Janet Rosenbaum (she/her)
@janet.bsky.social
Public health statistics and adolescent health. Harvard: AB, Physics; AM, Statistics; PhD, Health Policy with concentration in Statistics and Evaluative Sciences; Johns Hopkins: Postdoc, Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
We see the results of the rigorous recruitment process documented in Slate this week.
Unacceptable. A road — possibly associated with Tren de Aragua — left unpaved by Minnesota radicals weaponized itself against two of our courageous officers, causing one to discharge his firearm in self-defense.
We stand by our brave boys.
We stand by our brave boys.
January 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM
We see the results of the rigorous recruitment process documented in Slate this week.
Periodic reminder that the guy threatening Greenland has wanted to destroy NATO since 1987.
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
www.politico.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Periodic reminder that the guy threatening Greenland has wanted to destroy NATO since 1987.
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
The explosives thrown at the minivan caused its airbags to deploy, and the chemical weapons thrown into the van caused 3 children to need to be hospitalized including a 6 month old baby who stopped breathing. These attempts to disperse crowds are not benign.
January 15, 2026 at 9:06 PM
The explosives thrown at the minivan caused its airbags to deploy, and the chemical weapons thrown into the van caused 3 children to need to be hospitalized including a 6 month old baby who stopped breathing. These attempts to disperse crowds are not benign.
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It’ll be dangerously cold this weekend in the Twin Cities. Windchills will reach -20°. With how violently ICE is grabbing people, they might not be dressed for the weather, especially if ICE keeps dumping people miles from their home or car without their phone. Frostbite hits quickly at these temps.
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
It’ll be dangerously cold this weekend in the Twin Cities. Windchills will reach -20°. With how violently ICE is grabbing people, they might not be dressed for the weather, especially if ICE keeps dumping people miles from their home or car without their phone. Frostbite hits quickly at these temps.
They hired this journalist despite a possibly positive drug test, despite not filling out any of the background check paperwork or doing anything other than showing up in person to a recruitment and taking a drug test later. South Park was right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
They hired this journalist despite a possibly positive drug test, despite not filling out any of the background check paperwork or doing anything other than showing up in person to a recruitment and taking a drug test later. South Park was right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
The federal workforce union representation has fallen by about half a million workers since this adminisration started. This is not just due to new hiring of non-union workers.
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
The federal workforce union representation has fallen by about half a million workers since this adminisration started. This is not just due to new hiring of non-union workers.
25 percentage points lower call back for applicants with a video that reveals a wheelchair vs not is a huge effect!
These authors wanted to know whether people with physical disabilities face discrimination in hiring: even when they are equally qualified.
So they ran an experiment.
So they ran an experiment.
January 13, 2026 at 1:10 AM
25 percentage points lower call back for applicants with a video that reveals a wheelchair vs not is a huge effect!
Pressuring the fed into changing monetary policy by threatening criminal charges seems impeachable. Good for Jerome Powell for standing up today and saying what's happening. #citizensimpeachment
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Pressuring the fed into changing monetary policy by threatening criminal charges seems impeachable. Good for Jerome Powell for standing up today and saying what's happening. #citizensimpeachment
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Worth remembering that Franco’s fascists murdered 150,000-200,000 Spaniards during their rule, and Spain still has the greatest number of disappeared persons in Europe.
Kristi Noem wants to murder and torture Americans who disagree with trumpofascism.
Kristi Noem wants to murder and torture Americans who disagree with trumpofascism.
January 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Worth remembering that Franco’s fascists murdered 150,000-200,000 Spaniards during their rule, and Spain still has the greatest number of disappeared persons in Europe.
Kristi Noem wants to murder and torture Americans who disagree with trumpofascism.
Kristi Noem wants to murder and torture Americans who disagree with trumpofascism.
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We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
It is shocking that she deescalated, but then he murdered her.
January 9, 2026 at 8:12 PM
It is shocking that she deescalated, but then he murdered her.
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
Thank you! The US may avoid the adverse selection death spiral, after all!
Just left the House floor after we passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!!
January 9, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Thank you! The US may avoid the adverse selection death spiral, after all!
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if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.
My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The journalist interviewed me several weeks ago, and I never heard anything back so figured she had found more authoritative sources like former federal employees, but the article finally came out!
Erosion at US agencies hinders flow of crucial health data
www.thenationshealth.org/content/55/1...
www.thenationshealth.org/content/55/1...
Erosion at US agencies hinders flow of crucial health data
The National Center for Health Statistics is the nation's leading source of health data on everything from environmental exposures to vaccination status to heart disease mortality. But firings and con...
www.thenationshealth.org
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The journalist interviewed me several weeks ago, and I never heard anything back so figured she had found more authoritative sources like former federal employees, but the article finally came out!
US hegemony is better than hegemony by an authoritarian power and also a strong motivation for the US to live up to its promises to the entire population. The current administration's hegemonic suicide of withdrawing from international treaties and its domestic repression are not unrelated.
January 8, 2026 at 2:19 PM
US hegemony is better than hegemony by an authoritarian power and also a strong motivation for the US to live up to its promises to the entire population. The current administration's hegemonic suicide of withdrawing from international treaties and its domestic repression are not unrelated.
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A reminder that you are free to look at a video online, decide what it means, and proclaim that to anyone who'll listen. The NYT, NPR, CNN and all other journalists can't do that, out of professional responsibility and their own vulnerability at this moment. Give the journalists time to work.
January 7, 2026 at 7:51 PM
A reminder that you are free to look at a video online, decide what it means, and proclaim that to anyone who'll listen. The NYT, NPR, CNN and all other journalists can't do that, out of professional responsibility and their own vulnerability at this moment. Give the journalists time to work.
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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"This is an overthrow of a foreign government. It’s an act of war. It is an open-ended declaration of foreign occupation. ...That’s what’s impeachable. If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated."
The most disturbing presidential press conference I have ever seen.
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into...
(First 3/4ths before paywall.)
‘Blind Into Caracas’
Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. None of them seem to have wondered what happens a day, a month, a decade from now.
fallows.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
"This is an overthrow of a foreign government. It’s an act of war. It is an open-ended declaration of foreign occupation. ...That’s what’s impeachable. If Trump understood what he was saying, he was violating all concepts of checks-and-balances. If he didn’t understand, he is incapacitated."
Rep. Dan Goldman stands for impeachment. Thank you!
President Trump’s unauthorized military action in Venezuela is unconstitutional, dangerous, and an impeachable abuse of power. Congress alone has the authority to declare war and Trump is once again ignoring the law to serve his own interests.
My full statement:
My full statement:
January 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Rep. Dan Goldman stands for impeachment. Thank you!
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For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
He put his complete trust in a chat bot that turned him into a savage murderer.
Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.
trib.al
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
"[T]he Russians at this particular juncture were signaling..they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine.... you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version...You're in our backyard in Ukraine."
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM
"[T]he Russians at this particular juncture were signaling..they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine.... you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version...You're in our backyard in Ukraine."
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Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.
I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.
January 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.