Eustice Was a Sheep
@eusticethesheep.bsky.social
Brain tumor ate my RN career. Annoyingly helpful. I'm changing the things I can no longer accept.
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"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible" -- Dali Lama
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The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it.
More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
FDA Threatens Companies Selling Binders — Assigned
The FDA sent twelve businesses threatening letters on Tuesday, demanding that they register their chest binders as medical devices with the FDA.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The FDA says tight underwear is a medical device if trans people enjoy wearing it.
More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
More on the nonsense from our federal government by @alyssaur.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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The right to vote is currently treated as second-class, unlike the right to own guns. Although the right to bear arms seems unrelated, developing new pro-democracy theories requires seeking inspiration in the most unlikely of places, Marc Elias writes.
The Right to Vote Deserves First-Class Protection
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The right to vote is currently treated as second-class, unlike the right to own guns. Although the right to bear arms seems unrelated, developing new pro-democracy theories requires seeking inspiration in the most unlikely of places, Marc Elias writes.
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Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?
December 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.
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ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.
The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
ACIP votes to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.
The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
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The fringe 6 on SCOTUS are actively aiding the destruction of the rule of law in pursuit of their Christian Nationalist goals.
Do you see the long game these guys have played? They were patient. Tr*mp getting elected the first time paved this road we're on. Democracy needs a long game plan now.
Do you see the long game these guys have played? They were patient. Tr*mp getting elected the first time paved this road we're on. Democracy needs a long game plan now.
With its greenlighting of Texas's racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court is further normalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering.
Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage
The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discrimina...
www.democracynow.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The fringe 6 on SCOTUS are actively aiding the destruction of the rule of law in pursuit of their Christian Nationalist goals.
Do you see the long game these guys have played? They were patient. Tr*mp getting elected the first time paved this road we're on. Democracy needs a long game plan now.
Do you see the long game these guys have played? They were patient. Tr*mp getting elected the first time paved this road we're on. Democracy needs a long game plan now.
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
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More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on:
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on:
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
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Japan privatized the post office because it wasn’t profitable. People were happy at first, but recently we found out there were several serious violations of vehicle safety regulations. So now they are delivering without a kind of mid-sized trucks. This is what happens when profit comes first.
The Post Office is a service the government supplies to its citizens. Profit should not be the metric that is used to evaluate it. We do not ask police forces to turn a profit, even though there exist private security firms.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Japan privatized the post office because it wasn’t profitable. People were happy at first, but recently we found out there were several serious violations of vehicle safety regulations. So now they are delivering without a kind of mid-sized trucks. This is what happens when profit comes first.
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One sentence basically sums it up: "Under my colleagues’ reasoning, it appears that no independent agencies may lawfully exist in this country: Their determination that the MSPB cannot be independent — ...
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One sentence basically sums it up: "Under my colleagues’ reasoning, it appears that no independent agencies may lawfully exist in this country: Their determination that the MSPB cannot be independent — ...
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An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
An American journalist helped facilitate RFK Jr's ingratiation into Trump's world and kept secret disqualifying information on him that could have kept him out of major policy, which impacts millions of people.
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An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent.
It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent.
It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance.
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Why is hepatitis B vaccination in infancy so important?
Because HBV isn’t just “a disease adults get.” And babies are exposed to more blood in everyday life than most people realize.
Why is hepatitis B vaccination in infancy so important?
Because HBV isn’t just “a disease adults get.” And babies are exposed to more blood in everyday life than most people realize.
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Why is hepatitis B vaccination in infancy so important?
Because HBV isn’t just “a disease adults get.” And babies are exposed to more blood in everyday life than most people realize.
Why is hepatitis B vaccination in infancy so important?
Because HBV isn’t just “a disease adults get.” And babies are exposed to more blood in everyday life than most people realize.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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BREAKING: A judge has dismissed the election interference case against Trump and his allies, wiping out charges linked to their push to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
More on the case below ⬇️
More on the case below ⬇️
🚨 Georgia v. Trump
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BREAKING: A judge has dismissed the election interference case against Trump and his allies, wiping out charges linked to their push to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
More on the case below ⬇️
More on the case below ⬇️
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Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism
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Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
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As Alaska ignores requests to fund school repairs, its Indigenous children suffer most because rural schools serve predominantly Alaska Native students — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As Alaska ignores requests to fund school repairs, its Indigenous children suffer most because rural schools serve predominantly Alaska Native students — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
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Trump just said of Mamdani:
“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him.”
“We agree on a lot more than I thought…And we’ll be helping him.”
ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS THE TRUMP WHISPERER!!!
“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him.”
“We agree on a lot more than I thought…And we’ll be helping him.”
ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS THE TRUMP WHISPERER!!!
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump just said of Mamdani:
“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him.”
“We agree on a lot more than I thought…And we’ll be helping him.”
ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS THE TRUMP WHISPERER!!!
“I expect to be helping him, not hurting him.”
“We agree on a lot more than I thought…And we’ll be helping him.”
ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS THE TRUMP WHISPERER!!!
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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The new American healthcare “plan” is to get healthy to save money.
It leaves disabled & chronically ill people behind.
It puts the onus on people to remain healthy, whether that’s possible or not.
We don’t choose to be disabled, it just happens
Everyone deserves healthcare
It leaves disabled & chronically ill people behind.
It puts the onus on people to remain healthy, whether that’s possible or not.
We don’t choose to be disabled, it just happens
Everyone deserves healthcare
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The new American healthcare “plan” is to get healthy to save money.
It leaves disabled & chronically ill people behind.
It puts the onus on people to remain healthy, whether that’s possible or not.
We don’t choose to be disabled, it just happens
Everyone deserves healthcare
It leaves disabled & chronically ill people behind.
It puts the onus on people to remain healthy, whether that’s possible or not.
We don’t choose to be disabled, it just happens
Everyone deserves healthcare
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.
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Clinical trials are under attack from the Trump administration.
@washingtonpost.com reported on a new JAMA paper that shows grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated from the end of February to August, affecting more than 74,000 trial participants.
@allysonchiu.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com reported on a new JAMA paper that shows grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated from the end of February to August, affecting more than 74,000 trial participants.
@allysonchiu.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Clinical trials are under attack from the Trump administration.
@washingtonpost.com reported on a new JAMA paper that shows grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated from the end of February to August, affecting more than 74,000 trial participants.
@allysonchiu.bsky.social
@washingtonpost.com reported on a new JAMA paper that shows grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated from the end of February to August, affecting more than 74,000 trial participants.
@allysonchiu.bsky.social
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.
They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
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KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?