sarahpriestle.bsky.social
@sarahpriestle.bsky.social
Pharmacist. Mom of boys. Patient advocate. Lover of baseball.
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Please send to your Congressional representatives.
April 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
March 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Miraculous Life of Shane DiGiovanna
by @jimswift.bsky.social

Montgomery (Cincinnati) #Ohio

There are millions of people whose life is at stake right now.

Elon is dismantling America's safety net. They are gaslighting us. One day they say he has no authority & the next he fires people.
The Miraculous Life of Shane DiGiovanna
The 26-year-old Ohioan has not let his rare genetic condition prevent him from having a rich life. But Trump’s second administration is creating new risks to his fragile health.
www.thebulwark.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin

On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum:

"The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."
March 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This morning, 21 civil servants, who served in the federal government across presidential administrations, announced that they would be resigning from the federal government in protest of Elon Musk and DOGE's actions, refusing to help DOGE "dismantle critical public services."
21 Civil Servants Resign Instead of Helping Elon Musk and DOGE Dismantle the Federal Government
This mass resignation is likely just the beginning of what is to come.
meidasnews.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Anyone in Alabama State Gov or with a large employer in the state ?

You are getting RIPPED off by PBMs.

www.linkedin.com/posts/gregre...
Greg Reybold on LinkedIn: Dont know how Alabama employers can keep carrying the water of Big PBMs…
Dont know how Alabama employers can keep carrying the water of Big PBMs and Insurers after this. Big employers in Alabama are spending more than anyone on…
www.linkedin.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
theconversation.com/cdc-layoffs-...
CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.
theconversation.com
February 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:

1) Profiting from a monopoly

2) Insider-trading

3) Political payoffs

4) Fraud

5) Inheritance

Don’t believe the self-made myth.
February 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Everyone needs to understand that right this second, in real time, the U.S. government is throwing away the next generation of brilliant scientists.
February 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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After the State of the State yesterday, I headed over to a roundtable discussion to hear how pharmacy benefit managers have driven the cost of prescription drugs up at the expense of families.

This is an industry that needs regulation.

Illinoisans need and deserve nothing less.
February 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.
February 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
How dare he say we are corrupt??! This outright lie infuriates me. He truly hates this country and wants to see it burn for his own narcissistic gain.
February 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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This type of language is an extra slap on the face on top of how funding for research that may help some of us feel better is being attacked.
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
February 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Cincinnati showing up! Protest at City Hall going on now!
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When the E.Coli outbreak kills thousands and people die from a malfunctioning medical device… The jobs they are cutting are not waste; they are essential to a 21st century existence.
February 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:
February 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Why are people allowed to lie like this? Did he testify to this in court? Again, doomed.
Remember what I said about paying attention to what your state is up to regarding vaccines? Montana is about to ban mRNA vaccines. A local family physician egregiously lied and said, “mRNA vaccines are the most destructive and lethal medical products that have ever been used in medical history”.
February 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Deleting entire agencies won’t make the issues they work on disappear.

Instead, everyone’s quality of life will go to shit.
February 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades.
Envy of the world. Poof!
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health
Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired
www.statnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM