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Linda Anderson, PhD, RN
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Proudly liberal nurse, researcher, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome advocate. So-so artist. Eclectic tastes and interests including bonsai, opera, and sumo wrestling. My views are my own.
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lindaanderson.bsky.social
Excellent thread! Scientists and health professionals, take heed.
deonandan.bsky.social Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to the Treasury Board of Canada for inviting me to serve as a panelist on yesterday's CCO Day of Learning, which was broadcast to thousands of government communicators across the country. Here are 12 of my comments, which I will attempt to weave into a paper at a later date:

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December 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
From where I am standing, I know this is the movement I have been working toward. I feel the rafters shaking and the walls moving. I feel the aftershock of the work that went into Aftyn’s race and how it’s rippling out into red states across the country.

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Stress Fractures
Running everywhere
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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fintechernest.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🏥🚨🏥 Healthcare workers: Patient’s rights are being violated. A lot of people are adverse to standing up to “authority,” but we have codes of ethics - each of our professions do. Rise up! 1/2
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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caitfornewyork.bsky.social
We’ve served our country in uniform. Now we are stepping up to serve again.

We are The Hell Cats — four female veterans that are going to flip the House in 2026.

Join the mission → www.hellcats.us/
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
If it can happen in Mississippi, it can happen in Missouri.
taniel.bsky.social Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Nov 5
Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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pebbleautism.bsky.social
@jgjanegreenmbe.bsky.social fabulous talk this morning. A really useful reframing of how the common signs of ‘anxiety’ when a child or young person is struggling with school can actually be signs of a connective tissue disorder and/or living with chronic pain
A slide showing the common physical symptoms in Emotionally Based School Avoidance: pain, feeling sick, stomach ache, headaches, tiredness, poor digestion, bowel/bladder issues, muscle rigidity, poor sleep, racing heart, fear, upset, anger.
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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abraham.bsky.social
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social
Please take 5 minutes and read one of the most important pieces I have ever written.Thank you.

“I am not afraid and therefore I am not manageable”.

open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
Unmanageable: On Refusing Fear
When the only weapon left against autocracy is the refusal to be managed
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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kathy328.bsky.social
Not sure why the focus is on middle aged women at the No Kings rallies. From my observation, there is a healthy mix of young and old.
But maybe the reason there are so many middle aged women protesting is because we see the future and it looks a lot like the past we struggled to overcome.
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
lindaanderson.bsky.social
And so far, I'm not seeing much reporting of this on mainstream media just yet. I think he's finally made even his supporters speechless.
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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hpanzironi.bsky.social
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
October 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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phillipusa.bsky.social
Amen.
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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rincewind.run
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025

"my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists"

"your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs"

solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
oregonian.com The Oregonian @oregonian.com · Oct 10
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jayoung3292.bsky.social
🤣🤣🤣
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
lindaanderson.bsky.social
I love Portland!
adamweinstein.bsky.social Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · Oct 4
Imagine sending an airborne division after this guy
Portland bagpipe Vader
October 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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muellershewrote.com
In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.
October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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atrupar.com
Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM