Rocco
myoclonicjerky.bsky.social
Rocco
@myoclonicjerky.bsky.social
Depressed caregiver
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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This is a really good, plain language, probing post from @joshtpm.bsky.social on what’s going on practically speaking at NIH. Super useful if you aren’t as familiar at the baseline with what “study sections” are and so forth
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/white...
White House Finds Workaround to Shut Down NIH-Backed Medical Research
From the beginning of this drama going on a month ago, the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Who will be joining us all over the country for #protests this month & next? 👋
February 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Protests beget more protests as people see that its ok to express frustration openly.
Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.
February 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Excellent news brief on substack.
February 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is a good time to remind everyone that this administration hasn't done anything for anyone. It has literally only taken away things we've already paid for and fired and sued people. Oh and the quid pro quo with Adams. That's the extent of what they have done. Kinda nuts.
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
February 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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🧠💨 Air pollution and cognitive decline - within hours

A new study finds that just one hour of exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution can reduce selective attention and emotional recognition four hours later.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#AirPollution #SciComm 🧪
Acute particulate matter exposure diminishes executive cognitive functioning after four hours regardless of inhalation pathway - Nature Communications
It is unknown if the inhalation route (nasal or oral) of particulate matter (PM) air pollution affects cognition. Here the authors show PM exposure impaired selective attention and emotion recognition...
doi.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Musk and Thiel lackeys stealing the personal information of every U.S. citizen and resident while refusing to give their names because "doxing" is so perfectly on the nose
4/ who they are, whether they’re even American citizens. They all seem to be Thiel and Musk protégés. And I’ve had multiple references to their refusing to identify themselves by anything but first name. The rationale given is that they could be doxed.
February 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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January 31, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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❤️
a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf
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February 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I stand with Canada
a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Never lecture us about your moral superiority ever again.
January 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I wish the American press had the courage to write this sort of a headline.
January 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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We are ready to help pave a path for lower medication and healthcare costs for taxpayers

journals.lww.com/fpmrs/fullte...
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Effect on... : Urogynecology
imated $1.29 billion reduction in 2020 costs if they replaced the Medicare prices. Objectives We sought to investigate the savings for all drugs commonly used in urogynecology. Study Design We r...
journals.lww.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Democratic strategist Keith Edwards wrote this guide for federal employees—it has suggestions for how they can slow walk and even stop the Trump administration agenda from being implemented. Please share it!

keithedwards.substack.com/p/delay-leak...
Delay, Leak, Disobey: How to Counter Trump 2.0 from Within
Bureaucrats will guard the frontlines in the fight against American authoritarianism.
keithedwards.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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the tweet in question

bsky.app/profile/haye...
WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just clarified on X that the rescission of the OMB memo was simply to get the federal court case to go away, not lifting the funding freeze on anything that goes against Trump's EOs

translation: "please stop yelling at me for the thing i want to keep doing"
January 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship:

www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee
Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.
www.telemundopr.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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This is going to become the new "OK sign" thing on the right. "Tee-hee, we're doing the thing you say is bad while denying we're doing it just to trigger you," but with Nazi salutes
Father Calvin Robinson finished his remarks at the National Pro-Life Summit by throwing an Elon Musk salute, much to the delight of the crowd.
January 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM