Rachael Sparks
@sparkytheauthor.bsky.social
Anti-Nazis, pro-choice, pro-vax. 💙 NC Democrat, ex Texan. Past microbiologist & transplant specialist, now marketer and pharma tech startup co-founder.
The nuggets buried in here are a GD delight. Brought the girlfriend to dine with royalty too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The nuggets buried in here are a GD delight. Brought the girlfriend to dine with royalty too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
Next time I am fired I will call myself "sidelined"
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Next time I am fired I will call myself "sidelined"
Maybe this will finally entice people to consider Medicare for all.
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Maybe this will finally entice people to consider Medicare for all.
If you worry that LLMs will take your job, here's Outlook's Copilot telling me the wrong place to find Outlook's out-of-office settings.
September 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you worry that LLMs will take your job, here's Outlook's Copilot telling me the wrong place to find Outlook's out-of-office settings.
Oh please, he has a soft spot for getting lauded by everyone and his approval is now in a darker latrine than Alligator Alcatraz
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Oh please, he has a soft spot for getting lauded by everyone and his approval is now in a darker latrine than Alligator Alcatraz
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...
Every white middle aged Republican male looks like a pedophile to me
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Every white middle aged Republican male looks like a pedophile to me
Kristi Noem kills age cap for ICE — letting teenagers join the force and get guns
www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...
www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...
August 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Kristi Noem kills age cap for ICE — letting teenagers join the force and get guns
www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...
www.rawstory.com/trump-deport...
I can't not see Tammy from IG Taryndelaniesmith
July 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I can't not see Tammy from IG Taryndelaniesmith
The acronym is pronounced Ripoff
July 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The acronym is pronounced Ripoff
A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article.
Gift article.
June 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A List of Nearly Everything in the Senate G.O.P. Bill, and How Much It Would Cost or Save www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article.
Gift article.
Cuidado ancianos
June 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Cuidado ancianos
"Sanctuary cities" in 2007, ~17 years after the sanctuary movement began (in CHURCHES). Not sure what counts as heartland to him but looks pretty evenly distributed in distance and state politics to me.
June 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"Sanctuary cities" in 2007, ~17 years after the sanctuary movement began (in CHURCHES). Not sure what counts as heartland to him but looks pretty evenly distributed in distance and state politics to me.
deep thoughts/shrug
June 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
deep thoughts/shrug
The lack of a better name for this dumpster-sized pile flaming poo is almost as offensive as all the BS it delivers
June 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The lack of a better name for this dumpster-sized pile flaming poo is almost as offensive as all the BS it delivers
Excellent editorial decision. No notes.
May 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Excellent editorial decision. No notes.
So not only does the Qatar grift cost us >$7.7B in plane maintenance, up-fitting it to AF1 level security adds a few more, and sucks expertise from the team already upgrading our current AF1s.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
May 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So not only does the Qatar grift cost us >$7.7B in plane maintenance, up-fitting it to AF1 level security adds a few more, and sucks expertise from the team already upgrading our current AF1s.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Hegseth ordered military campus library books scoured for DEI, but when they suggested removing the Bell Curve (racism handbook of 1994), it instead stayed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
May 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hegseth ordered military campus library books scoured for DEI, but when they suggested removing the Bell Curve (racism handbook of 1994), it instead stayed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Wow I read about Crays in Crichton books and always wondered! Is that what they were sitting on in Sneakers?
April 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wow I read about Crays in Crichton books and always wondered! Is that what they were sitting on in Sneakers?
I went to find an app to remind me to exercise and came home with an app to help mix cocktails.
Bonus: it looks like a 1994 Oregon Trail game
Bonus: it looks like a 1994 Oregon Trail game
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I went to find an app to remind me to exercise and came home with an app to help mix cocktails.
Bonus: it looks like a 1994 Oregon Trail game
Bonus: it looks like a 1994 Oregon Trail game
Texas keeps voting red and introducing voter suppression bills...yet 30-40% of TX rural hospitals are at risk for closure if the GOP and President Musk gut Medicaid.
www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/432-...
Electoral results map for comparison
www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/432-...
Electoral results map for comparison
February 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Texas keeps voting red and introducing voter suppression bills...yet 30-40% of TX rural hospitals are at risk for closure if the GOP and President Musk gut Medicaid.
www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/432-...
Electoral results map for comparison
www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/432-...
Electoral results map for comparison
The list of terms for the NSF to flag/review/block funding, should they appear in a research grant includes "bias" "women" "female" "black" "excluded" "trauma" and several other words we use in research to, you know, describe patients / tissues / statistical analysis / what's included.
Fing idiots!
Fing idiots!
February 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The list of terms for the NSF to flag/review/block funding, should they appear in a research grant includes "bias" "women" "female" "black" "excluded" "trauma" and several other words we use in research to, you know, describe patients / tissues / statistical analysis / what's included.
Fing idiots!
Fing idiots!
I'm old enough to remember when Hillary's email server was with >$100Million in investigations that found nothing, yet the GOP is letting Musk control our bank routing and account #s?
February 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Hillary's email server was with >$100Million in investigations that found nothing, yet the GOP is letting Musk control our bank routing and account #s?
So Republicans trust their PCP 2X more than the FDA or CDC, and also trust RFK Jr and Drumpf 2X more.
Where TF do they think their doctors learn what drugs and vaccines are a good idea??
Where TF do they think their doctors learn what drugs and vaccines are a good idea??
January 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So Republicans trust their PCP 2X more than the FDA or CDC, and also trust RFK Jr and Drumpf 2X more.
Where TF do they think their doctors learn what drugs and vaccines are a good idea??
Where TF do they think their doctors learn what drugs and vaccines are a good idea??
