@crankysocrates.bsky.social
Editor, miniatures painter, ttrpg gamer, cat lover, leftist, humanist, LGBTQ+ ally, don't know when to keep my mouth shut. Will do almost anything for Reeses Cups. Well reasoned statements are my own.
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The only way this makes sense is when you understand health as a product sold to individuals.
Once you turn health into a product and healthcare into a business, then you can blame individuals for not being able to afford their health(care) rather than look at the environment in which they live.
Once you turn health into a product and healthcare into a business, then you can blame individuals for not being able to afford their health(care) rather than look at the environment in which they live.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The only way this makes sense is when you understand health as a product sold to individuals.
Once you turn health into a product and healthcare into a business, then you can blame individuals for not being able to afford their health(care) rather than look at the environment in which they live.
Once you turn health into a product and healthcare into a business, then you can blame individuals for not being able to afford their health(care) rather than look at the environment in which they live.
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Our justice system reflects the values of our society. Compare these sentences:
-woman steals 4 chickens: 90 days in jail, $100k fine
-man rapes and strangles girls, with video evidence; one of the girls had to have neck surgery: community service
Nothing can get in the way of a man’s potential!
-woman steals 4 chickens: 90 days in jail, $100k fine
-man rapes and strangles girls, with video evidence; one of the girls had to have neck surgery: community service
Nothing can get in the way of a man’s potential!
December 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Our justice system reflects the values of our society. Compare these sentences:
-woman steals 4 chickens: 90 days in jail, $100k fine
-man rapes and strangles girls, with video evidence; one of the girls had to have neck surgery: community service
Nothing can get in the way of a man’s potential!
-woman steals 4 chickens: 90 days in jail, $100k fine
-man rapes and strangles girls, with video evidence; one of the girls had to have neck surgery: community service
Nothing can get in the way of a man’s potential!
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MERCENARIES: A Video and Poster Campaign to Counter ICE Recruitment
"They are not protecting our communities—they are trying to destroy them. They aim to wear down our ability to identify w/ each other, our ability to feel compassion. If they succeed, all of us will be in danger."
@crimethinc.com ✊🏼
"They are not protecting our communities—they are trying to destroy them. They aim to wear down our ability to identify w/ each other, our ability to feel compassion. If they succeed, all of us will be in danger."
@crimethinc.com ✊🏼
December 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
MERCENARIES: A Video and Poster Campaign to Counter ICE Recruitment
"They are not protecting our communities—they are trying to destroy them. They aim to wear down our ability to identify w/ each other, our ability to feel compassion. If they succeed, all of us will be in danger."
@crimethinc.com ✊🏼
"They are not protecting our communities—they are trying to destroy them. They aim to wear down our ability to identify w/ each other, our ability to feel compassion. If they succeed, all of us will be in danger."
@crimethinc.com ✊🏼
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Another excellent video by outstanding scientists and healthcare workers about the damage being caused to public health by MAHA.
Several @defendpublichealth.bsky.social members make an appearance!
Several @defendpublichealth.bsky.social members make an appearance!
Experts Warn: Trump’s Vaccine Rewrite Risks Public Health
YouTube video by Save America Movement
youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Another excellent video by outstanding scientists and healthcare workers about the damage being caused to public health by MAHA.
Several @defendpublichealth.bsky.social members make an appearance!
Several @defendpublichealth.bsky.social members make an appearance!
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It will definitely be futile if we all throw in the towel and say "oh this isn't going to work"
Like *every* civic movement before us, it always seemed impossible until it was done. Embrace hope and action.
Sign our petition today: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow for next steps!
Like *every* civic movement before us, it always seemed impossible until it was done. Embrace hope and action.
Sign our petition today: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow for next steps!
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It will definitely be futile if we all throw in the towel and say "oh this isn't going to work"
Like *every* civic movement before us, it always seemed impossible until it was done. Embrace hope and action.
Sign our petition today: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow for next steps!
Like *every* civic movement before us, it always seemed impossible until it was done. Embrace hope and action.
Sign our petition today: www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Follow for next steps!
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Tell your members of Congress that it's time to stand with science, or they have to go. Defunding the NIH isn't just costing researchers their jobs, it will cost Americans their lives.
We're leading the charge to hold them accountable on this front. Join us at standupforscience.net
We're leading the charge to hold them accountable on this front. Join us at standupforscience.net
Current NIH policy under Bhattacharya (at the behest of Project2025 architect Russell Vought) is killing the next generation of researchers.
If you value research, tell your members of Congress that the NIH needs more than funding. It needs sound leadership.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
If you value research, tell your members of Congress that the NIH needs more than funding. It needs sound leadership.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs
Special Report: The NIH has shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs.
www.statnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Tell your members of Congress that it's time to stand with science, or they have to go. Defunding the NIH isn't just costing researchers their jobs, it will cost Americans their lives.
We're leading the charge to hold them accountable on this front. Join us at standupforscience.net
We're leading the charge to hold them accountable on this front. Join us at standupforscience.net
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Remember when people said that his supporters weren't racist.... or that racism wasn't "salient" to understanding them.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Remember when people said that his supporters weren't racist.... or that racism wasn't "salient" to understanding them.
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End childhood vaccines + villainize infant formula + stop SIDS prevention programs + dismantle maternal health programs = booming business for tiny coffin makers.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
End childhood vaccines + villainize infant formula + stop SIDS prevention programs + dismantle maternal health programs = booming business for tiny coffin makers.
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Filtration + ventilation!
Air filters: I prefer “modified CR box with PC fan” type. Quiet, effective, inexpensive & easy to build and to replace filters.
* In Canada: aidankepo.wixsite.com/northboxsyst...
* Similar in the US is “Luggable” housefresh.com/best-air-pur...
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Air filters: I prefer “modified CR box with PC fan” type. Quiet, effective, inexpensive & easy to build and to replace filters.
* In Canada: aidankepo.wixsite.com/northboxsyst...
* Similar in the US is “Luggable” housefresh.com/best-air-pur...
1/
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Filtration + ventilation!
Air filters: I prefer “modified CR box with PC fan” type. Quiet, effective, inexpensive & easy to build and to replace filters.
* In Canada: aidankepo.wixsite.com/northboxsyst...
* Similar in the US is “Luggable” housefresh.com/best-air-pur...
1/
Air filters: I prefer “modified CR box with PC fan” type. Quiet, effective, inexpensive & easy to build and to replace filters.
* In Canada: aidankepo.wixsite.com/northboxsyst...
* Similar in the US is “Luggable” housefresh.com/best-air-pur...
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Seems fine, mild even?
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Seems fine, mild even?
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Before universal newborn vaccination for Hep B, only about 1/2 of newborns who contracted Hep B got it from the birthing parent. The new ACIP recommendations will needlessly expose those infants for 2 months, and 90% of those who get Hep B will be at risk for liver cancer and cirrhosis. MAHA ftw
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Before universal newborn vaccination for Hep B, only about 1/2 of newborns who contracted Hep B got it from the birthing parent. The new ACIP recommendations will needlessly expose those infants for 2 months, and 90% of those who get Hep B will be at risk for liver cancer and cirrhosis. MAHA ftw
I just want to cry.
This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.
I missed this from a couple of weeks ago, but if you're an NIH-funded investigator, please read.
Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
Peer review will exist to make things look legitimate, but can, and will, be over-ruled. Funding decisions, ultimately, will be done by political appointees.
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I just want to cry.
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Jay Bhattacharya is advocating a eugenicist public health policy.
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"In the event of a sudden pandemic, what should we do? Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, offered a remarkably blunt answer: nothing."
#AMR 📈
#H5N1 📈
#COVID 📈
#misinformation 📈
#PublicHealth 📉
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= MAHA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
#AMR 📈
#H5N1 📈
#COVID 📈
#misinformation 📈
#PublicHealth 📉
___________________
= MAHA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Jay Bhattacharya is advocating a eugenicist public health policy.
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According to this Supreme Court:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
According to this Supreme Court:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
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Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Every time ACIP meets, Bill Cassidy (R, Coward City) makes pathetic mewling sounds about how bad the committee is.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
It is Bill Cassidy’s fault that ACIP is no longer a legitimate scientific body.
Sir, you are a fucking U.S. Senator. Impeach RFK Jr or STFU.
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NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
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Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid
Dozens of agents wielding assault rifles took two middle-aged, Spanish-speaking people away in cuffs early Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead.
www.thecity.nyc
December 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
NEW: Federal agents wearing tactical gear and wielding assault rifles busted into an apartment in Jackson Heights Thursday morning as a helicopter hovered overhead, according to eyewitnesses and video obtained by THE CITY.
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Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:
You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.
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If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them.
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded.
“Make America Healthy Again.”
I'm sure this decision won't cause any problems. Ugh.
CU to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over COVID vaccine mandate share.google/9IEagXM1f1kA...
CU to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over COVID vaccine mandate share.google/9IEagXM1f1kA...
CU to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit by former medical school employees who refused COVID vaccine
The plaintiffs had religious objections to the vaccine, but CU determined their objections weren’t legitimate and fired them, according to the Thomas More Society.
share.google
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I'm sure this decision won't cause any problems. Ugh.
CU to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over COVID vaccine mandate share.google/9IEagXM1f1kA...
CU to pay $10 million to settle lawsuit over COVID vaccine mandate share.google/9IEagXM1f1kA...
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There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:
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Academics should really start thinking about whether it makes sense to continue operating in states where a girl can turn in a physics paper that just says, “Jesus never talked about atoms,” and you’ll be fired for giving her an appropriate grade.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Academics should really start thinking about whether it makes sense to continue operating in states where a girl can turn in a physics paper that just says, “Jesus never talked about atoms,” and you’ll be fired for giving her an appropriate grade.
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A further way to spin this whole travesty is to point to it as evidence of how manufactured every battle in the culture war against universities is, have don’t with it, and never pay these clowns attention again every time they pretend to have had their speech curtailed.
Condolences to the students at OU who *were* working hard, doing the course work and earning good grades long before the administration there decreed that you only need to say "as the Bible teaches" and be done with it.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
I'm sorry your university hates you and hope you can transfer somewhere good.
If I was working at OU, I would just start handing out 100's to every student and stop writing comments.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A further way to spin this whole travesty is to point to it as evidence of how manufactured every battle in the culture war against universities is, have don’t with it, and never pay these clowns attention again every time they pretend to have had their speech curtailed.
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OU administration would never--never--stand with its instructors.
I have never met a bunch more in complete lockstep with the reactionary Christian right and more eager to do the bidding of orgs like TPUSA and Fox News.
I have never met a bunch more in complete lockstep with the reactionary Christian right and more eager to do the bidding of orgs like TPUSA and Fox News.
Administration should be standing with the instructor.
This goes beyond cowardice.
This goes beyond cowardice.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
OU administration would never--never--stand with its instructors.
I have never met a bunch more in complete lockstep with the reactionary Christian right and more eager to do the bidding of orgs like TPUSA and Fox News.
I have never met a bunch more in complete lockstep with the reactionary Christian right and more eager to do the bidding of orgs like TPUSA and Fox News.