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Jackie Bichsel

@jackiebsknees.bsky.social
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Data diva, scientist, political junkie, pickleball aficionado. Justice first, then peace.

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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In Milgram's original experiment, 2/3 of participants complied when directed to give another person a shock for failing a test. However, in the presence of others who refused to continue, compliance dropped to 10%. Disobedience is the tool we use to stop the terror that's being inflicted on us.
Stanley Milgram and his fake shock machine.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A subscription to the NYT is worth it for Frank Bruni's articles alone. This one was particularly satisfying. Sometimes it helps to know you're not alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Superlatives Are Bigger Than Yours
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Hahahahahahahahaha. Ha. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
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Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Democrats are folding. Why? 1) Because they're weak. 2) "Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I just got my flu and COVID vaccinations. I recommend getting yours ASAP before you can't or before insurance no longer covers them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It's not about anti-semitism at all. It's about making college inaccessible for anyone but the wealthy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Trump Administration Withholds Millions for TRIO Programs
Nonprofits that advocate for first-gen students say that without the federally funded programs, college could become unattainable for hundreds of thousands of students.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is nothing but extortion. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
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Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We knew it was coming, yet I'm still stunned. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Since we can't trust the government for health information anymore (or anything else), here are some alternatives. I am bookmarking all of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
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5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Laugh out loud hilarious for those who would play Wordle to the death. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What Constitutes Cheating at Wordle? (Gift Article)
A ruling on the use of friends’ “Wordle skeletons” to solve the puzzle.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The gap between the haves and the have nots is about to become a chasm. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Trump Proposes Deep Cuts to Education and Research
Science research funding and programs that help students access college are on the chopping block as Trump aims to cut at least $163 billion.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of VT, walked into an immigration office for what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Instead, he was arrested and removed in handcuffs by plainclothes armed thugs with their faces covered. Becca Balint, badass VT representative, is on it.
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Rep. Becca Balint calls for immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wow! Anti-vaxxers take heed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
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Shingles Vaccine Can Decrease Risk of Dementia, Study Finds (Gift Article)
A growing body of research suggests that preventing the viral infection can help stave off cognitive decline.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Everyone else can go back where they came from. But if you look like Elon Musk, doors are open. ‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status (Gift Article)
The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The NIH is now an official arm of MAGA. In an unprecedented move, NIH has begun mass terminations of research grants because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. This includes much research on DEI and LGBTQ+ issues. Chilling. We can no longer rely on NIH. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today proved that if Trump is unable to fulfill his duties JD Vance is more than capable of being the most ginormous asshole in the world
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Congratulations, MAGATs. The Congressional Republicans just passed a resolution for massive spending cuts that will fund tax cuts to the richest Americans. If it gets through the Senate, that will mean $880 BILLION in Medicaid cuts. Should be just a matter of time before they go after Medicare.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Firing a qualified person of color to replace him with a white guy lackey is why DEI initiatives were created. There's tons of data to show that diversity makes for better teamwork, increased productivity, and improved outcomes in any sector. Better-managed orgs will retain these initiatives.
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Trump fires CQ Brown as Joint Chiefs chairman
President Trump announced he had fired Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and planned to replace him with Air Force lieutenant general.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
He nails it.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Among the targets are the entities that collect education data for K-12 and college. This is data that social scientists use track education metrics, evaluate effectiveness, and so much more. Data = facts, and both are the enemy of this administration. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Musk’s DOGE Announces Millions in Cuts to Education Dept. Amid Legal Pushback (Gift Article)
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team said that it had “terminated” 89 of the department’s contracts, apparently targeting its research arm.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Scientists gonna science. We have GOT to figure out how to enable government-sponsored research to continue and function independently of whoever is in office. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. (Gift Article)
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 09/02/2025
The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. buff.ly/42NeEl6
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Trump pissing into a fan.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It's open season on civil rights. MLK Day? Out. Black History Month? Don't you dare promote it. Juneteenth? Don't even think about it. Pride month? We're pretending we never heard about it. Holocaust remembrance day? Forget about it. White male culture forever.
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Federal agencies bar Black History Month and other 'special observances'
A number of federal agencies have banned celebrations related to MLK Jr. Day, Women's History Month and other such observances to comply with Trump's executive orders.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Mood.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
ED's site now announces the elimination of DEI. It also espouses charter (private for-profit) schools. We'll now all be footing the bill to subsidize education that incorporates religion and increases the gap between the haves and the have nots. The gutting of public education has begun.
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ED is America’s education agency. We help students pay for school, support families, and give educators tools to do their jobs. We protect students' rights and make sure every American has equal acces...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Reviews Are In! 👀 “Grotesque & Outrageous” “Downright Disgusting” “Disgraceful” “Absolutely Shameful” “Despicable” “Racist & Sexist” “A Betrayal” “Monstrous” “Simply UnAmerican” “Craven” “Pathetic” “Absolutely Vile” “What A Horrible Pathetic Little Man!” #EmbarrassmentInChief 😩 bit.ly/3PZ2H4j
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Trump's 'Grotesque' Plane Crash Comments Leave Democrats Gobsmacked
"What a horrible, pathetic, little man," one said of the president blaming DEI efforts for the deadly crash.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Watching some of RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing. His face looks like shoe leather, his voice is broken, and his breath is raspy when he's not talking. I expect him to don a Darth Vader mask at any time.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
When racists say “merit” you say “Hegseth.”
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
America is now a mob restaurant being burned down for the insurance money.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Keep in mind that these individuals were carrying out the Trump administration's desire to be aggressive toward Iran. But because they weren't total lackeys, Trump is endangering them as a pure revenge tactic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
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Trump Revokes Security Detail for Pompeo and Others, Despite Threats From Iran
The officials had been part of an aggressive posture against Iran during President Trump’s first term.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
NIH scientists have been ordered to cancel meetings and cease outside communications. These actions in and of themselves will hamper such basic efforts as cancer research. More insidiously, they reflect the attempt by this administration to disrupt everything in our healthcare ecosystem.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Dear healthcare company, stop sending me your superficial newsletters designed to make me feel like you actually care about my health. I don't need another Top 10 list of superfoods clogging up my inbox.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Trump has turned his inauguration into a rally. He should secure the rights to play Ramblin' Man. Christ. Four more years of this bullshit.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
No words….
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/01/2025
I wish Americans cared as much about the loss of democracy as the loss of TikTok.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The president of the United States is a con-artist, rapist, bigoted, narcissistic, money-grubbing, fascist felon. The actions of more than half of our country to vote him in, as well as the inaction of those who didn't vote, will be our undoing. Whether it's a total undoing remains to be seen.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
So sad. The world has lost one of the modern foremost champions for women's rights. We will definitely feel the gap in her leadership during the next four years. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...
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Cecile Richards, Former Planned Parenthood President, Dies at 67 (Gift Article)
Ms. Richards oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.
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Jackie Bichsel @jackiebsknees.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Although the Dept of Education was created in 1867, it was largely buried in other agencies until Jimmy Carter reinstated it as a cabinet-level department in 1979. The fact that ED now had a prominent seat at the table meant an increased focus on and more federal funding for higher education.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/12/2024
Katie, a 4-year-old dog who lives in Brooklyn, is New York City’s secret weapon in its war on rats. She has found an endless supply of prey, killing nearly 500 rats this year. For some reason, her most productive day of the week is Thursday.
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New York City’s Secret Weapon in the War on Rats: Katie the Dog
She roams Brooklyn’s parks and streets in search of prey. It’s not hard to find.
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