Ruth Hansten
@rhansten.bsky.social
RN Gramma Progressive Womens Rights! LGBTQ+ Rights! Equity Inclusion
Welcome immigrants! (2nd gen Icelandic + 3rd Irish/Scot)
PhD healthcare admin
CA resident— Midwest origin. Author 7 books and multiple chapters—for HC leaders.
Welcome immigrants! (2nd gen Icelandic + 3rd Irish/Scot)
PhD healthcare admin
CA resident— Midwest origin. Author 7 books and multiple chapters—for HC leaders.
apnews.com/article/abor... Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits. This is HORRIFYING. Putting women in jail?!
South Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
apnews.com/article/abor... Carolina looks at most restrictive abortion bill in the US as opponents keep pushing limits. This is HORRIFYING. Putting women in jail?!
apnews.com/article/bird... case of bird flu in Washington state would be U.S.'s first in 9 months
Preliminary case of bird flu in Washington state would be U.S.'s first in 9 months
Health officials in Washington state say they have identified the nation’s first human case of bird flu since February, pending confirmatory testing.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
apnews.com/article/bird... case of bird flu in Washington state would be U.S.'s first in 9 months
Rural Healthcare Isn't the Problem — It’s the Test Lab www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | Rural Healthcare Isn't the Problem — It’s the Test Lab
What survives here offers a blueprint for larger systems
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October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Rural Healthcare Isn't the Problem — It’s the Test Lab www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Trusted Vaccine Guidance Has Collapsed — Along With the Rule of Law www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | Trusted Vaccine Guidance Has Collapsed — Along With the Rule of Law
Government independence, transparency, and legal integrity must be restored
www.medpagetoday.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Trusted Vaccine Guidance Has Collapsed — Along With the Rule of Law www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...
ACIP Is Now Obsolete. Here's Where Medicine Can Look Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco.... Good Lord. We are back in the Dark Ages.
Opinion | ACIP Is Now Obsolete. Here's Where Medicine Can Look Instead.
We can await the panel's recommendations, or we can move in a better direction now
www.medpagetoday.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
ACIP Is Now Obsolete. Here's Where Medicine Can Look Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco.... Good Lord. We are back in the Dark Ages.
California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
YES LETS DO IT!
YES LETS DO IT!
California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research
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September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
YES LETS DO IT!
YES LETS DO IT!
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Using the French Resistance WW2 flag to begin…
Using the French Resistance WW2 flag to begin…
The 100 Best Things Anyone Ever Said #6
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Untruth
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September 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Using the French Resistance WW2 flag to begin…
Using the French Resistance WW2 flag to begin…
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health 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 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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HOW does one blame Biden for lacking vaccines????
HOW does one blame Biden for lacking vaccines????
MAGA Host’s Wife To Die Thanks to RFK Jr., But He Blames Biden
FAFO.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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HOW does one blame Biden for lacking vaccines????
HOW does one blame Biden for lacking vaccines????
Now BobbyKJr is going to study SSRIs (antidepressants) b/c maybe THEY are causing school shootings. REALLY??? Wow. It is so weird that ppl all over the world taking SSRIs aren’t just shooting people right and left. Could there be something else?? Mitochondria?? Hmmm….so hard to figure that out.
August 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Now BobbyKJr is going to study SSRIs (antidepressants) b/c maybe THEY are causing school shootings. REALLY??? Wow. It is so weird that ppl all over the world taking SSRIs aren’t just shooting people right and left. Could there be something else?? Mitochondria?? Hmmm….so hard to figure that out.
youtube.com/shorts/aJwLY.... WTLF?????? He is diagnosing kids in the airport ?!?!?! And on the street w “mitochondrial challenges?!?!?
RFK Jr. says he can diagnose random children with "mitochondrial challenges" based on their faces
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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August 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
youtube.com/shorts/aJwLY.... WTLF?????? He is diagnosing kids in the airport ?!?!?! And on the street w “mitochondrial challenges?!?!?
apnews.com/article/cdc-... director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign. PEOPLE WILL DIE due to the issues w availability of vaccines and now THIS. Public health should hv leaders that understand science. RFKjr must GO.
CDC director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign
The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job.
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August 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
apnews.com/article/cdc-... director Susan Monarez is fired and other agency leaders resign. PEOPLE WILL DIE due to the issues w availability of vaccines and now THIS. Public health should hv leaders that understand science. RFKjr must GO.
This is hilarious! Well. “Do as I say not as a I do?” Wow. Just wow.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."
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Paxton tells Texas schools to follow Ten Commandments law despite court ruling
Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance comes days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sided with 16 families who sued their school districts to stop the law from going into effect.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is hilarious! Well. “Do as I say not as a I do?” Wow. Just wow.
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
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It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
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RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid www.motherjones.com/politics/202... requirements-cuts/. Well. More bad news.
RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid
“It's just a way of cutting people off of coverage and then blaming them for it.”
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August 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
RFK Jr. is getting personal authority over who to kick off of Medicaid www.motherjones.com/politics/202... requirements-cuts/. Well. More bad news.
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IF WE BELIEVED WOMEN.
IF WE BELIEVED WOMEN.
If We Believed Women
Trigger Warning: this article contains discussion of sexual abuse of women and children.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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IF WE BELIEVED WOMEN.
IF WE BELIEVED WOMEN.
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This is disgusting and wrong. Let the kids, their parents, and the medical professionals make these decisions w/o government interface!
This is disgusting and wrong. Let the kids, their parents, and the medical professionals make these decisions w/o government interface!
Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts
Legal experts said the Justice Department subpoenas related to medical care for transgender minors appear to be unprecedented.
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August 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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This is disgusting and wrong. Let the kids, their parents, and the medical professionals make these decisions w/o government interface!
This is disgusting and wrong. Let the kids, their parents, and the medical professionals make these decisions w/o government interface!
Staying silent in the midst of this ongoing cruelty from our federal government: one could lose their souls if they try to keep their “heads down” and be silent and therefore complicit.
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Staying silent in the midst of this ongoing cruelty from our federal government: one could lose their souls if they try to keep their “heads down” and be silent and therefore complicit.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news.... Too bad this guy is no scientist. I don’t want to shame a former SUD person however that heroin plus the worm has impacted his brain. When your whole family warns the world about you….as the Kennedys did…and here we are. we are now seeing the effects.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news.... Too bad this guy is no scientist. I don’t want to shame a former SUD person however that heroin plus the worm has impacted his brain. When your whole family warns the world about you….as the Kennedys did…and here we are. we are now seeing the effects.
I send my support and love to those women recovering from Epstein/Trump/Maxwell sex trafficking. THANK YOU for continuing to speak out for those who no longer are able to speak. You are brave badasses & I salute you! For young women & men abused, for children w/o a childhood. For decency!
August 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I send my support and love to those women recovering from Epstein/Trump/Maxwell sex trafficking. THANK YOU for continuing to speak out for those who no longer are able to speak. You are brave badasses & I salute you! For young women & men abused, for children w/o a childhood. For decency!
bsky.app/profile/acyn... I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
bsky.app/profile/acyn... I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
Reposted by Ruth Hansten
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?