Nurse Anesthesiologist, Feminist, Humanist, Unrepentant Tree Hugger.

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"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." /1
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Not hyperbole — this is language copy and pasted from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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The 1918 flu wiped out 90% of adults in Brevig Mission, Alaska. 🧵 It carried a key mutation: PB2 E627K. Now, H5N1 is showing signs of similar adaptation. The strain detected in a Canadian teenager also carries PB2 E627K. 1/
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As we continue to try to get the full truth out about what’s happening in this country, I encourage you to watch @cspan. On yesterday a colleague had a bill in markup entitled “dismantle DEI.” In explaining why the bill was needed, multiple white R men argued that they are being “oppressed.” I didn’t bring race into anything… THEY DID & always do & then they twist history & dilute the definition of words.
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Mika and Joe will only be the first of many people who once faced with the loss of their jobs and homes, will embrace Trump. Many.
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The idea of a president soliciting a foreign country to help in his reelection was such a massive abuse of presidential power that it convinced America's founders we needed a way to remove such a president from office. Just some fun trivia. 3/3
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Franklin said, Imagine a president asked a foreign country to give him assistance in his effort to be reelected. That president would then be beholden to a foreign power. That did it. True story. 2/3
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More broadly, pushing Hegseth, Gaetz and all the other abusers and harassers signals to women -- intentionally -- -- there are in fact no consequences to men, not even when reported, not even when made public. You're on your own, you lose, forget #metoo.
Has this not already been said? The reason the lawyer(s) for the women witnesses against Gaetz are pushing for release of the Ethics Report is bc he's going to retaliate against them if he becomes AG.
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Omg do yall not know what the word adjacent means?! I'm not saying everything women do is sex work, but a lot of it is similar. Anyways I took this class at NYU called Deviance and Social Control and it explored how society is not consistent in it's labeling of deviant behavior
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So much of this is an attack on expertise, on the idea that there are actual experts who know more than a reality tv host. Because once you succeed in denigrating experts, you have no one to question you who has any, well, expertise.
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Given that DNA damage and impaired repair processes can contribute to chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative conditions, it will be crucial to investigate potential similar effects in patients with COVID-19. 5/5 link.springer.com/article/10…
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These results indicate that levels of DNA damage may be an effective indicator in prognostic decision-making and may therefore help to reduce mortality. 4/
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The levels of DNA damage in the post-COVID-19 period were significantly lower compared to those in the epidemic peak period but there was still a discernible increase in DNA damage in the ICU group. 3/
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During the epidemic peak, the levels of DNA damage ranged from the highest to the lowest levels in the following groups, respectively: intubated-ICU, non-intubated-ICU, non-ICU, and influenza with a discernible increase in DNA damage in ICU-treated patients. 2/
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DNA damage caused by COVID-19 in post COVID-19 ➡️ A new study finds that SARS-CoV2 caused DNA damage both during the epidemic peak and during the post-COVID-19 period. The levels of DNA damage depended on the severity of the illness. 1/
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On this day in 1960, a six-year-old Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white school in Louisiana. A mob protested her. This is not ancient history. Ruby Bridges is 70 now.
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Veterans health care is one of those programs. I hope Vets for trump are ready tonight lose their benefits.
We shouldn’t let the government spend money on programs that have expired. Yet that’s exactly what happens today: half a *trillion* dollars of taxpayer funds ($516 B ) goes each year to programs which Congress has allowed to expire. There are 1,200 programs that are no longer authorized but still receive appropriations. This is totally nuts. We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes. We’ll challenge any politician who disagrees to defend the other side.
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So he decided not to pick her.
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The American Taliban is already happening.
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This post is a pure example of why some Democrats are not built for this. Compare this to how Republicans treated Obama after he won. Have we learned anything?
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I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.
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The American public, who paid his salary, deserve to know.
New: Republicans on House Ethics have canceled their meeting tomorrow with Dems that was expected to address the long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz The GOP members huddled privately Thursday night. Those lawmakers declined to comment as they left the meeting W/@sarahnferris
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