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TTRisinger
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Public health professional, mom, wife, artist, nature lover.
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Among the things I am thankful for is the courage and patriotism of all the federal workers who blew the whistle on agency policies that harm Americans, and those who support us. #CourageIsContagious Art by @drrabbithole.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂🥧

Have some anti-vax family at your table?

Here is a summary of 14 studies that found no association between vaccines and autism.

h/t @drtomfrieden.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Trump and his administration have targeted at least 470 people, organizations and institutions for retribution since he took office, according to a @reuters.com tally – an average of more than one a day. www.reuters.com/investigates...
Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting
A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Starbucks baristas picketing at the Buffalo, NY store where it all began for Starbucks Workers United.

A good reminder: When you’re fighting a corporate oligarchy, worker solidarity is the only path to a fair economy.

Very thankful for unions today! ✊
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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If Thanksgiving starts the Christmas season, it's not too early for this
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I grew up on all those US TV shows featuring holier-than-thou young lawyers crowing about the sacrosanct nature of the US Constitution.

It's clear that the Constitution is meaningless to enough people to allow this jackass to ignore it as he wishes.

The document has lost its hallowed veneer.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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You may be looking at us and asking yourself what WE'RE thankful for this year.

Fair question, given *waves arms at everything going on*

It's been a tough year. The walls have been closing in as federal employees & public land lovers cling to the cliff side. This was not the journey we wanted.
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Today I and everyday I am:
Grateful for Vaccines
Grateful for Science
Grateful for Public Health Workers
Grateful for Doctors
Grateful for Nurses
Grateful for Scientists
Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up.
#Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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On Nov 5 at 4 PM, join and support members of the healthcare, public health, and scientific communities in a march from the APHA Rally for the Public’s Health to the Capitol to deliver petitions to Congress demanding the resignation or removal of RFK Jr.
www.911forhealthandscience.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Yesterday was the first day in American history that a television personality of a major network openly called for the genocide of Americans during a live broadcast. Can you guess which network he works for and why did you say Fox News?
September 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Art March for Democracy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Art March for Democracy · Indivisible
This a local Indivisible event! Join artists featured in this year's ArtPrize for a demonstration to preserve our Democracy! Gather with like-minded community members to create your own positive, no...
www.mobilize.us
September 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yes, Republicans are fighting for oligarchs. Yes, they are the most guilty of rigging the system. But Democrats need to stop listening to their own oligarchs.
August 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The ignorant, trust fund baby, ambulance chaser lacks even the bare minimum level of cognitive ability to understand how science and data work.
Aluminum Standard Science
Because "deceptive devices" sounds better than "statistical tests that RFK Jr. doesn't like or understand"
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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President Trump said the only way out of "Alligator Alcatraz" is to be deported — but that's not the way U.S. law works.

We're defending people's right to contest their detention and deportation in court.
August 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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"I completely agree with Nick Fuentes" is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
July 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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At some point, the Republican project shifted from attacking scientific consensus on particular subjects that ran counter to their political interests to trying to shut down all scientific inquiry wherever it might be headed.
July 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Two new lawsuits filed today, one by a coalition of Dem states looking to stop the OBBB provision targeting Planned Parenthood, and another by Planned Parenthood itself over changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program by HHS, which PP says places unreasonable demands on grant recipients:
States Sue to Block Trump Law Defunding Planned Parenthood
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM