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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 14h

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 14h

But he's over the age of 65.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 14h

This is some Hunger Games shit.

"Nation's public health infrastructure eviscerated."

NY Times: "Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wings to the New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wings to the New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala

www.nytimes.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 14h

This assumes that state and local public health agencies are well funded. They are not. And the regional disparities are stark, so interstate collaboration will almost certainly drift towards those states that have better resources.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 15h

I'm gonna be on repeat about this forever: What is especially dangerous about measles is that it can trigger immunity amnesia. From UCLA Health:

"Researchers have found that, after recovering from the measles, the immune system is suppressed for at least several months, and for up to two years."

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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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h

like we’ve been saying, this is an existential threat to public health

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 15h

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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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is no small fry when it comes to global peace. #potatojoke

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 17h

Virginia's Lieutenant Governor is wrong. According to the Virginia Human Rights Act, it is discrimination to fire someone based on their sexual orientation.

GOP candidate claims firing people for being gay ‘is not discrimination’ in Virginia governor’s debate

Winsome Earle-Sears's remarks drew immediate backlash.

www.advocate.com

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 20h

Keep Chicago weird!!

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

"[T]he new year-round baseline for work absences appeared to be on par with the levels formerly confined to prepandemic influenza season conditions."

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Our latest paper in @jamanetworkopen.com where we asked: Following the #COVID pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits? @yaleemd.bsky.social @princetonecon.bsky.social @brookings.edu 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Solid burn.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh! I'm sorry you have to manage that pain.

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

There is also a Patreon that includes extra episodes and recaps of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. (2/2)

I Said No Gifts! | Patreon

A podcast.

patreon.com

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday to the incomparable Bridger Winegar, host of the podcast "I Said No Gifts!" Bridger's sharp & hilarious & he's been a writer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jimmy Kimmel, Black Monday, & The Afterparty. The podcast is a dream & has been a safe haven from all the shit since 2020. (1/2)

I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar — EXACTLY RIGHT

On I Said No Gifts!, Bridger Winegar invites friends and people he’s secretly trying to destroy to join him for conversation and games in his backyard. His one request: No gifts! Naturally, every gues...

www.exactlyrightmedia.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Probably should’ve waited a day or two to release this.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Will it feature Carrie Underwood with a malfunctioning mic?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

This also strikes me as another attack on sexual minorities (and sexual health overall) given the scientific evidence that demonstrates the protection circumcision provides against HIV and STI transmission.

Lancet Glob Health (2019) Apr;7(4):e436-e447.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

A "powerful [reliance] argument against" taking away same-sex marriage, unlike the federal constitutional right to abortion.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Close. I am the Prince of Minnesota. But there is a lineage dispute because of the bloodshed of the Lutefisk Wars and a dark period of aristocratic inbreeding.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS once said I was "too depressing" to be on The View, so I get it.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

"Disgraced nun opposed to centralized government and who spends time--perhaps too much time--with children."

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

These are the type of Americans that make the nation great. Not some hypocritical narcissistic hate monger who can't do push ups (applies to so many!)

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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