Benjamin Ryan

and I had a wide-ranging discussion, covering Covid, the history of breast cancer research, the polio vaccine clinical trial, monkeypox, pediatric gender medicine, and my own battle with cancer. benryan.substack.com/p/jay-bhattach And we discussed how

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

May 7

I worked the Met Gala as a waiter a few times. It’s your basic gala dinner. A lot of hobnobbing and table hopping. The placement of people’s tables is *very* political. The last year I worked the party Mary-Kate and Ashley were seated in Siberia and the were NOT HAPPY.

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Jane Marie

@SeeJaneMarie

May 7

What happens INSIDE the Met Gala? Is it just like a boring wedding reception?

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Sorry everybody about the #monkeypox outbreak! I'll do better next time. 🤷‍♂️

Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Apr 20

This is my cousin, then 16, mourning her best friend, Cassie, who was murdered 25 years ago today, along with 14 others at Columbine High School. The anguish in her voice before they found Cassie's body haunts me. My cousin would live a hard life. We lost her, too, in 2020.

Elon Musk has started restricting accounts who use that word that means someone isn't trans, calling it a slur.

I would once again like to apologize for inadvertently causing the entire global #monkeypox outbreak by typing too fast and leaving out a crucial consonant.

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jul 20, 2022

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This is misinformation about #monkeypox. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids remains *very low*.

Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Nov 16

John Oliver, in arguing how the Dems should respond to the trans kids issue, falsely claims “there is no evidence” trans kids “pose any threat” to fairness in sports. There absolutely is evidence that trans females have a competitive advantage.

The media could not be played.

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Also, Jimmy Fallon went around at the end of the night thanking all the waiters. Literally no one does that at gala banquets. He is a class act. Also, one time Kim Basinger made sustained eye contact with me and I nearly fainted from the glamor.

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Imagine as if Charlotte’s Web took a hard pivot and became a bloodbath in Chapter 2.

Welcome to the typo club.

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@Indian_Bronson

Oct 1

Just closed a very important email with "Best retards," how is your day going?

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Having spent the past year researching and studying the subject of pediatric gender medicine, I can answer your question,

@JoyceCarolOates

, about why voters care about the transgender issue so much: 1) People are concerned that this medical field is not grounded in sound science,

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Weren’t you in the room to begin with, making you one of the original 100 murderers? The question doesn’t clarify this.

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I hope you will join me in cancer survivorship. I can greatly relate to having good days and bad days. Chemo is no joke. Here’s me at the end of chemo and then 9 months later:

When I found out during my sophomore year at Columbia that my mother had terminal brain cancer and soon would be dead, I went to the dean’s office to ask what I should do. She said I had 2 options: 1) Drop out and return another semester; or 2) Do all the work. I chose option 2.

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Aaron Sibarium

@aaronsibarium

May 3

NEW: The student editors of the Columbia Law Review have issued a statement urging the law school to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university's encampment, saying the "violence" has left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

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That's actually adorable.

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My dad was a surgeon. We rarely saw him.

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Mad respect for anyone who has ever suffered the indignity of working retail and has had to deal with rude and unruly customers.

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Someone give this child a Ted Talk.

Today the federal government advised health insurance companies that they must cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV with no cost sharing. That means that people on PrEP are not required to pay any copays or deductibles for the medication, labs, or office visits.

Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jun 29, 2022

Breaking: Biden administration announces mass #monkeypox vaccination plan. The US will release supplies of Jynneos vaccine (which requires 2 doses 4 weeks apart): 56,000 doses immediately; 240,000 doses in the coming weeks; 750,000 by summer's end; 500,000 in the fall.

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This question is stupid! It's a supposed trick question, but the trick is that the question isn't posed with enough clarity to properly answer it. #fail

Two years ago today, addled with chemo brain, I tweeted a typo that would change history:

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Benjamin Ryan

@benryanwriter

Jul 20, 2022

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Doesn't her being a TikTok influencer mean she isn't actually a housewife, but a working woman?

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Also, and this was at the NY Public Library for another party, but I was butlering champagne at the entry and I kid you not, a clarion call of trumpets sounded and moments later Martha Stewart entered. The following week, she was indicted for insider trading.

I have people over for dinner about 15 to 20 times a year. I am typically invited over to dinner once or no times per year. No one else has a table as far as I know. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

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Welcome to a proud club, young fellow! And don’t worry, the hair should grow right back. Last day of chemo on the left, five months later on the right:

Pamela Paul writes for

@NYTOpinion

: In U.S. Gender Medicine, Ideology Eclipses Science. It Hurts Kids. Imagine a comprehensive review of research on a treatment for children found “remarkably weak evidence” that it was effective. Now imagine the medical establishment shrugged

"A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy."

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Citizens for Ethics

@CREWcrew

Sep 7, 2021

Big Louis DeJoy news: citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel

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The only time I ever said yes to a guest asking if they could put their dirty wine glass on my tray of new, filled wine glasses (a MAJOR pet peeve of mine from my catering days) was to Claire Danes at the Met Gala. She was gorgeous and sweet.

The top reader’s pic comment on ⁦

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⁩’s NYT Mag article on the DEI debacle at U Mich:

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On a related note, Charlotte’s Web is one of the greatest books ever written and I encourage parents to read it to their kids. It teaches kids about the power of friendship, the meaning of a life that only lasts so long, and secular humanism.

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Eh, let's leave it. We all need a laugh.

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The tech suffers from a failure of telling the person to stay still.

Colorado Rep ⁦

⁩ recently expressed disappointment that she was not the number one person on the list tweeting the anti-#LGBTQ slur “groomer”.

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This really shocked me. Never did I think of Donald Sutherland as ugly!

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Tip: never ask a waiter with a tray of freshly filled wine glasses if you can put your dirty glass down there. Of course not! How do you think that would look? That’s what the drip tables are for.

BREAKING: The State of Texas has sued Dr. May C Lau, a pediatrician at UT Southwestern for allegedly prescribing testosterone to at least 21 natal girls under the age of 18 contrary to state law.

The stage alleges Dr. Lau "has engaged in deceptive trade practices, including

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