Joanne
@msjbm.bsky.social
Mother, Grandmother
Proud daughter of WW2 vet
Retired biomedical researcher👩🏻🔬 🧪🧬
Rutgers and Johns Hopkins alumnus🎓📓
Knitter🧶 Reader📚 Cat Mom🐈⬛
Science is 😎 and vaccines save lives!
Proud daughter of WW2 vet
Retired biomedical researcher👩🏻🔬 🧪🧬
Rutgers and Johns Hopkins alumnus🎓📓
Knitter🧶 Reader📚 Cat Mom🐈⬛
Science is 😎 and vaccines save lives!
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CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease. lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt
February 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease. lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
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Arresting journalists.
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
January 30, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Arresting journalists.
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Fatally shooting protestors.
Turning the military on citizens.
Attempting to rig elections.
Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.
If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
🧶This week for #showmeyourknits is garter. Here is the Triagonal Shawlette by @ambahobrien.bsky.social
Yarn is #AsylumFibers
Great project for leftovers and if you are in the deep freeze right now like I am, this is a wonderful neck warmer.
#knitsky
Yarn is #AsylumFibers
Great project for leftovers and if you are in the deep freeze right now like I am, this is a wonderful neck warmer.
#knitsky
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 AM
🧶This week for #showmeyourknits is garter. Here is the Triagonal Shawlette by @ambahobrien.bsky.social
Yarn is #AsylumFibers
Great project for leftovers and if you are in the deep freeze right now like I am, this is a wonderful neck warmer.
#knitsky
Yarn is #AsylumFibers
Great project for leftovers and if you are in the deep freeze right now like I am, this is a wonderful neck warmer.
#knitsky
This time around will surely be a much larger struggle, but have no doubt, my fellow Americans, we will defeat Fascism! As Americans, it's kind of our thing! ✊🤛🇺🇸
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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America is being besieged by two ICE storms this weekend.
One we can't stop.
One, we sure as hell can.
One we can't stop.
One, we sure as hell can.
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 AM
America is being besieged by two ICE storms this weekend.
One we can't stop.
One, we sure as hell can.
One we can't stop.
One, we sure as hell can.
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This is apparently real. People who voted for him must've wanted someone stupider than they are. I'm sorry, but he's a " low-IQ individual," to quote the Low-IQ Individual in Chief.
January 23, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This is apparently real. People who voted for him must've wanted someone stupider than they are. I'm sorry, but he's a " low-IQ individual," to quote the Low-IQ Individual in Chief.
🧶This week’s #showmeyourknits is hands. My go-to mitten pattern is The World’s Simplest Mittens by #tincanknits These are adult size but I’ve made kids ones too. Yarn is @missbabs.com
#knitsky
#knitsky
January 24, 2026 at 1:44 AM
🧶This week’s #showmeyourknits is hands. My go-to mitten pattern is The World’s Simplest Mittens by #tincanknits These are adult size but I’ve made kids ones too. Yarn is @missbabs.com
#knitsky
#knitsky
This puts American lives at risk.
The US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization today. Per Trump we can work "one on one" with other countries
Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC?
No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.
Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC?
No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.
January 23, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This puts American lives at risk.
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Contrary to what some HHS and CDC political appointee think 🙄 losing measles elimination status is actually a problem
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/utah...
After a quick look at 2024 and 2025 numbers, here's the REAL impact of Year One of MAHA
(Spoiler: they'd get a D on their report card)
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/utah...
After a quick look at 2024 and 2025 numbers, here's the REAL impact of Year One of MAHA
(Spoiler: they'd get a D on their report card)
January 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Contrary to what some HHS and CDC political appointee think 🙄 losing measles elimination status is actually a problem
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/utah...
After a quick look at 2024 and 2025 numbers, here's the REAL impact of Year One of MAHA
(Spoiler: they'd get a D on their report card)
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/utah...
After a quick look at 2024 and 2025 numbers, here's the REAL impact of Year One of MAHA
(Spoiler: they'd get a D on their report card)
No one in the Trump family has ever served in the military including during WWII. A draft dodger lecturing the world. Pathetic.
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
No one in the Trump family has ever served in the military including during WWII. A draft dodger lecturing the world. Pathetic.
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History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump
January 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM
As a scientist, this is both incredibly sad and infuriating. We were the world’s leader in cutting edge science across disciplines.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 5:50 AM
As a scientist, this is both incredibly sad and infuriating. We were the world’s leader in cutting edge science across disciplines.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
“You may have never been to Minneapolis or even known someone personally from Minnesota. But MLK reminds us that they are our neighbors, that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and that we are a part of an inescapable network of mutuality.”
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
Will Blatant Injustice Strengthen the Opposition?
A Saturday Prompt
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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This is the story of the day. Share it. We are all being called to be our highest selves. The cavalier treatment of the Nobel Prize is a disgrace. It represents another way to destroy and defile that which should be precious and revered.
We can all make choices to be better.
We can all make choices to be better.
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is the story of the day. Share it. We are all being called to be our highest selves. The cavalier treatment of the Nobel Prize is a disgrace. It represents another way to destroy and defile that which should be precious and revered.
We can all make choices to be better.
We can all make choices to be better.
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The Trump administration is quite literally willing to poison Americans to save giant corporations money. Your kids get sick & oil CEOs get richer.
EPA says it will no longer consider health costs in pollution regulations
The EPA weakened emissions standards for new power plants and said it would no longer consider the economic impacts of public health in rule making.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The Trump administration is quite literally willing to poison Americans to save giant corporations money. Your kids get sick & oil CEOs get richer.
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
It’s WIPs week for #showmeyourknits 🧶 This one is off the needles but ends need to be woven in and then blocked. Pattern is Gingerbread Cowl by #tellybeanknits and yarn is from #SunshineYarns
I have a few WIPs like this - off the needles but not finished.
#knitsky
I have a few WIPs like this - off the needles but not finished.
#knitsky
January 15, 2026 at 3:26 AM
It’s WIPs week for #showmeyourknits 🧶 This one is off the needles but ends need to be woven in and then blocked. Pattern is Gingerbread Cowl by #tellybeanknits and yarn is from #SunshineYarns
I have a few WIPs like this - off the needles but not finished.
#knitsky
I have a few WIPs like this - off the needles but not finished.
#knitsky
When will enough be enough for the GOP Congress.
NEW: Statement of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Trump’s criminal investigation into him. He says they are seeking an indictment over his Congressional testimony, but calls it pretext to pressure him into lowering interest rates.
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM
When will enough be enough for the GOP Congress.
Terrorizing American citizens.
Threatening American allies.
Covering up for American sex criminals.
Welcome to the Trump administration, 2026!
Threatening American allies.
Covering up for American sex criminals.
Welcome to the Trump administration, 2026!
January 11, 2026 at 11:24 PM