Janet Rosenbaum (she/her)
@janet.bsky.social
Public health statistics and adolescent health. Harvard: AB, Physics; AM, Statistics; PhD, Health Policy with concentration in Statistics and Evaluative Sciences; Johns Hopkins: Postdoc, Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
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the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
Whatever the immediate fallout of the scandal, what is going to stick around is the impression it gives, of hapless idiots doing ridiculous things. And I think that seriously reduces the appeal of capitulating to these jokers.
March 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns
A sample question on the Illinois 8th grade Constitution test:
"Describe at least two methods the framers of the Constitution used to ensure government power is limited."
Republicans know this perfectly well.
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"Describe at least two methods the framers of the Constitution used to ensure government power is limited."
Republicans know this perfectly well.
graphics.suntimes.com/education/20...
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
A sample question on the Illinois 8th grade Constitution test:
"Describe at least two methods the framers of the Constitution used to ensure government power is limited."
Republicans know this perfectly well.
graphics.suntimes.com/education/20...
"Describe at least two methods the framers of the Constitution used to ensure government power is limited."
Republicans know this perfectly well.
graphics.suntimes.com/education/20...
Canadian sketch comedy delivers.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Canadian sketch comedy delivers.
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The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
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January 30, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
This 15 year old pranked the NY Times. I love it.
January 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This 15 year old pranked the NY Times. I love it.
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It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
"Minnesota can free itself of ICE/CBP if it gives up its rights to self rule.... Draconian immigration enforcement is at best a convenient additional benefit to the pretext through which the White House has imposed an occupation of a peaceful civilian city." Gift article.
Remembering the Boston Massacre as Minneapolis Writhes Under Occupation
Opposition to garrisoning soldiers in civilian towns was a cornerstone of the...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM
"Minnesota can free itself of ICE/CBP if it gives up its rights to self rule.... Draconian immigration enforcement is at best a convenient additional benefit to the pretext through which the White House has imposed an occupation of a peaceful civilian city." Gift article.
Good thread. I will add that populist anti-intellectualism has a long US history that prevents both sides from listening to experts who have solutions that do not reduce to populist slogans. Cardinal Cupic of Chicago is correct here that Congressional immigration reform failures led us here.
January 25, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Good thread. I will add that populist anti-intellectualism has a long US history that prevents both sides from listening to experts who have solutions that do not reduce to populist slogans. Cardinal Cupic of Chicago is correct here that Congressional immigration reform failures led us here.
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Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
Colorado parents of man killed in Minneapolis urged him to be careful at ICE protests
Alex Jeffrey Pretti “loved this country, but he hated what people were doing to it,” his father said from Colorado.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...
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I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.
New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.
And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
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January 24, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.
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The Secretary of Defense praising the murder of a protestor and posting "ICE > MN."
Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.
Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 10:57 PM
The Secretary of Defense praising the murder of a protestor and posting "ICE > MN."
Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.
Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.
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Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump?
A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.
A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.
January 23, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump?
A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.
A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.
ICE let a man accused of stealing $100 million in jewels choose between deportation and continuing to be tried in court, and he chose deportation. I can't get over how frustrated those prosecutors must be to have all their work go to waste. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Man Accused in $100 Million Jewel Heist Is Deported, Thwarting Trial
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January 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
ICE let a man accused of stealing $100 million in jewels choose between deportation and continuing to be tried in court, and he chose deportation. I can't get over how frustrated those prosecutors must be to have all their work go to waste. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.