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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hope you are all planning to attend the International Symposium on Urolithiasis meeting in Chicago 10/1-2. 2026isuchicago.net Two full days of kidney stones: urology and nephrology. Send in your abstracts now! Deadline is 9/1. See you in Chicago!
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International Symposium on Urolithiasis | The premier international kidney stone meeting since its inception in 1968.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Wow. Who could have possibly predicted that the GBD boys would start attacking all vaccines. I am unshocked.
Read distraction-free on Substack
Kulldorff exposes HPV vaccine's illusion of safety
One of the world's leading biostatisticians says the science used to reassure regulators about Gardasil was fundamentally flawed.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The URINE Study! New consequential J Urol paper. All credit to Ryan Hsi for getting this funded and done. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42378339/ The paper in part based on pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... My 20 year goal: perform a study called URINE @nyunephro.bsky.social @vanderbilt.edu
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NYU Nephrology @nyunephro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ready to kick off the new academic year by welcoming our new class of fellows! We are so excited to have you join us: Dr. Carolina Andrade Santivanez, Dr. Tasneem Ashrafi, Dr. Leyla Heris, and Dr. Reid Schlesinger @weddellite.bsky.social 🎉🎉🫘
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026
Extreme heat is a worker safety issue. The workers who build our skyline, staff our airports, stock our warehouses, and deliver our packages, keep this city running.  This executive order will ensure they come home safe at the end of every shift.
Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/06/2026
Today I signed an Executive Order for every worker exposed to extreme heat on the job. It requires multilingual heat safety guidance for workers, a review of construction site heat safety practices, and heat illness prevention plans at every mayoral agency.
Mayor Mamdani and workers celebrate the signing of the new executive order.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Appreciate this great summary of my plenary session lecture at #aua www.urotoday.com/conference-h...
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AUA 2026: State-of-the-Art Lecture: Climate Change and Stone Disease
AUA 2026, stone disease, nephrolithiasis, PNAS study, acute kidney injury (AKI), kidney stones.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Rise of the Vichy Scientists
Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“Why would scientific institutions be cozying up to the very people who want to pull them all down? Why do they insist on whitewashing what is happening, helping the perpetrators burnish their credentials?” HooooooooBoy, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social has nailed it in his new piece.
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The Rise of the Vichy Scientists
Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Today is a good day to take note of all those telling you how swimmingly this is going to work out so you can stop paying attention to them forever We have illegally and under false pretenses launched a war that in no way benefits us and isn't going to ever truly end A MISTAKE WE HAVE MADE BEFORE
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We advance the understanding and importance of Ca/PO4/FGF23 in Dent disease journals.lww.com/cjasn/abstra...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm heading to the Senate floor in a few moments to lay out the detailed story of ICE abuse - teargassing schools, murdering American citizens with impunity, disappearing legal immigrants. And why we should not fund ICE until they stop terrorizing our communities.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I guess these jerks want more kidney disease (to say THE LEAST about effects of climate change. Missed our post urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have the most corrupt and least competent FBI at the same time that we have the most corrupt and least competent DOJ, with the only saving grace in either instance being that both agencies are also woefully understaffed
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our editorial about climate change...yes, it's coming and it's not stopping...and its effect on kidney stones, AKI, CKD...(while USG remains in denial: promoting COAL!) in @kireports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @theisn.org @nyunephro.bsky.social @thecookingdoctor.bsky.social
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Effect of Climate Change on Kidney Stones and Kidney Disease
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
www.startribune.com/mournful-cer...
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Mournful, ceremonial: Minneapolis VA memorial gathering overflows to remember Alex Pretti
Nearly 1,000 of Pretti’s colleagues found one way or another to watch the service in the hospital’s chapel.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dr Nicole Miller, president, opens 2026 ROCK Society (Research on Calculus Kinetics) - welcomes us to Music City
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/01/2026
Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.
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David Scales @tnfalpha.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This is clearly worrisome. Equally concerning is the grant agreement language allowing the gvt to terminate grants whenever it deems the research doesn't align with admin priorities. As research takes years to start/implement, that uncertainty will keep many worthy projects from even starting.
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 03/01/2026
Wow - excellent discussion of the totally underwhelming BICAR-ICU2 trial podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f... @nephcrit.bsky.social fighting a line fight against the unimpressed nephrons with guest @weddellite.bsky.social #NephSky #EMIMCC
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FF 88 BICARICU-2, Bicarbonate in the ICU. Helpful or just a number fixer?
Podcast Episode · Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast · 2025-12-27 · 1h 25m
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks to @jefftiedrich.bsky.social and @rubinallergy.bsky.social for keeping urine ingestion topical. This is NOT what the kidney community considers the cutting edge of nephrology, but that's where Oz, RFK Jr, Makary, Prasad, et al are leading us. @hswapnil.medsky.social
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Working people have been left behind in New York. In the wealthiest city in the world, one in five can't afford $2.90 for the train or bus. As I told Trump today— it’s time to put those people right back at the heart of our politics.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Today’s Wadi Suki Symposium at Houston Methodist was terrific! Excellent program was a great intro for #KidneyWk - started with stones & climate!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hey look. Communism.
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Michelle Rheault, MD @rheaultm.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#KidneyWk 👀 www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
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Houston Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours As Unpaid Screeners Told To Get Loans During Shutdown
TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely bac...
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#kidneyweek 2016 and 2025
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wow. Thank you so much @jessicawildfire.bsky.social for the kind words and review. 🙏 www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/the-grip-tig...
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The Grip Tightens
On media misinformation
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2025
Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Something I don't understand about AEs of aldosterone synthase inhibitor therapy pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...: why does it cause hyponatremia? Placebo: 0.4%; 1 mg 0.8%; 2 mg 2.3%. ChatGPT couldn't explain. Maybe @hswapnil.medsky.social @kidneyboy.bsky.social understand this?
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Baxdrostat Efficacy and Safety in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension
Aldosterone dysregulation plays an important pathogenic role in hard-to-control hypertension. We tested the efficacy and safety of baxdrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, in patients with uncon...
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Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦 @hswapnil.medsky.social · 14/10/2025
RIP NHANES? As the piece below points out: NHANES may actually be aligned with some healthy eating and chronic disease prevention goals of MAHA. Just a reckless wrecking ball #MedSky
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Megan Prochaska introduces the Fredric L Coe Symposium in war-ravaged Chicago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...
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Everyone Else is Lying to You: My Book is Done!
The pandemic’s biggest disinformation superspreaders are now in charge. How did this happen?
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Fernanda Arce-Amaré @ferarceamare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
What a delight meeting finally @weddellite.bsky.social in person in NYC during #UNGA! Such an amazing person! #UNGA80
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Addressing diabetes and kidney health with International Society of Nephrology dvx.cm/UNGA80
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ACOG @acog.org · 22/09/2025
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. bit.ly/47Wxc59
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
By the way. He really should read We Want Them Infected. It helps explain how we got to this moment. In his review, @hiltzikm.bsky.social grasped the threat. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Column: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price
They were some of the most prominent academics in the country. They pushed a devastatingly wrong COVID policy, but they've never admitted their error.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2025
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We can mourn Charlie Kirk. We can send prayers to his friends and family,” writes our columnist Jamelle Bouie. “We can — and should — do all of this and more without pretending he was something, as a public figure, that he was not.”
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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
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Opinion | America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Agreed, but... I wish this sort of coverage had been more timely. We need preventative care or early treatment, not documentation of an autopsy.
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David S. Goldfarb MD @weddellite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Climate & Kidney Health in the American Urological Association’ News - it’s that time of year! auanews.net/issues/artic...
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Climate Change and Kidney Health - American Urological Association
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activities have been undermining the health of our planet for years. As a result, it appears that via climate change, we have caused threats to our ...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Thank you @idsainfo.bsky.social , @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and the other professional societies that have stood up to confront the absurd and deadly anti-vaxx views of #RFKJr and his co-conspirators, #MartyMakary, #VinayPrasad and #JayBhattacharya.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate. 

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A grotesque privilege to see Kent Monkman’s THE KING’S BEAVERS in person at the Denver Art Museum. Certainly the greatest beaver-related painting ever made, and one of the best at depicting the horrors of colonialism, the fur trade generally, and the industrial-scale exploitation of wildlife.
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