Sean Rundell
@seanrundell.bsky.social
Physical therapist. Epidemiology and health services researcher studying chronic pain and low back pain. Anti-war. Seattle, WA.
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Did you know?
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Did you know?
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.
About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.
The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
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Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Who are the private donors funding the disgusting demolition of the East Wing of the people's house for Trump's $250M gilded ballroom?
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.
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Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
What a loss for understanding and improving the health of Americans.
Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What a loss for understanding and improving the health of Americans.
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The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.
By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.
More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.
newrepublic.com/article/2016...
October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.
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A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
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The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.
September 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.
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We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.
September 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.
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As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
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Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
September 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit
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Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
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Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day
Yet another US Attorney fired — this time in California, for… telling people to abide by a court order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day
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“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
-Declaration of Independence
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
-Declaration of Independence
Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."
September 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
-Declaration of Independence
“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”
-Declaration of Independence
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The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
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162,000 doctors strong: The American College of Physicians demands RFK Jr. be removed as HHS Secretary, warning he is undermining vaccines, science, and public health.
www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky
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#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #SciSky
American College of Physicians Calls for Removal of Secretary Kennedy at HHS | ACP Online
Statement attributable to:Jason M. Goldman, MD, MACPPresident, American College of Physicians
www.acponline.org
September 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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I don't know about you, but I love my country, and I love my children. Their birthright -- citizenship in a democracy that enshrined civil liberties like freedom of speech under the rule of law -- is seriously under threat. That's why I will be marching, for my the country I want my kids to inherit
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I don't know about you, but I love my country, and I love my children. Their birthright -- citizenship in a democracy that enshrined civil liberties like freedom of speech under the rule of law -- is seriously under threat. That's why I will be marching, for my the country I want my kids to inherit
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A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
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What they've done to LA and are doing to DC they want to do to a city near you. We know this becasue they are saying it; and we know this because they just greenlighted $171 billion more for their secret police.
Comer: "We're gonna support doing this in other cities if it works out in Washington DC. We spend a lot on our military. Our military has been in many countries around the world for the past two decades walking the streets trying to reduce crime. We need to focus on the big cities in America now."
August 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
What they've done to LA and are doing to DC they want to do to a city near you. We know this becasue they are saying it; and we know this because they just greenlighted $171 billion more for their secret police.
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Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
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He was lying about this from the get-go, which was obvious if you looked at literally anything he had done in his first term related to fertility care.
Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Forget Trump’s IVF promises. The GOP’s record shows contempt for fertility care.
As always, pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say.
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August 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
He was lying about this from the get-go, which was obvious if you looked at literally anything he had done in his first term related to fertility care.
Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Pay more attention to what politicians do than to what they say. css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Now online, enrollment & baseline characteristics of our study on patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis initiating non-operative care.
We identified 4 subgroups, which may inform health needs and allow for more patient-centered care.
#spine #backpain
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We identified 4 subgroups, which may inform health needs and allow for more patient-centered care.
#spine #backpain
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July 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Now online, enrollment & baseline characteristics of our study on patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis initiating non-operative care.
We identified 4 subgroups, which may inform health needs and allow for more patient-centered care.
#spine #backpain
academic.oup.com/painmedicine...
We identified 4 subgroups, which may inform health needs and allow for more patient-centered care.
#spine #backpain
academic.oup.com/painmedicine...
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Research priorities about physical activity & exercise management of knee & hip OA developed with consumers, clinicians, researchers & policy makers #osteoarthritis #KeeleMSK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Research priorities for physical activity and exercise management of people with knee and hip osteoarthritis: A multi-stage international priority-setting study from the OARSI Rehabilitation Discussio...
To identify research priorities for physical activity and exercise management of knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA).We used a multi-stage process involv…
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July 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Research priorities about physical activity & exercise management of knee & hip OA developed with consumers, clinicians, researchers & policy makers #osteoarthritis #KeeleMSK www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Substantial #inequalities in the chronicity, severity and complexity of musculoskeletal #pain problems are present when seeking healthcare #KeeleMSK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7...
Socioeconomic inequalities in outcomes, experiences and treatment among adults consulting primary care for a musculoskeletal pain condition: a prospective cohort study
Objectives To estimate the direction and magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in outcome, experience and care among adults consulting for a musculoskeletal pain condition.
Design Multicentre, pros...
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July 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Substantial #inequalities in the chronicity, severity and complexity of musculoskeletal #pain problems are present when seeking healthcare #KeeleMSK bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7...