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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP

@mollyjeffery.bsky.social

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Eph, Health services research, emergency departments, health economics, regulatory science. #FirstGen she/her pronouns I post a lot of pictures of my favorite cat and of our other cat, who I also love. And of Minneapolis!

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · Oct 16

The recording is up!
www.fda.gov/science-rese...

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 15m

She’ll be the judge of that.

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z.ombie @zanadu.bsky.social · 4h

Someone please tell the cat we don’t owe her money.

#CatsOfBluesky
#Caturday

A brownish and black tabby cat with a white chin, Obi-Wan Katnobi, looking at you as if you owe her money also.

She is standing on a fake wood vinyl floor next to a poster of the band The Cure

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 18m

Maybe getting an early start on leaf burning.

Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 27m

Just enjoying our beautiful, peaceful city!

Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 31m

You said I’m feeling fine but it didn’t really rhyme 🎶

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 4h

Four years ago today: @jasonmcgrath.bsky.social’s screed on Frey

Letter to the Star Tribune, 10-11-2021

MINNEAPOLIS MAYORAL RACE
To change city, ditch Frey

Jacob Frey ran for mayor with a promise "to regain our citywide swagger." Aside from its sexist premise (the mayor at the time was a woman averse to showboating), the promise looks ever more grotesque in retrospect. Under Frey's leadership Minneapolis became known throughout the world as the place where racist cops apparently thought themselves free to murder and brutalize in broad daylight with impunity. Swagger, indeed.

Now we know from recently released bodycam footage that in the days following George Floyd's murder, police officers continued to view our residents as enemies to be indiscriminately hunted rather than people to be served ("Frey says body-cam footage 'galling,' front page, Oct. 8). Meanwhile, Mayor Frey talks abstractly about "justice" and "reform" while showing zero backbone in standing up to the Police Federation, which our cops seem to take as their real boss.

A few days ago I attended a neighborhood meeting at which virtually everyone present had a story of the Minneapolis Police Department failing to take any effective action when help was needed following a theft or assault. If Minneapolis is to have any chance of redeeming itself in the eyes of the world, Frey must go, and we must create a new Department of Public Safety that actually serves the people rather than treating them as enemies to be subdued.

JASON McGRATH, Minneapolis

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 44m

They looked like they were having fun. A beautiful day for it!

Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

This event might be Washburn related? Awesome seeing the community out together on a gorgeous Saturday

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

If you don’t have tactical gear and you want to visit, many Minneapolitans can lend you some.

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

The youth are gathering in the parks. They’re rioting.

Scores of high school students and their parents are gathered near the Rose Garden. No idea why. It’s lovely and peaceful

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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

Not quite yet. I was just getting out ahead of the Portlandification of Minneapolis

Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

Harriet. I am too old to live by Bde Maka Ska

Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 1h

Minneapolis burning

A beautiful day at the lake, with the Minneapolis skyline in the background. There are two sailboats in the distance. All is peaceful and beautiful

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 22h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)