OMG John Erickson! I’d recognize that voice any where; I grew up listening to KGW in Portland. I was in high school and vividly remember when Mt St Helens “woke up”and all the local news coverage.

A beautiful late-winter day out on the water by Whidbey Island, and found some orcas frolicking in the sunshine.

How the f*ck can this unelected, unconfirmed, unvetted broligarch have so much unrestricted power to decimate every corner of OUR government? The civil servants work for US; Musk is answerable to no one, apparently.
Why has he been allowed to do this?

HIV Surveillance System-gone.
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NIH Office of Research on Women's Health-gone. bsky.app/profile/docb... 3/x

CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey-gone.
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How the hell did we ever get this broken…

Seriously. America is broken for so many, for different reasons. We need a Project 2025, but one that moves us forward and actually helps people.

Allowing ICE in hospitals is a public health catastrophe in the making Allowing ICE to conduct raids in hospitals and medical clinics is not only cruel; it is a public health catastrophe in the making, writes Eric Reinhart.

As doctors and nurses, it is our moral duty to care for every person who walks through the door & needs medical help. Allowing ICE to raid hospitals & clinics is immoral and will lead to needless suffering & death. Reading this made me cry...what nation have we become? #medsky

Wow that’s very disturbing. I wonder what her justification is

A handy little list of Washington State agencies to follow here…

Yay! Thank you!

I’m so glad he’s our governor and not Reichert

I’m an ER/ICU RN and I still haven’t really dealt with the trauma of it; I still have nightmares. It broke me in a lot of ways. It’s so hard when people pretend like it never happened, or somehow don’t believe how awful it was.

Where does HIPAA come in? Can ICE remove a patient against medical advice or MD orders?
Is hospital security going to protect patients and staff or are they expected to comply with ICE?

Serious question for any legal or hospital admins:
I am an ICU RN; what plans are in place for when/if ICE shows up at our doors? What if they demand access to patient care areas? Are RNs or other staff protected if we refuse to comply or otherwise act to protect our patients?

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Mt Baker, covered in bright white snow, looms over the dark blue waters of Admiralty Inlet in northwestern Washington State

An orca leaps out of the water near Victoria, BC, Canada

I spent the last day of 2024 out on the waters of Admiralty Inlet and the Straight…we finally had a break from the rain, and it might be the last dry day we get for the next few months.

Mt Baker looked fabulous all covered in snow; and we found a few orcas up by Victoria.

Happy New Year!

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I heard some SRKWs on our local hydrophone just a little while ago!

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Thinking of and thanking my dad and all Veterans on Veterans Day.

Thank you!

Does anyone who works in healthcare have any idea what we do when the brain-wormed anti-science antivax RFK,jr takes over HHS?
Are we going to have to do CE modules on iron lungs and ivermectin?

Same. But today I don’t even have the energy to even know if I care anymore. Or even if it will matter.

I’m still in shock.
It’s like I can’t breathe or think or process it.
I don’t know how to even look at the world today.
There are no coping mechanisms today.

Yay! Now this new place feels like home ❤️