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@auntytutu.bsky.social

Retired Public Health professor; liberal>progressive Democrat; social justice warrior for LGBTQ+ & reproductive health care for all; anti-fascist; hobby farmer & musician.

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Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is true.

I have known Carl for 2 decades and he is smart, dedicated, and quite apolitical, focused on science and getting stuff done on important problems.

Huge unnecessary loss of leadership and expertise.

24.11.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 576    ๐Ÿ” 247    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

24.11.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Community health centers in Tennessee's 7th district served 109,000 patients last year. Now they're losing millions in funding. These aren't handoutsโ€”they're the places where working people go when they can't afford a $200 doctor visit.
Need a ride to the polls? Email TN7Support@indivisibletn.org

Community health centers in Tennessee's 7th district served 109,000 patients last year. Now they're losing millions in funding. These aren't handoutsโ€”they're the places where working people go when they can't afford a $200 doctor visit. Need a ride to the polls? Email TN7Support@indivisibletn.org

Community health centers in Tennessee's 7th district served 109,000 patients last year. Now they're losing millions in funding. These aren't handoutsโ€”they're the places where working people go when they can't afford a $200 doctor visit.
Need a ride to the polls? Email TN7Support@indivisibletn.org

24.11.2025 02:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 398    ๐Ÿ” 243    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
The thing about public health programs is that they're a victim of their own success.
YouTube video by Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN The thing about public health programs is that they're a victim of their own success.

The thing about public health programs is that...

24.11.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Firm, but fairโœŠ

#DebtStrike!

24.11.2025 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weโ€™re about to invade Venezuela because trump wants their oil. No other reason. The airspace has been cleared. Embassies are being evacuated. Flights are being canceled.

Heโ€™s going to kill people for oil.

24.11.2025 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8027    ๐Ÿ” 3339    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 895    ๐Ÿ“Œ 335

He is an absent SoS. He is no different than he was in the Senate. Useless

23.11.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œTicking Time Bombโ€: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldnโ€™t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldnโ€™t access abortions.

When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about.

Then she died of preeclampsia.

24.11.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1318    ๐Ÿ” 696    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 57
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Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals Users posing as rightwing Americans are operating internationally, per the platformโ€™s transparency feature

Social media needs to be regulated and owners need to be held accountable for content.
This? is fascist propaganda being allowed.

23.11.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NEW: California reaches a historic milestone in wildfire response as @calfire.bsky.social brings on 650 new officers this year.

While Donald Trump undercuts federal readiness for mega-fires that threaten communities, we continue to dominate with key investments in fire preparedness.

23.11.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1430    ๐Ÿ” 239    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

The biggest divide is not between โ€œrightโ€ and โ€œleft." Itโ€™s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

23.11.2025 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3259    ๐Ÿ” 982    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 109    ๐Ÿ“Œ 47

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

23.11.2025 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14468    ๐Ÿ” 3299    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 459    ๐Ÿ“Œ 160
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A federal judge didnโ€™t โ€œstealโ€ the Commander-in-Chiefโ€™s powersโ€”she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isnโ€™t judicial review, but officials who insist theyโ€™re above it.

23.11.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11833    ๐Ÿ” 3639    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 518    ๐Ÿ“Œ 167

This is my kind of good trouble.

23.11.2025 19:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21927    ๐Ÿ” 5666    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 726    ๐Ÿ“Œ 435

George W Bushโ€™s administration found lawyers to justify torturing prisoners

Now Trump found lawyers to justify murdering fisherman they say are smuggling drugs

This is why Mark Kelly and his colleagues made the video telling troops to follow only legal orders

And why Trump threatened to kill them

23.11.2025 03:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2193    ๐Ÿ” 912    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 34    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

meme via TGL - The Good Life

22.11.2025 10:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6638    ๐Ÿ” 2068    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 113

every single baby had to be
hospitalized.

23.11.2025 00:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 464    ๐Ÿ” 228    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kidโ€™s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied โ€œI donโ€™t care.โ€

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

23.11.2025 00:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8533    ๐Ÿ” 4084    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 289    ๐Ÿ“Œ 211

You absolutely have the constitutional right to record ICE, Border Patrol, or any law enforcement officer in public, and with everything happening in Charlotte right now, people need to understand that clearly.

22.11.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8921    ๐Ÿ” 2687    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66
As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

22.11.2025 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14173    ๐Ÿ” 5110    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 346    ๐Ÿ“Œ 217
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Remembering this sweet boy today, who was shot and killed by cops within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in. It was a toy gun. He was 12. 11/22/2014. Letโ€™s say his name. ๐Ÿ˜ญ
#TamirRice
#BlackLivesMatter
#Pinks #SheShed

23.11.2025 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1463    ๐Ÿ” 444    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Bondi should rot in prison.

23.11.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

This kid is brilliant. Voice of a generation.

22.11.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10996    ๐Ÿ” 3121    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 406    ๐Ÿ“Œ 133
Mamdani pictured standing next to Trump.

Mamdani pictured standing next to Trump.

People think tyrants rage because they're strong.

But the truth is they only rage when they know the room will absorb it.

Mamdani didn't absorb it.
So Trump didn't rage.

Fear is the oxygen of authoritarianism.

Take it away, and even a strongman starts to sound like a man.

~ Bruce Fanger ~

22.11.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1359    ๐Ÿ” 365    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the carโ€™s driverโ€™s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, โ€œGet out of the carโ€ and โ€œI donโ€™t care.โ€
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

22.11.2025 16:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1426    ๐Ÿ” 846    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 81
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Exactly ๐Ÿ’ฏ

22.11.2025 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 239    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office.

She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."

AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."

Who remembers those early Palantir trades

22.11.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8841    ๐Ÿ” 2259    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 158    ๐Ÿ“Œ 82
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now โ€œWhat the hell is transgender?โ€
The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with โ€œThatโ€™s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.

โ€˜Transgenderโ€™ putting  describes someone whose gender โ€“ who they know themselves to be โ€“ doesnโ€™t match the sex they were assigned at birth. Itโ€™s not new, and itโ€™s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; weโ€™re just finally talking about it openly.

You donโ€™t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. Thatโ€™s how decent folks handle things theyโ€™re still getting used to.โ€

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now โ€œWhat the hell is transgender?โ€ The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with โ€œThatโ€™s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. โ€˜Transgenderโ€™ putting describes someone whose gender โ€“ who they know themselves to be โ€“ doesnโ€™t match the sex they were assigned at birth. Itโ€™s not new, and itโ€™s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; weโ€™re just finally talking about it openly. You donโ€™t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. Thatโ€™s how decent folks handle things theyโ€™re still getting used to.โ€

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Forceโ€™s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like thisโ€ฆ

22.11.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11615    ๐Ÿ” 3182    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 99    ๐Ÿ“Œ 135
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NEW U.S. Senate Joint Economics Committee REPORT: South Carolina Families Have Had To Pay $472 More For Monthly Items Since Donald Trump Took Office Due to Inflation

22.11.2025 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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