RJ Nerd Dad
@rjnerddad.bsky.social
Nerd, Dad, neurospicy. he/him.
Trying to survive the downfall of our government. The world is completely cuckoo banana pants rn.
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Trying to survive the downfall of our government. The world is completely cuckoo banana pants rn.
☮️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🔭👩🔬💉🇺🇦🫘😷🫶😥😱
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Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades wapo.st/3KIeg0N
"Immunizations 'remain the best buy in global health.'"
"If funding cuts persist ... 12 million more children under 5 could die by 2045."
Thx, MAGA.
"Immunizations 'remain the best buy in global health.'"
"If funding cuts persist ... 12 million more children under 5 could die by 2045."
Thx, MAGA.
Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades wapo.st/3KIeg0N
"Immunizations 'remain the best buy in global health.'"
"If funding cuts persist ... 12 million more children under 5 could die by 2045."
Thx, MAGA.
"Immunizations 'remain the best buy in global health.'"
"If funding cuts persist ... 12 million more children under 5 could die by 2045."
Thx, MAGA.
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This week a bathroom bill went into effect in Texas for the first time.
After 10 years and 19 attempts.
To regulate bathrooms for 1% of the population.
The obvious question is… why? Here are the answers we found, after years and so much reporting.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
After 10 years and 19 attempts.
To regulate bathrooms for 1% of the population.
The obvious question is… why? Here are the answers we found, after years and so much reporting.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This week a bathroom bill went into effect in Texas for the first time.
After 10 years and 19 attempts.
To regulate bathrooms for 1% of the population.
The obvious question is… why? Here are the answers we found, after years and so much reporting.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
After 10 years and 19 attempts.
To regulate bathrooms for 1% of the population.
The obvious question is… why? Here are the answers we found, after years and so much reporting.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
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Noting says luxury like bottle BareFoot Moscato
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Noting says luxury like bottle BareFoot Moscato
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“There is virtually no mechanism for a child to find a pro-bono attorney on their own while detained, as they do not have the resources or ability to identify and call attorneys, and are actually limited as to who they can contact.”
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“There is virtually no mechanism for a child to find a pro-bono attorney on their own while detained, as they do not have the resources or ability to identify and call attorneys, and are actually limited as to who they can contact.”
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People today get mired in 'the right action.' Many criticize current actions as being disruptive or improbable. But the biggest lesson of the boycott is that wewill not know what will work—you have to take step after step, it will be lonely, people will call it disruptive, but you must do it anyway.
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
People today get mired in 'the right action.' Many criticize current actions as being disruptive or improbable. But the biggest lesson of the boycott is that wewill not know what will work—you have to take step after step, it will be lonely, people will call it disruptive, but you must do it anyway.
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Feds gassed and tackled people in Elgin today, the same day Kristi Noem was in Chicago for a Christmas photo op, after a few weeks of relative quiet.
I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.
I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.
PHOTOS: Feds deploy tear gas in Elgin as hourslong standoff ends in man's arrest
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Feds gassed and tackled people in Elgin today, the same day Kristi Noem was in Chicago for a Christmas photo op, after a few weeks of relative quiet.
I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.
I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.
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established safety levels. Compared to other sources of aluminum ions in our everyday lives, which are ubiquitous, the amount that children ingest from vaccines is negligible. Aluminum is an unavoidable part of our daily diets, with traces found in plants, soil, water, and air. Whether we realize it
December 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
established safety levels. Compared to other sources of aluminum ions in our everyday lives, which are ubiquitous, the amount that children ingest from vaccines is negligible. Aluminum is an unavoidable part of our daily diets, with traces found in plants, soil, water, and air. Whether we realize it
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Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child
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🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.
Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
#BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky #NewsSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NurseSky
Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
#BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky #NewsSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NurseSky
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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TWENTY-SIX shackled people taken by ICE today in Baltimore by Eastern Air Express.
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
TWENTY-SIX shackled people taken by ICE today in Baltimore by Eastern Air Express.
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“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.
Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.
Folks, I don't know if it's related to Venezuela, but the practice bombing at Camp Pendleton North of San Diego is going off today. Same happened before Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. just sayin'
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Folks, I don't know if it's related to Venezuela, but the practice bombing at Camp Pendleton North of San Diego is going off today. Same happened before Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. just sayin'
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I'll get excited about the "blue tsunami" when liberals stop being candy-asses and start going to war. A thread.
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I'll get excited about the "blue tsunami" when liberals stop being candy-asses and start going to war. A thread.
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This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is why I support freedom of expression.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
Appropriately, it is the chaos of a system that supports free speech that gives rise to the grand process of democratic self-governance and the ideally upward arc of human progress and flourishing.
Yesterday a Stoppard play, today a tweet.
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BREAKING: NYT reporting that Trump has just fired 8 immigration judges in New York City who worked at 26 Federal Plaza. That's NYC ICE HQ.
In the city that declares "give us your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," Trump shuts down due process for immigrants. This is fascism.
In the city that declares "give us your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," Trump shuts down due process for immigrants. This is fascism.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
BREAKING: NYT reporting that Trump has just fired 8 immigration judges in New York City who worked at 26 Federal Plaza. That's NYC ICE HQ.
In the city that declares "give us your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," Trump shuts down due process for immigrants. This is fascism.
In the city that declares "give us your tired your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," Trump shuts down due process for immigrants. This is fascism.
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Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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If the alternative medicine community viewed alternative medicine with the same skepticism it applies to modern medicine, it would have far more credibility.
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If the alternative medicine community viewed alternative medicine with the same skepticism it applies to modern medicine, it would have far more credibility.
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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I think it comes down to a diff in intuition & social trauma
reading cues is a multi-layered issue
& we’re not overly literal it’s that we don’t trust them / ourselves and literal communication removes the ambiguity
We don’t understand the games they play and trying to solve puzzles is exhausting
reading cues is a multi-layered issue
& we’re not overly literal it’s that we don’t trust them / ourselves and literal communication removes the ambiguity
We don’t understand the games they play and trying to solve puzzles is exhausting
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I think it comes down to a diff in intuition & social trauma
reading cues is a multi-layered issue
& we’re not overly literal it’s that we don’t trust them / ourselves and literal communication removes the ambiguity
We don’t understand the games they play and trying to solve puzzles is exhausting
reading cues is a multi-layered issue
& we’re not overly literal it’s that we don’t trust them / ourselves and literal communication removes the ambiguity
We don’t understand the games they play and trying to solve puzzles is exhausting
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🚫 autistic people can’t understand social norms
✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind
✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind
If we stopped saying “autistic people can’t understand social norms” and started saying “autistic people can’t sanction social norms” nobody would like us any better I suppose
July 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚫 autistic people can’t understand social norms
✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind
✅ Autistic people don’t understand why you all think this shit is normal &/or good and we’d like to make some recommendations if you don’t mind
Well said. This has been bugging me too. It comes off as a cheap gimmick.
Those of us who can afford non Amazon prices have the luxury of boycotting them all the time. Why would we go back to Amazon on Monday?
And those who can't should not be shamed.
Those of us who can afford non Amazon prices have the luxury of boycotting them all the time. Why would we go back to Amazon on Monday?
And those who can't should not be shamed.
I am observing the boycott, but. Given how few options Amazon has left us when it comes to buying stuff affordably, and the degree to which they overprice wares outside of major sale days...
I do question the wisdom of orgs calling to boycott them every major sale day.
I do question the wisdom of orgs calling to boycott them every major sale day.
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Well said. This has been bugging me too. It comes off as a cheap gimmick.
Those of us who can afford non Amazon prices have the luxury of boycotting them all the time. Why would we go back to Amazon on Monday?
And those who can't should not be shamed.
Those of us who can afford non Amazon prices have the luxury of boycotting them all the time. Why would we go back to Amazon on Monday?
And those who can't should not be shamed.
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As a reminder Prasad announced his opposition to the pediatric covid vaccine months before there was a pediatric covid vaccine.
He never wavered.
Remember this when he claims to be guided by data and evidence. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-pra...
He never wavered.
Remember this when he claims to be guided by data and evidence. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-pra...
Dr. Vinay Prasad Opposed The Pediatric COVID Vaccine Before There Was A Pediatric COVID Vaccine
Dr. Vinay Prasad started treating vaccine side effects as a fate worse than death in January 2021, before there was a COVID vaccine for children.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
As a reminder Prasad announced his opposition to the pediatric covid vaccine months before there was a pediatric covid vaccine.
He never wavered.
Remember this when he claims to be guided by data and evidence. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-pra...
He never wavered.
Remember this when he claims to be guided by data and evidence. sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-vinay-pra...
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this is just a common antivax talking point, which I’ve never seen any data supporting, and not how the FDA is supposed to do stuff
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
this is just a common antivax talking point, which I’ve never seen any data supporting, and not how the FDA is supposed to do stuff