Mindy
@mincoak.bsky.social
Geriatric NP. Tolkien nerd. Proud mom of a rainbow kid. Let’s keep trying to make a better world.
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Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health.
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information.
They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift.
Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air
Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr
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President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.
'Act of bigotry': Outrage as Trump admin alters trans admiral's official portrait
President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.Levine, a former director of the Public Health Corps under former President Joe Biden who became the first transgender pers...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services took Admiral Rachel Levine's name off her portrait in the Humphrey Building, according to National Public Radio.
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WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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ICE is building new detention centers across the country, with very little oversight, endangering thousands of people in immigrant detention.
Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.
Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ICE is building new detention centers across the country, with very little oversight, endangering thousands of people in immigrant detention.
Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.
Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Yup (& the attention-demanders are still angry that scientists & health workers rejected their kooky views on vaccines during the pandemic phase of COVID—so, now that they’re running the US health system they’re seeking revenge by dismantling it in order to drive a surge in childhood illness 😢)
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Yup (& the attention-demanders are still angry that scientists & health workers rejected their kooky views on vaccines during the pandemic phase of COVID—so, now that they’re running the US health system they’re seeking revenge by dismantling it in order to drive a surge in childhood illness 😢)
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OPINION: This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake
This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake
Several of you have told me that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people — entitled to the same First Amendment protection as the rest of us.Corporate...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
OPINION: This grassroots rebellion can decapitate Supreme Court's catastrophic mistake
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NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NEW: Trump's DOJ sent a subpoena to a gender-affirming care clinic seeking information on patients, including minors, and its insurance billing practices. The clinic—which doesn't even take insurance—fought the demand in court and won.
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
Read @garnethenderson.com in @autonomynews.co
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At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Having done unto others… bsky.app/profile/scho...
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Having done unto others… bsky.app/profile/scho...
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Dementia J. Trump can’t even get through a sentence when all he has to do is read it. This is guy is sundowning pretty fast. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Dementia J. Trump can’t even get through a sentence when all he has to do is read it. This is guy is sundowning pretty fast. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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NEW: Tarrant County, TX officials said the move to cut more than 100 polling sites was to save money as they historically see low voter turnout in nonpresidential elections.
But fewer voting sites means fewer voters, a political science expert said.
@fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
But fewer voting sites means fewer voters, a political science expert said.
@fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally
The decision by commissioners in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, comes amid growing concern about GOP efforts to limit voting access ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
www.propublica.org
August 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Tarrant County, TX officials said the move to cut more than 100 polling sites was to save money as they historically see low voter turnout in nonpresidential elections.
But fewer voting sites means fewer voters, a political science expert said.
@fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
But fewer voting sites means fewer voters, a political science expert said.
@fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
August 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.
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Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
August 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
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Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
Authoritarianism in plain sight.
Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak.
She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.
Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak.
She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.
August 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Watch this. Apparently, police followed Rep Collier into the bathroom and threatened her with a FELONY for being on a press call with Senator Corey Booker and Governor Newsom.
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Please share Petition for museum
www.change.org/p/defend-the...
www.change.org/p/defend-the...
Sign the Petition
Defend the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
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August 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Please share Petition for museum
www.change.org/p/defend-the...
www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
August 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
📽️ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
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Pure Americana.
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Pure Americana.
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Guess who is eligible for #StudentLoanForgiveness? First responders? Healthcare workers? Teachers?
No.
#ICE agents.
Your tax dollars at work.
tfppwire.com/ice-announce...
No.
#ICE agents.
Your tax dollars at work.
tfppwire.com/ice-announce...
August 5, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Guess who is eligible for #StudentLoanForgiveness? First responders? Healthcare workers? Teachers?
No.
#ICE agents.
Your tax dollars at work.
tfppwire.com/ice-announce...
No.
#ICE agents.
Your tax dollars at work.
tfppwire.com/ice-announce...
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August 4, 2025
August 4, 2025
President Donald J.
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August 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
August 4, 2025
Tell Congress: Fund care, NOT billionaires! act.medicare4all.org/sign/fund-ca...
Tell Congress: Fund care, NOT billionaires!
Billionaire CEOs and their allies in Congress want to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from public health programs to fund tax giveaways for the ultra-rich. The proposed cuts would take away people...
act.medicare4all.org
August 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Tell Congress: Fund care, NOT billionaires! act.medicare4all.org/sign/fund-ca...