Shari M
@srmduke87.bsky.social
Burned out Chicago ER doc, love my Dukies, mom to a veterinarian-in-training in Scotland
OH/NC/IL/AZ, now back in NC for good
OH/NC/IL/AZ, now back in NC for good
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Shari M
@srmduke87.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I'm on a healthcare industry webinar about impacts of the 2024 election on healthcare and they're using "MAHA" to refer to "the new administration policy platform" and I swear to God I want to jump off a tall bridge to nowhere.
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If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.
October 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.
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if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose
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Ten years and five months apart
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Ten years and five months apart
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
Oh,how I laughed at this one
October 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Oh,how I laughed at this one
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In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.
September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.
Hey @democrats.org
Every time I get an email like this, I'm donating to one less candidate.
Woo me with new policies and a leadership shakeup - not toothless scaremongering
Every time I get an email like this, I'm donating to one less candidate.
Woo me with new policies and a leadership shakeup - not toothless scaremongering
September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hey @democrats.org
Every time I get an email like this, I'm donating to one less candidate.
Woo me with new policies and a leadership shakeup - not toothless scaremongering
Every time I get an email like this, I'm donating to one less candidate.
Woo me with new policies and a leadership shakeup - not toothless scaremongering
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Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.
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There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.
September 11, 2025 at 10:57 PM
There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.
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Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
September 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.
Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.
It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…
www.krqe.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.
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"Words, words. Just words." -Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Words, words. Just words." -Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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also, not a single mention in a 26 paragraph story of any of the myriad examples of this technology not working particularly well, or the hype being at all a bit overvalued?
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
also, not a single mention in a 26 paragraph story of any of the myriad examples of this technology not working particularly well, or the hype being at all a bit overvalued?
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Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
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Indeed, when a 5-4 #SCOTUS majority rejected the ability of federal courts to provide damages remedies for (allegedly unconstitutional) cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents in its 2020 ruling in Hernández v. Mesa, Justice Kavanaugh was the median vote:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Indeed, when a 5-4 #SCOTUS majority rejected the ability of federal courts to provide damages remedies for (allegedly unconstitutional) cross-border shootings by Border Patrol agents in its 2020 ruling in Hernández v. Mesa, Justice Kavanaugh was the median vote:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/pre...
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Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.
Read more here:
www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal
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Relatedly: we all should start getting loud about how the military should absolutely positively refuse to do this if ordered
It's feel like we're counting down to the first mass killing of US citizens by the US military.
September 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Relatedly: we all should start getting loud about how the military should absolutely positively refuse to do this if ordered
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A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.
September 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.
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Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
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Can’t remember who said it but Bari Weiss’s one and only skill is convincing the dumbest rich people to give her money.
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can’t remember who said it but Bari Weiss’s one and only skill is convincing the dumbest rich people to give her money.
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National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
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The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
September 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
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if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
Thinking on this point and there really is maybe a golden opportunity in the near future to make immigration radically simpler. Clear out the queues, make green cards easier, etc. Public opinion is sort of pro immigration right now and it might only go up
3. However, this leads to centering punishing ICE rather than helping immigrants (through regularization of status, increasing visa quotas, etc.). There are viral posts here about the need to prosecute ICE members after Trump leaves office. There aren't any about giving immigrants green cards.
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
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So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning