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Alexa Fleckenstein M.D.
@doctoralexa.bsky.social
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Board-certified internist & European Natural Medicine
Background math & philosophy (epistemology)
KNOWLEDGE & KINDNESS
Playing cello & piano badly
Hamburg > Boston
Gardening - REAL foods. Because plants & animals have the same biochemistry as we humans
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October 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Well, well, well...
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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🚨ICE puts a gun in the FACE of a pregnant woman as she drives with her toddler in the vehicle. 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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UPHOLD YOUR OATH TO PROTECT & SERVE
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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On January 6, 2021, thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked our Capitol.

Not a partisan statement. That’s obviously what happened, and Americans know it.

Now consider the extremely dangerous fact that two DOJ officials were just punished for saying exactly what I said above.
DOJ places on leave 2 prosecutors who said 'mob' of 'rioters' carried out Jan. 6 attack
Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Judge Cannon Ordered to Get Moving on Jack Smith’s Trump Report
The president’s favorite judge was called out by a panel of judges for slow-walking a case that would release the special counsel’s full report on Donald Trump.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Natalie’s ink and color pencil drawing of a loteria card, “La historiadora” (the historian, feminine). A brown woman with black-brown wavy hair is seated at a desk with a folder open in front of her—they are archival materials. There is an open archival box (where the folder came from) in the foreground, to the left. One of the historian’s elbows is propped on the desk and her face is resting in it as she reads the materials, smiling. The number nine is in the upper left corner (for the loteria game).
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I can that this week is the first of the semester where I don’t feel absolutely harried by work. I was able to do some gardening, spend time with my partner, and read.

Things will pick up again this week, but I’m at least grateful for the respite 🙂

#academia 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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The Trump Administration's War on African-American History is a Lost Cause 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Trump Administration's War on African-American History is a Lost Cause
Today I learned that the American Battle Monuments Commission has removed two memorial panels honoring Black World War II soldiers from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Read about a guy who busted up a famous scam, made pioneering geographic discoveries, became a leading nature writer, and led a secret life as a black man. 🗃️
worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-making...
The Making of the Gilded West
The intersection between science, speculation, and the conquest of nature
worldhistory.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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A Book ... That Changed ... My Life ... open.substack.com/pub/theisola... ...
A Book That Changed My Life
& John Green on seeing the unseen—and how one story helped me find my way back to the human story
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!

“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
Present Tense by Todd Dillard My father’s telling me about his dog, how it fell into a well when they were walking down a wooded path. His dog ran across some rotted planks, the planks splintered, “And whoosh!” my father says. “No more dog.” I look at the clock and remind my father it’s three A.M. “I’m not finished,” he says. He tells me about the rope he bought, the bucket, how he knotted the rope to the bucket, lowered it down, and yelled for the dog to get in. “But all I pulled up was more barking.” “Dad,” I say. “This never happened.” He says he can’t remember how long he tried to get the dog to shimmy into the bucket. Just that at some point when the sky turned tawny—“Dad—“ as a pitcher of sweet tea—“Dad—“ he decided to give up. “Dad,” I say. “It’s late. I’m tired. And you’re dead.” “Dammit, son,” my father says. “Let me finish!” My father tells me about filling the bucket with dirt and pouring the dirt into the well. And I know what he’s getting at, I know he’s going to tell me bucket by bucket he filled the well and the dog jumped out. He’s going to say something about how the dog led him home through the dark. I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence. “Dad?” I say. “Dad, are you there?” I keep lowering the bucket but all I ever pull up are leaves. Red leaves. Lately, some gold.
September 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Brilliant
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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enjoy!!!

'The end of the world': Fox News can't handle Mamdani's big win www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
'The end of the world': Fox News can't handle Mamdani's big win
Zohran Mamdani had a decisive victory on Tuesday night and is now New York City’s mayor-elect. And Fox News is extremely mad about it all. The right-wing network had to cover the results as they ...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Every time this stuff happens, my thought process begins to consider what kind of justice will be required in 3 years for these people.
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Another addition to the Nuremberg II scorecard.
A Border Patrol agent bragged about shooting someone, texts show
"Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
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November 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Soon it will be a 1945 Nuremberg moment.
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We need Nuremberg trials for Trump administration officials and ICE/Border Patrol agents.
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Margaret Mitchell, the author of #GoneWithTheWind, was born #OnThisDay in 1900.

In 2014, @ransomcenter.bsky.social organized an exhibition that explored the making of the 1939 film adaptation of Mitchell's book using documents & artifacts from the David O. Selznick Collection. #booksky #filmsky 🗃️📜📽️
The Making of "Gone With The Wind"
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#Museum30 This ca. 1806 needlework picture imagines Palemon and Lavinia, the rural lovers of a 1720s poem by James Johnson based on the story of Ruth, as contemporaries of the artist, Sophia Burpee (1788-1814). 🗃️ collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/496/...
A needlework picture embroidered in silk, with a man in a brown coat and riding boots and a woman in a white gown and straw bonnet standing in front of a wheat field.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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They really stuck the landing on this one.
thedailyshow.com The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM