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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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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The best was the announcer saying ““It’s not a typo! Philadelphia leads the game at half.” Really says something about our season…
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Agree- but with a 6 week incubation tracing would be next to impossible
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How is someone to know they were around a person incubating during that 2-8 weeks? Unless we all live in isolation this isn’t happening.
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
If only they had had some warnings... "some of these senators, speaking anonymously, admitted that Hegseth would not be confirmed again if his nomination were put forward again today." #bull$h1t
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And now they get to look back at wearing sanitary pads on their ears in solidarity…
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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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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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a blonde woman in a white jacket and pink shirt smiles
Alt: a blonde woman in a white jacket and pink shirt smiles, laughs then cries
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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 · 11/02/2026
She thinks she is in a cabinet meeting.
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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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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m fairly certain physiologically a victim shot in the face/brainstem would immediately go into cortical positioning. Read- stiff straight. So you are correct.
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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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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If that was the rule we would be in trouble as a country…
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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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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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an older woman wearing glasses and a yellow sweater says " very high "
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/12/2025
That was some weird shit
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
They were able to find a heart? Didn’t think he had one….
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I love nurses, they are professionals, but they do not REQUIRE a graduate degree for entry level practice. PT/ OT/SLP and others must have masters or doctoral level education and will be devastated in the future.
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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
Agree about NPs and PA is also graduate level. It will take a few years to see impact but the lack of providers in the future will be painful.
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Cathy @cathyciolek.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It sucks for nursing researchers and advanced practice nurses but Entry Level PT/OT/SLP all REQUIRE graduate degrees. Rehab services will be decimated for decades.
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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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