Katherine Sale
@katherinesale.bsky.social
Epidemiology PhD candidate @uiowa (she/her), clinical trials and health services research
FASD/brain based differences ally
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Hi, I’m an Epi PhD candidate working on the effect of non-surgical treatments for osteoarthritis on total knee arthroplasty timing and outcomes.
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Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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😠 Are you sick of corporations enabling this administration by ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chasing tax breaks?
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
😠 Are you sick of corporations enabling this administration by ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chasing tax breaks?
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
❌💲 From Thanksgiving morning through nighttime Cyber Monday, BUY NOTHING from Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. Join us & spread the word! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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I did not have “South Dakota GOP legislator understands the gravity of the effects of ag pollution on his constituents” in my bingo card, I confess.
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
When state GOP lawmakers call for regulating farmers it must be really bad.
With so much polluted water, SD lawmaker says state can no longer ‘dance around’ ag regulations • South Dakota Searchlight
A top lawmaker said it may be time to move beyond financial incentives and consider regulations on agriculture for water pollution.
southdakotasearchlight.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I did not have “South Dakota GOP legislator understands the gravity of the effects of ag pollution on his constituents” in my bingo card, I confess.
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
Wish I’d see some of this in Iowa from both parties tbh
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Part of the piggy thing is the assumption that the worst insult he could give a woman is to insult her physical appearance and appeal to him. To him, that’s her potential value and he can’t fathom that it diminishes him, not her.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Part of the piggy thing is the assumption that the worst insult he could give a woman is to insult her physical appearance and appeal to him. To him, that’s her potential value and he can’t fathom that it diminishes him, not her.
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I haven't been online because I've been writing
but we got another one to raise funds for. A lady needs to see a man about a horse: you know what to do. About $700, housing covered already. Timely.
Venmo linda-tirado-3
Chime $linda-tirado-3
PayPal riseandbeheard or bootstrapindustries@gmail
but we got another one to raise funds for. A lady needs to see a man about a horse: you know what to do. About $700, housing covered already. Timely.
Venmo linda-tirado-3
Chime $linda-tirado-3
PayPal riseandbeheard or bootstrapindustries@gmail
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I haven't been online because I've been writing
but we got another one to raise funds for. A lady needs to see a man about a horse: you know what to do. About $700, housing covered already. Timely.
Venmo linda-tirado-3
Chime $linda-tirado-3
PayPal riseandbeheard or bootstrapindustries@gmail
but we got another one to raise funds for. A lady needs to see a man about a horse: you know what to do. About $700, housing covered already. Timely.
Venmo linda-tirado-3
Chime $linda-tirado-3
PayPal riseandbeheard or bootstrapindustries@gmail
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
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Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
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Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.
www.health.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
www.health.com/adhd-medicat...
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I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I want the United States government to ensure that every American has food to eat, a place to live, a safe neighborhood, transportation to move around & work, clean water to drink, free health care & free education.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
Don’t care what label you give that.
That’s what I want my taxes to pay for.
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If republicans are able-bodied and getting government assistance, they should be subject to a work requirement, no?
The US House of Representatives committee calendar for October 2025
It's .... quite something
It's .... quite something
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If republicans are able-bodied and getting government assistance, they should be subject to a work requirement, no?
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Reports of ICE agents in Evanston and the north parts of Chicago today (10/31). Call 855-435-7693 if you spot ICE, CBP, or other federal agents.
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Reports of ICE agents in Evanston and the north parts of Chicago today (10/31). Call 855-435-7693 if you spot ICE, CBP, or other federal agents.
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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
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Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
Could ICE have 'lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
At least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago?
NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations.
www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
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I am working on building an interactive map of every county's SNAP data but several states are currently dark, so if anyone can get me clean county-level data with the FIPS IDs that would be amazing.
You can see the MVP I just published here: not-our-president.org
You can see the MVP I just published here: not-our-president.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am working on building an interactive map of every county's SNAP data but several states are currently dark, so if anyone can get me clean county-level data with the FIPS IDs that would be amazing.
You can see the MVP I just published here: not-our-president.org
You can see the MVP I just published here: not-our-president.org
And we don’t have a vaccine for them.
There was a time at the very beginning of the pandemic when people were actually looking out for their neighbors.
Getting them groceries.
Picking up prescriptions.
Checking on their general wellbeing.
I feel we are in a similar circumstance at the moment, but now the pathogens are Republicans.
Getting them groceries.
Picking up prescriptions.
Checking on their general wellbeing.
I feel we are in a similar circumstance at the moment, but now the pathogens are Republicans.
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
And we don’t have a vaccine for them.
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Hey y'all, the Second Harvest food bank of Middle TN is doing a triple match on donations today! Please donate if you can!
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#HCWvHunger #MedSky 🦞
@hcwvshunger.bsky.social
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#HCWvHunger #MedSky 🦞
@hcwvshunger.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Hey y'all, the Second Harvest food bank of Middle TN is doing a triple match on donations today! Please donate if you can!
secure3.convio.net/shfbmt/site/...
#HCWvHunger #MedSky 🦞
@hcwvshunger.bsky.social
secure3.convio.net/shfbmt/site/...
#HCWvHunger #MedSky 🦞
@hcwvshunger.bsky.social
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Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot gave young parents $1,000 a month for two years, leading to reduced food insecurity, lower stress, more stable housing, and better access to child care. Positive impacts persisted beyond the payments.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
Baltimore's guaranteed income pilot helped young, low-income families
Young parents who received $1,000 monthly cash payments through Baltimore City’s guaranteed income pilot reported lower rates of food insecurity, household chaos, missed work, and stress during the…
baltimorefishbowl.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot gave young parents $1,000 a month for two years, leading to reduced food insecurity, lower stress, more stable housing, and better access to child care. Positive impacts persisted beyond the payments.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
They can do it again, nationwide, when it's time to restore the rose garden and tear down the Epstein Ballroom.
Some more details:
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
-a 1-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires currently living in the state
-affects around 200 people
-moving won't matter; based on 2025 residency
-billionaires earn 7.5%/yr, they'd still come out ahead
-yields enough to cover the Medicaid gap for 5 years & have some $ left for K-12
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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More people have died this year in immigration detention than any other year in decades.
The best way to prevent abuse and deaths in ICE custody is for Congress to stop funding the ICE detention machine.
The best way to prevent abuse and deaths in ICE custody is for Congress to stop funding the ICE detention machine.
ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount
Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.
www.politico.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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