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Erika Ziller

@ecziller.bsky.social

76 followers 430 following 16 posts

Health services researcher recently transplanted to VT. Wearing merino wool & voting with my purse because that feels like all I can control.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Apr 21

Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.

RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism

For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.

www.motherjones.com

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Mar 5

Canceled immediately after Bezos thwarted the WP endorsement of Harris and haven't looked back.

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Feb 5

Damn.

Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Jan 20

“Let's play Twister, let's play Risk / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / I'll see you in heaven if you make the list / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”

Jeez, that feels bleak, yet here we are.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Dec 29

Jimmy Carter was a true public servant and peacemaker. Our country is a better place because of him. My thoughts are with his family.

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 15

I am going to weigh into the debate and say SAS. Yes, it's expensive and proprietary. Yes, it runs really slow with lots of data. Yes, its survey procs are limited. But it's what I learned to code in, dammit!

Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 15

This *was* on my Bingo card for this term and is bad news for rural and remote folks. There is no profit margin in the rural routes.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 14

This is their goal. Privatize everything.

And by “privatize” we mean steer billions to themselves and their friends, ending programs that serve those with the least under the guise of “efficiency”.

Rural areas will suffer. Prices will rise.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 15

I remember your two kitchens from back in the Twitter days. It made me happy to imagine reproductive freedom and many, many pies baking.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Dec 14

Public praise for a killer is an escalation of a troubling trend: bloodlust for destruction & retribution. Americans are rejecting leaders who propose solutions for problems, in favor of antiheroes who just want to burn everything down—figuratively or literally www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Fan club for suspected shooter is a symptom of burn-it-all-down populism

There are better health-care heroes to valorize.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan Diekema @dandiekema.bsky.social · Dec 14

Ran around Roosevelt Island this morning, past the ruins of a smallpox hospital (now on the National Register of Historic Places).

Vaccines work. #idsky #episky

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Dec 14

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · Dec 14

“A fistula ward is one of the happiest places you can imagine”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/o...

Opinion | The Unnecessary Suffering of Women With Obstetric Fistulas

Women with obstetric fistulas suffer year after year, even as a $619 surgery can restore them.

www.nytimes.com

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 14

This makes me smile.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Have Walk-On Role in Broadway's & Juliet

Jackson will also participate in a post-show talkback.

playbill.com

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · Dec 14

I had polio when i was 9. I was taken from my parents & placed in a Hospital for contageous diseases- the polio ward. I would see them once a week - thru the glass window at the end of my ward. I could not walk. It was terrifying. Kids died. Iron lungs were awful. Dont let RFK Jr ban the vaccine

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 14

Ditto!

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 11

And the new era begins. My Substack is alive again, and here's my first post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudu...

The Fraudulence of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse”

History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 7

I call mine "strays"

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Dec 4

I keep wandering around this site and getting smacked with deja vu. I saw someone's Wordle, then a Jorts post, then the real Mark Hamill, and a reference to health policy valentines. Can bean can dad outrage, spa days for follow numbers, or feral hogs be far behind?

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Nov 27

vtdigger.org/2024/11/26/d...

Opinion — Dr. Marvin Malek: The rise and fall of the UVM Health Advantage Plan

Not having a really good health care option is something Americans have come to expect. It doesn’t have to be this way.

vtdigger.org

Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Nov 26

As a brand new Vermonter I endorse this.

Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Nov 26

I am in this weird time loop now where I joined Twitter in 2016 as a third year faculty member teaching health policy. I needed the hive mind to survive that semester. Eight years later with no courses here I am again and not.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Nov 20

When I will respond to your email

Histogram peaked at 3 minutes and 2 weeks since sent

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Erika Ziller @ecziller.bsky.social · Nov 18

First post: a stressed-out person looking for a little echo chamber opportunity and some respectful dialogue. And maybe a Wordle post or two.

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