Samantha Hersh
@sam-hsh.bsky.social
Community-based participatory research, mental health and queer identity, disaster preparedness. MPH student still chronically dependent on spellcheck. She/her. 🦊🍇
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Aye, If you are taking any SSRIs:
Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), & Escitalopram (Lexapro)…
You have an increased risk of heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
Especially if you are neurodivergent & struggle with Interoception.
Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), & Escitalopram (Lexapro)…
You have an increased risk of heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
Especially if you are neurodivergent & struggle with Interoception.
June 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Aye, If you are taking any SSRIs:
Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), & Escitalopram (Lexapro)…
You have an increased risk of heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
Especially if you are neurodivergent & struggle with Interoception.
Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil), Citalopram (Celexa), & Escitalopram (Lexapro)…
You have an increased risk of heat rash, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
Especially if you are neurodivergent & struggle with Interoception.
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Just a reminder that one lesson of JAWS is that you should listen to scientists when they warn you about a danger www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Happy birthday Jaws! How the movie changed shark science
Half a century after its cinematic release, Jaws is still shaping how we view — and protect — the ocean’s top predators.
www.nature.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Just a reminder that one lesson of JAWS is that you should listen to scientists when they warn you about a danger www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
June 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.
And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.
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The mayor in Jaws would be running the Dems now
June 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The mayor in Jaws would be running the Dems now
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Today in the garden.
June 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today in the garden.
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@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
June 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
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I just drove by it and it made me cry. Living in the country feels isolating and hopeless these last few months and taking comfort in numbers is worth it.
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
June 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I just drove by it and it made me cry. Living in the country feels isolating and hopeless these last few months and taking comfort in numbers is worth it.
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Pride is a protest, baby
June 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pride is a protest, baby
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Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
How to Protest If You're Disabled And Can't Show Up at Rallies
Tips and tricks to help you resist.
www.teenvogue.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
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These are unspeakably dark and horrific times. Going out today and standing with people who are demanding that this country become better than it is feels so small. But also, and crucially, it feels better than doing nothing.
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These are unspeakably dark and horrific times. Going out today and standing with people who are demanding that this country become better than it is feels so small. But also, and crucially, it feels better than doing nothing.
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“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”
June 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”
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"Caught in this culling were projects to curb stillbirths, child suicides and infant brain damage."
-->the damage is unfathomable. Such important work by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @asiafields.bsky.social @ashleyclarkejourno.bsky.social @zisiga.bsky.social and photographer Bethany Mollenkof
-->the damage is unfathomable. Such important work by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @asiafields.bsky.social @ashleyclarkejourno.bsky.social @zisiga.bsky.social and photographer Bethany Mollenkof
NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness."
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Thousands of scientists disagreed.
We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇
projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
projects.propublica.org
June 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"Caught in this culling were projects to curb stillbirths, child suicides and infant brain damage."
-->the damage is unfathomable. Such important work by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @asiafields.bsky.social @ashleyclarkejourno.bsky.social @zisiga.bsky.social and photographer Bethany Mollenkof
-->the damage is unfathomable. Such important work by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @asiafields.bsky.social @ashleyclarkejourno.bsky.social @zisiga.bsky.social and photographer Bethany Mollenkof
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This is extremely disturbing.
@padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents.
Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.
@padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents.
Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.
Senator Padilla is forcibly shoved out of Kristi Noem's press briefing:
"I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary"
"I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the Secretary"
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is extremely disturbing.
@padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents.
Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.
@padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents.
Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.
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What happens to health research when ‘women’ and ‘diversity’ are banned words? 🧪
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
What happens to health research when 'women' and 'diversity' are banned words?
Trump's federal funding cuts are shutting down studies on Alzheimer’s care, uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks — all because they focus on gender.
www.pbs.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
What happens to health research when ‘women’ and ‘diversity’ are banned words? 🧪
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum."
Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social.
ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ
#MedSky
Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social.
ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ
#MedSky
February 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Without research to point toward a healthier country, there will be poorer national health and less capacity to do what people do...on either end of the political spectrum."
Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social.
ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ
#MedSky
Read the Editorial by JAMA Health Forum EIC Sandro Galea and JAMA EIC @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social.
ja.ma/4b6Z2LJ
#MedSky
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In all 50 states, there’s #HandsOff protests happening today.
BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution.
Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹.
Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏
(🎥 Chris Hobbs)
BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution.
Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹.
Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏
(🎥 Chris Hobbs)
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
In all 50 states, there’s #HandsOff protests happening today.
BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution.
Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹.
Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏
(🎥 Chris Hobbs)
BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution.
Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹.
Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏
(🎥 Chris Hobbs)
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You see the same misunderstanding around the phrase “banality of evil” when they assume it means Nazis were boring when it actually means everyone was a Nazi. No one wanted to be anything else.
To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour
To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour
part of the reason people are reluctant to see parallels between Trump and the Nazis is because there's this idea that the Nazis were like Sauron or something, and that anyone supporting them was a kind of soulless orc.
February 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
You see the same misunderstanding around the phrase “banality of evil” when they assume it means Nazis were boring when it actually means everyone was a Nazi. No one wanted to be anything else.
To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour
To not be a Nazi was deviant behaviour
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A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
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One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.
February 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.
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When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
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Here's how you can find all your federal and state elected representatives--including governor and state reps/senators. For city, google your city + "city council" or look on your city's official page. (Shy-person script in next post.)
www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...
www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...
January 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here's how you can find all your federal and state elected representatives--including governor and state reps/senators. For city, google your city + "city council" or look on your city's official page. (Shy-person script in next post.)
www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...
www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...
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This is correct.
We have a very recent example of what it looks like for the federal government to hand over response responsibilities to the states.
It was literally catastrophic. Over a million people died.
We have a very recent example of what it looks like for the federal government to hand over response responsibilities to the states.
It was literally catastrophic. Over a million people died.
Covid revealed that the bench strength was not there at the local level. Our county response was 80% volunteers. Probably higher, actually.
January 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is correct.
We have a very recent example of what it looks like for the federal government to hand over response responsibilities to the states.
It was literally catastrophic. Over a million people died.
We have a very recent example of what it looks like for the federal government to hand over response responsibilities to the states.
It was literally catastrophic. Over a million people died.
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If you say we abandon red states, you kill a lot of dear friends of mine so fuck right off with that. We don't leave gerrymandered, vulnerable, decent people behind because of a zip code, you sanctimonious dicks.
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If you say we abandon red states, you kill a lot of dear friends of mine so fuck right off with that. We don't leave gerrymandered, vulnerable, decent people behind because of a zip code, you sanctimonious dicks.