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Kyla
@boysek.bsky.social
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Primary care peds NP, mommay, friend, UU, singer, mitten state resident/fan
#VaccinesWork
#TransRights
skeeting since Aug '23

Profile pic: Tiffany Aching, by Paul Kidby, cover of The Shepherd's Crown. https://www.paulkidby.com/paintings/
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boysek.bsky.social
Lovely sunny ☀️ day for couch snuggles with your best bro. 🐱
One orange and one orange and white cat snuggling with their faces close together on the couch in the sunshine. One has his front leg draped around the other.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Plenty of that to go around
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Support the work of the Brennan Center for Justice! We need them now more than ever! 🇺🇸

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Donate to the Brennan Center for Justice The Brennan Center is fighting back against authoritarian threats and standing up for checks and balances. Your gift is more than a contribution to fuel our legal and advocacy work — it's an investment in protecting American democracy.
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
boysek.bsky.social
That's actually an understatement. Even when presented with cold, hard data proving otherwise, people still argue that that basically everything is worse than it used to be!
www.gapminder.org/factfulness-...
When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. photo of book cover: FACTFULNESS, by Hans Rosling. Ten reasons we're wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think.
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Nice day! Going for a family walk! ❄️🌨️
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Yes, his accumulated wealth and compensation are obscene, but this payout is dependent on him getting the valuation of the company waaaay up to $8.5 trillion. I'm no expert, but I haven't seen anything to make me think he can actually do that.
Musk doesn’t take any salary, but the approved pay package comes in the form of a stock grant that would give him as much as 423.7 million additional Tesla shares over the next 10 years. Those shares could be worth about $1 trillion, assuming the company reaches the $8.5 trillion market cap needed to have Musk qualify for the full potential payout. In addition, Tesla needs to achieve a series of either operational or financial targets for him to get the full number of shares, which would be distributed in 12 equal blocks.
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
boysek.bsky.social
So basically, this administration which has announced that it is scared of anti-fascist movements, is now defunding the anti-nazi radio station. That tracks.
Lake, 56, who is trying to dismantle Voice of America—the government-funded broadcaster that was founded to counter Nazi propaganda during World War II—also confirmed that she is pulling funding from Radio Free Europe for criticizing Orbán’s leadership during an appearance on Newsmax on Thursday night
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
boysek.bsky.social
The hyena of politicians

(With a certain degree of respect to hyenas: theconversation.com/in-defence-o...)
Such kleptoparasitism (parasitism by theft) makes perfect sense from an energy conserving point of view. The nutritional gain provided by a carcass can be obtained without any risk of being injured during a hunt or the energy expenditure involved in a chase. Of course, the act of stealing a carcass from a hungry lion is not without its risks, and individuals can be killed in the attempt. But more often the species with the larger numbers in their ranks will prevail.
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Ford paid workers higher wages to stabilize the workforce and create greater reliability. It had a side effect of expanding the market for the product he was making and helped to expand the middle class.
It's widely believed that Henry Ford also upped wages to expand his market — paying employees enough to buy the cars they made. While that wasn't Ford's main motivation, it was a welcome byproduct, and a game changer, says University of California, Berkeley, labor economist Harley Shaiken. "What that gave us was an industrial middle class, and an economy that was driven by consumer demand," Shaiken says. Photo of Henry Ford standing in front of the front part of one of his automobiles
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Found it; reported by Ron Suskind. Now they can use tech, and right wing alternative media, and the mainstream media to muddy the waters about what is real, and thus steer our reality.
In a 2004 article appearing in the New York Times Magazine, Suskind wrote: The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.[2]
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
boysek.bsky.social
*and* non-citizens are also humans with human rights.

Nothing about this is legal.
Foy offers a fact-based account that contrasts with an opinion from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote that “if the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
boysek.bsky.social
I beg to differ! Making my own.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
boysek.bsky.social
This report did not cite our best evidence, and no one is even brave enough to put their name on it. In short, it is primarily bunk, and no basis for policy affecting children's safety and mental health! That should be part of NPR's reporting.
Text from the NPR article reading In the months since, HHS released a report critical of the research that supports access to this care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
boysek.bsky.social
This is the crux of it
It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
boysek.bsky.social
This is spot on
It turns out, in the end, that there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character. Everything else in a constitutional system follows and relies on that simple foundation.
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
boysek.bsky.social
Recommend block or mute so you don't accidentally share posts from a creepy account that exists to generate followers in order to profit off Amazon

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October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
boysek.bsky.social
"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

#NoKings
Book cover for the we free men. A story of discworld by Terry Pratchett. Hordes of little blue fierce looking men itching for a fight
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Just imagine even considering this.

www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Medicare Aborts Apparent Plan to Pause All Physician Payments During Shutdown — Pause in payments still affects telehealth and hospital-at-home services by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today October 16, 2025
October 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
boysek.bsky.social
Work requirements for SNAP simply cut off hungry families and shift the burden of feeding people to voluntary organizations, which are already stretched to the breaking point. It's been proven in our red state "policy laboratories."
American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 65, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 270-277 Research Article Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Work Requirements and Emergency Food Assistance Usage Author links open overlay panel Joel M. Cuffey PhD Bhagyashree Katare PhD Laura McMahon Fulford MPA https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2023.01.029 Introduction Policymakers have suggested and implemented work requirements for safety-net programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Results The 2016 introduction of the SNAP work requirement increased the number of households served by food pantries. The impact is concentrated among urban food pantries. On average, an urban agency exposed to the work requirement served 34% more households in the 8 months after the work requirement than an agency with no exposure. Conclusions Individuals who lose SNAP eligibility owing to the work requirement remain in need of assistance and seek other sources of food. SNAP work requirements thus increase the burden on emergency food assistance programs. Work requirements for other programs may also lead to increased emergency food assistance use.
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Host @brihreed.bsky.social gathers reporters who know the case best to compare notes and discuss the #Epstein story.

It’s provocative and confronting: power, accountability, & what happens when the media goes up against billionaires and their networks.

10/10⭐

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Graphic for the podcast Question Everything: Blue background with journalist equipment scattered about, and clouds in the air. There is a giant mechanical appearing head that looks as if it is being put together or dismantled in pieces that is blue. It has part of a face. At the bottom are the words: question everything The Epstein files.
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Spreading out vaccines means way more pokes and office visits, and makes it more likely some will be missed. Delaying vaccines leaves infants and children at risk for longer. It inconveniences busy parents, and increases healthcare costs. Mountains of evidence show vaccines don't cause autism.
CDC Autism and Vaccines Questions and Concerns Key points Studies have shown that there is no link between receiving vaccines and developing autism spectrum disorder (ASD). No links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and ASD.
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
boysek.bsky.social
WIC is pro-life and pro-health.

It's about making sure breast-feeding parents and babies don't go hungry, and aren't anemic or lead-poisoned.

It's too important to mess around with like this!

(btw, WIC Michigan is still open.)
WIC Michigan is still open. Despite the federal government shutdown, WIC clinics remian open and you can use WIC benefits.
October 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Ray Bradbury:
Farhrenheit 451 "So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life."
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
boysek.bsky.social
Agree this is important!

The framing should be "What kind of a society are we?"
No, the survivors correctly understand that the Epstein-Maxwell ordeal must be viewed through a massive reframing of our legal system’s devastating collective failures when it comes to them: This is not a whodunit so much as a What kind of society are we?
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
boysek.bsky.social
I think we would do well to remember that, in fact, Jim Crow atrocities inspired Hitler and the Nazis.

This is, in fact, "who we are," and who we have been, but we could choose to be different.
Photo of the book Hitler's American model: the United States and the making of Nazi race law, by James Q. Whitman
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM