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Cathy

@cathyciolek.bsky.social
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Mother, Wife, Consultant, Liberal, physical therapist, anti-ageist advocate

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nice good idea, let em take out the US Third Fleet, various air craft carriers and submarines , the marines at Pendleton, the Navy Seals, let’s see what else…
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For no reason I want to state that there are over 115,000 active duty military personnel in San Diego… another 1500 in LA. 1/6 of US navy and 1/4 of US marines.
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17/07/2026
Just a note to say: that ex-wife speaking out about her abusive ICE ex-husband is braver than all of ICE put together. No question at all.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump‘s intervention spoiled a wonderful tournament. Our players lost a soccer game, and I can live with that. But Trump sold out our integrity in an act that should he forever condemned.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"I'd like to gavel in today's board meeting of the American Medical Association...."
The Last Supper.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 09/04/2026
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Can we talk about how poorly information provided 12 hours a day/6 days a week is retained? There is a reason we use spaced retrieval and time to process learning in professional training! #ICEOut #Ridiculous
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 09/02/2026
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I would have already assumed they were doing that
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
it’s pretty insane to think about how the dumbest most violent pieces of shit in the country have been given the message that they can kill with impunity if they join this one government agency
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Jonathan Louis Dent @jonathanldent.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
That rage you feel is sacred. Honor it. We’re in the fight of our lives and honestly we have been for some time now. Don’t allow yourself to go numb. Don’t look away. None of this shit is normal.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Please @bluntrochester.senate.gov and @coons.senate.gov I am begging you t Rally everyone you can against ANY funding for ICE. They are government sanctioned terrorists who are acting with presumed impunity and literally murdering civilians. They must be stopped NOW!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 24/01/2026
So, if multiple agents tackle a person to the ground, beat him, and then shoot him repeatedly, they cannot later say it was ok cause they later found he was armed - which is neither a crime nor one that carries the penalty of immediate execution. There's no Nobel prize for killing civilians.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Every Democratic governor, attorney general, senator and House member needs to stand up and loudly say in unison: Enough. Trump's war on Americans must end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Alex, I'll take "Things A Rapist Says" for $1,000.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
She smiled at the officer. So he shot her in the face. And then called her "a fucking bitch."
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 19/12/2025
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/12/2025
That was some weird shit
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“They now exclude nursing, physician asst, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health, audiology, speech-language pathology, counseling & mental health therapy, social work” & more. Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included. www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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What Is A “Professional Degree” And Why Does It Matter?
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Dept of Education proposes redefining "professional degrees" to exclude degrees in nursing, NP/PA, Public Health, PT/OT and more
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I wrote about "Quiet, Piggy," natalist movements, the denigration of women in authoritarian societies, the ways that women were treated not so long ago in the workplace (including me), and how you can push back against all that.
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Quiet, Piggy
Trump's relentless campaign against women has shifted U.S. culture.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
There will come a time - in the not so distant future - where the type of Doctor you’d want caring for you and your loved one will be chosen for these vital national roles. Until then, we sit on the sidelines and we work to make that reality happen.
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Nursing will be impacted true but you can still be a nurse with a bachelors degree. PT/OT/SLP all REQUIRE a graduate degree. Rehab will be decimated for decades.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
History repeats.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More of this please! Autistic people are our brothers and sisters, the goal is to make it a world where they can thrive not one where they are "cured" somehow.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
You’d think after their cult leader tried to hang his own VP for not helping him steal an election, they’d be familiar with the notion of right on right crime. Yet it befuddles them to this day.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12/09/2025
💉🧵PSA 🚨 We don’t know for sure but are very worried RFKJ’s ACIP is about to restrict access to RSV monoclonal immunization for babies (nirsevimab and clesrovimab). If your baby is eligible, get them vaccinated asap. RSV season starts late Oct-early Nov. See below for immunization recommendation info
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This entire book is a nightmare
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.savehhs.org
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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🍁🇨🇦Emotional Support Canadian🇨🇦🍁 @emosupportcanadian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Woah!...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
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As many as 100 Epstein victims will attend Washington rally Wednesday
The rally comes as lawmakers Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) want a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Epstein files.
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