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Dr Kelsey

@drkelsey.bsky.social
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Yes. I’m that doctor with the rainbow glasses. Family med/enthusiast of questionable adventures/mama/🏳️‍🌈/celebrate 🏳️‍⚧️ youth

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 03/05/2025
americans watching as the rest of the world uses our fascist as a lesson to vote out their fascists
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a little girl is looking out of a window and waving her hand
Alt: a little girl is looking out of a window and banging her hands on it
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
we survived janice raymond and that was before we had reams of evidence backing the necessity of gender-affirming care. we will survive this ridiculous news cycle, too. don’t lose your head over it.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The program currently receives over two thousand calls per day
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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 22/04/2025
President Trump and his administration are coming after Minnesota, threatening to cut off our federal funding unless we turn our backs on trans kids. This is bullying, plain and simple. And today, April 22, I filed a lawsuit to stop them. Learn more: bit.ly/mn-v-trump-lawsuit
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy spring?
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Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Stereo Mix)
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 18/04/2025
Why doom scroll when you can escape read? 5 Books to Help You Ignore the Fact That the Country’s On Fire ⬇️
rollingstone.com
5 Escapist Books to Help You Ignore the Fact That the Country's On Fire
The administration is fundamentally changing the shape of our democracy — but to get away, you can crack open a book (for now)!
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Sure would be terrible to flood this portal with bogus reports
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Doctors warn of ‘terrifying’ consequences as Trump HHS creates snitch line to report people who get gender-affirming care
Under the administration’s latest guidance, reporting a trans patient’s care may no longer violate HIPAA — and that’s exactly the problem, providers say.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
As someone who experienced threats and harassment from armed extremists for over a decade, I have empathy for anyone who feels afraid of retaliation for free speech. But at the end of the day, we all must make a choice: back down or double down.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 11/04/2025
The entire CDC lead program has been eliminated. Lead exposure can lead to many issues including anemia & irreversible brain damage in young children. It was <10 years ago we learned that 99,000 people in Flint Michigan had been exposed. If only eliminating programs eliminated the risk.
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Manoj Pawar, MD, FAAFP @manojpawar.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I wonder if economists feel like we did during the pandemic…or actually still do? #medsky #publichealth #econsky
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Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
You probably saw pictures (or live) of the huge numbers of protestors across the country yesterday. Over a million! Which coincidentally is about the annual death toll from tuberculosis, a curable bacterial infection. Seems like a much bigger deal when you can visualize the impact like that.
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AlwaysACivilServant @drneuro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you need a reminder of why the tariffs are a public health issue as well: ▶️About *80%* of our active pharmaceutical ingredients are produced abroad. ▶️About *50%* of our generic drugs are manufactured overseas This means increased costs in an inevitably strained generic drug supply. Not good
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
That’s our guy!
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Helen Burstin, MD, MPH @helenburstinmd.medsky.social · 03/04/2025
As former center director at AHRQ, it is devastating to watch it be dismantled. With amazing staff, AHRQ catalyzed improvement in safety, quality, equity, etc. The US Preventive Services Task Force must be preserved. Thanks to @kffhealthnews.org for this excellent write-up. #StandwithAHRQ
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What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation's Health Care Safer - KFF Health News
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.
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Alice (SHE/HER) Sato, MD PhD @asato4kids.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP - the legit one) has started a web page to fact check some claims relevant to pediatric health, meant for pediatricians, parents and media seeking the best information. #PedSky #PedsID www.aap.org/en/news-room...
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Fact Checked
Pediatricians weigh in to address the latest misinformation by providing clear, science-backed messaging to support children and families.
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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.
Et voilà: our NEH grant with Harriet Murav for “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” has been terminated. This project does not, the letter notes, support “the furtherance of the President’s agenda.” I guess work on Jews surviving genocide is out of step with the agenda of this presidential administration whose only use for Jews is the weaponization of Jewish safety to destroy higher education.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
👇👇👇(& find a march near you THIS weekend: www.fiftyfifty.one)
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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a man in a suit and turtleneck giving the middle finger
Alt: a man in a suit and turtleneck with a bushy mustache is gesturing “come” “bring it” towards the viewer
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
definitely not the ideal time for this approach
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 03/04/2025
You know what's cool about all of this is climate change. We're still cooking the planet but giving it zero attention
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Said it before, gonna keep saying it: the atmosphere doesn’t give a fuck about politics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
i swear to god if my libby access is interrupted i am going to war
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“There’s a leek in the sink” is the highest level April fools joke I can handle right now.
White kitchen sink with a large Leek (vegetable) in it
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker is STILL going. This is what resisting fascism looks like. I don’t care if it’s not a “real” filibuster. Booker is taking drastic action to show his constituents that they are not alone. More of this, please.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
You might have missed this news because Senate Republicans did their best to keep it under the radar: last week, they voted to let big banks charge higher overdraft fees. It’s part of their agenda: bigger profits for big corporations, higher costs for working people.
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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is senseless violence. It is terrifying, and will produce only fear and anguish. All of which is the point in our current moment, under this administration. Our students deserve to live, study, and, yes, protest, without fear of abduction. Stay safe, keep fighting.
nytimes.com
University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents
University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”
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PedsHemeDoc @pedshemedoc.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Would love to hear the AAP speak out about this www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
cnn.com
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...
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It’s Julie. Dr. Tilsen, if you’re nasty (or use AI) @queeringtherapist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Protest at UMN… will include protest of student detainment by ICE
AFSCME UMN
Press conference and rally: Monday March 31st @ 12PM
Protecting UMN workers 
Outside of Morrill Hall Steps
From Trump’s attacks
100 Church street SE
East Bank campus, MPLS
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for nearly untraceable ghost gun kits.
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Meme of Mon Mothma from Star Wars with the caption "Many Bothans were inadvertently added to a Signal group chat to bring us this information"
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
☺️
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U of M doctors-in-training move to unionize
Residents work long hours for relatively low pay, and are at risk for burnout, but organizing movement aims to change that.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
School Bully Shocks Nerds With Further Lunch-Money Demands
"I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion - and the opinion of the Department of Justice - has not cleaned up their act," Mr. Terrell said. "They're not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen."
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Happy match day!
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a woman wearing a red hat is holding a microphone and says " and may the odds be ever in your favor "
Alt: a woman wearing a red hat is holding a microphone and says " and may the odds be ever in your favor "
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 19/03/2025
Trump has more rape charges than Penn has trans athletes. This isn’t about anything but pure, relentless hatred. The scapegoating is sickening.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream
President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. Relatives of men sent to El Salvador deny the allegation.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
¡Somos Riverview!
startribune.com
For the first time in years, enrollment rises at Minneapolis and St. Paul schools
Hispanic students are key to increases, with Minneapolis welcoming new native Spanish speakers and St. Paul stepping up recruitment efforts.
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?”
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DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
Homeland Security deputy secretary Troy Edgar offered few details on the Trump administration's legal reasoning to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.
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Dr Kelsey @drkelsey.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The U leadership does not seem well equipped for this political moment
startribune.com
U Board of Regents must not fold on defense of academic freedom
Talking about it is one thing. Actually standing for it is another.
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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
such wonderful news. Welcome to the team, @davidformn40b.bsky.social
mprnews.org
Minnesota House is tied after DFL wins special election. Here’s what changes.
DFLer David Gottfried won the suburban Ramsey County seat and is expected to be sworn in to the House of Representatives next week.
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Lisa Bee (she/her) @leebee4life.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
So Mike Johnson appreciates free speech, as long as you’re saying something that he agrees with and likes.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
BREAKING: No flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, & Orlando, as Space launch debris is raining down over Florida… Seems appropriate, right?! 😂 And guess who’s ‘toxic space junk’ is coming down, daily? JUST Guess?!
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