Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes. 12992441807 0
Long Island Jim @jim-hughes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026You need to walk out of every VA doctors as well as nurses. The military needs to step up and remove republicans to protect vets. 010 0
AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 25/01/2026bsky.app/profile/umai...AuntieU@umaija.bsky.social"Time to shut this down. Congress. Taxation. Everything. Prepare for mass strikes." - Matthew Cooke 020 0
The Art Of Hobbes Prime @the-art-of-hobbes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Plus being told that their job is no longer classified as a skilled profession? Yikes. 010 0
Max Andrews @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com · 25/01/2026There are 5 million nurses in the US and they are pretty politically moderate as a cohort. A one million vote net swing in this group could flip every swing state. 020 0
beachydreams.bsky.social @beachydreams.bsky.social · 25/01/2026✊🏽🇺🇸✊🏽 This would be a MASSIVE wake up and call to action by other large workforces (hopefully) like unions.media.tenor.coma man with a beard is holding a sword in his mouth while another man looks on .ALT: a man with a beard is holding a sword in his mouth while another man looks on . 000 0
Merry Miller 8647 congress 202-224-3121 @monetpainter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I have a nurse in the family. If they did this, I can put off any doctor or hospital appointments I have barring an emergency. My contribution would be cancelling my appointments to lighten the burden on those who must show up. Others can do the same if they are like me with a flexible schedule. 010 0
Kat Denise @katpic57.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Good. I’d like to see a nationwide call to #Impeach the criminal in our WH! 010 0
lauraadrian2.bsky.social @lauraadrian2.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I’m often amazed nurses aren’t more radicalized. Calling them “angels” and “heroes” instead of paying them adequately and staffing hospitals reasonably 000 0
Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nurses are badass. I saw this when they were striking in Vancouver, BC. The most underestimated and unappreciated, and often the best of us. They know how to be strong in the face of what would overwhelm the rest of us. 020 0
Cherylbaden@bluesky @oldagitelady53.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Anyone who knows a nurse knows they care! 010 0
sabinstargem.bsky.social @sabinstargem.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Refuse all emergency services to ICE. They want to live by the law of the jungle, they can die to it. 020 0
3cboymom.bsky.social @3cboymom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026That would certainly grind things to a halt. 😊 000 0
paullymoonbeam.bsky.social @paullymoonbeam.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Someone's got to nurse this culture back to health. 000 0
Lisa1836 @lisa1836.bsky.social · 25/01/2026God, I hope so. Then again, nurses are total ballers anyway, so I'm not surprised that they're contemplating nationwide strike. 000 0
egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Is there a way to support this as a non medical professional? 010 0
George "Clay" M @gclaymitchell4th.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nurses are getting tired of the crap. I don't blame them. They have a lot to be angry and upset about. 0270 0
Stanley Parks @stanleyparks.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nursing as a profession is more dangerous than policing. It is physically gruelling, emotionally damaging, and yet they show up every day, no ego trips, healing people. #fuckice #nursesheal 0290 0
bic pentameter @bicklepentameter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Stop treating MAGA patients. Stop the abuse. 100 0
Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I have an airplane and already fly volunteer medical missions. How can I help? 0210 0
Princess Meerkat @princessmeerkat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Trump can say they aren’t professional but every hospital in this country would grind to a halt without them. 130 0
hotmessinaz.bsky.social @hotmessinaz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026They should. I mean- they’re not “professional” any more anyway, right?! 010 0
🦋🐱🐕🐠🍄🍃🦋 @fnvike.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Add the orange asshat's declaration about nursing not being considered "professional" along with education, decreasing the amount of financial aid that students are allowed for schooling. I say it's about time 2833 0
Betty Ann @vegavannah.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I was just thinking about nurses doing a national strike and if a fund would get set up for something like that. 1100 0
Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 25/01/2026#GenStrike it's time. #NoKings x 10 Remember he does, what you let him. 000 0
I don’t use this anymore. Bsky Staff are psychos. @angelespaladin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Let’s hope they follow through and make this a reality. 010 0
uWuul @sequeencing.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Praying they do, if a nationwide nurses strike rolled out in the United States I think it would be the fire starter for a general strike across the country. 000 0
Heather @radicallabgeek.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Tap in to the social workers, med researchers, health officers continuing care/LTC, psychologists, & anyone else working with Vet populations (including vets). 051 0
Granny Zee @grannyzee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026As a retired VA nurse, this was a gut punch. I never met him But As I type this, there are tears in my eyes. My heart breaks. He exemplifies so many VA nurses I worked with. 090 0
Erica Squires @ericasquires.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The r/nursing sub is popping off. They are rightly PISSED. This man signed up during the height of Covid to be a VA ICU nurse and died protecting others. 135935 0
The Hog Crank @hogcrank.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Imagine what would happen in Florida if all the nurses walked out. 200 0
🏀 Jones (🦋Ed.) @bdevil90.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Everyone in every field should strike if they can. No work should get done until this administration is gone. 000 0
Good Trouble @twinkb23.bsky.social · 25/01/2026We *need* this to happen!! If they come after one of us, they come after all of us. 000 0
Kim @kimoco.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I hope so! They bring a moral aspect to all this that is needed too. 000 0
Colm Odinson @colmodinson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Speaking as a doctor: DO NOT fuck with nurses. 010 0
Nick Gorton 🏳️⚧️ @nickgorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Let's go. I can work extra shifts in the ER and unlike many docs, I can start a decent IV. As long as y'all show me how to work the pumps or where your stash of old micro drop sets are I'll be the worst ER nurse ever until the strike is over. 010 0
Bad_Cyclist @badcyclist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026‘Radicalised?’ So now it’s radical to not want arbitrary executions of citizens on the street? This is the problem, Fascists do the most appalling things to people, people object, they’re immediately identified as ’radical,’ or even terrorists. It’s not radical to object to ex judicial executions! 010 0
Ms "I Want To Eat Your Brain" ugh, no, not YOURS, gross! 🤢 @brainmist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026ICE seeking healthcare are going to have a very grim awakening. 060 0
Ms "I Want To Eat Your Brain" ugh, no, not YOURS, gross! 🤢 @brainmist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nurses have faced a hell of a lot of dismissive, dehumanizing shit in the past few decades: massive staff layoffs/overburdening of remaining employees; failed protection from violence; MD disregard; overwork/underpayment; COVID mismanagement... And now murder by the state. I think it's been due. 1581 0
NoeKai @noekai2013.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I am a nurse and I am tired of this shit. I am tired of what it is doing to our mental health, as well as our physical health. This is a public health emergency. People can’t get to dr’s appts, chemo appointment, obstetric care. The streets are less safe. If not nurses, who? 1163 0
Multinominousc ≥🇺🇸│🇨🇭🏴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️│🇺🇦🇵🇸🇺🇳 @polyonymous.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Good. They should. If the government can't respect the safety of those who would work (often in the background) to keep the nation running, then they need a harsh lesson. Nurses are long overdue for some proper respect. FAFO fascist fucks. 000 0
Glockymolo @cpht-lvn-rn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Most nurses worth their salt were already at least a little radicalized. We see the consequences of our ill society in myriad ways and more often than most. I'd concerned by the nurse who saw all that and WASN'T angry at the way things have been, even long before the hell Trump is trying to bring. 000 0
esg @esg.myatproto.social · 25/01/2026Anecdotal but many (most?) nurses have a huge sense of responsibility and get kinda wrecked at the idea of walking out on their patients who need them, even if it's in the best of causes. Hence the (perhaps) reluctance to act en masse. But i don't mistake it for apathy - it's ongoing moral injury. 0180 0
gurble.bsky.social @gurble.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I hope so because an astonishing number of nurses are full on MAGA 020 0
chinakat.bsky.social @chinakat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Oh. Nurses were the original rabble rousers. Nightingale was a rebel. Lots of our history is packed with suffragettes. Lillian Wald founded VNS in the Henry Street Settlement. We just forgot. 😈 070 0
power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026They’re also the ones fighting for Medicare for All! 010 0
fencepostmalone.bsky.social @fencepostmalone.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Organized Nurses know how to fight power and get big wins! 000 0
Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 25/01/2026What about the nurse who was abducted and who gave medical assistance to one of her captors! 0100 0
Kathy Tafel @kathytafel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I mean also the administration also made a rule that nursing isn’t a profession that needs student loans so they are already grumpy. 050 0
The Real Ponsonby Britt @p-britt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Yay for mobilizing nurses, but let’s not hurt the people that need medical care. Any protest or strike or other action should hurt the people responsible, not the allies. 000 0
Zeek Yabo @zeeky91.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Love and support Part of me wants you to only strike in republican states/districts but your call 010 0
nic... ... @antagonic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026union nurses don't fuck around, they have by far the highest membership and engagement rates of all the (already pretty highly unionized) workers in my healthcare system. When they throw their weight around, it's Significant, I'll say that much 080 0
annabellelecter.bsky.social @annabellelecter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Good. The Trump Administration has been horrible to nurses, from loans to PPE. 010 0
💎 Elizabeth 💎 @shinylion.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nurses have been THROUGH IT over the past five years and the straight up government sanctioned murder of one of their own is breaking so many of them. 010 0
Lugh @tuathade.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Nat’l strike would be even better. It wasn’t really in the news here, but last week hedge funds in Europe started dumping US treasuries and bonds b/c no longer considered a safe investment due to the Greenland situation. EU/Canada unity made a huge difference too but $’s lost can get instant results 0221 0
Dr. Strangepork @julstrangepork.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The country would come to a halt if nurses decided to strike. Nurses don't play. 010 0
HumanityExists @humanityexists.bsky.social · 25/01/2026DO NOT FCK with nurses. They take care of ALL of us. I stand along side nurses everywhere. 👊🏼 050 0
Jen G @jennifance.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Oh I hope so much they do. All of them, in and out of clinical positions. ✊♥️ 000 0
Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Aren’t they already on a labor strike in NYC? 130 0
SlimHickman @slimhickman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026well, shit, add today to the trump admin downgrading nursing degrees from a "professional" designation- which seems like years ago, but was... two months ago 010 0
Terrible Swift Sword Enjoyer @hamantaschendog.bsky.social · 25/01/2026They should deny medical care to Republicans. I’m not sure if I’m joking/venting right now or being serious. 070 0
Hey hey it’s me! @heyheydown1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Walk out on ICE agents that are patients. Let them rely on their buddies for medical treatment 110 0
BlackOwl @jbertuglia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My sister is a nurse who made an unfortunate voting decision in November. I really have been hoping for her to change her mind, but I am extremely disappointed in her thus far. I hope that when she realizes her colleagues are out striking that she made a mistake, but I'm heartbroken nonetheless. 💔 0100 0
Chris Laco @claco.bsky.social · 25/01/2026And generally speaking healthcare staff do not strike because the patient comes first so that's how serious s*** is. 020 0
R. A. Allen @raallen87.bsky.social · 25/01/2026MN just did a 15k nurses strike. Michigan is right next store, and MNA would almost certainly back it. Ann Arbor must be furious right now. 1740 0
Amy @thatswhatamysaid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I would love to see nurses walking off the job. Especially at the VA. 0130 0
Crittertech @crittertech.bsky.social · 25/01/2026 People don't ever realize there's a million ways to die in a hospital and the good will of nurses is all that's protecting them. To quote the administration..."It'd be a shame if things started happening"...to a certain type of patients. 110 0
PacifiCali 🟦🟧🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸 @paccali68.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The Minneapolis cops need to get on the right side of this and protect their citizens They look hapless with these lawless basement dwelling thugs running around terrorizing their community 170 0
scanit.bsky.social @scanit.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This would be powerful. Particularly if Doctors withdrew as well. 000 0
Katherine Cummings @katherinecummings.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Every nurse should strike. Nurses in Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Health Centers, public health departments, hospitals, colleges, nursing homes, private practices, and home healthcare. 010 0
lvdicedealer @lvdicedealer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If nurses walk out, the Boomers might finally get the wake up call they need... Don't ever get in the way of a senior citizen and their MediCare. 040 0
liseabetta.bsky.social @liseabetta.bsky.social · 25/01/2026@liseabetta.bsky.social@liseabetta.bsky.social#Cdnpoli #USpoli 🧵 My mother was a nurse. She attended protests in order to use her skills as a HC provider. #Canadian nurses, spring break is coming. Do you have plans for #US travel, do your children have high school trips planned for the #UnitedStates? It isn't safe to go, it's not ethical. 010 0
Lee Thumwood @lt14gjc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026General strike can be the only way regimes listen. Ultimately, we hold all the power. Workers of the world; unite! 000 0
cricket @justice4cricket.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This is what is needed. Nurses, postal carriers, teamsters, air traffic controllers. The infrastructures that keep this machine going have the power to bring it to a grinding halt. 020 0
Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 25/01/2026The nursing subreddit changed their pic to one of Alex 372255 0
No to oligarchs @notooligarchs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Trump & MAGA America is about killing Americans. Plain & simple. Either killing Americans through poverty, or killing them through lack of healthcare, or killing them by allowing industry to pollute, or killing them by ignoring science & medicine. Or killing them with their Gestapo called ICE. 010 0
btwn-revolutions.bsky.social @btwn-revolutions.bsky.social · 25/01/2026The National Nurses United endorsed Bernie Sanders during both his 2016 and his 2020 presidential campaign, stating all the values they share with a progressive agenda. They're already a driving force for change www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...nationalnursesunited.orgNational Nurses United to Endorse Bernie SandersNational Nurses United, the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, announces today that it will endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Nurses cite how Sand... 010 0
Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I need to check on my cousin George's Instagram just to check the temperature. He's a gay Chicano nurse and he already hates Trump and this fascism. I haven't seen his postings since Alex was murdered. 020 0
iplayguitarbad.bsky.social @iplayguitarbad.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I know that medical professionals are duty-bound to treat all comers, but I really think that should not apply to traitors waging war on American cities. Healthcare providers would be 100% within their rights to say they will not serve an occupying force. 010 0
royal-69.bsky.social @royal-69.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Time for a country wide genera strike??? 000 0
Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Don't air your grievances about nurses in my mentions. It's an immediate block. Read the room. 31866 0
Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Not that anything about this is radical, but pissing off a bunch of nurses who are already fed up with ICE and everything else going on in healthcare, is really not going to end well 6101460 0
Deb Polston @debpolston.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Trump already insulted them by suggesting nursing shouldn’t be considered a professional degree. 0380 0
🇨🇦Jae @jae-jwpez.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My Mom was a nurse. My cousins are nurses. My nieces are nurses. My friends are nurses I said it earlier and I will repeat it You DO NOT fuck with nurses They are proof that angels exist on Earth but also know a thousand ways to make your death very painful 0371 0
Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026As well they fucking should. Absolutely irate. 010 0
pardonall-joe24.bsky.social @pardonall-joe24.bsky.social · 25/01/2026..but more will die if nurses strike...? 110 0
Gay ISIS Brony @rainbowdaesh.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My sister in-law is an ER nurse and both her and my brother are fairly conservative (not trumpers though). Gonna be really interesting to see how much this shit radicalizes them. 000 0
mysteriousletter.bsky.social @mysteriousletter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Then they’ll shoot the nurses as they strike. 100 0
Aloysius Freeman @aloysiusfreeman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026As if I needed any more confirmation about Nursing as a career path. 010 0
Laurie T @lauriethomp.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I’ll tell you what, if the nurses actually do this, all the other disciplines (social workers, pharmacists, dietitians, respiratory therapists, MAs, clerks, orderlies, MDs, PT, OT, will sympathy strike as well. It will shut the hospitals down. Do IT! 031 0
mugggle.bsky.social @mugggle.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Only strike against helping GOP and paramilitary groups. Yes, you swore an oath, but so did they and they are ignoring theirs. 000 0
conordale @conordale.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Has anyone heard from the Minnesota Nurses Association?! The largest nurse union in MN?! 110 0
Haystack (he/him) @haystack-tm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My partner is an ER nurse. The experience of being a nurse post-COVID is already pretty fucking radicalizing. I truly don’t know why they’re not all on strike already. Something’s going to be the last straw and it could be this. 010 0
Luigi in a Coal Mine @weareluigi.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Apparently, nurses in Portland have been fired for handing out “know your rights” pamphlets to patients, while their corporate owned hospitals allow ICE to interfere with patient care. If not now, then when? 0282 0
Benjamin Basche @basche42.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Labor action is the only thing that ever works 010 0
