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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1h

Just an eccentric cat-lover running a vigilante group for decades!

Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1h

He interviewed me in 2009 about my virginity pledge research and was pleasant enough, and I love the story about his bringing his cat to vote.
www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...

Video: Curtis Sliwa Brings Cat With Him to Vote in N.Y.C. Mayoral Election

The Republican nominee for mayor was not allowed to bring his cat inside the polling site at Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side.

www.nytimes.com

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3h

We have a solution in the Constitution for a lawless president. What will it take before just 5 GOP members will stand up for democracy? #citizensimpeachment

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 19h

And the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Interests of Men and Women

Published in The Journal of Social Psychology (Vol. 7, No. 1, 1936)

www.tandfonline.com

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 21h

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1d

"Donald J. Trump and Peter Hegseth have committed an overt act of Treason by levying war against the United States in full view of the public. They have sought to jeopardize the union of these United States by setting the States against one another in pursuit of absolute, unchecked, despotic power."

Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 1d

It's beyond time to call the President's intent to wage a "war from within" what it is: Treason.

@citizensimpeachment.com does just that in its new article of impeachment.
citizensimpeachment.com/article-of-i...

Article of Impeachment: Treason - Citizens' Impeachment

Article II: Treason (For Article I: Tyranny, please click here) H. RES _____ RESOLVED, that Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, and Peter B. Hegseth, Secretary of Defense […]

citizensimpeachment.com

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1d

South Park seems like a documentary on this point:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...

Introducing the Director of Homeland Security | South Park

YouTube video by South Park Studios

www.youtube.com

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1d

One show of courage at a time! Little by little then all at once.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 1d

Great! What are the chances 5 GOP Congress members will listen and impeach? What will it take?

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Recipe before Trump: $15
Recipe under Trump: $44

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David Bartram @dbartram.bsky.social · 2d

25 people could stop this. Twenty GOP senators and five GOP representatives could summon the courage of their lives: vote to impeach, and then convict.

And then do it again if Vance doesn't learn the intended lesson.

It doesn't even have to mean a Democratic president. Just an end to lawlessness.

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 2d

The US is on a collision course for a constitutional crisis, as Trump attempts to federalize members of red states and send them to invade blue states against the will of the governors in blue states such as Illinois and California.👇

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d

We reject military rule. We the American people, Conservatives and Liberals who disagree on many things, reject the filth of military rule. It will bring only poison to all of us.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

MORE: Immergut issued a stark warning that the efforts by Trump to make a bad-faith justification to call up the guard risked plunging the country into a form of unconstitutional military rule.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

In further conservative credentials, she worked on the Starr report.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

Custards, trifle, berry fool, Yorkshire pudding, baked beans with toast, pasties. I can keep going.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

"I require a logo for my new research project on []. It should include a stylised version of a cute animal clutching a bag of money in one paw (or claw), and a piece of expensive scientific equipment in the other."

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 3d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

What a story.
Nixon to protesters at 4 am at the Lincoln Memorial: "I said, I know you, that probably most of you think I’m an SOB. But I want you to know that I understand just how you feel.”

Kirk (Antifa Social Secretary™️) Murphy 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 ❌👑 @kirkmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

"The 82nd Airborne was in the basement of the Executive Office Building across the street."
Nixon's bizarre "rap" with demonstrators presages Trump's chronic and ever more severe cognitive disorganization.
May Trump meet the same end: but with no pardon.

Nixon's Weirdest Day

Just days after the Kent State tragedy, President Nixon made a bizarre pre-dawn visit to the Lincoln Memorial to talk with anti-war protesters.

boundarystones.weta.org

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

Waiting for "Actually Israeli biomedical advancements were all stolen." or "Distraction from genocide and forcing flotilla to pose with and hold an Israeli flag."

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 3d

The Illinois National Guard is 302 years old, originally founded by the French, and it fought the British in the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln served in it. Never before has anyone tried to use the Illinois National Guard against Illinoisians. www.il.ngb.army.mil/About-Us/

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4d

Serious question: has the Fed govt ever arrested so many elected officials in such a short period of time, across multiple cities, and not for legit corruption reasons?

This seems like a distinct degree of anti-democratic escalation.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 4d

Given all the dissidents being deported to their home countries for torture and death, the desperation inherent in attempting to destroy passports by eating them is haunting especially without any further details such as what country the passports were from.
nypost.com/2025/09/29/l...

Flight diverted after ‘strange’ passengers started to ‘freak out,’ then eat and flush passports: ‘Most terrifying 15 minutes of my life’

Their plans for international travel went down the toilet.

nypost.com

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I agree, but the headline and lede didn't mention that aspect at all: e.g., "USC sells unclaimed bodies for medical education." The headline and lede emphasized the "USC is helping to train IDF trauma surgeons" aspect.

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 5d

Right up there with "Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 5d

Has anyone even tried to support these allegations of narcoterrorism, or have they decided that words just don't have meanings anymore?
www.ebsco.com/research-sta...

Narcoterrorism | Research Starters | EBSCO Research

<p>Narcoterrorism refers to the intersection of drug trafficking and terrorism, where violent actions by drug traffickers are aimed at influencing government officials through intimidation and violenc...

www.ebsco.com

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 5d

Civilian trauma surgeons do amazing work now with much better results than before, and that's partly due to learning from the US military, and conversely US military trauma surgeons learn in civilian settings not during war. www.facs.org/for-medical-...

Military and Civilian Surgery Partner for Innovation, Effectiveness

Military-civilian partnerships benefit patients who undergo care in civilian settings and who military surgeons may treat in armed conflict zones.

www.facs.org

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Janet Rosenbaum (she/her) @janet.bsky.social · 5d

Implication here seems to be that surgeons should not have 96 hours of training with a US Navy program if they come from the wrong country? Relatedly, 6% of surgery residents are international medical graduates; programs admit individual physicians, not countries.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39985904/

Identifying Recent Trends in the Prevalence of International Medical Graduates Entering the Surgical Workforce in the United States - PubMed

The prevalence of IMGs in the US surgical workforce is decreasing. IMGs have lower match rates than US allopathic and osteopathic graduates and most surgical residency programs report rarely interview...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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