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Dr Jennifer Jones
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Substack Writer (see pinned post), Author, Writing Coach, and Kitten Herder. As the card on my desk says, I'll be post-feminist in post-patriarchy. She/Her. https://substack.com/@jjonesewc
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Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social · Jul 8
I recently started 2 substacks:

1) Scandalous Books - here I discuss banned books: scandalousbooks.substack.com

2) Anaesthesia Culture - here I look at how the Victorians responded to medical advances to respond more thoughtfully to current medical issues: anaesthesiaculture.substack.com
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Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social · 14m
I’m so sorry to hear that. It’s hard to lose one cat, more than one is much worse. Nothing to feel weird about.

It’s those who don’t get that it’s hard who are weird.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6h
Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h
Anti-vaxxers often overlook that state public health agencies have authority to keep unvaccinated kids out of school during an infectious disease outbreak.

These are often the same people who said they were deeply concerned about children’s mental health during pandemic-related school closures.
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 8h
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration's education agenda.
MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits
"With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.
www.nbcnews.com
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h
Trump clearly decided that rapid identification of public health threats to the U.S. is something that only Democrats want.

Public health largely began in the military because once upon a time, leaders understood that disease is the greatest threat to militarily readiness. That’s over.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h
Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21h
Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump: "The restaurants were all closing, now you can't get into a restaurant. They're opening up new restaurants. It took 12 days for us. We sent in not politically correct military. We sent them in based on merit."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 23h
🚨 🚨

This is a producer for WGN Chicago.

This is Putin-style autocracy.

WATCH
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d
Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...
Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit
Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.
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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 1d
#VoteForClimate
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 19h
At least there's a silver lining to this toxic, gaseous Taco cloud.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Steve Rattner warns the GOP: Health care cuts will hit red states the hardest
The former Treasury official said the data, which shows GOP-led states use ACA subsidies at a higher rate, has put Republicans under pressure.
www.msnbc.com
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 22h
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 19h
"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 19h
Gavin Newsom:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h
UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵
OPINION AND ORDER Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h
That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d
A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period. Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Trump got a Covid vaccine today.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 1d
Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic
Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21h
Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.
 
100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.
 
SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.
Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills
The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.
www.notus.org
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 17h
In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts
Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.
www.bloomberg.com
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 22h
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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