Skipjack Hoo
@sjhoo.bsky.social
Opinionated entrepreneur, mom, paddler, foodie, hiker, and reading enthusiast
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At least we know that while federal agents are killing people for using cell phones and the country is going to shit, Trump was working hard playing golf, hosting a screening for Melania’s movie, and rage-posting about his ballroom.
January 25, 2026 at 4:58 PM
At least we know that while federal agents are killing people for using cell phones and the country is going to shit, Trump was working hard playing golf, hosting a screening for Melania’s movie, and rage-posting about his ballroom.
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This is what the president was doing last night while all the insanity was happening in MN.
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This is what the president was doing last night while all the insanity was happening in MN.
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Just so we're clear. No money saved. Cost in millions of lives. DOGE not yet behind bars.
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DOGE didn't save taxpayers $1 trillion, after all
According to recent reporting, DOGE fell short of its goals to save taxpayers $1 trillion and streamline government processes. So what did we get from the agency?
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January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Just so we're clear. No money saved. Cost in millions of lives. DOGE not yet behind bars.
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...
www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...
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Now would be a great time to advocate for FEMA to be a cabinet level position in its own right. As it stands now, their funding is tied to DHS and ICE.
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Now would be a great time to advocate for FEMA to be a cabinet level position in its own right. As it stands now, their funding is tied to DHS and ICE.
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MN healthcare workers are wearing black ribbons tomorrow.
Healthcare workers everywhere are invited to join us in solidarity.
Healthcare workers everywhere are invited to join us in solidarity.
January 25, 2026 at 4:23 PM
MN healthcare workers are wearing black ribbons tomorrow.
Healthcare workers everywhere are invited to join us in solidarity.
Healthcare workers everywhere are invited to join us in solidarity.
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
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Virginia announced its first pediatric flu death of the season. It won’t be the last. This is a very bad flu season and not enough people are being vaccinated.
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January 16, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Virginia announced its first pediatric flu death of the season. It won’t be the last. This is a very bad flu season and not enough people are being vaccinated.
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Shocking but not surprising…
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Shocking but not surprising…
Call your Senators and demand accountability for this lawlessness. Please. Takes 2 minutes.
After posting on the White House website just yesterday that Ashli Babbit was "murdered in cold blood," the administration states that the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota was justifiably killed as a "domestic terrorist."
January 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Call your Senators and demand accountability for this lawlessness. Please. Takes 2 minutes.
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221-205, House passes the “motion to discharge” the Jeffries 3-year ACA funding extension.
NINE (!) Republicans join unanimous Democrats in voting to advance it.
This tees up a final House vote tomorrow; it’s poised to sail through.
NINE (!) Republicans join unanimous Democrats in voting to advance it.
This tees up a final House vote tomorrow; it’s poised to sail through.
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
221-205, House passes the “motion to discharge” the Jeffries 3-year ACA funding extension.
NINE (!) Republicans join unanimous Democrats in voting to advance it.
This tees up a final House vote tomorrow; it’s poised to sail through.
NINE (!) Republicans join unanimous Democrats in voting to advance it.
This tees up a final House vote tomorrow; it’s poised to sail through.
After today’s murder in Minnesota, take 2 minutes to call your Senators and demand accountability and a stop to this lawlessness by law enforcement. Whosmyrep.org, enter your zip, then click to call. Quick, easy, effective.
January 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
After today’s murder in Minnesota, take 2 minutes to call your Senators and demand accountability and a stop to this lawlessness by law enforcement. Whosmyrep.org, enter your zip, then click to call. Quick, easy, effective.
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Must-read series from @propublica.org painstakingly unravels what happened on the ground after Trump's foreign aid cuts
This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp
This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Must-read series from @propublica.org painstakingly unravels what happened on the ground after Trump's foreign aid cuts
This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp
This story describes one mother's struggle to keep her children from dying of malnutrition after the US abruptly cut aid to her refugee camp
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A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
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Just a reminder that measles virus is very infectious with one infected individual spreading it to (on average) 12-18 others in a susceptible population.
With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.
With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.
December 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just a reminder that measles virus is very infectious with one infected individual spreading it to (on average) 12-18 others in a susceptible population.
With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.
With vaccination rates below 92% or so, measles is likely to spread extensively and quickly.
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Trump lies about everything. From BBC.
December 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump lies about everything. From BBC.
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Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
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My quote of the day
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My quote of the day
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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My quote of the day
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
My quote of the day
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett
Courts are slowly catching up
with illegal and unconstitutional actions by the Administration. May things move faster.
with illegal and unconstitutional actions by the Administration. May things move faster.
Amanda's Mild Takes: Trump's L Week recap.
So much happened that there were a few in there I'd missed.
Keep resisting!
Oh & 51 weeks till the midterms 🎉🥳
So much happened that there were a few in there I'd missed.
Keep resisting!
Oh & 51 weeks till the midterms 🎉🥳
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Courts are slowly catching up
with illegal and unconstitutional actions by the Administration. May things move faster.
with illegal and unconstitutional actions by the Administration. May things move faster.
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Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism - there is extensive research showing this. Resurrecting old, discredited, fraudulent work is shameful.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
Vaccine-preventable illnesses are serious - this is going to cause real harms.
This is dangerous & disappointing.
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I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have posted about this before, but...
Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.
graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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I'm. With. Him.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I'm. With. Him.
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
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Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.
> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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> 74 thousand trial participants affected
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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