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Joanne Hilden

@flowerfan.bsky.social
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Retired ped onc doc. Wife, mama, sister, grandma, aunt, gardener. Public health matters. Kids matter

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Stick of butter, bag of peanuts. Butter in America, it’s about a buck [for] a stick like this.” Ingraham checked him immediately. “Where are you shopping? It’s not a buck, it’s like $4,” she said. These are the people Republicans want us to trust to fix the economy?
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Dr. Oz Gets Embarrassing Fact-Check on Fox News Over Price of Butter
Fox News’s Laura Ingraham refused to take the Trump official’s word for it.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case (Gift Article)
Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The US government's statements about the Iran War starting with saying they had defeated Iran a dozen of times to then saying hey if they nuke American cities that is actually okay is the kind of shit that only speaks to a base that has willingly locked themselves in a room with a charcoal grill.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country (Gift Article)
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.espn.com/college-foot... This has reproductive implications.
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San Diego State football team dealing with mumps outbreak
San Diego State's football team is dealing with a mumps outbreak as it prepares for Saturday's Pac-12 opener against Texas State.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-related death in the state
The state’s outbreak is the largest in the U.S.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I hate when people pull up the ladder after they’ve climbed up it. Vote these self-serving bastards out.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Pennsylvania teen dies from measles complications, health officials report
An 18-year old with measles died from a rare and severe neurological condition that causes inflammation in the brain.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Supreme Court Blocks Trump Administration Plan to Screen Mail-In Ballots
The Trump administration had asked the justices to allow a new Postal Service plan to screen ballots just weeks before the midterm elections.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Unvaccinated Woman Likely Died of Measles Complications, Pa. County Coroner Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/w...
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Unvaccinated Woman Likely Died of Measles Complications, Pa. County Coroner Says (Gift Article)
The case is the third reported death linked to a rapidly expanding outbreak that has sickened more than 670 people in the state.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
NEW: More than 51 million mail ballots will be sent to voters in the coming weeks just from the District of Columbia and the two dozen states that are challenging the Trump administration’s 11th-hour attack on mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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States challenging Trump's mail voting rule must mail more than 51 million ballots by late October
In her order, Talwani concluded it was “practically inevitable” that, if left to stand, the rule would prevent voters from casting ballots this year.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If the child can’t get what he wants he smashes it to bits
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My latest: Kennedy is undermining the #measles response in Pennsylvania by suggesting recent deaths were "fabricated," and his years of lies about vaccines have made it much more difficult to end our ongoing measles outbreaks throughout the country and prevent new ones from happening.
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Opinion | America beat measles once. RFK Jr. is making it harder to do so again.
The U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Since Kennedy has taken office, we've had 5 #measles deaths in the US. We had 3 total deaths from the virus in all of 2001-2024. And outbreaks are still growing here in Ohio and in Pennsylvania. Utter madness that our government is encouraging this.
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“I want things to always be right between us . . . . You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down. Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life.” Totally not weird. Imagine the Fox freakout if one of Obama or Biden‘s female aides had written anything like this.
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Natalie Harp’s Full Trump Letters Exposed—Revealing Creepy Obsession
Donald Trump’s much younger assistant wrote him fawning letters calling him her “guardian and protector.”
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Sherrod Brown Seeks Senate Comeback in Ohio, Hoping His Populist Pitch Still Resonates (Gift Article)
At 73, Sherrod Brown is mounting a comeback bid in Ohio. He is one of the Democrats his party is counting on to retake control of the Senate.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is a pretty good ad. Kind of funny and very revealing.
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hello Michigan indie voters! “Weeks after the company made another donation to another Trump-aligned political action committee, the CDC scaled down its FoodNet tracking for cyclospora — a surveillance system that captures laboratory tests for some diseases for about 16% of the population.”
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Democrats Aim to Link Parasite Spread to Trump-Taylor Farms Ties
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing the US’s top health official to detail the government’s cyclospora outbreak response in the wake of a major produce supplier’s campaign contributions to political g...
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Separate vaccines could endanger children
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Opinion | Medical Breakthroughs Are a Thrill. Then Comes the Hard Part. (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that helps research make its way into medical practice.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Enjoy
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Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America (Gift Article)
Want to understand this country? Look at our stuff.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 02/08/2026
he's been a trump favorite since the first term.
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‘He’s a Great Guy’: Trump’s Favored Aide Has Troubled Past
Sources say Max Miller has a history of aggressive behavior that includes slapping his ex-girlfriend, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail. (Gift Article)
Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
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Ken Tegtmeyer, MD @pccmdoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Moreno is literally a used car salesman who got busted for unfair labor practices. He’s appallingly unqualified.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Preach
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Linda Hutchison @machutch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Mila Rowan on Instagram: "The database that exposes your hospital bill has always been public."
5,059 likes, 40 comments - milarowannn on June 14, 2026: "The database that exposes your hospital bill has always been public.".
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Did you all see Pete Hegseth in front of that committee this week?
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane (Gift Article)
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has the constitutional authority to temporarily appoint someone to fill Mitch McConnell’s seat. If GOP lawmakers want to challenge that, they can do so. This will be the first big test to see whether Beshear really is presidential material. I hope he passes the test.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
For Families Facing a Deadly Brain Cancer, Scientific Progress Can’t Come Soon Enough www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/w...
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For Families Facing a Deadly Brain Cancer, Scientific Progress Can’t Come Soon Enough (Gift Article)
Researchers have made important strides in understanding and treating diffuse midline gliomas, which were long seen as a death sentence for the children and adolescents they affect.
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference (Gift Article)
Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky on meeting with Blanche:   "Todd Blanche treated the meeting as a mere 'check-the-box' exercise intended to secure votes for his confirmation. He danced around his wording, repeatedly interrupted us and could not commit to anything that would demonstrate good faith."
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/07/2026
Tonight, according to reports, Trump will again try to sow doubt about the 2020 elections with the hopes of rigging the 2026 midterms.   Trouble is, Trump's own Intelligence Community, during his first term, found ZERO evidence for his claims.   Don’t fall for his con.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Here’s an example of why you really need the govt agencies focused on protecting people from theft or fraud by major corps. My wife has a jewelry business and sent a piece of jewelry to a customer via UPS. It was insured since it’s a pricey item. The package never arrived. The customer lives in a …
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Ramaswamy’s COVID attack ads omit context
Anti-Acton ads don’t mention Ramaswamy’s advocacy for COVID measures.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
Folarin Balogun, who is a US citizen because he was born here, scores a go-ahead goal for the US team in a knockout game. Score one for birthright citizenship.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is the same kind of guy who was decrying the Irish at Ellis Island 150 years ago And he is third in command in the Republican-led House
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is nuts If Obama did this to every tea partier who sent him a nastygram, Fox would have set their hair on fire screaming about the First Amendment
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He sent a harsh email to ICE's top official. 5 months later, federal agents tracked him down
Federal agents went to a Rochester, N.Y., man's home to warn him that an email he sent five months ago could be an illegal threat. He was on vacation but another agent found his hotel hundreds of mile...
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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: The Trump administration has shut down a controversial Homeland Security tool it had touted as a way to find noncitizens who’d illegally registered to vote, @propublica.org has learned. 🧵
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Joanne Hilden @flowerfan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
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Ward Lehmann @wardlehmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So Trump’s son gets $5 billion while the rest of us have to pony up $80 billion for his misguided war? What’s wrong with this picture?
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Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy
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