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Anne 🫘
@crosscutanne.bsky.social
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Mother to twins, healthcare consultant, former Exec Dir at national non-profit ProjectN95.

It costs nothing to be kind. And don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.

Opinions my own.

I am not interested in chats with strangers or your nude pics. 🚫
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Anne 🫘 @crosscutanne.bsky.social · Dec 22
It costs nothing to be kind…
A quote from the book The Boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse — “What do you want to be when you grow up (the mole asking the boy while sitting on a tree branch)? “Kind” said the boy. Book written by Charlie Mackesy
crosscutanne.bsky.social
Worthwhile read, especially today.
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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muellershewrote.com
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
mikeeckel.bsky.social Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 22h
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Wow
simonwdc.bsky.social Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
bloomberg.com Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2d
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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seiu.org
Apple is anti-union.

Tesla is anti-union.

Amazon is anti-union.

McDonald's is anti-union.

Starbucks is anti-union.

Google is anti-union.

Walmart is anti-union.

These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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reprorightsdoc.bsky.social
I will say this plainly: the Department of Education’s exclusion of nursing as a professional degree is a direct attack on the people who hold our health care system together, and it’s an attack shaped by race, class, and power. It is unacceptable.
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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donatemask.bsky.social
Worried about #viruses? 🦠 Want to protect yourself? 😷 Don’t miss Donate A Mask’s Black Friday sale, starting tomorrow! ⏰

buymask.ca

#BlackFriday #StaySafe #StillCoviding #MaskUp
Black Friday Sale - buymask.ca - starting Nov. 24
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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drjanicekirsch.bsky.social
While RFK, Jr. cut billions in research funding.

Tatiana Schlossberg, his cousin has been fighting a very resistant form of leukemia with bone marrow transplant and, recently, more innovative therapies.

She worries for others.

Her brave and beautiful essay here.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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drianweissman.bsky.social
“As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers.”
apnews.com/article/kenn...
JFK's granddaughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis, criticizes cousin RFK Jr.
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter has disclosed that she has terminal cancer and may live for only about another year.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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"Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions. "

www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
Individual acts of kindness make a difference.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
Sharon and Andy Longhurst’s kitchen opens onto what they call “the ICU”: a garage filled with heated incubators, microscopes and hedgehogs fighting for their lives.

For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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A 17-year-old high school senior from McMinnville, OR was detained by ICE during his lunch break — even after telling officers he was a citizen. An agent shattered his window and said, “I don’t care.”
This should outrage every all of us.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202... #BlueSky #NewsSky #ICE
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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This is the way!
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” — Paul Farmer

#ResistTyranny

Alexander, L. (1949). Medical science under dictatorship. New England Journal of Medicine, 241(2), 39-47.
"Science under dictatorship becomes subordinated to the guiding philosophy of the dictatorship. Irrespective of other ideological trappings, the guiding philosophic principle of recent dictatorships, including that of the Nazis, has been Hegelian in that what has been considered "rational utility" and corresponding doctrine and planning has replaced moral, ethical and religious values. Nazi propaganda was highly effective in perverting public opinion and public conscience, in a remarkably short time. In the medical profession this expressed itself in a rapid decline in standards of professional ethics. Medical science in Nazi Germany collaborated with this Hegelian trend particularly in the following enterprises: the mass extermination of the chronically sick in the interest of saving "useless" expenses to the community as a whole; the mass extermination of those considered socially disturbing or racially and ideologically unwanted; the individual, inconspicuous extermination of those considered disloyal within the ruling group; and the ruthless use of "human experimental material" for medico-military research." "Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted and finally all non-Germans."
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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donatemask.bsky.social
Just because you stopped masking doesn’t mean you can’t start again! 😷 💙 Save money and avoid viruses by shopping at Donate A Mask’s Black Friday sale, starting November 24. 🛍

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#BlackFriday #BlackFridaySale #StillMasking #StillCoviding
Black Friday Sale - starting November 24 - buymask.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
Just galling — a Trump hand-gun? I feel sick to my stomach.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
this morning's Fox & Friends featured commercials for Trump Watches *and* Trump-branded handguns. a level of presidential grifting that was unfathomable a decade ago.
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
Shop local. #Mainstreetoverwallstreet
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.

From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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maddowblog.bsky.social
If CBP, Customs and Border Protection, is only supposed to operate within 100 miles of the U.S. border, what are they doing leading operations in Charlotte, North Carolina?
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
Such an odd fixture in the hotel. Back to the future!
Picture of black old fashioned telephone
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
This ⬇️⬇️
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
If you haven't quit shopping #Amazon, now would be a good time.

#shoplocal #mainstreetoverwallstreet
warren.senate.gov Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11d
Do you know who is paying for Trump’s ballroom?

Amazon
Google
Apple
Meta

And a bunch of other companies that coincidentally have business in front of the Trump Administration right now.

So are these companies getting special favors in return? I’m pressing for answers.
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
Alice Wong was one of the few who actually left the world better than when she entered it. A lot of the obituaries are leaving out her work on Covid, her advocacy around masking, and her work on eSims for Gaza. I tried to capture some of that in a post on IG.

www.instagram.com/p/DRIN0Fnkuz...
arghavansallesmd: Alice Wong was, among other things, a force of nature, a writer, an activist, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, and a fierce warrior for disability justice. She spent much of the last few years advocating for masks and raising awareness of Long Covid. She also co-founded eSims for Gaza, which has raised over $3 million so far to help people in Gaza communicate with the outside world. But you won't read about that in most of the obituaries about her. I'm sharing here some of her tweets about why masking was so important to her and how hard she had to fight, even in the hospital, to get people around her to mask. Those tweets are from a hospitalization in January 2024. Ever since her tracheostomy, she could no longer protect herself from respiratory infections. Like many people, she depended on her community to keep her safe. According to her family, she passed away Friday from an infection. Aside from her work on Covid and eSims, she was best known for the Disability Visibility Project and her books, Disability Visibility, Disability Intimacy, the in-progress Disability Vulnerability, and her memoir, Year of the Tiger. She had a column at Teen Vogue on disability visibility, and she also voiced a character on Netflix that was based on her. Alice did what so many of us aspire to do-she left the world a better place than when she entered it. I never had the honor of meeting Alice. Like millions of other people, I followed and was inspired by her work. I hope you'll read these slides as a tribute to her and her efforts to build community. I hope you'll wear a mask in public spaces. I hope we'll care for ourselves and those around us the way Alice would have wanted us to. Her GoFundMe remains active and will go toward continuing her work, if anyone would like to contribute.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
crosscutanne.bsky.social
How do you get over war?

The personal costs of war are staggering.

A worthwhile read.
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM