A med student asked me today: "Why do men have nipples? They serve zero purpose." I laughed. Then I realized the real answer is one of the most elegant stories in all of biology. Let me explain.🧵

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Hospitals love to say that they can't comply with staffing mandates because there's a nursing shortage. But there is no nursing shortage; there's a shortage of nurses willing to work under impossible conditions. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

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Every time someone’s bitching about why we can’t protest like they do in France, I want to stick a bullhorn in their face and yell “FERGUSON.” White liberals in particular have memory-holed what happened in Ferguson and how many Black organizers died under suspicious circumstances afterward.

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A pro-life white woman ruling that a law officer was justified in killing a Black baby seated in his mother’s lap, shooting her as well because of suspicion of stealing diapers is as accurate of a summation of how the US has historically wielded its institutions against Blackfolk as I can think of.

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asking for a more extractive immigration policy than we already functionally have is bananas

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