Hussain Gilani

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Happening tomorrow - in person

@pisces01.bsky.social will be presenting at the @uottawa.ca #NephGR

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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

The COSMOS study of multivitamins and cocoa supplements continues to be a ridiculous circus that mostly shows how broken science is.

This time, it's DNA methylation.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stops to talk with reporters in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Murphy: “I think it’s likely the U.S. carried out this attack on this school — I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact that this was one of our 1st targeting decisions, that this mistake was made on the 1st day of war — I think speaks to the incompetence of our leadership”

Dashed line denotes the date of initial OPTN Wait Time Modification Policy implementation on January 5, 2023. The shaded gray box and points plotted without a trendline from January through March 2023 denote the implementation washout period, which we prespecified based on the low number of wait time modifications approved throughout this time (Figure 1). To illustrate pre- and postimplementation trends, trendlines based on predicted probabilities from our interrupted time series models are also plotted.

This is a big effect

increased transplants for Black transplant candidates after GFR formula adjustment

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

in @jamainternalmed.com

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Bret Weinstein criticizing Sam Harris for complaining about Joe Rogan on a podcast with Bill Maher.

It’s the singularity of useless punditry.

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

Is anyone using obinutuzumab for maintenance in SLE (I know there is no data)?
Have young pt with LN III/IV, MMF + prednisone induction. Doing well, but persistently high dsDNA, C3/C4 normal.
@kidneydoc101.bsky.social @juancarlosqvelez.bsky.social @kronbichlerlab.bsky.social @grahamabra.bsky.social

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

While the volume of out-of-sequence transplants has increased rapidly, this has been particularly stark for unilateral out-of-sequence transplants. The rapid increase in this practice is hard to understand and counters the argument that out-of-sequence placements are necessarily due to organ quality concerns, given that a kidney from the same donor was successfully placed. Additionally, the rapid decrease in the sequence at which OPOs start out-of-sequence allocation, of kidneys across the KDPI spectrum, suggests an increasing level of comfort by the OPO community to use this pathway for organ placement despite the potential adverse consequences for patients who are skipped.8,15-19 Our results indicate that the increasing use of the out-of-sequence pathway is associated with inequalities in transplant outcomes and care, with recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants having disproportionately higher rates of educational attainment, private insurance, and preemptive transplant than recipients of their unilateral in-sequence counterparts.7,11 Our results also suggest that there are inequalities among recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants that are performed at the same center as its mate kidney, compared with recipients of unilateral out-of-sequence transplants performed at different centers, although the underlying reasons are still unclear.

The increasing numbers of ‘out of sequence’ kidneys being allocated by certain OPOs

This is a scandal of unaccountable behaviour - and certain patients are benefiting while others are losing out of coming off dialysis

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... from Sumit Mohan and colleagues in JNO

American support for abolishing ICE hits record 50% in new poll It's the 1st time in YouGov's polling history that support for abolishing ICE has reached 50%.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social perhaps it's time to revisit our conversation about Abolishing ICE?

Open to having you on anytime.

We can also revisit you accepting money from AIPAC

www.axios.com/2026/03/04/t...

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

Their legacy

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

Remember this?

“If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you it will have enormously positive impact in the region"

A million people died, an entire society was destroyed in a War based on a complete lie.

10/10 No notes.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.

1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold.
2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested.

wapo.st/3OCwNx8

Nearly blind refugee abandoned by US border patrol found dead in Buffalo Investigation under way after man was dropped off five miles from home but family wasn’t notified, officials say

While cruelty has always been the point of Trump's whole Administration, nothing highlights that more than dropping a nearly blind elderly man 5 miles from nowhere in freezing weather so that he die alone, afraid, and abandoned.

This is Trump's America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Don’t forget they make a good amount of money through “expert witness” testimonies, and for rfk, frivelous lawsuits.

If you count all the points the Rockets score, and you don’t for the opponent, the franchise has an all-time winning percentage of 1.000. Pretty great.