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Patrick M Dennis, MD

@patrickd314.bsky.social
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Retired ophthalmologist, daring to eat a peach. Somnolent liberal. Slava Ukraini!

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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It appears that John Roberts has been studying the Susan Collins playbook! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction (Gift Article)
Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google caved in less than 24 hours!
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“somewhat surprising”? This is the least surprising conclusion of the year!
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
George Will, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jeff Flake ... So many Rs honoring Democrats with their generous and well-intentioned advice to shun Graham Platner! Thanks!
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Ramesh Ponnuru is dissing Platner. Good enough for me. Platner is a strange reason for Democrats to dump moral standards www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Platner is a strange reason for Democrats to dump moral standards
There isn’t much for liberals to gain from replacing Susan Collins, the Senate’s most moderate Republican.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Wow! Talk about late to the party! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/o...
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Opinion | Dear President Ozymandias
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@hallicrafters.bsky.social Great handle! How I loved my SX-99!
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Susan For San Jacinto City Council @ifudontlike2bad.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
If you think you have read everything about Mike Johnson think again. 🧵 1/ Mike Johnson has filed federal disclosures for 8 yrs & reports no bank acct, no savings, no retirement fund, no investments. His office later admitted he does have a bank acct, but earns 0 interest so
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/05/2026
Iran’s official military spokesperson Ibrahim Al-Fiqar shared this AI-generated image of Donald Trump bowing before Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with the caption “The end..”
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Welcome home, NYT. Where the hell have you been?? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...
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Opinion | There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Also an interesting example highlighting the reversal of party ideals that occurred during the next century.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Great piece from @michaelharriot.bsky.social www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-second...
The White Nadir

As we tell the truth and say that the object in redistricting South Carolina is to give to the white people, for the sake of civilization, good government, progress and peace, every advantage that the letter of the law will permit, the South Carolina Democrats are branded as the greatest political criminals of the century.

So be it.

…[T]he white people of the state are too manly, too honorable, to say and declare one thing when they mean and intend another.

– “The South vs. the North in Gerrymandering,” Charleston News and Courier, July 1882
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@rdmorris.bsky.social - Have you seen *any* evidence supporting the canard that Andes hantaviris requires "prolonged close contact" for human to human transmission?
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I. Just. Can't.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When I was in med school in the early 1970s, we were told that these HeLa cells that seemed to be central to every cell biology research paper were obtained from a patient named Helen Lane. www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
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Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her cancer cells to advance medicine
Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
◾️It is a historic mistake that no one pushed back on Putin's actions in 2014; ◾️No one stopped Putin when he still wasn't that strong. So he came with tanks and missiles in 2022. Now Putin is even more sure of himself. If we give him a chance to feel his victory, it's unclear what he will do next.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Nobody does invective better than @thewarningses.bsky.social ! "Together with Corey, she has cracked the glass ceiling, and proved that pure white trash can make it all the way to the very top of the Department of Homeland Security." open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
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Only the best and brightest
WARNING: The following may offend some readers, but I couldn’t help myself…
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jb592353.bsky.social @jb592353.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
@elhowieson.bsky.social💡 @orangepapers.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @preciouspetal.bsky.social @annettebeebe.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social @6cats4adomino.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social @tcrg2012.bsky.social @dailykotzn.bsky.social @jojofromjerz.bsky.social
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
👠👠👠👠👠👠👠
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
No, Mike. There is no judge involved, pretend or otherwise. From www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“He is served by a party, a movement, and a media that view him as a nearly religious figure … Some view him as a messiah…“ Yes. “Christ” is a title, “Jesus” is a name. Today’s “Christian” Nationalists have by no word or deed shown that their Christ is Jesus. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
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How It Stops, How It Ends
UPDATE: A generous donor has asked I make this post public.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy …”
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Waiting for God to destroy the money changers. @missjanequeen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don’t believe me? I’ll walk you through the process, and how Republicans can, have, and will thwart the democratic process of selecting the next President in 2028.-Brynn Tannehill bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
GOP in 1992: "Clinton will take your guns!" CLINTON: "No, I won't." GOP in 2008: "Obama will take your guns!" OBAMA: "No, I won't." GOP in 2020: "Biden will take your guns!" BIDEN: "No, I won't." GOP in 2024: "Harris will take away your guns!" DONALD TRUMP: "You can't have guns."
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Excellent but mistitled, by J. Rauch. tl;dr: agrees with @radiofreetom.bsky.social "So the United States, once the world’s exemplary liberal democracy, is now a hybrid state combining a fascist leader and a liberal Constitution; but no, it has not fallen to fascism. And it will not." bit.ly/3LNSzwU
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Truly. Beyond. Belief. "Dr. Milhoan said he trusted his own observations over what 'established science' might suggest about vaccines." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...
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Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev Among those "illegal" immigrants that you chastised Democrats for ignoring in a recent Substack, we find included "someone who crosses illegally and then lives peacefully and otherwise lawfully in America." How does Noah the economist view that particular cohort?
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are there, folks. Can we not finally stop being surprised at the next outrage! "President Trump is stress-testing American law, and the law is failing the test." Gift article - Please read. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
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Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
FIGHT BACK. IT'D BE A SHAME NOT TO.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Why is Iran getting ghosted on BlueSky?
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Aargh!!! Anderson Cooper cut off Izzy AGAIN!!!
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"... all these older, powerful men navigated her, and, through that, she learned how to navigate them, and the world, in a way that I think has gravitas." WTF?
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
How can hearing a truth universally acknowledged induce a near-terminal cringe?
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Do they teach calculus at Wharton? Trump clearly failed that one. Inflation = rate of price change. Decreasing = good Current Prices = result of past inflation. Decreasing = it’s complicated.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Can someone tell me who this is referring to???
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Hitler: "Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people." Degenerate Art: Why the Nazis Wanted to Rid the World of Modern Art - Maltz Museum share.google/5T9jNMpXJF14...
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Degenerate Art: Understanding Why the Nazis Wanted to Rid the World of Modern Art - Maltz Museum
The Maltz Museum’s latest exhibition, DEGENERATE! Hitler’s War on Modern Art features original works by Picasso, Chagall, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Grosz, and more—all labeled as “degenerate” by the Nazi r...
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
LA just says it out loud: Because of the order, there are “undefined and operationally impracticable standards that expose the city and its officers to contempt for good-faith actions taken to protect the public ...” In other words: The press is permitted to show the world what the LAPD is doing.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Considering the stakes, does this show us how to win? “Conventional wisdom says to meet people where they are. But, on most issues, where they are is unacceptable.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong
The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Of the left wing, "No compromise with the electorate was the conference’s standing order."
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“You kill people and break things for a living. You are not politically correct,” boasted the ambitious sociopath.
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Patrick M Dennis, MD @patrickd314.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
A screenshot of two X posts. The first post is from Tom Morello (@tmorello), timestamped 7 hours ago, with a profile picture showing a person in a colorful outfit. The text reads: "What the f*ck is wrong with these people. Wounded Knee was a bloodthirsty massacre of Lakota Sioux, including dozens of women and children." The second post is from Secretary of War Pete (@username), timestamped 9 hours ago, with a profile picture of a man in a suit. The text reads: "Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled." The second post includes an image of a man in a suit standing in front of an American flag and an official seal, appearing to give a formal statement.
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