundebjerg @NathanielChinMD @EmmyBetz @DrJoRyan @MaggieAime @OskarHansson9 @DavidJonesBrain @PTenigma @Ayisha_Sharma97 @EMA_News @NICEComms @TGAgovau @CDA_AMC @KaplanLab_Tufts @MeganMolteni @JoshuaPCohen1 @chiara_bruck Dismantling institutions & eroding people's trust in them is meant to create a cynical void where powerful people create their own version of reality & avoid being accountable to any rule or standard. I agree with @EWidera, we should move this discussion to Bluesky. 2/2

@ChadDKollas My feed yesterday was Elon, Elon, and then Alex Jones. I think I’m just gonna burn my twitter account to the ground by tweeting crap about Elon and promoting Bluesky

We are living in a dangerous and unprecedented moment in American history. I’m getting a lot of calls from people who are not only upset about what’s happening, but are wondering how we best go forward. Here are my thoughts:

Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues to expand his power grab, and this time he wants Americans’ most sensitive information, including their Social Security numbers and banking information. We should all be asking why he wants it.

What they are really saying is that they want to drive care away from government programs to private companies like UnitedHealth, where "productivity" is encouraged through upcoding and profit is maximized for shareholders and CEO salaries. 3/3🧵 https://t.co/0WYAC0RMKJ

We have data from a 2024 systematic review that concludes most published studies show that Veterans getting care from the VA get the same or better clinical quality than Vets getting community care or the general public getting non-VA care. 2/3🧵 https://t.co/vxdrz7Lmww

Government employees are being encouraged to resign from "lower productivity in the public sector to higher productivity jobs in the private sector." This is a false narrative. Example: VA healthcare system does no worse and is often better than non-VA care in most outcomes 1/3🧵

We talk with Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, & @DrVickiJackson about their recent JAMA article on #Telehealth vs In-Person #PalliativeCare. Which option gives the best quality of life to the patient? Guest host Lynn Flint. https://t.co/Yz5JpfJRw2 - hosts @AlexSmithMD | @EWidera

Does he even know what nurses and doctors do? Also, he sounds like your weird uncle at Thanksgiving dinner telling you why doctors will be replaced by [insert anything] in the next year

If someone refuses vaccines or any other tx, you build trust, listen to concerns, share your worries. Influence but not control. But to not even try? Refuse healthcare to a child for a decision that their parent is making?? That’s wrong. Opinion 1 is right https://t.co/GC3aHRFQlE

It takes competence to fix something or make it better. Any fool can brake it even further. RFK Jr is in the latter group. https://t.co/0gZ9pQFANi

Imagine you open your email and find everyone in your hospital system is encouraged to retire next week and in return they get a 7 month severance period in which they no longer are expected to work (at all). That’s just what happened at the VA today. https://t.co/Y54Ninl20o

Bluesky is fast approaching both 30M users and 1B posts! Join here: https://t.co/x6v5YW0WFT

If there is any doubt who is running the Trump show, it’s Elon. The subject line “fork in the road” that all government employees got to is the same that he used on Twitter. https://t.co/7ZR3RNQw5u

In case there was any doubt about Elon Musk’s influence over the fed worker buyouts, the subject line a “Fork in the Road” is the same as the one Musk used in his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter staff that led to hundreds of resignations in 2022

The idea that the current administration would encourage federal employees to quit their jobs, including those providing direct patient care to veterans, is unfathomably stupid and harmful.

(recording podcast tomorrow Wednesday, reply to Eric's post soon!) #hapc

We are doing a GeriPal podcast on caring for people with serious illness and substance use this Thursday with some amazing palliative care & addiction medicine providers. What burning questions do you have (some of mine are below) #medsky #palliative #hospice #HAPC