Julie Parsonnet
@julieparsonnet.bsky.social
Infectious diseases doctor, epidemiologist, gun injury prevention advocate, Stanford professor, and penguin enthusiast.
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no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE
Does Mike Johnson Know...Anything? Anything At All?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
no evidence whatsoever that mike johnson knows a single thing youtu.be/YR2WiILR6XE
Documentary, reality TV, or satire? Hard to tell. youtu.be/rKgRPlkWk6o?...
White House Makeover - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Documentary, reality TV, or satire? Hard to tell. youtu.be/rKgRPlkWk6o?...
If "you believe your homeland to be under invasion by the forces of evil, the solution is not to try to consolidate your power, harden your nature, and glory in needless cruelty...[but] to refuse power whenever it is offered to you and to fight from a place of humility." bit.ly/4oLG2rC #LOTR
The right is obsessed with The Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
www.vox.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If "you believe your homeland to be under invasion by the forces of evil, the solution is not to try to consolidate your power, harden your nature, and glory in needless cruelty...[but] to refuse power whenever it is offered to you and to fight from a place of humility." bit.ly/4oLG2rC #LOTR
It is appalling what you can find when looking for surveillance data for a class. #publichealth #surveillance #gender @drsforamerica.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It is appalling what you can find when looking for surveillance data for a class. #publichealth #surveillance #gender @drsforamerica.bsky.social
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“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
October 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼
My husband Dean's nice paper in @jama.com open. Detention is a setup for disease transmission. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases Within US Immigration Detention Centers
This case series examines epidemiological patterns of 3 vaccine-preventable diseases within US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My husband Dean's nice paper in @jama.com open. Detention is a setup for disease transmission. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
The incompetence in this administration is astonishing. #publichealth #idsky #publichealthsky #cdc bit.ly/4h665qN
HHS rehiring some people fired through reduction-in-force efforts
A Trump administration legal document said HHS initially targeted 1,000 to 1,200 employees for dismissal, and people speaking with POLITICO say the firings focused on the CDC.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The incompetence in this administration is astonishing. #publichealth #idsky #publichealthsky #cdc bit.ly/4h665qN
Sure, lets cut the CDC! Seems like a fine idea. @altcdc.altgov.info #publichealth #IDsky #vaccines #publichealthsky bit.ly/4h5KnmE.
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Sure, lets cut the CDC! Seems like a fine idea. @altcdc.altgov.info #publichealth #IDsky #vaccines #publichealthsky bit.ly/4h5KnmE.
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday
The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.
John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.
Et tu, Governor Newsom? @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Et tu, Governor Newsom? @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
The NYTimes surveyed 50 high-power lawyers (half red). We should be frightened. "The D.O.J.’s loss of credibility is devastating to the rule of law.” “In my darkest moments, I think, maybe the premises on which our Constitution was founded are just not widely shared anymore,” bit.ly/437xh2x
‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency
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October 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The NYTimes surveyed 50 high-power lawyers (half red). We should be frightened. "The D.O.J.’s loss of credibility is devastating to the rule of law.” “In my darkest moments, I think, maybe the premises on which our Constitution was founded are just not widely shared anymore,” bit.ly/437xh2x
For those who think measles is nothing, Israel just had its 6th measles death since April with >1700 known and 5000 estimated cases. 41 (36 kids) have been in ICUs. Israel has an 88% vaccination rate, not enough to prevent disease spread. bit.ly/46Cuocq #vaccines #publichealth #idsky #measles
Jerusalem toddler dies of measles, sixth death this year | The Jerusalem Post
Six children in total have died since the outbreak began, with the Health Ministry pushing a vaccination campaign to contain the disease.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
For those who think measles is nothing, Israel just had its 6th measles death since April with >1700 known and 5000 estimated cases. 41 (36 kids) have been in ICUs. Israel has an 88% vaccination rate, not enough to prevent disease spread. bit.ly/46Cuocq #vaccines #publichealth #idsky #measles
Remember when Obama's army invaded Texas and instituted concentration camps in Walmart in order to disarm Americans? Maybe those who successfully fought off the Obama's takeover can help protect Chicago and Portland from a new hostile presidential administration. #jadehelm #portland #chicago
October 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
"Infection elimination" is defined as the disappearance of transmission in a defined area. To me, an ID epidemiologist, this epicurve of US cases from CDC looks more like continuous measles transmission than elimination. #idsky #vaccines #publichealth #episky
October 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"Infection elimination" is defined as the disappearance of transmission in a defined area. To me, an ID epidemiologist, this epicurve of US cases from CDC looks more like continuous measles transmission than elimination. #idsky #vaccines #publichealth #episky
The Trump Action Tracker is a website designed by a British group that is cataloging all of the administration's actions, statements, and plans. It is a depressing but important read. Check it out at trumpactiontracker.info
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Trump Action Tracker is a website designed by a British group that is cataloging all of the administration's actions, statements, and plans. It is a depressing but important read. Check it out at trumpactiontracker.info
Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
We desperately need better surveillance for firearms incidents. A paper outlining features of pediatric gun injuries in NYC shows <50% capture of ER cases by the NYPD. Most kids were unintended victims near public housing #publichealth #endgunviolence #pediatrics @nyumedpostdocs.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We desperately need better surveillance for firearms incidents. A paper outlining features of pediatric gun injuries in NYC shows <50% capture of ER cases by the NYPD. Most kids were unintended victims near public housing #publichealth #endgunviolence #pediatrics @nyumedpostdocs.bsky.social
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October 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.
We have been sent here to fight for people.
Marco Rubio's public health strategy, now with corrections. #idsky #publichealthsky #publichealth #globalhealthsky
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Marco Rubio's public health strategy, now with corrections. #idsky #publichealthsky #publichealth #globalhealthsky