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Alexandra Hall
@alexandrahall2815.bsky.social
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Former physician turned educator, trying to negotiate these broken systems while nurturing community and celebrating the good in our world.
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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dixie13.bsky.social
#booksky
July 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
@jreinermd.bsky.social
You’re going to hear a lot about childhood vaccines this year. My recommendation is, don’t listen to the noise. Listen to your pediatrician. Their only agenda is the health of your child, and they have the education and experience to help you make the best decision to keep your family well.
June 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.
May 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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benwikler.bsky.social
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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erinmurphyslaw.bsky.social
The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.
March 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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juliuskim.bsky.social
This, right here..
March 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
@drrobdavidson.bsky.social
RFK Jr is a firehouse of disinformation. Getting measles gives you immunity, but also gives you measles with risks of encephalitis, pneumonia, and death. MMR vaccine wanes 0.04%/year, not 4.5%. For the vast majority it’s lifetime protection and it’s incredibly safe.
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
@vinguptamd.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
alexandrahall2815.bsky.social
“Wait until he hears about a whole orchestra full of Trans people from Siberia.”
March 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
alexandrahall2815.bsky.social
Working on a lesson for my students and seer.cancer.gov website, which has excellent graphics and data by cancer type, is down. Anyone know what’s going on?!
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program
An authoritative source for cancer statistics in the US. We collect incidence, prevalence and survival data and publish reports on these and cancer mortality. For those interested in cancer statistics...
seer.cancer.gov
March 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment:

"18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
alexandrahall2815.bsky.social
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...
To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans
Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.
sign.moveon.org
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
And in case you need healthcare, here is a directory of LGBTQ+ friendly healthcare providers: lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org

Doctors, sign up for the directory so you can be found as a safe space!

#MedSky #QueerSky #LGBTQ
This is a tweet from Patrick Ness over a rainbow background that reads: “If you’re LGBT and worried, please remember, you’ve got a whole army of us at your back and we’re not going anywhere.”
February 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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fredguttenberg.bsky.social
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
We'll post more on this in the future, but for now just sharing the devastating news that >90% of USAID contracts have been cut, including those for HIV medications, food kitchens, etc.

People WILL die as a result.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs
The Trump administration is terminating thousands of foreign assistance grants and awards, according to a court filing. The move effectively guts the six-decade-old agency.
www.npr.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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alt-irs.altgov.info
So they told us what they were going to do to ALL of us. Here is a tracker on their progress in destroying our country:
www.project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
www.project2025.observer
February 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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kellydmcc.bsky.social
This. The sheer idiocy of the thing is a sort of reverse genius.
February 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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diplo-drama.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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theatlantic.com
Destroying the civil service is just the beginning, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to replace America’s political system. theatln.tc/gGJvwKDJ
February 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
alexandrahall2815.bsky.social
Treaty obligations can apparently be ignored too…
February 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM