Jan Oldenburg
@janoldenburg.bsky.social
I'm a semi-retired expert in @DigitalHealth and #PatientEngagement (ask me about books/chapters I've written). As a retirement hobby, I make jewelry (http://www.jewelrybyJKO.com). I'm also a reader and a proud liberal. I only respond to DMs with content.
For me, this Supreme Court ruling on Texas's illegal racial gerrymander is the last straw. I say, Dems need to impeach John Roberts and expand the Supreme Court as one of the first orders of business!
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
For me, this Supreme Court ruling on Texas's illegal racial gerrymander is the last straw. I say, Dems need to impeach John Roberts and expand the Supreme Court as one of the first orders of business!
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Kagan: "And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Kagan: "And today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court's precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent."
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Kagan: "Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right."
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kagan: "Today's order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right."
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Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive. Concentrated wealth is already endangering our democracy. Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
It’s a vicious cycle that destroys our economy and democracy at the same time.
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Lift or remove the cap.
Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.
We can afford to INCREASE Social Security benefits if billionaires pay their fair share!
We can afford to INCREASE Social Security benefits if billionaires pay their fair share!
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Lift or remove the cap.
Headline from the @nytimes.com today, "Trump appears to fight sleep during cabinet meeting." There was no "appears" about it. He was dozing off and sleeping soundly! Be accurate, NYT!
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Headline from the @nytimes.com today, "Trump appears to fight sleep during cabinet meeting." There was no "appears" about it. He was dozing off and sleeping soundly! Be accurate, NYT!
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Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Tonight, we did something everyone counted out. We proved to a nation that states like Tennessee are still worth fighting for. The margin was close, and that can only be attributed to the thousands of volunteers who showed out. This is just the beginning.
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Yes, precisely!!!
The times unironically doing the "we're here to challenge your assumptions" like they are Ricky Gervais
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yes, precisely!!!
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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This right here.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This right here.
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Steve Witkoff works for Russia.
Jared Kushner works for Russia.
Donald Trump works for Russia.
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
AF.
Jared Kushner works for Russia.
Donald Trump works for Russia.
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
AF.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Steve Witkoff works for Russia.
Jared Kushner works for Russia.
Donald Trump works for Russia.
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
AF.
Jared Kushner works for Russia.
Donald Trump works for Russia.
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
AF.
This seems like a very good candidate for the next season of the Dr Death podcast. Horrifying!
When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This seems like a very good candidate for the next season of the Dr Death podcast. Horrifying!
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I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Give not a millimeter to Russia. Not a single grain of Ukrainian soil.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Give not a millimeter to Russia. Not a single grain of Ukrainian soil.
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The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The investigators asked Clint Massie how many more girls in the church might come forward with stories about him touching or kissing them.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
“I mean, there could be hundreds,” he said.
Nibbling away at this Thanksgiving #nytspelkingbee. Pangram was my 56th word! Working my way, slowly now, to QB!
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Nibbling away at this Thanksgiving #nytspelkingbee. Pangram was my 56th word! Working my way, slowly now, to QB!
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JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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The false claims include that Democrats paid the September 2024 debate moderators $1 million to favor Kamala Harris, that a video showed biker gangs heading to Los Angeles to join law enforcement against anti-ICE protesters, and that Cracker Barrel’s CEO said, “MAGA doesn’t have to eat here.”
"Influential pro-Trump X accounts that appeared to be U.S-based but actually operate from Eastern Europe, Asia, or Africa have spread 31 false claims about U.S. and global politics in the last 15 months," according to @newsguard.bsky.social www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/influentia...
Influential ‘U.S.’ X Accounts Spread False Claims from Abroad
NewsGuard finds that pro-MAGA X accounts operating secretly from abroad have spread 31 significant false claims in the last 15 months
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The false claims include that Democrats paid the September 2024 debate moderators $1 million to favor Kamala Harris, that a video showed biker gangs heading to Los Angeles to join law enforcement against anti-ICE protesters, and that Cracker Barrel’s CEO said, “MAGA doesn’t have to eat here.”
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Expedited FOIA on the Epstein files? Yeah, there’s a reason certain folks are sweating through their spray tan in hiding tonight.
JUST IN: Judge Chutkan orders expedited processing of a FOIA request for files related to DOJ's handling of the Epstein files. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Expedited FOIA on the Epstein files? Yeah, there’s a reason certain folks are sweating through their spray tan in hiding tonight.
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Is anyone surprised that the top MAGA trolls on X are posting from outside the U.S.?
newrepublic.com/post/203562/...
newrepublic.com/post/203562/...
Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S.
Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Is anyone surprised that the top MAGA trolls on X are posting from outside the U.S.?
newrepublic.com/post/203562/...
newrepublic.com/post/203562/...
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Oh, hey! I was interviewed by Jenn Rubin of The Contrarian on why Democrats should invest in running everywhere.
No seat uncontested.
contrarian.substack.com/p/theyre-eng...
No seat uncontested.
contrarian.substack.com/p/theyre-eng...
"They're engaged, they're optimistic!" Jess Piper on Rural Voters, Gerrymandering, and Voting Blue
"We know that gerrymandering doesn't always work."
contrarian.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Oh, hey! I was interviewed by Jenn Rubin of The Contrarian on why Democrats should invest in running everywhere.
No seat uncontested.
contrarian.substack.com/p/theyre-eng...
No seat uncontested.
contrarian.substack.com/p/theyre-eng...
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An amazing new Trump controversy, Part I of II:
- Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home
- Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison
- Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested
- Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home
- Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison
- Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part I of II:
- Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home
- Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison
- Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested
- Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home
- Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison
- Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested
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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM