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PuppyGrandma Semmelweis
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Brand new on bluesky; on the bird one: puppygma @i_must_sing
Looking forward to finding each other here too. 💕🐶🎶💚🫂😷
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news
November 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Nov 2
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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bilboyaga.bsky.social
COVID isn’t over. Long COVID disability is real and more common than you think.

Fascism benefits from denialism and ableism. If you’re leftist, liberal, &c, you should wear an n95 in public.

As another creative who lost access to public life due to COVID denialism said:

“Fix your hearts or die.”
August 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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thanhneville.medsky.social
So many researchers, myself included, work many more hours than what we are funded (i.e. it's not uncommon to work 10hrs/week on a project that we're only getting 10% salary support). Rest-assured--NIH grants are NOT lining ANYONE's pocketbooks. Dumbass. #academicsky
August 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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profsaunders.bsky.social
To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 8
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Aug 8
Putin is COMING TO THE UNITED STATES? Even by Trump 2.0 standards, this is beyond belief. U.S. diplomacy is dead.
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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profsaunders.bsky.social
In the end, Trump is remarkably predictable. Screw friends, embrace dictators, go it alone, do anything for theater. This time the price will be Ukraine's security. History's verdict will be predictable, too: For shame. 7/7
goodauthority.org/news/foreign...
On foreign policy, has Donald Trump become predictable?
Trump's “madman” approach to foreign policy has now become quite predictable. Here's what's different in 2024.
goodauthority.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Here’s the notice terminating EPA union contracts:
August 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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jamescdownie.bsky.social
Before Ingrassia was admitted to the bar, he reportedly pretended to be a lawyer for more than a year (while "representing" the Tate brothers): www.dailydot.com/viral-politi... (from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social)
August 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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violetblue.bsky.social
Live webcams at #Waikiki Beach (Oahu, Honolulu) #Hawaii #earthquake #Tsunami

Hilton: www.hilton.com/en/hotels/hn...

Hilton: www.hilton.com/en/hotels/hn...

Sheraton: www.ozolio.com/explore/HCOU...
www.hilton.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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drwildcatwx.bsky.social
0340Z, 7/30: As we are still over an hour away from potential #Tsunami waves impacting #Hawaii, and even later for the west coast, you can find updates at:

Tsunami Warning Center - tsunami.gov

WFO Honolulu (where Tsunami Warnings are active tonight) - www.weather.gov/hfo
U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers
tsunami.gov
July 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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klr-reno.bsky.social
#tsunami - Northern California - if you are camping or outdoor recreating near the beaches from Jedediah Smith Redwoods south to Fort Bragg, you are now under a tsunami **WARNING**.

Get away from the coast and move inland to higher ground NOW. Wave action begins around 11:50 pm PT
July 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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dredf.bsky.social
DREDF is collecting stories this weekend to uplift at the 60-Hour Protect Medicaid Vigil. Please submit your story here this weekend so we can have them ready to read beginning July 23rd: www.surveymonkey.com/r/protect-me...

More information on the vigil: protectmedicaidvigil.com
Graphic with the text that says, “60-hour Protect Medicaid Vigil at the national mall, begins July 23 at 9pm, ends July 26 at 9am”
July 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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financialtimes.com
Trade between the EU and US will be 'almost impossible' if Donald Trump imposes the 30% tariffs he has threatened, the bloc’s trade commissioner has said. https://on.ft.com/4lqJhTV
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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newrepublic.com
"The Trump Justice Department is clearly being run out of the Trump White House—and there is, at this point, no wall between the Justice Department and the White House any longer." https://trib.al/ULpwROv
Transcript: Trump’s Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Brutal Poll Slide
As Trump’s hints at prosecuting political foes get worse while new polling reveals his weakness, a writer who tracks his abuses explains how these things are connected—and why it all portends deeper lawlessness.
trib.al
July 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Bondi's ethics chief posts the letter that fired him on LinkedIn - he labeled it "fired from DOJ without cause" - along with a statement saying the oath he took "did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient."

Also they misspelled his name.
Office af the Attarney General Washington, E. C. 20530 MEMORANDUM FOR JOSPEH W. TIRRELL FROM: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Subject: Notice of Removal from Federal Service This memorandum provides official notice that you are removed from your position of Director, Departmental Ethics Office, ES-0905-00, Ethics Office Justice Management Division, and from the federal service, effective immediately. Pursuant to Article Il of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, your employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated, and you are removed from federal service effective immediately. If applicable, you may have a right to file an appeal of this removal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) within 30 days of the effective date of the removal action. For more information on how to file an appeal with the MSPB, please visit www.mspb.gov. Former Department of Justice Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics On Friday, July 11th, I received the below letter letter from Attorney General Pamela Bondi. Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics. I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department. I led a small, dedicated team of professionals and coordinated the work of some 30 other full-time ethics officials, attorneys, paralegals and other specialists across the Department of Justice, ensuring that the 117,000 Department employees were properly advised on and supported in how to follow the Federal employee ethics rules. My career in public service has so far spanned a quarter of a century. I started as a United States Naval Officer, graduating from the ROTC program at the University of Michigan. After a 6-year military career, I earned a law Degree from the Detroit School of Law at Michigan State University. I started at the FBI in 2006 in the Presidential Management Fellows Program. At the FBI, I worked in a variety of offices thanks to the PMF program and eventually I went to work for the FBI's Office of Integrity and Compliance. From there, I moved to the Departmental Ethics Office at Main Justice as Deputy Director. Finally, in 2023, I was promoted to the Senior Executive Service and the Position of the Senior Executive Service and the Position of Director of the Ethics Office. My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States." I have taken that oath at least five more times since then. That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient. I look forward to finding ways to continue in my personal calling of service to my country. I encouraged anyone who is reading this to do the same. I believe in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I also believe that Edmund Burke is right and that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." I received a number of calls and messages of support in the last few days. Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Be well.
July 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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jacobtlevy.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...

What's at stake here is genuinely deeper than the particular issue of COVID vaccination mandates. Effective policymaking and governance, or for that matter social coexistence, can't survive the rule "you may commit professional fraud if you feel like it."
Justice Department Drops Case Against Plastic Surgeon Over Fake Covid-19 Cards
www.nytimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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alexpagliuca.bsky.social
Watched Sinners again, and it holds up as well on a third viewing. That musical scene… I’m still kind of awed by being able to pull off a visual representation of that idea, and have it actually work. The rest of the movie around it gets better the more I see it too

www.patreon.com/posts/127017...
First Reaction: Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025) | Alex Pagliuca
Get more from Alex Pagliuca on Patreon
www.patreon.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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yonahfreemark.com
Wildly, this hugely successful mobility program is still being targeted by the Trump Administration’s USDOT, which wants to shut it down—and bring back traffic, noise, and a less effective transportation system!
marklevinenyc.bsky.social Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · Jul 6
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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drianweissman.bsky.social
There is no evidence that the hepatitis B vaccine is unsafe and vaccinating babies at birth has been the key to virtually eliminating this lifethreatening virus from children.
abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-j...
RFK Jr., CDC panel have been casting doubt on the hepatitis B vaccine. Here's why it's safe
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC vaccine panel have been casting doubt on the hepatitis B shot and the practice of vaccinating newborns.
abcnews.go.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.

Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jul 5
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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blakandblack.bsky.social
Australia’s diversity is our strength, yet divisive rhetoric from One Nation, Advance, Babet & Murdoch’s Sky After Dark threatens unity. As a Jewish Australian, I see harmony at my Sabbath table. Let’s reject fear, embrace multiculturalism & build a future together

blakandblack.com/2025/07/06/a...
Australia: A Tolerant Nation in Need of Unity
Australians should work toward building social cohesion and strengthening our multicultural bonds.
blakandblack.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
F#ck. “The prospective buyer of TikTok’s American operations” cited by Trump is an “investor consortium” that includes “Andreessen Horowitz,” the VC firm founded by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen (which also played a role in Elon’s Twitter acquisition) 6/30/25 1/ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
July 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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pauletteparis1.bsky.social
There should be harsh consequences for this lying bint! 🤬
urocklive1.bsky.social Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · Jul 6
MAGA Nutcase Kandiss Taylor is getting blowback for claiming the floods in Texas and the associated deaths are all fake.

That woman is a hideous person and dumber than the proverbial box of rocks. And she's in Congress.🙄

Who votes for this?

www.rawstory.com/kandiss-tayl...
MAGA House candidate faces blowback over 'fake flood' claim after Texas tragedy
A Georgia woman seeking a Republican nomination to represent her state in the U.S. House of Representatives is receiving an avalanche of criticism for responding to the tragic loss of life in Texas d...
www.rawstory.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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hpsc24.bsky.social
7/4/25😢 #Portland #OR 🇺🇸 (tear gas & munitions fired at peaceful Americans protesting ice raids)
July 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM