Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ve been saying for probably a year Kansas Senate could be in play, because of the year, & because Marshall is such a bad candidate. And that was before I knew we’d have such a strong candidate, & before I knew Roger Marshall was even worse than I thought. 15321
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ah yes the GOP president is doing rallies in Alabama and we are obviously looking at an election where democrats will once again lose. Your dooming is 100% justified and not absolute absurdity at this point. 924543
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow. 487148443849
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248905504
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Siena MI poll. I laughed & imagined a room of 100 Black people. They’re asked who strongly disapproves. 98 hands go up. Somewhat disapprove? 1 guy—definitely a guy—raises his hand. Most people look at the floor shaking their heads but about 20 are burning holes through him w their stares 33313
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nullification crisis because our special orange boy is mad at the press? Wowzer 721734
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is. 1411141205425
Ondine, MD ☕️ @ondinemd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am German. Netanyahu is awful, but anyone comparing him to Hitler is a child whistling in the dark. 050
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955281178
Ondine, MD ☕️ @ondinemd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Things I would never have expected a D expert in election strategy to ever utter with such genuine interest. 👀 120
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Deep substrate foliated saw @ysaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it's easy you simply put it on a train to st Petersburg then on to a sanctioned bulk carrier which sails to a us port which has no potash facilities whatsoever, then somehow transfer to trains and then on to the final destination 0132
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026lmao buying Potash from Belarus is an excellent idea sir. Now to take a big sip of water and look at how much it costs to transport things because of Iran 611320
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026I'm of two minds about this information 1062990329
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026lmao this is not going to last long, he's gonna be so mad 824645
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Looks early. If you're thinking about getting a flu vaccination, would get it sooner rather than later. 1188
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news." 35555631184
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Julia Ioffe: Who is Umar Kremlev, who paid for part of Donald Trump Jr's wedding? Turns out, he's the business front of Vladimir Putin's chief body guard, one of the most powerful men in Russia. That's about as close as it gets.puck.newsDon Jr.’s “Dear Friend” in MoscowKremlev bankrolled Trump’s Bahamas wedding afterparty. He’s also a former Kremlin biker gang member and reputed proxy for Putin’s bodyguard. 8324160
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I appreciate the practical assault on malignant silliness. But it’s not only federal offices. Many people have safe federal representatives but have vulnerable Dem or Repub state officeholders. And in terms of your money & volunteer time state races may be your best ROI 22610
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We are completely underrating how bad the rout is going to get in Georgia. That state might literally be lost to the GOP for multiple cycles. 910218
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) on Wednesday said the nation’s worst measles outbreak in the United States in 35 years is “going to be a terrible legacy for this administration,” citing recent deaths in Pennsylvania.wapo.stSen. Cassidy says measles surge will be administration’s ‘terrible legacy’Under questioning by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Trump’s surgeon general pick Nicole Saphier called a combined vaccine “our greatest tool for combating measles infections.” 13430872
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026anyways Diesel is going to be $7/gallon by end of week and that basically brings about the apocalypse for Rs. 917021
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gotta admit it's hilarious when liberals unskew the polls so they can doom. 415015
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️trump is destroying the country @sooriclover.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Which is why the Kansas Supreme Court is 6-1 Dem majority right now! All bc we have a Dem governor there 041
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Mario @forkymcspoon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also seems relevant that the Governor of Kansas picks people for their Supreme Court nominating commission and then picks which nominee. But not like courts have mattered for trans rights battles, right. 1423
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, as I suspected, simply providing a link that showed her anti-Dem claims were lies got me blocked by Alejandra Caraballo. She is a bad, dishonest person, & she’s causing harm in the world. People should stop treating her like she’s a trustworthy or principled person. She’s a grifting wrecker. 1822362
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026The idea that the way you influence politicians is by withholding your votes for them is just a completely incoherent view that reveals the truth, which is that nobody advocating it thinks electoral politics can possibly succeed *obviously* you lobby politicians *after electing them* 1453685
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Koehn @noonan66.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The number of small schools around the country that have co-ed high school programs in order to allow kids to compete in sports they love. Nobody talks about this. 0133
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yea I’m gonna own it, I don’t let it get to me often but it is tonight. We are on the verge of a historic wave. And it feels like some of the current we’re fighting is with folks we agree with 90% of the way. It’s maddening there are folks that don’t take defeating MAGA & Trump more seriously. 89417
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And before anyone misunderstands this, as a gay man in my 40’s, I absolutely voted for harm reduction. Perfection often wasn’t an option. Sack up and be a fucking adult. 27012
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One of the things that political commentators, policy makers, etc. all get very wrong and it's so so stupid is that they conflate issue polling with "this actually makes me vote one way or another." 313224
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it. 8443341292
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Please listen to the trans people in the places where they are most targeted. They won’t all agree. But listen to them. 0346
Ondine, MD ☕️ @ondinemd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is an excellent article. One of those where you go, “this is exactly what I think, and yay for someone putting it into words in a way I could not have.” 122
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lmao whhhaaattt 725523
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My best guess is that this was idea all along. Delay until it's impossible, then punt. 28221
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Aaron van Dorn @aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The swing from teen pregnancy being a concern on the right in the 1990s to teen pregnancy being a concern on the right now has been fascinating and extremely bad generally. 36616
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“If you don’t reelect me I’ll go back to practicing medicine. And you don’t want that. Trust me, you don’t” 23413
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️EvaMC @evamc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This @gqmagazine.bsky.social article does a deep dive into one art thief’s motivation and methods: www.gq.com/story/secret...gq.comThe Secrets of the World's Greatest Art ThiefHe didn’t steal for money, but for the thrill, the beauty, the ownership. But it couldn’t last forever. 141
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is such a wonderful thread and you absolutely must stop right now and read it. 3255
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026The suspect, arrested after knocking a bunch of people over, reportedly had multiple weapons on him. This could have been horrific. 728580
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/09/2026Breaking News: Germany’s far-right party, the AfD, dominated a state election, but was not on track to win an absolute majority, near-final results show. Follow live updates.nyti.msLive Updates: Germany’s Far Right AfD Has Big Lead in Key Election, Exit Polls ShowNear-final results showed that the Alternative for Germany party finished first in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. But it was not on track to win a majority, which would have put a far-right party into power for the first time since World War II. 2714145
Ondine, MD ☕️ @ondinemd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is something I tell every single batch of medical students that rotate with me, and most had no idea. 131
Reposted by Ondine, MD ☕️Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A reminder that the real problem in the supplementation industry is that there is no compound validation in any of it. You are not required to demonstrate the pill someone is taking contains anything on the label and often it doesn't. Of course validation would like double or triple the cost. 67912