@robinmj.bsky.social
Preparing for my 3rd career
MPH student BU
Health Equity • Legal Epidemiology
MPH student BU
Health Equity • Legal Epidemiology
If I shout it, it must be true
December 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If I shout it, it must be true
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So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
September 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
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Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan. ⚠️ via @hartmannreport.com
hartmannreport.com/p/james-carv...
hartmannreport.com/p/james-carv...
James Carville Is Right to Panic — Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob
Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan.
hartmannreport.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Forget Jan 6th. Trump’s next move is smarter, and far more dangerous: use the courts, AI & right-wing militias to erase millions of Americans from the vote — legally. It’s not a theory. It’s a plan. ⚠️ via @hartmannreport.com
hartmannreport.com/p/james-carv...
hartmannreport.com/p/james-carv...
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I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
June 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along.
Really scary stuff.
Really scary stuff.
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I think we should coin a phrase to describe the Trumpian wholesale destruction of science in favour of ideology.
The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.
Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.
The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.
Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.
Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department
Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards.
@evanbush.bsky.social at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards.
@evanbush.bsky.social at @nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
Medical journals complain of 'harassment' from Justice Department
Multiple scientific publications have received letters from the Trump administration questioning their editorial practices and standards.
www.nbcnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I think we should coin a phrase to describe the Trumpian wholesale destruction of science in favour of ideology.
The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.
Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.
The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.
Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.
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When you know you're going to plunge millions more into poverty & eliminate the programs that support them, I can see why you'd want to cut the folks who establish poverty guidelines.
Trump HHS eliminates office that sets poverty levels tied to benefits for at least 80 million people | CNN
President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans a...
www.cnn.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
When you know you're going to plunge millions more into poverty & eliminate the programs that support them, I can see why you'd want to cut the folks who establish poverty guidelines.
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They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.
www.freep.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They’re going to keep pushing until something stops them.
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It’s propaganda. He just has to keep repeating it and it will be believed. It doesn’t matter how false. And now apparently no one is studying how to counteract this kind of propaganda…
RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It’s propaganda. He just has to keep repeating it and it will be believed. It doesn’t matter how false. And now apparently no one is studying how to counteract this kind of propaganda…
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$800 mil from Johns Hopkins. I think many don’t realize how much of the world we live in, the better as well as the worse, is a product of higher ed, now under attack.
Our top health official thinks castor oil cures measles, while his bosses cut funds to much of the most important medical research in the world.
The toll in disease and death is beyond our ability to imagine.
And the goddamned eggs still cost $9 a dozen.
Gift link: www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The toll in disease and death is beyond our ability to imagine.
And the goddamned eggs still cost $9 a dozen.
Gift link: www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
www.wsj.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
$800 mil from Johns Hopkins. I think many don’t realize how much of the world we live in, the better as well as the worse, is a product of higher ed, now under attack.
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This is very bad.
US President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data reut.rs/4bzhkVZ
Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data.
reut.rs
March 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is very bad.
Need to scream into a void & reset.
March 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Need to scream into a void & reset.
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Not pro-life
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Not pro-life
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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:
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Love this from Denmark
February 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Love this from Denmark
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$40 million to DOGE as they slash people’s livelihoods and lifelines in the name of “efficiency.”
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
$40 million to DOGE as they slash people’s livelihoods and lifelines in the name of “efficiency.”
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Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
projects.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Incredible public service. @propublica.org has catalogued the DOGE crew and their links to Elon. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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This is about vote by mail. Make no mistake about it.
Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in ecommerce business and the 250 year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is about vote by mail. Make no mistake about it.
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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
February 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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White nationalist wants the ability to modify data on tax returns. This would literally allow them to engineer data to claim tax fraud against some, and wipe clean the debts of others, and together with the banking data they want, steal from every American.
This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
White nationalist wants the ability to modify data on tax returns. This would literally allow them to engineer data to claim tax fraud against some, and wipe clean the debts of others, and together with the banking data they want, steal from every American.
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Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.
February 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.
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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Very cool
Norway nears 100 per cent goal of all-electric cars - Almost 96 per cent of new cars registered in Norway in January were electric, an unparalled number in the world and close to the country’s goal of selling only zero-emission vehicles as of this year.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/aut...
Norway nears 100 per cent goal of all-electric cars
Almost 96 per cent of new cars registered in Norway in January were electric, an unparalled number in the world and close to the country’s goal of selling only zero-emission vehicles as of this year.
www.ctvnews.ca
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Very cool
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