Michelle Rheault, MD
@rheaultm.bsky.social
Ped nephrologist, #NephJC, MN girl, COI: several. Alis volat propriis. Breast cancer survivor, Pronounced “row”, (she/her). Bluesky is not a dating app.
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Excited for this new opportunity! The UMN Department of Pediatrics has been my home for a long time and I’m honored to lead us through this transition.
Department head is still middle management.
February 5, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Department head is still middle management.
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2025 AJKD Editors' Choice Award winning article: Genetic Characterization of Kidney Failure of Unknown Etiology in Spain: Findings From the GENSEN Study
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#VisualAbstract
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#VisualAbstract
February 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
2025 AJKD Editors' Choice Award winning article: Genetic Characterization of Kidney Failure of Unknown Etiology in Spain: Findings From the GENSEN Study
bit.ly/3WeEZ72
#VisualAbstract
bit.ly/3WeEZ72
#VisualAbstract
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This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things I have seen. These kids are hurting. Immigration enforcement has forever changed their childhood. We must protect children from policies that harm them, their families and the communities they live in. Children deserve safety and compassion.
Liam Ramos’ classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the ICE agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”
Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.
Letters from students living in fear.
nyti.ms
January 31, 2026 at 11:56 PM
This is one of the most powerful and heartbreaking things I have seen. These kids are hurting. Immigration enforcement has forever changed their childhood. We must protect children from policies that harm them, their families and the communities they live in. Children deserve safety and compassion.
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#TopNephrology stories of 2025
the podcast is out: www.nephjc.com/freelyfilter...
with @kidneyboy.bsky.social @captainchloride.bsky.social @medpeedskidneys.bsky.social @annagaddy.bsky.social @vipvargh.bsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social & @nephroseeker.medsky.social
the podcast is out: www.nephjc.com/freelyfilter...
with @kidneyboy.bsky.social @captainchloride.bsky.social @medpeedskidneys.bsky.social @annagaddy.bsky.social @vipvargh.bsky.social @brianrifkin.bsky.social & @nephroseeker.medsky.social
FF 89 Top Stories of 2025 — NephJC
I know 2026 feels like it ihas been here for months, but only a few weeks ago we were celebrating the nephrology accomplishments of 2025. The New Filtrate came together to review the year.
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January 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Tell me five classes you took in college:
Biology
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Calculus
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Calculus
Physics
a man in a suit and tie is holding a gun and saying i think i need a do-over
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a gun and saying i think i need a do-over
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Tell me five classes you took in college:
Biology
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Calculus
Physics
Biology
Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Calculus
Physics
Kids these days.
January 31, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Kids these days.
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
January 30, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:
Heartbreaking. 💔
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Heartbreaking. 💔
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Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
January 29, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices.
Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G
Being department head so far is:
75% attending meetings
15% answering emails
9% spreadsheets
and 1% asking what all the acronyms mean.
75% attending meetings
15% answering emails
9% spreadsheets
and 1% asking what all the acronyms mean.
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Being department head so far is:
75% attending meetings
15% answering emails
9% spreadsheets
and 1% asking what all the acronyms mean.
75% attending meetings
15% answering emails
9% spreadsheets
and 1% asking what all the acronyms mean.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
More than 100 bike rides honoring Alex Pretti have been organized around the globe since a Minneapolis bike shop Angry Catfish’s call to action.
This Saturday's “unity” ride will start at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Pretti was a cyclist and a customer at Angry Catfish.
This Saturday's “unity” ride will start at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Pretti was a cyclist and a customer at Angry Catfish.
‘Popping up by the hour’: Bike rides to honor Alex Pretti going global
Angry Catfish bike shop organized a ride this Saturday and encouraged others to roll, too. Hundreds are likely.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
More than 100 bike rides honoring Alex Pretti have been organized around the globe since a Minneapolis bike shop Angry Catfish’s call to action.
This Saturday's “unity” ride will start at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Pretti was a cyclist and a customer at Angry Catfish.
This Saturday's “unity” ride will start at Washburn Fair Oaks Park in Minneapolis at 1 p.m. Pretti was a cyclist and a customer at Angry Catfish.
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
Take some time to read this and make a public comment if you feel compelled.
CTA Defend Trans Kids: If you're a clinician, a parent, a trans adult, or just someone who cares, I wrote a guide on how to submit effective comments opposing the federal ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
Deadline 2/17/26
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Deadline 2/17/26
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January 27, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Take some time to read this and make a public comment if you feel compelled.
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
This made me cry. I love Minneapolis so hard.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This made me cry. I love Minneapolis so hard.
Count me in!
No rest until Noem gone. I want to see moms against RFK Jr next.
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Count me in!
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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A first-person account from the Copper Hen's restaurant and ad-hoc field hospital, where volunteer medics helped tear gassed protesters as staffers ran around with cinnamon buns and coffee orders.
How Neighbors Transformed a Brunch Spot Into a Field Hospital After ICE Assaulted Eat Street - Racket
On Saturday, restaurants and businesses all along Nicollet Avenue opened their doors for protesters and mourners.
racketmn.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
A first-person account from the Copper Hen's restaurant and ad-hoc field hospital, where volunteer medics helped tear gassed protesters as staffers ran around with cinnamon buns and coffee orders.
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
‘He was only helping’:
Witness accounts of shooting shared
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com/he-was-only-...
Witness accounts of shooting shared
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com/he-was-only-...
‘He was only helping’: Witness accounts of shooting shared in bid to get ICE restrictions reinstated
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:40 PM
‘He was only helping’:
Witness accounts of shooting shared
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com/he-was-only-...
Witness accounts of shooting shared
A pediatrician at the scene said they saw no agents performing CPR.
www.startribune.com/he-was-only-...
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WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment
"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
January 25, 2026 at 1:58 AM
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment
"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
"I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to
assess the victim.
At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
Reposted by Michelle Rheault, MD
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
Talking to Children about ICE Raids and Related Events compiled by Dr. Katie Lingras at UMN Medical School docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Talking to Children about ICE Raids and Related Events compiled by Dr. Katie Lingras at UMN Medical School docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.
Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
www.startribune.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:56 AM
A 2-year-old girl and her father were detained by federal immigration agents in south Minneapolis and placed on a commercial flight out of Minnesota, despite a judge ordering the toddler’s release.
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They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
January 23, 2026 at 8:56 PM
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.