Elyse N, Ph.D.
@elysen.bsky.social
Clinical psychologist and policymaker. Mental health policy and US healthcare system discussions here. Views are my own.
Also, sharks 🦈 and general nerd content and cute animal appreciation
Also, sharks 🦈 and general nerd content and cute animal appreciation
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I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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📣 NEW: 38 under 15: #ACA enrollment & looming premium hikes for every vulnerable GOP House member:
acasignups.net/25/12/05/38-...
acasignups.net/25/12/05/38-...
38 under 15: ACA enrollment & looming premium hikes for every vulnerable GOP House member
There are 43 U.S. House districts where the Republican nominee won by 15 points or less. Of those, one (WA-04) doesn't really count since there were 2 Republicans running in the general election (Wash...
acasignups.net
December 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📣 NEW: 38 under 15: #ACA enrollment & looming premium hikes for every vulnerable GOP House member:
acasignups.net/25/12/05/38-...
acasignups.net/25/12/05/38-...
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"girlguides had no choice but to exclude trans people!!! there's no way they could have showed solidarity!! "
meanwhile: *actual girlguides volunteers are quitting en mass following the announcement*
meanwhile: *actual girlguides volunteers are quitting en mass following the announcement*
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"girlguides had no choice but to exclude trans people!!! there's no way they could have showed solidarity!! "
meanwhile: *actual girlguides volunteers are quitting en mass following the announcement*
meanwhile: *actual girlguides volunteers are quitting en mass following the announcement*
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Ladder press conference.
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ladder press conference.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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lol I just searched my photo archive for “otters” and my phone was like…here?
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
lol I just searched my photo archive for “otters” and my phone was like…here?
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this story isn’t good publicity for amazon, so it’s confusing why folks are insisting it’s proof of bezos’s interference in the newsroom. if anything, the newsroom has fought to demonstrate in recent weeks that it still has editorial independence. remember, newsroom ≠ op/eds
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
this story isn’t good publicity for amazon, so it’s confusing why folks are insisting it’s proof of bezos’s interference in the newsroom. if anything, the newsroom has fought to demonstrate in recent weeks that it still has editorial independence. remember, newsroom ≠ op/eds
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What does this mean? It means that RFK Jr and his goons have decided to withhold a lifesaving (Yup) vaccine from infants. The impact will go on for decades even if it were to be reversed by a future panel that actually cares about evidence and public health. ACIP, at this moment, is a SHAM.
“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
What does this mean? It means that RFK Jr and his goons have decided to withhold a lifesaving (Yup) vaccine from infants. The impact will go on for decades even if it were to be reversed by a future panel that actually cares about evidence and public health. ACIP, at this moment, is a SHAM.
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Let's never let Zuckerberg forget about the Metaverse. He needs to get clowned about the Metaverse everywhere he shows up for the rest of his life! Your billionaire brain made you think we all wanted to live in virtual reality with Nintendo 64 graphics! HAHAHAHAHA.
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Let's never let Zuckerberg forget about the Metaverse. He needs to get clowned about the Metaverse everywhere he shows up for the rest of his life! Your billionaire brain made you think we all wanted to live in virtual reality with Nintendo 64 graphics! HAHAHAHAHA.
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It's funny how we love dogs and we love mascots, and yet whenever there's an anthropomorphic dog mascot, it never hits right. Teams should take a page out of UGA and Washington and just have an actual, living dog for its mascot instead.
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It's funny how we love dogs and we love mascots, and yet whenever there's an anthropomorphic dog mascot, it never hits right. Teams should take a page out of UGA and Washington and just have an actual, living dog for its mascot instead.
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In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.
CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.
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During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, people briefed on the matter said.
https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW
https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, people briefed on the matter said.
https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW
https://cnn.it/4a0FdXW
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Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
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Minutes after Minnesota House Speaker and GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth (R) refused to condemn President Donald Trump's anti-Somali hate speech, Senate Majority Leader @epmurphymn.bsky.social (DFL) starts off her speech by condemning it.
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Minutes after Minnesota House Speaker and GOP gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth (R) refused to condemn President Donald Trump's anti-Somali hate speech, Senate Majority Leader @epmurphymn.bsky.social (DFL) starts off her speech by condemning it.
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"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
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“I can’t believe the T-Rex escaped and is killing people. Who thought this up?”
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“I can’t believe the T-Rex escaped and is killing people. Who thought this up?”
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If this were a Greek myth, Cassidy would be damned to attend every funeral caused by RFK Jr for eternity.
Instead, it’s just an old-fashioned Greek tragedy.
Instead, it’s just an old-fashioned Greek tragedy.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If this were a Greek myth, Cassidy would be damned to attend every funeral caused by RFK Jr for eternity.
Instead, it’s just an old-fashioned Greek tragedy.
Instead, it’s just an old-fashioned Greek tragedy.
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“What have I done!” 🤡
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ACIP member Cody Meissner, a man who also served on ACIP in the before times, has said he takes “stong positions” against all of the presentations so far.
“There were so many statements that I don’t agree with that it’s hard to be succinct”.
Same, bro. Same.
“There were so many statements that I don’t agree with that it’s hard to be succinct”.
Same, bro. Same.
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
ACIP member Cody Meissner, a man who also served on ACIP in the before times, has said he takes “stong positions” against all of the presentations so far.
“There were so many statements that I don’t agree with that it’s hard to be succinct”.
Same, bro. Same.
“There were so many statements that I don’t agree with that it’s hard to be succinct”.
Same, bro. Same.
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This is new FDA CDER Director with a father who believes his son was killed by COVID vaccine. She is in front of FDA sign and smiling while pointing to his vest which has Pfizer's logo and a bloody handprint on it.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is new FDA CDER Director with a father who believes his son was killed by COVID vaccine. She is in front of FDA sign and smiling while pointing to his vest which has Pfizer's logo and a bloody handprint on it.
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The volume of review that this creates leads to the inevitable conclusion: if this lasts, and works the way it’s described, all courses at TX Tech will be out of the the box, off the manager approved shelf
December 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The volume of review that this creates leads to the inevitable conclusion: if this lasts, and works the way it’s described, all courses at TX Tech will be out of the the box, off the manager approved shelf
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Voices: The LDS Church's calls to “love our neighbor” are routinely paired with admonitions to “obey the law.” On the surface this sounds balanced, but in practice it amounts to moral retreat.
Voices: Once refugees, Latter-day Saints should resist Trump’s immigration policies
In the early decades after The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in 1830, its members endured intense political persecution and violence. Cast as social outcasts whose beliefs — especially polygamy— threatened mainstream Christianity, they were driven from their homes by mobs and state militias. Missouri’s infamous 1838 “Extermination Order,” labeling Latter-day Saints “enemies” to be “exterminated or driven from the state,” remains one of the starkest examples of government-sanctioned religious persecution in U.S. history. Their forced migration to the Salt Lake Valley stands as one of America’s largest displacements.
www.sltrib.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Voices: The LDS Church's calls to “love our neighbor” are routinely paired with admonitions to “obey the law.” On the surface this sounds balanced, but in practice it amounts to moral retreat.
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Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.
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I actually gasped when I saw that this resource guide was put out there to help folks. *That's* what I'm talking about.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I actually gasped when I saw that this resource guide was put out there to help folks. *That's* what I'm talking about.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.
Librarians are the freaking best, y'all. Book it. Done.