Johanna
@discomedusae.bsky.social
Hi!
I'm a feminist, a science-based nurse and a QAnon casualty. I use sarcasm when sarcasm is needed. But, earn a cat's respect, earn mine.
I wish we could go back to a calmer era — how about the Boring Billion Years?
📍Sweden
I'm a feminist, a science-based nurse and a QAnon casualty. I use sarcasm when sarcasm is needed. But, earn a cat's respect, earn mine.
I wish we could go back to a calmer era — how about the Boring Billion Years?
📍Sweden
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The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The plan: to de-radicalize QAnon folks we’re gonna elect each one to Congress for 5 years.
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Great, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Great, if harrowing piece about the Freebirth Society, who we touched on in our latest Truly Tradly Deeply Episode about motherhood www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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Good morning from a blessed weekend shift 🫠 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Good morning from a blessed weekend shift 🫠 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan.
In her surprise resignation, she cast doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted.
In her surprise resignation, she cast doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted.
Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan
After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene no longer trusts the plan.
In her surprise resignation, she cast doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted.
In her surprise resignation, she cast doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted.
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Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.
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The way he can't see women as people.
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The way he can't see women as people.
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What are we even doing? This is insane.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What are we even doing? This is insane.
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🧵 “Debunking Steve Kirsch: King Douche of the Anti-Vaxxers”
by Professor Dave (#ProfessorDaveExplains)
#ScienceUnderSiege @integralanswers.bsky.social
by Professor Dave (#ProfessorDaveExplains)
#ScienceUnderSiege @integralanswers.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
🧵 “Debunking Steve Kirsch: King Douche of the Anti-Vaxxers”
by Professor Dave (#ProfessorDaveExplains)
#ScienceUnderSiege @integralanswers.bsky.social
by Professor Dave (#ProfessorDaveExplains)
#ScienceUnderSiege @integralanswers.bsky.social
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1/ RFK Jr.’s call for new randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for childhood vaccines, where some kids get vaccines and others don't, is a dangerous & misleading demand.
Let's break down why it's considered unethical, impractical, and unnecessary. A short thread… 🧵
Let's break down why it's considered unethical, impractical, and unnecessary. A short thread… 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
1/ RFK Jr.’s call for new randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for childhood vaccines, where some kids get vaccines and others don't, is a dangerous & misleading demand.
Let's break down why it's considered unethical, impractical, and unnecessary. A short thread… 🧵
Let's break down why it's considered unethical, impractical, and unnecessary. A short thread… 🧵
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My opinion on the decline of our national pandemic preparedness and risks to biosecurity in @issuesinst.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org
issues.org/unprepared-p...
issues.org/unprepared-p...
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My opinion on the decline of our national pandemic preparedness and risks to biosecurity in @issuesinst.bsky.social @nationalacademies.org
issues.org/unprepared-p...
issues.org/unprepared-p...
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My new Working Paper with the Baker Institute for Public Policy @riceuniversity.bsky.social on the MAHA movement in the context of a 200 year rivalry between sectarian and scientific medicine, how to push back and preserve modern biomedicine and science
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
Reaffirming Scientific Medicine Through Physician Leadership in Health Care Technology and Innovation | Baker Institute
Facing funding cuts, rising professional stress, and federal health policy misalignments, physicians are experiencing mounting challenges. In this working paper, Dr. Peter J. Hotez examines the state ...
www.bakerinstitute.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My new Working Paper with the Baker Institute for Public Policy @riceuniversity.bsky.social on the MAHA movement in the context of a 200 year rivalry between sectarian and scientific medicine, how to push back and preserve modern biomedicine and science
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
www.bakerinstitute.org/research/rea...
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The actual FBI using a Nazi-filled social media platform run by a far-right emboldening transphobe to debunk an unpublished story from a right-wing conspiracy theorist who recently platformed one of America's biggest antisemites.....perfectly sums up 2025
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The actual FBI using a Nazi-filled social media platform run by a far-right emboldening transphobe to debunk an unpublished story from a right-wing conspiracy theorist who recently platformed one of America's biggest antisemites.....perfectly sums up 2025
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At what point does the name change to the Trump files?
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At what point does the name change to the Trump files?
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November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I swear to God if Jeffrey Epstein had described Hillary Clinton as "that dog that hasn't barked," in secret emails these people would be making rabid content for days and calling for tribunals but ok www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...
The conspiracy crowd’s reaction to the Epstein emails? Yawn.
Far-right conspiracy theorists and influencers are a big reason the Epstein scandal hasn’t died. But the newly released emails about Trump haven’t impressed them.
www.msnbc.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I swear to God if Jeffrey Epstein had described Hillary Clinton as "that dog that hasn't barked," in secret emails these people would be making rabid content for days and calling for tribunals but ok www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...
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We’re doing the studies to make the proof.
- RFK Jr.
- RFK Jr.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
We’re doing the studies to make the proof.
- RFK Jr.
- RFK Jr.
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*This message was brought to you by scientific views from the 1860s*
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
*This message was brought to you by scientific views from the 1860s*
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We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
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The plan to end vaccines is to say that every study requires an inordinate number of patients and resources to carry out before the current FDA will review it.
When companies decide it is too expensive to make any new vaccines, they will stop making new vaccines.
When companies decide it is too expensive to make any new vaccines, they will stop making new vaccines.
RFK Jr. has said he does not want to take vaccines away from Americans. But at a closed-door meeting of vaccine scientists in September, a top official at the FDA suggested doing just that. Here's how Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg are reshaping vaccine regulation:
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The plan to end vaccines is to say that every study requires an inordinate number of patients and resources to carry out before the current FDA will review it.
When companies decide it is too expensive to make any new vaccines, they will stop making new vaccines.
When companies decide it is too expensive to make any new vaccines, they will stop making new vaccines.
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“The beauty of Santas or anyone wearing a mass costume—it allows you to be who you really are.”
The secret history of Santacon, America’s most hated Christmas Party
A new documentary explores the booze-soaked and vomit-slicked gathering's radical roots.
www.motherjones.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“The beauty of Santas or anyone wearing a mass costume—it allows you to be who you really are.”
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Another event at which Russell Brand is randomly appearing in his newish role as court jester of the MAHA movement www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
JD Vance, RFK Jr. to attend MAHA Summit
A copy of the schedule obtained by POLITICO shows health agencies’ leaders and health tech CEOs speaking at the Wednesday event.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Another event at which Russell Brand is randomly appearing in his newish role as court jester of the MAHA movement www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Got a new story about a little-known HHS agency with a massive job: the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
ASPR gave us Operation Warp Speed.
Now it's being run by a conspiracy theorist who calls those vaccines “genocide.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/meet-a...
ASPR gave us Operation Warp Speed.
Now it's being run by a conspiracy theorist who calls those vaccines “genocide.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/meet-a...
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Got a new story about a little-known HHS agency with a massive job: the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR).
ASPR gave us Operation Warp Speed.
Now it's being run by a conspiracy theorist who calls those vaccines “genocide.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/meet-a...
ASPR gave us Operation Warp Speed.
Now it's being run by a conspiracy theorist who calls those vaccines “genocide.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/meet-a...