Maria Elena
@mariaerj.bsky.social
Super nerd with background in Cognitive Psych/Human Factors (MA) and Public Health (MPH) here for information diving. Planetary Health depends on democracy. Democracy = verb.
San Diego-ish. Behave. Don't make me block you.
San Diego-ish. Behave. Don't make me block you.
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Loaf! They come in mini-loaves.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Loaf! They come in mini-loaves.
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In Illinois, ICE agents have been documented swapping license plates to hide their identity. Under Illinois law, this constitutes a Class A misdemeanor.
The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.
The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.
December 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
In Illinois, ICE agents have been documented swapping license plates to hide their identity. Under Illinois law, this constitutes a Class A misdemeanor.
The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.
The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.
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It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.
December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies.
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If you get a moment....
Scourge of sexual harassment cases in federally-subsidized housing
Feds: Landlord "told the female tenant that if she did not engage in sexual relations with him, he would give her a 24-hour eviction notice"
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
Scourge of sexual harassment cases in federally-subsidized housing
Feds: Landlord "told the female tenant that if she did not engage in sexual relations with him, he would give her a 24-hour eviction notice"
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
Justice Department investigating more than a dozen cases of sexual harassment by landlords against female tenants
The Justice Department is suing more than a dozen landlords on allegations of sexual harassment, a problem one top department official called "traumatic for the victims" and "inappropriate and illegal...
www.cbsnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you get a moment....
Scourge of sexual harassment cases in federally-subsidized housing
Feds: Landlord "told the female tenant that if she did not engage in sexual relations with him, he would give her a 24-hour eviction notice"
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
Scourge of sexual harassment cases in federally-subsidized housing
Feds: Landlord "told the female tenant that if she did not engage in sexual relations with him, he would give her a 24-hour eviction notice"
Just filed ===>
www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
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List of senators who value political games over human and civil rights and respecting the humanity of all people:
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
List of senators who value political games over human and civil rights and respecting the humanity of all people:
Every time I see a commercial for a children's hospital, I remember that other countries just have healthcare.
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Every time I see a commercial for a children's hospital, I remember that other countries just have healthcare.
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New #CDC data confirm what science has shown all along: COVID-19 vaccines protect children from severe illness, hospitalization, & death. Findings in last week’s #MMWR reinforce vaccination keeps kids safe.
Effectiveness of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Children...
This report describes COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among children ages 9 months to 17 years.
www.cdc.gov
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
December 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
✨Please share! My newsletter is out.
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
📰Flu, COVID, RSV updates
☹️SARS-CoV-2 causes low white blood cells for 20 months
💉COVID vaccine reduces all cause mortality for 4 years
🧠Mild COVID causes transient brain ischemia
& much more buff.ly/V1M00u0
#medsky 🛟😷🧪
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Ahmed Al Ahmed, is 43, a father of 2 and owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland, Australia.
Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed.
Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔
Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed.
Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ahmed Al Ahmed, is 43, a father of 2 and owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland, Australia.
Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed.
Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔
Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed.
Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔
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Pineapple Express will deliver a barrage of tropical fire hoses directed at the US West Coast over the next two weeks. Pockets of 12-18” of rain and flash flooding. The first round hits the Seattle Area early this week, as rivers are already at historic levels. Be ready to take immediate action.
December 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Pineapple Express will deliver a barrage of tropical fire hoses directed at the US West Coast over the next two weeks. Pockets of 12-18” of rain and flash flooding. The first round hits the Seattle Area early this week, as rivers are already at historic levels. Be ready to take immediate action.
The people who want to blame mental health rather than guns are the same people who don't want to give mental healthcare to Americans.
December 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The people who want to blame mental health rather than guns are the same people who don't want to give mental healthcare to Americans.
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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The WHO expert group reaffirmed what is already known: There is no link between vaccines and autism.
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The WHO expert group reaffirmed what is already known: There is no link between vaccines and autism.
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I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
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US exceeds 1,900 measles cases as outbreaks expand
The Utah-Arizona outbreak now has 254 cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
The Utah-Arizona outbreak now has 254 cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
US exceeds 1,900 measles cases as outbreaks expand
The Utah-Arizona outbreak now has 254 cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
The Utah-Arizona outbreak now has 254 cases.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
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Seattle... we have something big planned 👀
Help us bring the noise on December 18th! RSVP for details:
www.mobilize.us/seiuorganizi...
Help us bring the noise on December 18th! RSVP for details:
www.mobilize.us/seiuorganizi...
Starbucks Action and Rally · SEIU Organizing
Join union baristas for a major rally heading into the holidays!
www.mobilize.us
December 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Seattle... we have something big planned 👀
Help us bring the noise on December 18th! RSVP for details:
www.mobilize.us/seiuorganizi...
Help us bring the noise on December 18th! RSVP for details:
www.mobilize.us/seiuorganizi...
No one has asked us what kind of world we would like to enable with technology.
AI is a VC wet dream that robs us of water, energy, and jobs while making a few obscenely rich. It prevents the unions that white collar jobs *should have* formed by removing people.
We were warned for years.
AI is a VC wet dream that robs us of water, energy, and jobs while making a few obscenely rich. It prevents the unions that white collar jobs *should have* formed by removing people.
We were warned for years.
I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
No one has asked us what kind of world we would like to enable with technology.
AI is a VC wet dream that robs us of water, energy, and jobs while making a few obscenely rich. It prevents the unions that white collar jobs *should have* formed by removing people.
We were warned for years.
AI is a VC wet dream that robs us of water, energy, and jobs while making a few obscenely rich. It prevents the unions that white collar jobs *should have* formed by removing people.
We were warned for years.
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I will be doing live coverage of the ACIP meetings tomorrow and Friday on Bluesky.
Here's the agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Should be an interesting time
Here's the agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Should be an interesting time
www.cdc.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I will be doing live coverage of the ACIP meetings tomorrow and Friday on Bluesky.
Here's the agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Should be an interesting time
Here's the agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
And here is Your Local Epidemiologist and The Evidence Collective's prebunk:
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Should be an interesting time
Trump is the Milli Vanilli of fascists.
He's on stage, but he aint writing the music.
He's on stage, but he aint writing the music.
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump is the Milli Vanilli of fascists.
He's on stage, but he aint writing the music.
He's on stage, but he aint writing the music.
Today I tried a recipe of my mom's that was only written down, we never made together, and she's no longer here.
I realized why people don't beat egg whites BY HAND.
Will never do that again.
This is why we have stand mixers.
I realized why people don't beat egg whites BY HAND.
Will never do that again.
This is why we have stand mixers.
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Today I tried a recipe of my mom's that was only written down, we never made together, and she's no longer here.
I realized why people don't beat egg whites BY HAND.
Will never do that again.
This is why we have stand mixers.
I realized why people don't beat egg whites BY HAND.
Will never do that again.
This is why we have stand mixers.