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Ellen Braaten

@ellenbraaten.bsky.social

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Child Psychologist; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Author; New Book -Bright Kids Who Couldn’t Care Less: How to Rekindle Your Child’s Motivation @guilford www.ellenbraatenphd.com

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve been asked to speak many times about gun violence over the last decade….and here are some thoughts on my experience @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

The more I talk about gun violence, the less I have to say

Child psychologist Ellen Braaten wasn't an expert on gun violence when she received a call from a TV producer in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. But I did know how to comfort and advise parents af...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 3h

This looks fabulous!!

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 3h

Yes! Big hint!

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 4h

Every day another person who didn’t do the required reading expecting us to say “Thank you for your ignorance on this matter!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4h

Siri do any religions say anything about how we should treat the poor and the sick

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

THESE PAGAN LIBTARD WAR DANCES CAN ONLY PRESAGE CALAMITY!!

MEIN LEADER PRÄSIDENT TRUMP, HERR REICHSCOUCHVUCKER VON VANCE, HERR VERRÜCKTPSYCHO STEPHANMÜLLER, DER VOLK DEMAND YOU DEPLOY DIE PANZERBRIGADEN NOW!!!

Vielen Damk für your attention to this matter

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 6h

They’ve lowered their standards.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 7h

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 1d

A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics

Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics. John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 8h

This is all completely normal.

SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 8h

"A Republican state lawmaker in Florida has filed a bill requiring all of the state's public state universities and colleges to rename one roadway on their campuses after the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk."

If they don't, they get no state funds.

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source: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk
If they don't, the legislation proposes holding back state funds that go to the institutions.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve met some great people who have become lifelong friends.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

2/ setting the pugilism aside, Trump is 79. he regularly says absurd things and things that didn't happen or conversations we know didn't take place. so we get what amounts to cognition 12 dimensional chess where we hear 'well in his heart he believed he wrestled bin laden and three lions.'

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

3/ it's really better to say the presidential is either delusional or suffering from dementia. people don't have to play the emperors clothes game. on top of that political fight is good. but this doesn't even get to that.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 16h

grateful to hear him say this out loud — too few institutions have this decency and courage

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 17h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 14h

Catastrophic thinking never provides a way forward.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 15h

Might as well do nothing!!

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 16h

Beyond horrific.

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 16h

I like the “all is lost” group terminology. That’s exactly how we should describe them from now on.

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 18h

You guys might have a point here 😁

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 19h

It’s not just the Trump voters. It’s the people who knew better and still didn’t vote for the woman.

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 19h

Or the hair extensions

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 3d

There is no longer room in America to be "apolitical."

We can no longer assume that the rest of the nation operates in its best interests and will carry American democracy across the finish line for us.

Every person who cares about living in a free society must mobilize their passion and power.

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