Rachael
@rachaelc.bsky.social
🌲 Trail Enthusiast | 🏃♀️ Trail Runner | 🥾 Hiker | 🧬 Immunology Scientist | 🐾 Proud Mom of Humans & Cats
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Gavin Newsom’s social media team 🔥
August 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Gavin Newsom’s social media team 🔥
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Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
August 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fact check:
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).
This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.
Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.
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These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
💯% insane
In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes.
July 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
💯% insane
Coercion and bribery are not diplomacy.
April 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Coercion and bribery are not diplomacy.
This could be an episode from VEEP.
March 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This could be an episode from VEEP.
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CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Until today.
Peaceful Tuesday evening.
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Peaceful Tuesday evening.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-2...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social essay on Jimmy Carter’s life, centered on social justice, is a must-read. He was a national treasure.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social essay on Jimmy Carter’s life, centered on social justice, is a must-read. He was a national treasure.
December 29, 2024
Former President Jimmy Carter died today, December 29, 2024, at age 100 after a life characterized by a dedication to human rights.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 30, 2024 at 8:32 PM
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-2...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social essay on Jimmy Carter’s life, centered on social justice, is a must-read. He was a national treasure.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social essay on Jimmy Carter’s life, centered on social justice, is a must-read. He was a national treasure.
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
The bird is in the oven!
The bird is in the oven!
November 28, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
The bird is in the oven!
The bird is in the oven!
Vaccines save lives. The end.
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Vaccines save lives. The end.
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Can’t tell if he is relaxed…🤔
November 22, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Can’t tell if he is relaxed…🤔
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ALL of our adoptable kittens, including the extremely popular and beautiful Dashi & Miso, Mini Moo, Mimi, Dipstick, Eevee & Pikachu, and of course our longer term residents (still waiting for an app) Agnes & Catarina, & shy Turnip, are ALL now available on crits4cats.petfinder.org
November 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
ALL of our adoptable kittens, including the extremely popular and beautiful Dashi & Miso, Mini Moo, Mimi, Dipstick, Eevee & Pikachu, and of course our longer term residents (still waiting for an app) Agnes & Catarina, & shy Turnip, are ALL now available on crits4cats.petfinder.org
Does anyone else secretly pronounce Bluesky in their head as Blue Ski?
November 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Does anyone else secretly pronounce Bluesky in their head as Blue Ski?
It’s going to be a looooong 4 years.
Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
It’s going to be a looooong 4 years.
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😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job
How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.
nymag.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:31 PM
😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."
Wonder what Ben Carson is thinking now after sacrificing his medical reputation for Trump.
a man in a suit and tie is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a table .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is covering his face with his hands while sitting at a table .
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Wonder what Ben Carson is thinking now after sacrificing his medical reputation for Trump.
If RFK Jr is named Director of HHS, then the hellscape will be complete.
November 14, 2024 at 1:16 PM
If RFK Jr is named Director of HHS, then the hellscape will be complete.
My cat, Mango, to add more cats to the feed. 😊
November 11, 2024 at 11:33 PM
My cat, Mango, to add more cats to the feed. 😊
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Thanks to the first Canada acquired H5N1 case, there’s an uptick in “bird flu pandemic imminent” and “omg it’s gone H2H!” posts. Those are not accurate.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
November 11, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Thanks to the first Canada acquired H5N1 case, there’s an uptick in “bird flu pandemic imminent” and “omg it’s gone H2H!” posts. Those are not accurate.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.