Dr. Janet Werther (they/them)
@jwerther.bsky.social
Performing Arts Maker/Thinker/Educator
queer, nonbinary, AuDHD, parent-type person
pragmatic progressive
Buffalo, NY
queer, nonbinary, AuDHD, parent-type person
pragmatic progressive
Buffalo, NY
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Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them
June 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Trying and failing to come up with the right words to describe what we are witnessing unfold in LA right now. Your resistance is here, support them
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the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got
June 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
the people in LA putting their safety on the line right now to try and stop ICE are the bravest people we have got
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ALL States should immediately activate their National Guard with in-state orders to prevent the illegal usurpation of guard troops & their unconstitutional use by the corrupt Trump regime. If we fail to stand strong NOW, the future fight to protect the U.S. will be much, much harder…if not futile.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
ALL States should immediately activate their National Guard with in-state orders to prevent the illegal usurpation of guard troops & their unconstitutional use by the corrupt Trump regime. If we fail to stand strong NOW, the future fight to protect the U.S. will be much, much harder…if not futile.
Sadly, MAGAism has become so pervasive that a kid doesn’t even need MAGA parents to pick up these anti-communitarian, anti-empathic norms. We need to ACTIVELY teach our kids not to be this way. Why do you think they’ve been coming for social & emotional learning?! 😞
June 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sadly, MAGAism has become so pervasive that a kid doesn’t even need MAGA parents to pick up these anti-communitarian, anti-empathic norms. We need to ACTIVELY teach our kids not to be this way. Why do you think they’ve been coming for social & emotional learning?! 😞
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A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations
Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials removed recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
wapo.st
June 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.
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RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
June 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
RFK Jr. is absolutely poisonous. He has now caused Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, the person in charge of COVID19 vaccinations at the CDC, to resign.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
She did so because RFK Jr. demanded that the experts in charge of vaccine guidance listen to him and not to the scientific evidence.
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It is completely obvious that RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya plan to take away as many vaccines as possible from Americans.
Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.
Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It is completely obvious that RFK Jr., Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya plan to take away as many vaccines as possible from Americans.
Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.
Republicans approve of this. You may be tempted to ask why, but if you don’t understand it, it’s probably because you are not an egomaniacal sociopath.
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A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
May 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine
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Please note that this ban is not just for minors this time, this bill bars coverage of gender-affirming care for ALL transgender individuals with Medicaid or private insurance off the ACA exchanges.
“The tax bill the House passed Thursday would bar Medicaid coverage of all transgender care and prohibit plans offered under the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges from covering such care as an essential health benefit…”
House passes tax bill that would ban Medicaid from covering transition-related care
The bill would also prohibit marketplace plans available under the Affordable Care Act from covering transgender care as an essential health benefit.
www.nbcnews.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Please note that this ban is not just for minors this time, this bill bars coverage of gender-affirming care for ALL transgender individuals with Medicaid or private insurance off the ACA exchanges.
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1. Faculty who use LLMs for core aspects of their labor are inviting their own replacement. This is obvious and a cycle that will mirror what happened with adjunctification. You are showing you are unnecessary. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
Great ready for faculty bot-ification
If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.
www.insidehighered.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1. Faculty who use LLMs for core aspects of their labor are inviting their own replacement. This is obvious and a cycle that will mirror what happened with adjunctification. You are showing you are unnecessary. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
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It’s really interesting that Gillibrand became across the board dogshit just as she got into crypto. This seems to happen quite a bit.
During the vote, top bill backer Kirsten Gillibrand and chief opponent Elizabeth Warren got into a heated argument. Warren strongly believes this will pave the way for corruption, risk the stability of the financial system and allow more criming. Gillibrand argues this bill will protect consumers.
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It’s really interesting that Gillibrand became across the board dogshit just as she got into crypto. This seems to happen quite a bit.
Counter point: if bigwigs hadn’t started publicly questioning Biden’s competency last summer, while he was actively doing a significantly better job than Trump had the 1st time, we’d currently be learning the news of his cancer dx in an Oval Office address passing the presidency to Kamala.
The idea that how Democrats handled Biden will be a 2028 campaign issue for Dems is beyond absurd--not in the GOP's most fevered erotic dreams. OTOH, I still see some people sticking with "Biden was in perfectly good shape!" and there is simply no argument to be made that that was true.
May 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Counter point: if bigwigs hadn’t started publicly questioning Biden’s competency last summer, while he was actively doing a significantly better job than Trump had the 1st time, we’d currently be learning the news of his cancer dx in an Oval Office address passing the presidency to Kamala.
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The White House's 2026 budget proposal recommends eliminating the Health Resources and Services Administration and cutting rural health funding by 25%, posing a threat to health care access and services in rural areas.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Federal Funds for Rural Health Care May Be Cut
This Medical News article discusses the impact that proposed federal funding cuts for rural health care programs would have on individuals and their communities.
jamanetwork.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The White House's 2026 budget proposal recommends eliminating the Health Resources and Services Administration and cutting rural health funding by 25%, posing a threat to health care access and services in rural areas.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“…why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?”
For many reasons:
1) Maybe I’m assessing how well you use a bicycle.
2) Maybe in order to use a car you’ll have to go around the meadow, and when you get to point B you’re supposed to tell me what the meadow smelled like.
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For many reasons:
1) Maybe I’m assessing how well you use a bicycle.
2) Maybe in order to use a car you’ll have to go around the meadow, and when you get to point B you’re supposed to tell me what the meadow smelled like.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“…why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?”
For many reasons:
1) Maybe I’m assessing how well you use a bicycle.
2) Maybe in order to use a car you’ll have to go around the meadow, and when you get to point B you’re supposed to tell me what the meadow smelled like.
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For many reasons:
1) Maybe I’m assessing how well you use a bicycle.
2) Maybe in order to use a car you’ll have to go around the meadow, and when you get to point B you’re supposed to tell me what the meadow smelled like.
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This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.
(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
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It’s incredible how much the GOP has destroyed. Just breathtaking. They could restore the Constitution at any time.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
“no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
May 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It’s incredible how much the GOP has destroyed. Just breathtaking. They could restore the Constitution at any time.
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
This!!
How do we counter the "transactional model of education that has turned students into customers, where the exploration and development of the self is secondary to doing whatever the transaction demands to continue to progress through the system" READ @biblioracle.bsky.social
Addressing the Transactional Model of School
We need to attack thoughtless ChatGPT use from the demand side.
open.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This!!