@bettykupfersky.bsky.social
More than 1 master's so a pretty "nonserious" person. Still angry at the it's not airborne ppl. Mostly delete draft posts. I watch bad teevee. Always cooking dinner.
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.
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One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
Moderna curbing investments in vaccine trials due to US backlash, CEO tells Bloomberg TV
Moderna does not plan to invest in new late-stage vaccine trials because of growing opposition to immunizations from U.S. officials, CEO Stephane Bancel said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Th...
www.reuters.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:56 PM
One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
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the stated economic theory behind DOGE was you could save a lot of money by cutting federal workers and kicking fraudulent recipients off benefits programs, but there just aren't that many non-critical federal workers and the vast, vast, vast majority of benefits recipients are legitimate
January 23, 2026 at 11:11 PM
the stated economic theory behind DOGE was you could save a lot of money by cutting federal workers and kicking fraudulent recipients off benefits programs, but there just aren't that many non-critical federal workers and the vast, vast, vast majority of benefits recipients are legitimate
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They didn't wreck this many cars in the Blues Brothers movie
NOW: At 32nd and 15th in South Minneapolis. federal agents smash up their car, leaving the car there while hopping in another vehicle, per bystanders. Reports of a person taken as well.
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 11:05 PM
They didn't wreck this many cars in the Blues Brothers movie
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We have eugenics-minded demented freaks in charge of US medical and scientific policies and they want you and your children to suffer, get maimed by, and die from horrible diseases we've already learned how to reduce the risk of or prevent.
New ACIP chair questions need for polio and measles vaccines, expresses disdain towards following the science. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v... via @statnews.com @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social @danielpayne.bsky.social
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:03 PM
We have eugenics-minded demented freaks in charge of US medical and scientific policies and they want you and your children to suffer, get maimed by, and die from horrible diseases we've already learned how to reduce the risk of or prevent.
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Before ICE, I never realized how much of "keeping the public safe" involved wrecking cars.
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Before ICE, I never realized how much of "keeping the public safe" involved wrecking cars.
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This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 23, 2026 at 2:59 PM
This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."
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RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
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I’m going to reiterate that RFK Jr. will not stop until he takes away every vaccine recommendation and thereby reduces access to them.
This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career.
He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.
This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career.
He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I’m going to reiterate that RFK Jr. will not stop until he takes away every vaccine recommendation and thereby reduces access to them.
This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career.
He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.
This interview with Kirk Milhoan is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in my entire career.
He seems to think that a polio outbreak would be just fine.
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Experts Alarmed by USPSTF Work Slowdown www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
Experts Alarmed by USPSTF Work Slowdown
'This is going to be a recipe for disaster'
www.medpagetoday.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Experts Alarmed by USPSTF Work Slowdown www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
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Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
August 14, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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"Do you recognize that sandwich?" is an all-timer cross-examination question.
November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Do you recognize that sandwich?" is an all-timer cross-examination question.
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It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
August 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
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There is a reason conservatives keep trying to ban Morrison's "Beloved"
August 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There is a reason conservatives keep trying to ban Morrison's "Beloved"
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"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?"
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
August 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"You work in healthcare? What's the craziest thing you've seen?"
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
I don't know man, but it's probably RFK Jr and this administration cutting vaccine funding, firing top health officials and scientists, linking fake studies to support "wellness" BS, letting children die of measles, shall I go on?
Annual day of thinking maybe I do like a summer shandy, pop that top and no, no I do not. I never did.
August 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Annual day of thinking maybe I do like a summer shandy, pop that top and no, no I do not. I never did.
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America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches.
But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches.
But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a clear and present danger to every person in the United States, and in fact in entire world.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
June 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a clear and present danger to every person in the United States, and in fact in entire world.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
He must be REMOVED FROM OFFICE IMMEDIATELY.
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Why is an economist running the national institutes of health?
Baldwin says the budget cuts will be felt for years to come.
JB responds saying that "in the long run, it allows you spend more money and have more flexibility for new research projects."
The audience audibly groaned, to which he responded, "That's what [the budget] does — I'm an economist."
JB responds saying that "in the long run, it allows you spend more money and have more flexibility for new research projects."
The audience audibly groaned, to which he responded, "That's what [the budget] does — I'm an economist."
June 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why is an economist running the national institutes of health?
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Watching the right in this country salivate over violent confrontation and seeking their state violence porn is really something. You are depraved. You're no patriots. You're traitors.
June 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Watching the right in this country salivate over violent confrontation and seeking their state violence porn is really something. You are depraved. You're no patriots. You're traitors.
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Having read the full MAHA report, what stands out the most to me, as an epidemiologist, is how inexplicably sloppy it is.
The US government collects data on every health condition you can think of, and the report doesn’t use any of it.
The US government collects data on every health condition you can think of, and the report doesn’t use any of it.
June 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Having read the full MAHA report, what stands out the most to me, as an epidemiologist, is how inexplicably sloppy it is.
The US government collects data on every health condition you can think of, and the report doesn’t use any of it.
The US government collects data on every health condition you can think of, and the report doesn’t use any of it.