@kaddyshack13.bsky.social
Data analyst in health policy. Crafting enthusiast. Podcast addict. Life-long Dem. Intentionally vague here as I work on govt contracts and can’t afford to be snitched on.
Cruelty is the point. Along with hatred and xenophobia.
BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
May 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Cruelty is the point. Along with hatred and xenophobia.
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BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
BREAKING: ICE deported a Burmese man who doesn’t speak English to South Sudan—a country he’s not from and on the brink of civil war. He refused to sign English-only papers.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
They deported him anyway—with 11 others. No hearings. No translators. Court order ignored. This is state-sponsored kidnapping.
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May 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... stating the obvious but also an important reminder of the hypocrisy.
The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
www.theatlantic.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... stating the obvious but also an important reminder of the hypocrisy.
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Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
May 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
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1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
May 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
1/ Yesterday, it was announced that RFK Jr. is requiring placebo-controlled studies for new vaccines—potentially delaying this fall’s COVID shots as well as the approval of other vaccines. RFK Jr.’s repeated claims is that vaccines were “never tested against placebos” is simply not true 👇
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Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
May 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much?
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs.
Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher.
Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.”
It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
agency says it will “not support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation…that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens…in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.” So all science then?
A lot, so much vital work being cut, and the program officers at NSF too, their legacies cut
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
agency says it will “not support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation…that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens…in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.” So all science then?
I work with CMS data daily, and these databases are huge. And that represents only one fraction of the data managed by HHS - extremely private data that needs to be safeguarded. On a side note, my team has experienced increased connectivity issues this week. Not sure if it’s related?
Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
wrd.cm
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I work with CMS data daily, and these databases are huge. And that represents only one fraction of the data managed by HHS - extremely private data that needs to be safeguarded. On a side note, my team has experienced increased connectivity issues this week. Not sure if it’s related?
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Truly scary on so many levels www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Truly scary on so many levels www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Tomorrow, El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House.
The press needs to drive a wedge between him & Trump's lies in court that he has no power to get Kilmar Abrego García released.
"Why are you refusing to cooperative with President Trump to release innocent Kilmar Abrego García?"
The press needs to drive a wedge between him & Trump's lies in court that he has no power to get Kilmar Abrego García released.
"Why are you refusing to cooperative with President Trump to release innocent Kilmar Abrego García?"
April 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tomorrow, El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House.
The press needs to drive a wedge between him & Trump's lies in court that he has no power to get Kilmar Abrego García released.
"Why are you refusing to cooperative with President Trump to release innocent Kilmar Abrego García?"
The press needs to drive a wedge between him & Trump's lies in court that he has no power to get Kilmar Abrego García released.
"Why are you refusing to cooperative with President Trump to release innocent Kilmar Abrego García?"
As a former HIV/AIDS epidemiologist for the state of WV, and a current public health researcher, this is gut wrenching.
The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
www.cbsnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
As a former HIV/AIDS epidemiologist for the state of WV, and a current public health researcher, this is gut wrenching.
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The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr. to gut vaccine promotion and HIV prevention office, sources say
Much of the federal government's efforts to buoy lagging childhood vaccination rates have been run through the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy.
www.cbsnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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Peter Marks from the FDA resigns
"it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
"it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Peter Marks from the FDA resigns
"it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
"it has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary [RFK Jr regarding vaccines], but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
Having grown up in WV, I can say the DOGE cuts will have an outsized impact on the already poor state. Byrd steered a ton of federal business into the state.
“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.”
The Red Rural Recession.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...
The Red Rural Recession.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...
‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” says West Virginia woman fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Having grown up in WV, I can say the DOGE cuts will have an outsized impact on the already poor state. Byrd steered a ton of federal business into the state.
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Trump cabinet billionaire insults Social Security seniors who need their checks
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be “fraudsters” if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks.
flip.it/leSD2Z 1/5 Americans receive social security benefits.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be “fraudsters” if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks.
flip.it/leSD2Z 1/5 Americans receive social security benefits.
March 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Trump cabinet billionaire insults Social Security seniors who need their checks
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be “fraudsters” if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks.
flip.it/leSD2Z 1/5 Americans receive social security benefits.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be “fraudsters” if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks.
flip.it/leSD2Z 1/5 Americans receive social security benefits.
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The Street Dog Coalition
www.thestreetdogcoalition.org
www.thestreetdogcoalition.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Street Dog Coalition
www.thestreetdogcoalition.org
www.thestreetdogcoalition.org
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@warnock.senate.gov: "If they're interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with co-president Musk's own companies, and ask why has he gotten $20 billion and more from the federal government. This is wealth-fare at its worst."
March 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
@warnock.senate.gov: "If they're interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with co-president Musk's own companies, and ask why has he gotten $20 billion and more from the federal government. This is wealth-fare at its worst."
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.