Debs
@debsgardner.bsky.social
Public health professional, communications nerd, and nature enthusiast. Health equity, wildlife, fungi, anti-authoritarianism, berries, lichen, slime molds, pikas, anti-racism, and fighting climate collapse. Also, kittens.
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White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/
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"One new term we’re considering is 'people who are without home.' Notice how that term starts with “people.” We believe in language that centers humanity. Actions, less so."
Our City’s New Initiative Will End Homelessness by Calling It Something Else
The housing crisis in our city is reaching a breaking point. Something has to be done to help the struggling members of our community, which is why...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"One new term we’re considering is 'people who are without home.' Notice how that term starts with “people.” We believe in language that centers humanity. Actions, less so."
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The health impacts of #climate change are coming and we are not ready, say panelists at #ACHJSummit. "Many physicians do not have training in dealing with extreme heat," says Grace Wickerson of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. "Do we have a health system that's ready for this? No we do not."
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The health impacts of #climate change are coming and we are not ready, say panelists at #ACHJSummit. "Many physicians do not have training in dealing with extreme heat," says Grace Wickerson of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. "Do we have a health system that's ready for this? No we do not."
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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would absolutely watch, though
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
would absolutely watch, though
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We can’t say you didn’t know. “Never again” is happening again.
What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.
What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.
Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We can’t say you didn’t know. “Never again” is happening again.
What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.
What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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I don’t want the lesson Dems take from this election to be wait for Republicans to destroy the government and we’ll get them in the next election.
The message remains:
PEOPLE WANT YOU TO FUCKING FIGHT.
The message remains:
PEOPLE WANT YOU TO FUCKING FIGHT.
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t want the lesson Dems take from this election to be wait for Republicans to destroy the government and we’ll get them in the next election.
The message remains:
PEOPLE WANT YOU TO FUCKING FIGHT.
The message remains:
PEOPLE WANT YOU TO FUCKING FIGHT.
Well said. And supports why I’ve always objected to how nonprofit and public service sectors let mindless business jargon permeate our work. People mindlessly nod along to ideas when framed with terms like “value add” and “the learnings.” Seeing jargon as credibility is dangerous and exclusionary.
If you’d like to read my essay about George Orwell, writing by machines, and our current nihilism about meaning, I offer you the entire zine in this thread.
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
I will finish the thread with instructions on how to print your own copies of the zine.
#OrwellvsChatGPT
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Well said. And supports why I’ve always objected to how nonprofit and public service sectors let mindless business jargon permeate our work. People mindlessly nod along to ideas when framed with terms like “value add” and “the learnings.” Seeing jargon as credibility is dangerous and exclusionary.
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Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement.
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Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis
Safeguarding biodiversity is not simply an environmental concern but a foundational element of preventive and clinical care.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement.
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@cwalzer.bsky.social
@statnews.com
@nationalacademies.org
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
@gchalliance.bsky.social
@docsforclimate.bsky.social
@cwalzer.bsky.social
@statnews.com
@nationalacademies.org
@howardfrumkin.bsky.social
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Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
October 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
See if you can spot it! /s
Then you can find today's story on p A23
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Okay this is a good headline
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned
Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists
The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Okay this is a good headline
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Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
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#Medsky
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COVID vaccines may have averted thousands of hospital stays in infants, pregnant women over 18 months
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September 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.
#Medsky
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
#Medsky
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Next time you feel like things are tough, just remember that the winner of fat bear week came in second place twice and then won despite having a broken jaw all summer
32 Chunk voted as Fat Bear Week 2025 winner after 2 years as runner-up
As one of the largest bears that resides along Brooks River at Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, 32 Chunk was estimated to be over 1,200 pounds.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Next time you feel like things are tough, just remember that the winner of fat bear week came in second place twice and then won despite having a broken jaw all summer
Another value of humor as strategic resistance: jokes are memorable and repeatable—qualities our messaging often lacks.
Whereas the far-right messaging machine spews memorable talking points, buys/threatens media to amplify them, and gets Democrats to repeat them.
We need comedy to fight back.
Whereas the far-right messaging machine spews memorable talking points, buys/threatens media to amplify them, and gets Democrats to repeat them.
We need comedy to fight back.
Is comedy an effective way to push back at Trump’s abuses of power, or does it trivialize them? I ask this question in my free Stop the Presses newsletter and add a historical perspective about the “whisper jokes” told in other countries’ dictatorships.
Can comedy help conquer fascism?
Loudly mocking Trump now may help us avoid “whisper jokes” later
www.stopthepresses.news
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Another value of humor as strategic resistance: jokes are memorable and repeatable—qualities our messaging often lacks.
Whereas the far-right messaging machine spews memorable talking points, buys/threatens media to amplify them, and gets Democrats to repeat them.
We need comedy to fight back.
Whereas the far-right messaging machine spews memorable talking points, buys/threatens media to amplify them, and gets Democrats to repeat them.
We need comedy to fight back.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.
September 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.
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FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen
September 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen
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I've been calling it Calvinball for a long time, as have others, but still striking to see Justice Jackson embrace the terminology in her dissent on the NIH case ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
August 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I've been calling it Calvinball for a long time, as have others, but still striking to see Justice Jackson embrace the terminology in her dissent on the NIH case ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
This is an urgent issue for all states with ERASE-MM funding for Maternal Mortality Review Committees to review maternal deaths, including in WA, where the next maternal mortality review report comes out in October. And for understanding U.S. maternal mortality. www.propublica.org/article/mate...
“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out
Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”
www.propublica.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is an urgent issue for all states with ERASE-MM funding for Maternal Mortality Review Committees to review maternal deaths, including in WA, where the next maternal mortality review report comes out in October. And for understanding U.S. maternal mortality. www.propublica.org/article/mate...
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Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”
August 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”
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Political scientist specializing in constitutional rights: “We are [past] a constitutional crisis… we are in failure.”
Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/
Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Political scientist specializing in constitutional rights: “We are [past] a constitutional crisis… we are in failure.”
Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/
Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/