Hunter
@hpolese.bsky.social
fnp, primary care and safety net advocate, hiv provider, discworld aficionado, serial M*A*S*H rewatcher, die hard Mets fan, mama to the wildest beastie, life long New Yorker.
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You do you, Jupiter.
However, if you could *try* to aim in the direction of the White House, we’d all be very grateful.
However, if you could *try* to aim in the direction of the White House, we’d all be very grateful.
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You do you, Jupiter.
However, if you could *try* to aim in the direction of the White House, we’d all be very grateful.
However, if you could *try* to aim in the direction of the White House, we’d all be very grateful.
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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My statement on today’s announcement by our disgraced Mayor.
April 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My statement on today’s announcement by our disgraced Mayor.
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They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
March 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Absolute disgusting and cowardly move by Columbia
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Absolute disgusting and cowardly move by Columbia
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Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.
March 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today I confronted “border czar” Tom Homan who came to Albany to do Trump’s bidding — push for mass deportations, carry out the assault on working class New Yorkers, and justify the unjustifiable detention of legal permanent resident and father-to-be, Mahmoud Khalil.
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NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman on @cnn.com:
"When you have a green card, you have the right to due process. What the government is trying to do is try this case with false and one-sided information in the media."
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
"When you have a green card, you have the right to due process. What the government is trying to do is try this case with false and one-sided information in the media."
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
March 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman on @cnn.com:
"When you have a green card, you have the right to due process. What the government is trying to do is try this case with false and one-sided information in the media."
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
"When you have a green card, you have the right to due process. What the government is trying to do is try this case with false and one-sided information in the media."
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
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SWC condemns the ICE/DHS raids on Columbia's campus. We call on President Armstrong to protect international students from immigration enforcement and reinstate Columbia as a sanctuary campus.
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
![On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian recent Columbia graduate and lead negotiator for last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment. Khalil held a green card at the time of his arrest and remains in detention as thousands petition for his immediate release. We are also aware of multiple reports of ICE agents accessing or attempting to access Columbia campus buildings on Friday and Saturday, including undergraduate dorms.
The presence of immigration enforcement agents in Columbia Housing buildings coincides with Columbia’s publication of a new protocol which reverses the school’s sanctuary campus status and states that “exigent circumstances may allow [ICE] access to University buildings or people without a warrant.” Columbia has abandoned its nearly decade-long commitment to being a sanctuary campus. This development also closely follows the Department of Justice’s announcement on the same day that it plans to cancel $400 million of grants and contracts with Columbia in retaliation for students protesting Columbia’s investments in Israel.
By allowing ICE on campus, Columbia is surrendering to the Trump administration’s assault on universities across the country and sacrificing international students to protect its finances. We call on faculty, staff, postdocs, students, and all other workers at Columbia University to stand against the administration’s cooperation with the Trump administration.
Student Workers of Columbia (UAW Local 2710), whose unit includes many international student workers, demands that President Armstrong reinstate Columbia as a sanctuary campus; refuse to provide information to immigration authorities investigating Columbia affiliates; order Public Safety and private contractors to cease surveillance of Columbia affiliates; destroy all existing records of such surveillance; conduct “know your rights” trainings;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qq4uw7ij66zuq77swvhuaufm/bafkreigzc5tnqdd6baxyddimac332lroicvehs5dp6oylnkyfk7vbnjk2y@jpeg)
March 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
SWC condemns the ICE/DHS raids on Columbia's campus. We call on President Armstrong to protect international students from immigration enforcement and reinstate Columbia as a sanctuary campus.
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I’m gonna add my top 5 (the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make)
5. The Night Watch
4. Witches Abroad
3. The Last Continent
2. The Fifth Elephant
1. Jingo
1a. Monstrous Regimen
Honorable mentions: Pyramids, Feet Of Clay, Moving Pictures, Thief of Time.
5. The Night Watch
4. Witches Abroad
3. The Last Continent
2. The Fifth Elephant
1. Jingo
1a. Monstrous Regimen
Honorable mentions: Pyramids, Feet Of Clay, Moving Pictures, Thief of Time.
MY TOP 5 LIST OF TERRY PRATCHETT BOOKS
5. Soul Music (best tribute to rock 'n'roll ever)
4. Going Postal (best skewering of greed ever)
3. Moving Pictures (best talking dog EVER)
2. The Truth (best newspaper tagline: The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret)
And #1 is - Night Watch (best hero ever!)
#Discworld
5. Soul Music (best tribute to rock 'n'roll ever)
4. Going Postal (best skewering of greed ever)
3. Moving Pictures (best talking dog EVER)
2. The Truth (best newspaper tagline: The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret)
And #1 is - Night Watch (best hero ever!)
#Discworld
March 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I’m gonna add my top 5 (the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make)
5. The Night Watch
4. Witches Abroad
3. The Last Continent
2. The Fifth Elephant
1. Jingo
1a. Monstrous Regimen
Honorable mentions: Pyramids, Feet Of Clay, Moving Pictures, Thief of Time.
5. The Night Watch
4. Witches Abroad
3. The Last Continent
2. The Fifth Elephant
1. Jingo
1a. Monstrous Regimen
Honorable mentions: Pyramids, Feet Of Clay, Moving Pictures, Thief of Time.
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1 Al Green is worth 100 Hakeem Jeffries, 1000 Chuck Schumers
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
1 Al Green is worth 100 Hakeem Jeffries, 1000 Chuck Schumers
“As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. The most common causes were infectious diseases — pneumonia, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, and other illnesses ran rampant through households, and children were especially at risk.”
Childhood in the centuries before vaccination was marked by illness, but also by grief and loss in a way that we tend to forget now that disease outbreaks are more of a rarity. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/WmCVmk
What was childhood like before vaccines?
The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
March 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“As of 1900, about 18 percent, or nearly one in five, American children died before their fifth birthday. The most common causes were infectious diseases — pneumonia, diphtheria, dysentery, measles, and other illnesses ran rampant through households, and children were especially at risk.”
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It’s not just Texas.
Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well.
Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic)
NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles
Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well.
Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic)
NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles
February 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s not just Texas.
Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well.
Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic)
NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles
Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well.
Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic)
NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d
Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles