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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 1h

Sadism and intentional. They are competent inducing trauma in all the right places.

Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 1h

The point is trauma. Sadists.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 12h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 11h

This is intentional. Oops, not today MMWR. Maybe next week or the week. Let’s just continually traumatize people so they leave, exhausted and demoralized.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Julie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, lets cut the CDC! Seems like a fine idea. @altcdc.altgov.info #publichealth #IDsky #vaccines #publichealthsky bit.ly/4h5KnmE.

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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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 1d

Turkey vultures, migrating like everybody else

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

Donald Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn. Read the detaios & judge for yourself if this is how the people’s lawyer should do her job. joycevance.substack.com/p/oversight

Oversight

Attorney General Pam Bondi showed up for an oversight hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and she brought her best Scarlett O’Hara demeanor along with her.

joycevance.substack.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe try a Phoebe.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 5d

All I’m saying is I’ve never seen Ed Gein and Stephen Miller in the same room

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Julie Parsonnet @julieparsonnet.bsky.social · 5d

For those who think measles is nothing, Israel just had its 6th measles death since April with >1700 known and 5000 estimated cases. 41 (36 kids) have been in ICUs. Israel has an 88% vaccination rate, not enough to prevent disease spread. bit.ly/46Cuocq #vaccines #publichealth #idsky #measles

Jerusalem toddler dies of measles, sixth death this year | The Jerusalem Post

Six children in total have died since the outbreak began, with the Health Ministry pushing a vaccination campaign to contain the disease.

bit.ly

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

Do they exist?

Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

Philly boos everything. I’m embarrassed to be a Filthadelphian.

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

What a moron. No medical, public health or scientific background.

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

And they complain abt the # of shots.

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

Holy crap I thought it was real.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

i'm so excited to tell you about what we're working on. it's the most important thing human beings have ever done or could ever do. it's going to transform our lives in a plausibly deniable period of years. i just need another 100 billion dollars and immunity from prosecution

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

A totally Goldcrest thing to say.

Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 5d

His hair appears to be blocking Liberty.

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 7d

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

kffhealthnews.org

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 7d

Really? The world is falling apart and I should give a shit?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/w...

Is It OK to Use Your Phone on the Toilet?

www.nytimes.com

Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for the reference. I’ve been wanting to order native seeds for a while and this will help me finally do it!

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Jo Hofmann @birdcmp.bsky.social · 9d

The hits just keep coming.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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