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Laura Lee Johnson

@johnsonll.bsky.social
670 followers 1.2K following 944 posts

biostatistician, ISEF feeder fair volunteer, baker, occasional quilter, opinions are my own unless hacked (she/her/y'all/ella)

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is so, so true. My whole family is spoiled for life and none of us will eat salmon outside of the northwest anymore. We try not to be snotty about it but y’all simply don’t understand.
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have done my clinical research duty for the day.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/09/2026
Do not join any organization that tries to haze you. That's an organization for assholes.
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Planned Parenthood GNHAIK @ppgnhaik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨CW: SA Consent means ACTIVELY agreeing to be sexual with someone, and sexual activity without consent is rape or sexual assault. Consent is ⬇️ 📍Freely given: consenting is a choice you make without pressure, manipulation, or under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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Planned Parenthood GNHAIK @ppgnhaik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍Specific: saying yes to one thing (like going to the bedroom to make out) doesn’t mean you’ve said yes to others (like having sex). Reposted from @plannedparenthood #PlannedParenthood #Consent #NoMeansNo
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Planned Parenthood GNHAIK @ppgnhaik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📍Reversible: anyone can change their mind about what they feel like doing, anytime. 📍Informed: you can only consent to something if you have the full story. 📍Enthusiastic: when it comes to sex, you should only do stuff you WANT to do, not things that you feel you’re expected to do.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers
An illustration of arms in red sleeves held straight up while a basketball flies in the space around.

Headline reads "‘How Fascist Is Your L.A. Sports Team?’: A Guide by L.A. TACO"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hate that I was proven right in autumn 2016 when I said, before that soul crushing election, let’s not get overconfident with these poll numbers. But at the risk of repeating myself, yeah, let’s not get overconfident AGAIN.
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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just closed an email to my managers, regarding planning ahead for staffing tomorrow, with a line from Hill Street Blues: “let’s get the IROPs (interruptions to regular ops) before they get us.” Yes, I’m old, turn that shit music down. A chef who’s my age replied with, “and be careful out there.”
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Sonans @sojaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good nurse things “He added the community has been especially concerned about the dangers to babies; so far two newborns have died of measles complications, as well as an 18-year-old and a 40-year-old woman, according to state officials.” #vaccinate
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote. So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot: —one to roll back Medicaid expansion —another to require future initiatives like this get 60 percent.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026
It's not "chaos" that Indiana can now beat Alabama at football. It's great. Y'all care about the wrong people: the millionaires+ billionaires that preferred it when Black kids were forced to play for them for free, and couldn't transfer away from abusive or lying coaches. Care about the athletes.♥️
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/09/2026
if you are ever in austin please go eat the migas taco at veracruz.
migas poblana taco
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thanks for all the great questions. This month's session is now closed. Until next time. Do not forget to schedule your fall vaccines!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Raw milk strikes again. Thirteen people across nine states have become sick with E. coli after consuming Sierra Nevada Graziers’ product, with 8 of them having been hospitalized.
abcnews.com
E. coli outbreak linked to raw milk cheese brand: CDC, FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Six babies born w/measles in PA, a potentially deadly condition. www.nbcnews.com/video/doctor... I spoke with a pediatrician in Utah who pleaded w/parents to give their newborn antibodies - mom had measles. He pushed & pushed & may have spared that baby's life. kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...
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Anguished Parents. Doctors in Tears. Utah’s Long Measles Outbreak Takes a Toll. - KFF Health News
Measles has been spreading in Utah for nearly a year, straining hospitals, schools, and parents. The state’s outbreak provides a glimpse into a new era in America’s health, in which vaccine-preventabl...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 26/09/2026
"It's one thing for the president to literally roll out the red carpet. It's another for him to do that and be at the airport," Jonathan Capehart says. "I have no confidence that the United States is in a better position now than before President Xi got here." to.pbs.org/4AtJIVL
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Brooks and Capehart on Trump's warm welcome for China's Xi Jinping
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit, President Trump's warm welcome for t...
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Police didn't care that Lindsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data www.jezebel.com/flock-camera...
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One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember when many people were convinced we wouldn’t get new flu or Covid shots etc?
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It is the president saying that he and he alone will convert a bipartisan spending bill (that has been signed into law) into a partisan spending bill. He is canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like.
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On #9to5day, we remember singer and advocate Dolly Parton, who donated $1 million to fund early-stage coronavirus research that helped lead to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. She even went on to get vaccinated in a video to encourage people to do the same.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump Admin proposed rule would undermine the 2030 decennial census by excluding millions of non-citizen immigrants. As this @kff.org analysis points out there will all kinds of negative consequences including effects one might not expect like distorting federal #Medicaid matching rates.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/09/2026
Also: If you want crispy edges and gooey middles, form the dough for each cookie into a cylinder instead of a sphere, and keep the dough super cold until it goes in the oven. That way, the dough doesn't spread as much, and the middle stays super soft.
A tray of homemade chocolate chip cookies
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol like 40% of BA's official communications have conveyed false or logically impossible information. like at 9:40 we received an email that said buses would pick us up at 9:00. since early morning hotel has had a printed sign out that the passengers of the BA flight will get picked up at 11
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 24/09/2026
Douglas Carter spent decades on Utah’s death row. Now, crime scene DNA doesn’t match him — and prosecutors will no longer seek his execution.
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Crime scene DNA doesn’t match a former Utah death row inmate. After 41 years, prosecutors drop their pursuit to execute him.
Douglas Carter spent decades on Utah’s death row. Now, crime scene DNA doesn’t match him — and prosecutors will no longer seek his execution.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You think it's terrifying for a wet lab to exist. I think your average eighth grader should have access to one. We are not the same
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Holly Yang @hollyby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That time of year again… People are getting flu and COVID already this year. 😷 Happy to get my updated vaccines! Stay healthy everyone!
Me with two bandaids 🩹on my shoulder after getting my flu and COVID vaccines
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Home Protip: If you’ve had your dryer for a while, clean out the ducts that vent to the outside of your house and replace the hose from your dryer to the ducts. Especially do this if your clothes are taking longer to dry.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Beyond morality, I think this sort of stuff is a strong recession indicator. My prediction is that as the economy gets more and more uncertain and existential for people, we will see more advertising leaning directly into outrage, pain, xenophobia, loneliness, nostalgia, gambling, and addiction.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20/09/2026
During Yom Kippur, I wish my fellow Jewish Americans a meaningful, peaceful and gentle fast. G’mar Chatimah Tovah.
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the exact routing, of buses and trains in multiple states, in in the Sacramento Bee article.
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
wapo.st/4hcSBvj gift link for a good article by @michellesingletary.bsky.social Good ideas that have each had success for people, and great resources.
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Column | Here’s how to pay down your credit card debt
The Federal Reserve’s move to boost interest rates comes as everyday expenses are also rising.
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The Washington Sun Metro @washsunmetro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today’s daily digit from @capitalweather.com: 5/10. Mostly gray skies, kind of sticky, and some pesky shower potential. Blah.
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Capital Weather on WashingtonSun.com
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Quick equalities check: across English, History/Politics/War Studies 6 women have lost their jobs and 0.5 men. 4 men and one woman are safe. English goes from 50:50 (6M, 6F) to 1 woman and 2.5 men.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I know all university leaders hate trades unions but at Brighton they’re about to find out what happens when their workforce doesn’t have a structure and negotiating team to represent them and to head off trouble. It won’t be pretty. Employees won’t submit - they’ll resist in unpredictable ways.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'll just add that multiple modules starting next week are unstaffed, while others will be staffed by hourly-paid lecturers who've been sourced this week. But apparently there isn't enough work to keep me on.
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This. This includes the tactic of being so inflexible with meeting dates that your caseworker can't attend (which we've seen reported elsewhere). Your legal rights trump their busy calendar and refusal to treat your own schedule with respect.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it ok for management to phone students asking them to take modules not validated on their degree because they’ve sacked people and can’t staff the modules listed? A working day before teaching starts? Hypothetically, obviously.
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Repeat after me, the legal definition of redundancy is that the work has "substantially ceased or diminished". This is not that.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“There was nothing exceptional about what I witnessed at P.S. 307. I had observed and reported on similar educational malfeasance in Detroit, in Durham, in St. Louis… But I was no longer a mere observer of this system wreaking havoc on other people’s children. Now I was experiencing it with my own.”
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“…That may appear paradoxical, but only if we forget that the battle for school integration wasn’t catalyzed by the desire to put Black students next to white students but by an effort to ensure that Black children received access to equal educational resources.”
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apologies are good. Making a significant donation to Austin's domestic violence shelters would be better.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/09/2026
A Punjabi Sikh truck driver in Wyoming said he was followed into a bathroom and stabbed repeatedly in an attack that has stoked fear across the greater South Asian community.
npr.org
A Sikh truck driver is stabbed amid a rise in anti-South Asian rhetoric
The driver said he was shaken by a violent encounter at a rest stop, which he described as unprovoked.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What are you doing to fight for American democracy this weekend?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vital piece here from Martin McNair, father of Jordan McNair, and @traumacode.bsky.social on the dangers of heat for athletes and the need to be able to execute an emergency response plan—something Maryland and Arizona St completely failed, to devastating effect. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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My son’s death during a college football workout was preventable. Lessons must be learned
Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is fighting for his life after collapsing during practice. Tragedies like this can be avoided
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