Sandy Rathjen
@sandyrathjen.bsky.social
Retired public school science teacher, mother, grandmother, Christian, scientist extraordinaire.
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To refresh our memories…
Shit for brains also granted asylum to the shooter this past April 2025.
He seems to forget that He is the current president, NOT Biden.
He seems to forget that He is the current president, NOT Biden.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
To refresh our memories…
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Chickens, not turkeys (for viewing, not eating!) open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Happy Thanksgiving 2025!
That gratuitous peck at the end of the video!
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Chickens, not turkeys (for viewing, not eating!) open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
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Many are reaching out to Rev. Jesse Jackson to offer their love, support, and stories of how his life has impacted them. @aprildryan.bsky.social shares the latest on the Reverend.
America’s love for Jesse Jackson comes pouring out
As he rests in a Chicago hospital, political, religious and civil rights leaders celebrate his legacy.
contrarian.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Many are reaching out to Rev. Jesse Jackson to offer their love, support, and stories of how his life has impacted them. @aprildryan.bsky.social shares the latest on the Reverend.
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My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.
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The decline isn’t subtle anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The decline isn’t subtle anymore.
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“Scientists say that the most robust research does not link autism and acetaminophen use in pregnancy.”
🧪 #Pregnancy #Tylenol #Acetaminophen #Paracetamol #Autism
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #Pregnancy #Tylenol #Acetaminophen #Paracetamol #Autism
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?
The US president calls the widely used painkiller, also known as paracetamol, ‘a very big factor’ in autism, but scientists say that strong evidence is lacking.
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“Scientists say that the most robust research does not link autism and acetaminophen use in pregnancy.”
🧪 #Pregnancy #Tylenol #Acetaminophen #Paracetamol #Autism
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #Pregnancy #Tylenol #Acetaminophen #Paracetamol #Autism
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dr. Monarez refused to go w/ MAHA agenda & resisted RFK's deleterious anti-science directives. Several experts are leaving as a result the upheavals.
The CDC is experiencing instability & still reeling from the shooting.
Kennedy needs to be removed.
Via apha.org
🧪 www.apha.org/news-and-med...
The CDC is experiencing instability & still reeling from the shooting.
Kennedy needs to be removed.
Via apha.org
🧪 www.apha.org/news-and-med...
Kennedy’s attack on public health must be stopped
The abrupt attempt to oust Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC’s director just weeks after her Senate confirmation, is yet another glaring sign of Secretary Kennedy’s failed leadership and reckless mismanageme...
www.apha.org
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Dr. Monarez refused to go w/ MAHA agenda & resisted RFK's deleterious anti-science directives. Several experts are leaving as a result the upheavals.
The CDC is experiencing instability & still reeling from the shooting.
Kennedy needs to be removed.
Via apha.org
🧪 www.apha.org/news-and-med...
The CDC is experiencing instability & still reeling from the shooting.
Kennedy needs to be removed.
Via apha.org
🧪 www.apha.org/news-and-med...
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It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
August 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
x.com/dr_demetre/s...
The worst part is resignations: CDC deputy director; head of the CDC National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; head of National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases; director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, &Technology.”
www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...
www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...
CDC director is out after less than a month; other agency leaders resign
"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resi...
www.npr.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The worst part is resignations: CDC deputy director; head of the CDC National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; head of National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases; director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, &Technology.”
www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...
www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...
@maddow.msnbc.com Could you link, please, the monologue delivered by Ali Velshi this past weekend? Some of us missed it and we want to hear it. Thanks.
Great show this evening. Your viewers really appreciate you! I do!
Great show this evening. Your viewers really appreciate you! I do!
August 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
@maddow.msnbc.com Could you link, please, the monologue delivered by Ali Velshi this past weekend? Some of us missed it and we want to hear it. Thanks.
Great show this evening. Your viewers really appreciate you! I do!
Great show this evening. Your viewers really appreciate you! I do!
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This asshole sleeping while 40 million dollars goes down the drain and he embarrasses the army.
June 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This asshole sleeping while 40 million dollars goes down the drain and he embarrasses the army.
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His resignation deserves respect. Some things aren’t worth selling your soul for.
June 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
His resignation deserves respect. Some things aren’t worth selling your soul for.
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In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
June 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.
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I just authored a report as Ranking Member of HSGAC which found that the 19 Inspectors General that President Trump illegally fired would have saved billions more than DOGE.
This is not an administration that's serious about saving taxpayer dollars.
This is not an administration that's serious about saving taxpayer dollars.
May 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I just authored a report as Ranking Member of HSGAC which found that the 19 Inspectors General that President Trump illegally fired would have saved billions more than DOGE.
This is not an administration that's serious about saving taxpayer dollars.
This is not an administration that's serious about saving taxpayer dollars.
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The outburst about Leonard Leo may signal a dawning realization by Trump: that he actually might not have truly chosen his own Supreme Court appointees.
Whitehouse on Trump’s attacks on Leonard Leo: This whole thing is hysterical…
The fact that Trump is furious with him right now may signal a dawning realization: that he actually might not have truly chosen his Supreme Court appointees.
The fact that Trump is furious with him right now may signal a dawning realization: that he actually might not have truly chosen his Supreme Court appointees.
June 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The outburst about Leonard Leo may signal a dawning realization by Trump: that he actually might not have truly chosen his own Supreme Court appointees.
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Undaunted: NPR
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Undaunted: NPR
"When we see [our] rights infringed upon, we have an obligation to challenge them..."
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Undaunted: NPR
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
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A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.
Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.
Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.
May 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.
Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.
Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.