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Laura Lee Johnson

@johnsonll.bsky.social
672 followers 1.2K following 947 posts

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

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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 3h
My intern came to me and said "The patient and family didn't want to talk to me. They told me to go get the Boss Lady". 🤣😆🤣😆
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Importantly, this is @librariesftp.bsky.social's 4th and final cohort in 2027. We will sunset the project at the end of that year. So if you've been thinking about this opportunity, this is your chance.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is a broken society that is suspicious of the poor and the immigrant possibly exploiting the system to have more than they need all while the rich and powerful are encouraged to exploit and hoard as much as they like. It is a broken Christianity that endorses such a society.
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Also, I did ask the mammography center ahead of time if the mammamogram was covered (they did not mention that none of the radiologists are under United anymore) , and they said yes.
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In case you are in the DC area, a large number of providers no longer accept or deal with United, and that includes all the rebranded ones they sell including the common federal employee programs (that cost employees and retirees a LOT per paycheck).
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Team Trump likes to tout the sky-high number of arrests they are making in DC. But these arrests are often an unconstitutional mess — and DC Courts are the ones who have to clean it up.
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Safe and beautiful ‘is not free': DC Courts under pressure with flat funding since 2022
Since Congress left D.C. Courts’ funding at 2022 levels, criminal cases are up 160%, with President Trump pushing a tough-on-crime agenda.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
Yup. The entire 16 months I’ve been on the ICE flight/TCR beat, I’ve encouraged other journos to join me, bc there are more stories here than I could possibly tell on my own. Many indy journos have. But for MSM reporters, too often they seem content to just repeat what’s already been reported.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So now United Healthcare no longer covers screening mammograms? I am sorry, they will not cover the radiologist reading the mammogram. Seriously. I have the bill and the document from GEHA that even their representative was surprised by. @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1913 | Czech Jewish woman, Alžběta Röhrová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 October 1944. She did not survive. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman  in a knitted sweater.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...
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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities
Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And to the men out there who are living in that liminal space of one foot in each world, as victims, I see you. I love you. You matter. And so does your voice.
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Early detection saves lives, so please encourage people in your life to get screened. The Maryland Department of Health has programs to assist eligible uninsured and underinsured residents get no-cost breast cancer screening and follow-up, diagnosis, and treatment services: go.md.gov/BCCDT
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Pages - bccdt_home
An official website of the State of Maryland.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. to.pbs.org/4zgbIuz
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 03/10/2026
From our magazine, by Jesús @jankcurbelo.bsky.social: Adrian Martinez died after becoming a sexual assault whistleblower against the U.S. Army. The government says he took his own life, but family believes otherwise. What's clear is how the military mistreated and abandoned him after his report ...
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Immunologist and educator Dr. Florence Sabin died #OTD in 1953. The first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (where she graduated from in 1900) and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of pioneering scientist Dr. Florence Rena Sabin (1871–1953) in her laboratory workspace. Dr. Sabin, with her dark hair gathered back, wears thin, round wire-rimmed spectacles and a light-colored lab coat over a dark shirt. Seated in a dark wooden chair facing right, she pivots her upper body toward the camera with a calm, subtle smile. Her hands rest deliberately on a complex, vintage black microscope positioned on the desk before her. The laboratory setting features a dark wooden desk scattered with loose papers and a stack of documents. Behind her stands a tall wooden filing cabinet with numerous shallow drawers, while a large window to the right floods the scene with natural light, illuminating technical equipment nearby. The composition balances the scientific tools with her prominent, dignified presence, evoking an analytical yet warm and welcoming mood. This portrait highlights her legacy as the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Get your flu shot! Now's the time! @bachynski.bsky.social
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‘I Got You!’ Zohran Mamdani Holds Hands With Ex-Opponent Curtis Sliwa While He Gets Flu Shot
Sliwa joked about his tough-guy reputation before nervously taking a flu shot while former mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani held his hand.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's Oct 3. The midterms are a month away, but early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots will start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home. bingo.cip.uw.edu
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"Rigged Election" Bingo
Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
3 October 1934 | A Polish Jewish girl, Nina Ehrlich, was born in Sosnowiec. In 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Będzin ghetto. She was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Children at Auschwitz Lesson: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN Podcast: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
Black and white portrait of a young girl with a serious expression, featuring short hair and a dark collared shirt.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can read Jamal’s work here. It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post. Rest in peace, Jamal. And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for. www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
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Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post
Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, had been writing a column for The Post since last year.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 03/10/2026
yes, there was a lot more planning and also maps the dissolution of Planning in general seems to be one of the biggest shifts with cell phones
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shelleyenglish.bsky.social @shelleyenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remembering Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered on October 2, 2018 by Saudi agents. karenattiah.substack.com/p/rememberin... @karenattiah.bsky.social
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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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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Laura Lee Johnson @johnsonll.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is amazing!
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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.
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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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