Patty Tobin
@pattytboston.bsky.social
Media Relations Expert, Boston/NYC. 🎶 lover. Advocate for sound public health policies. PR
in healthcare, finance, CSR, & rallies!
in healthcare, finance, CSR, & rallies!
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Meet two heroes of our times.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet two heroes of our times.
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You may have heard that DOGE is dead.
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
You may have heard that DOGE is dead.
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Well @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social are here to show you that's just not true, with many of the same young engineers—including Big Balls—still working at the heart of the US government
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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We need to boycott ALL businesses that support this regime. Money is all that matters to them. Prepare for General Strike.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We need to boycott ALL businesses that support this regime. Money is all that matters to them. Prepare for General Strike.
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We owe @lizszabo.bsky.social a huge debt of gratitude for listening to all of the #ACIP meeting today and highlighting it, so we didn't have to. It has been sickening seeing how RFK Jr is destroying #PublicHealth. Thank you again, Liz!
September 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We owe @lizszabo.bsky.social a huge debt of gratitude for listening to all of the #ACIP meeting today and highlighting it, so we didn't have to. It has been sickening seeing how RFK Jr is destroying #PublicHealth. Thank you again, Liz!
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An incredibly disturbing tweet from Stephen Miller twelve hours ago. He purports to identify a "depraved," "malicious" "ideology" but doesn't name it. He describes it as an amorphous evil defined by its opposition to anything he likes. And anything he likes is sunny and good. Goebbels would approve.
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
An incredibly disturbing tweet from Stephen Miller twelve hours ago. He purports to identify a "depraved," "malicious" "ideology" but doesn't name it. He describes it as an amorphous evil defined by its opposition to anything he likes. And anything he likes is sunny and good. Goebbels would approve.
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We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
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“We’ve collectively decided to pretend a vascular disease that attacks every organ in your body is basically a head cold. We’ve decided that forty percent of infections happening with zero symptoms is totally normal and fine...” #COVID
Great news 🎉, David has now posted this 🎯 blog article on his website too:
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again (Sept 7, 2025)
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again (Sept 7, 2025)
www.notesforfriends.com/p/covid-isnt...
COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again
The Damage Is Everywhere – That Is the Definition of Long COVID
www.notesforfriends.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“We’ve collectively decided to pretend a vascular disease that attacks every organ in your body is basically a head cold. We’ve decided that forty percent of infections happening with zero symptoms is totally normal and fine...” #COVID
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New measles cases have been confirmed in Virginia and New Jersey, with officials working to notify those potentially exposed. Over 1,400 cases have been reported nationwide this year—more than any year since 2000.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/new-...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/new-...
New measles cases reported in Virginia, New Jersey
The 2 cases add to what is the worst year for measles in the US since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
September 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New measles cases have been confirmed in Virginia and New Jersey, with officials working to notify those potentially exposed. Over 1,400 cases have been reported nationwide this year—more than any year since 2000.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/new-...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/new-...
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@garrettepps.bsky.social has been a friend and colleague for decades.
An enjoyable (for me) podcast with him this week, for @washingtonmonthly.com , about life in DC these days. Audio and transcript here:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/04/f...
An enjoyable (for me) podcast with him this week, for @washingtonmonthly.com , about life in DC these days. Audio and transcript here:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/04/f...
Fear and Loathing in Washington D.C.
Contributing Editor James Fallows shares what life is really like in Washington D.C. under military occupation.
washingtonmonthly.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
@garrettepps.bsky.social has been a friend and colleague for decades.
An enjoyable (for me) podcast with him this week, for @washingtonmonthly.com , about life in DC these days. Audio and transcript here:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/04/f...
An enjoyable (for me) podcast with him this week, for @washingtonmonthly.com , about life in DC these days. Audio and transcript here:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/04/f...
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Looks like Trump is planning to attack Venezuela soon.
He's deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
F-35s are multi-role planes that can carry sufficient weapons for ground strikes.
He's going to try to remove Maduro and get Venezuelan oil under US control and influence.
He's deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
F-35s are multi-role planes that can carry sufficient weapons for ground strikes.
He's going to try to remove Maduro and get Venezuelan oil under US control and influence.
Trump plays down possible regime change in Venezuela; US deploys stealth fighter jets
The United States is not talking about regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Friday, as the United States ordered an additional 10 stealth fighter jets to a military buildup in the Caribbean.
www.reuters.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Looks like Trump is planning to attack Venezuela soon.
He's deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
F-35s are multi-role planes that can carry sufficient weapons for ground strikes.
He's going to try to remove Maduro and get Venezuelan oil under US control and influence.
He's deploying 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico.
F-35s are multi-role planes that can carry sufficient weapons for ground strikes.
He's going to try to remove Maduro and get Venezuelan oil under US control and influence.
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BREAKING: In what appears to be the first decision to address mandatory detention under the Laken Riley Act, a federal judge in Boston ruled today that detaining an individual solely on the basis of his prior arrest violates due process.
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: In what appears to be the first decision to address mandatory detention under the Laken Riley Act, a federal judge in Boston ruled today that detaining an individual solely on the basis of his prior arrest violates due process.
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When today’s far-right pundits use concerns about natural resource scarcity to push the anti-immigrant “great replacement theory,” they’re using a playbook created decades earlier by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
When today’s far-right pundits use concerns about natural resource scarcity to push the anti-immigrant “great replacement theory,” they’re using a playbook created decades earlier by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton.
(Published Oct. 2024)
(Published Oct. 2024)
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VIDEO: Marc Elias joined Deadline: White House on Wednesday to discuss the California Supreme Court's rejection of the latest GOP redistricting challenge, Louisiana’s decision to no longer defend its congressional map in the SCOTUS, and more.
Watch now: youtu.be/h68Yg0ml9dQ
Watch now: youtu.be/h68Yg0ml9dQ
BREAKING: Louisiana Is DESTROYING Black Districts
Marc Elias joined Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White House to discuss the ongoing redistricting war.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
VIDEO: Marc Elias joined Deadline: White House on Wednesday to discuss the California Supreme Court's rejection of the latest GOP redistricting challenge, Louisiana’s decision to no longer defend its congressional map in the SCOTUS, and more.
Watch now: youtu.be/h68Yg0ml9dQ
Watch now: youtu.be/h68Yg0ml9dQ
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It was a pleasure to join @velshi.com just now...and to follow the segment featuring my brilliant friend and colleague @normornstein.
August 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It was a pleasure to join @velshi.com just now...and to follow the segment featuring my brilliant friend and colleague @normornstein.
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So I wrote this…checks notes…yesterday. Hmmm.
Trump's days are numbered. Maybe not in the way alot of folks on the Internet are suggesting but in ways we need to think about. There are some dark lessons of history that suggest we're in for trouble if we don't. www.thedailybeast.com/its-tasteles...
It’s Tasteless to Speculate That Trump Might Soon Be Buried On Red Square Like Lenin
The speculation surrounding President Donald Trump’s health has gotten grizzlier and grizzlier, and it gives off an uncomfortable vibe that is very much like that old Soviet joke.
www.thedailybeast.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
So I wrote this…checks notes…yesterday. Hmmm.
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2/ removed from his position. Since taking office, his actions have sown confusion, demoralized staff and jeopardized the very foundation of our nation’s health security. Most critically, these missteps threaten lives—creating risks that could have been prevented if competent leadership were in...
August 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
2/ removed from his position. Since taking office, his actions have sown confusion, demoralized staff and jeopardized the very foundation of our nation’s health security. Most critically, these missteps threaten lives—creating risks that could have been prevented if competent leadership were in...
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Call 👏 your 👏 members 👏 of 👏 Congress 👏 in 👏 the 👏 morning!
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
August 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Call 👏 your 👏 members 👏 of 👏 Congress 👏 in 👏 the 👏 morning!