Roz
@lsmith1964.bsky.social
Boomer/GenX straddler. Public Health Professional. Clinical Lab Scientist. Health Informatics Specialist.
Mom of boys and #greyhounds
All children are my own. #BLM #LGBTQIA ally #Atheist
Always watching.
Mom of boys and #greyhounds
All children are my own. #BLM #LGBTQIA ally #Atheist
Always watching.
Y'all. I texted my sons and said, "Hey, got any jokes or silly memes? I've had a day."
This is what they sent me. They are weird and wonderful, and I love them so.
This is what they sent me. They are weird and wonderful, and I love them so.
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Y'all. I texted my sons and said, "Hey, got any jokes or silly memes? I've had a day."
This is what they sent me. They are weird and wonderful, and I love them so.
This is what they sent me. They are weird and wonderful, and I love them so.
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
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The enablers have to feel it.
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We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Looking for what you can do to make you voice heard? This campaign is gaining traction.
The enablers have to feel it.
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The enablers have to feel it.
weaintbuyingit.com
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MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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No surprise that Mr. "We May Need to Tell the Courts 'Fuck You'" was also pushing the administration's campaign of extrajudicial killings.
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
No surprise that Mr. "We May Need to Tell the Courts 'Fuck You'" was also pushing the administration's campaign of extrajudicial killings.
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g...
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Dear MAGA: if you get that removing tariffs lowers prices, what does adding tariffs do?
What does adding tariffs do, MAGA?! What does it do?!!!!!
What does adding tariffs do, MAGA?! What does it do?!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Dear MAGA: if you get that removing tariffs lowers prices, what does adding tariffs do?
What does adding tariffs do, MAGA?! What does it do?!!!!!
What does adding tariffs do, MAGA?! What does it do?!!!!!
This is so accurate I think I peed a little.
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 AM
This is so accurate I think I peed a little.
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
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The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
I sincerely hope that people are wise enough to keep paying attention to what others in the regime besides Trump are doing.
This regime won't end with an election.
This regime won't end with an election.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I sincerely hope that people are wise enough to keep paying attention to what others in the regime besides Trump are doing.
This regime won't end with an election.
This regime won't end with an election.
I'm begging y'all to not focus solely on Trump. NO ONE in this regime expects Trump to last. There are plans for after Trump, and they aren't as chaotic. They aim to restructure this country to serve only the billionaires and the tech bros. We will not matter. At all.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm begging y'all to not focus solely on Trump. NO ONE in this regime expects Trump to last. There are plans for after Trump, and they aren't as chaotic. They aim to restructure this country to serve only the billionaires and the tech bros. We will not matter. At all.
😔💔
Oh 💔. Rest in Power Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
😔💔
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The mass murder of civilians in order to maintain the economy is an ongoing moral injury that is only compounding with time and Americas inability to talk about and process grief
The necropolitics of Covid were the trigger for and normalization of the eugenic of today and the mass murder of tomorrow
The necropolitics of Covid were the trigger for and normalization of the eugenic of today and the mass murder of tomorrow
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The mass murder of civilians in order to maintain the economy is an ongoing moral injury that is only compounding with time and Americas inability to talk about and process grief
The necropolitics of Covid were the trigger for and normalization of the eugenic of today and the mass murder of tomorrow
The necropolitics of Covid were the trigger for and normalization of the eugenic of today and the mass murder of tomorrow
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?
fair.org/home/emails-...
fair.org/home/emails-...
Emails Reveal Epstein’s Ties to Mossad—But Corporate Media Looked Away
Information from a major hack targeting Israel revealed that Jeffrey Epstein played a significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence.
fair.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There has been wall-to-wall US corporate media coverage of the Department of Justice’s Epstein files and the battle over its release. So why has a hack that documented Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence been largely ignored by US corporate media?
fair.org/home/emails-...
fair.org/home/emails-...
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How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
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My Health Care Horror Story
Provide info, vent!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
How much did your insurance premiums increase this year? Please add your story to the incredibly unscientific survey.
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Oh dear! I have been blocked! By a real, not-fake person who is most assuredly not a bot.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Oh dear! I have been blocked! By a real, not-fake person who is most assuredly not a bot.
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Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Does anyone really believe Trump didn't do every vile thing you can imagine with those underage girls?
What we are all waiting to see is if there will be any justice.
I think we all know the answer, but yet, just like watching that putrifying carcass on the roadside, we can't look away.
What we are all waiting to see is if there will be any justice.
I think we all know the answer, but yet, just like watching that putrifying carcass on the roadside, we can't look away.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Does anyone really believe Trump didn't do every vile thing you can imagine with those underage girls?
What we are all waiting to see is if there will be any justice.
I think we all know the answer, but yet, just like watching that putrifying carcass on the roadside, we can't look away.
What we are all waiting to see is if there will be any justice.
I think we all know the answer, but yet, just like watching that putrifying carcass on the roadside, we can't look away.
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It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week we consider the veracity of RFK Jr.’s claim that he gets a lot of fan mail.
Great work as always by @benecal.bsky.social and team!
This week we consider the veracity of RFK Jr.’s claim that he gets a lot of fan mail.
Great work as always by @benecal.bsky.social and team!
Whopper of the Week: RFK, Jr. says he gets fan mail from scientists and doctors, the letters sent to Congress actually ask for his resignation | Defend Public Health
Physicians and scientists across the country warned Congress that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was unfit to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy, who has no medical or scientific training...
www.defendpublichealth.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time for Defend Public Health’s Whopper of the Week!
This week we consider the veracity of RFK Jr.’s claim that he gets a lot of fan mail.
Great work as always by @benecal.bsky.social and team!
This week we consider the veracity of RFK Jr.’s claim that he gets a lot of fan mail.
Great work as always by @benecal.bsky.social and team!
Oh noes! Someone has blocked me!
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Oh noes! Someone has blocked me!
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Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe.
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
How two top FDA officials are quietly upending vaccine regulations
Vinay Prasad and Tracy Beth Høeg mix skepticism with new ways to define risk in pursuing sweeping changes to vaccine policy at the FDA.
www.statnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Prasad and Hoeg are censoring studies showing the covid vaccine is safe.
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
More great reporting by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/f...
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Republicans like Wittman love to pretend they love our country, but there’s nothing patriotic about tax breaks for billionaires while families can’t afford basic care.
Real patriotism is believing America can do better — that we can take care of every person in this country with dignity & fairness.
Real patriotism is believing America can do better — that we can take care of every person in this country with dignity & fairness.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Republicans like Wittman love to pretend they love our country, but there’s nothing patriotic about tax breaks for billionaires while families can’t afford basic care.
Real patriotism is believing America can do better — that we can take care of every person in this country with dignity & fairness.
Real patriotism is believing America can do better — that we can take care of every person in this country with dignity & fairness.
Narrator:
As it turns out....Trump, in fact, does not care.
As it turns out....Trump, in fact, does not care.
FOX NEWS: So what would Trumpcare look like?
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
DR OZ: Well, these are all ideas that we're still working on
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Narrator:
As it turns out....Trump, in fact, does not care.
As it turns out....Trump, in fact, does not care.
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Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team