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Jody Ranck

@jranck.bsky.social
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Social scientist, public health pro, politics & ethics of AI, author, swimmer, bibliophile, love to cook cool dishes

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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
seekingalpha.com/article/4777... #teslatakedown #tesla
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More Empty Promises To Sell: Tesla's Problem Isn't Musk In DOGE (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Tesla, Inc. stock jumps despite weak Q1 results; experts warn of global competition and urge investors to reconsider. Click for our updated look at TSLA stock.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Incredibly senseless www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics. ICE detained Harvard scientist who analyzes them.
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Wonder what Olivia Nuzzi is up to lately
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/04/2025
Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut. Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty. Call your reps.
Programs for Children and Families Eliminated

ACF

Affordable Housing and Supportive Services Demo

ACF

Head Start

ACF

Preschool Development Grant

ACF

Primary Prevention Youth Homelessness

ACL

ACL

University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

Developmental Disabilities Projects of National Significance

ACL

Lifespan Respite Care

ACL

Long-term Care Ombudsman

ACL

Preventive Health Services

ACL

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (Investigate group home abuse)

ACL

State Councils on Developmental Disabilities

CDC

Adolescent and School Health

CDC

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)

CDC

Asthma

CDC

Childhood Lead Poisoning

CDC

Firearm Injury & Mortality Prevention Research

CDC

Newborn Screening and Molecular Biology

CDC

Oral Health

CDC

Reproductive Health

CDC

Smoking and Health

CDC

Youth Violence Prevention

CMS

Medicaid and CHIP Budget of $129.6 million? Is this a joke?

GDM

Children's Interagency Coordination Council

GDM

Discretionary Sexual Risk Avoidance Programs

GDM

Still Birth Taskforce

GDM

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program

HRSA

EMS for Children

HRSA

Family Planning

HRSA

Healthy Start

HRSA

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

IHS

Preventive Health

OASH

Office of Population Affairs

SAMSHA

Childhood Mental Health

SAMSHA

Children and Family Programs

SAMSHA

Consumer and Family Network Grants

SAMSHA

Health Transitions Infant and Early

SAMSHA

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health

SAMSHA

SAMSHA

Interagency Task Force on Trauma Informed Care

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)

SAMSHA

STOP Act Pregnant and Postpartum Women

SAMSHA

Youth Prevention and Recovery Initiative
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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
That the stock’s bounce after the close is holding up through this call is truly a monument to the gullibility of Wall Street.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
my magical robots are going to create heaven on earth by overturning the laws of economics is the kind of message that really speaks to wall streets spiritual side
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
Utilities are buying huge amounts of stationary storage from Tesla, which is driving some of its only growth. Boycott organizers please take note of this!
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
"hundreds" of Optimus robots "doing useful work" at Tesla factories by the end of this year one million units/year of Optimus by 2029/30 why would anyone believe any of this until they deliver FSD in any kind of meaningful way?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
Musk acknowledges that there are massive questions about when autonomous ridehailing will generate significant business, and he says that this will take place in roughly the middle of next year... the eternal 12 month out deadline
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
Musk not backing down. He thinks "the right thing to do" is to continue "fighting the waste and fraud." He calls it "critical work." He calls protests "organized" and "paid for." He says protesters won't admit it, but they are recipients of the waste and fraud DOGE is cutting.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/04/2025
"It's never a dull moment these days" is how Elon opens the car. He acknowledges that there has been "blowback" due to his work at DOGE, which he defends. Claims that all criticism is coming from those who received tax money that he and DOGE have cut.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 22/04/2025
we can continue to devalue tesla and destroy him completely if we keep demonizing him even more
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/04/2025
you're not going to believe this, but this is absolutely not a thing.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/04/2025
Magical cameras that see in the dead of night. A magical race of robots that ends scarcity and creates heaven on earth. A purpose-modified Level 4 robotaxi system that somehow validates a "general solution to self-driving." A car brand down 20%, with nothing but janky wunderwaffens to fight back.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/04/2025
Tesla made just under $14 billion in "automotive revenue" in the first quarter of 2025, down 20% year-over-year. Everything else they do, including servicing those cars, brought in a little over $5 billion in revenue. It's a crashing car business and a lot of BS about stuff Musk doesn't understand
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
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What “America First” Could Cost Us
As the Trump Administration forces the U.S. to retreat from labor-protection programs abroad, American workers might end up suffering, too.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
wired.com
Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To
Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Wunderbar! finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-t...
finance.yahoo.com
Tesla (TSLA) Stock Can Slump to $170 “in Weeks,” Technical Analyst Says
Tesla’s (TSLA) shares can slump to $170-$180 “in weeks,” Gareth Soloway, Chief Market Strategist of Verified Investing said recently on Schwab Network. However, Soloway believes that the shares may bo...
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Dumber and nasty
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
buttondown.com
Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life
The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
FUCK. THIS. All of this.
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The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 22/04/2025
Missed this when it was first reported, but the US's biggest egg producer saw its profits *TRIPLE* year-over-year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
US’s biggest egg producer’s profits triple as prices soar
The DoJ is investigating, with Cal-Maine’s profits nearly eight times as high as at the start of the bird flu outbreak
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Americans often think of lawyers as opportunists who profit from conflict, and not without reason. But lawyers also represent the most fundamental defense against tyrants who seek to undermine a system of justice and fairness and to hold the populace in ignorance. Baher Azmy:
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Lawyers Face an Existential Choice - Boston Review
Conciliation only fuels Trump’s momentum and accelerates our constitutional decline.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Sadly, the timing of this conversation with @atrupar.com couldn't be more exquisite & on point. We finished this right as the news of 60 MINUTES dropped. "How the Right-wing Dominates Media and Sanewashes the Trump Administration" Please watch and share! thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-ri...
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How the Right-wing Dominates Media and Sanewashes the Trump Administration
60 Minutes is the latest media institution to bend the knee to Trump and MAGA's bad-faith bullying. This is how the right-wing dominates the landcape. Aaron Rupar offers a way to fight back and win.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
GOP congressman gets mercilessly booed by prescreened audience twp.ai/4ilq2H
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GOP congressman gets mercilessly booed by prescreened audience
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
As I have been saying for months: www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
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Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Blame Powell for Any Downturn
The central bank’s legitimacy is at risk as the president attacks the Fed for cutting rates before election but not now.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
They're just thirsty as fuck on so many different levels.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
sure what the hell. Announce thirteen billion percent tariffs next. 73 quintillion percent. eleventy gabillion percent. 29 brazillian percent. 35 dodecagorillion percent. who cares.
screenshot of a NIKKEI ASIA headline that reads "US sets tariffs as high as 3,404% on solar cells from Southeast Asia"
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Not to state the obvious, but none of them were sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador. They all had lawyers, indictment by grand jury, a trial or a guilty plea where a judge ensured it was knowing & voluntary & access to an appeals process. In other words, all the hallmarks of due process.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/04/2025
The attempts to eliminate anything resembling public health and increasing claims by companies that their personalized tech and ai will make you healthy are part of the same fascist project.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Democrats' X Account Epically Shades Hegseth After He Slams Liberal 'Agenda'—And People Are Shook
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 22/04/2025
The IMF has presented its global growth forecast amid 'uncertainty' due to Trump's tariff pause Sky's Business and Economics Correspondent Gurpreet Narwan explains what the agency outlined and the possible impact for the UK. Read more: trib.al/Dqu8EK0
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.
Leon Rengel was briefly held at East Hidalgo Detention Center, a private facility in La Villa, Texas, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Then — nothing. His alien number, a way to track his whereabouts, vanished two days later from ICE’s online system. He disappeared. ICE agents told Gutierrez her boyfriend had been deported to his home country. But the family has searched in Venezuela, and he isn’t there, she said. “I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported,” Gutierrez said. “But where to? He never arrived in Venezuela.” It’s possible that the Trump administration deported Leon Rengel to a mega-prison in El Salvador, where hundreds of other Venezuelans were sent last month — but there is no official record to confirm it.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Al Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany
Former vice president and environmentalist slammed the Trump administration for walking back climate policies
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
‘Huge Increases in Prices for American Working Families’: Three Experts on What Trump’s Economic Policy Means www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘Huge Increases in Prices for American Working Families’: Three Experts on What Trump’s Economic Policy Means
A look at tariffs, the Fed, the dollar and how uncertainty is wreaking havoc on financial markets.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could ju...
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Oh, their greed and grievance politics didn't work out? Womp womp www.vox.com/technology/4...
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Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong
The tech right’s collapsing case for the Trump presidency.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
thenextweb.com/news/trump-w...
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Trump’s ‘war on science’ hands Europe major tech talent opportunity
The Trump administration's “war on science” has sparked fears of a US brain drain — which could benefit European tech.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump approval rating dips; many wary of his wielding of power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's public approval rating edged down to its lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of wariness over his efforts to broaden his power, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday found.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
e-caremanagement.com/webinar-plat...
e-caremanagement.com
Webinar -- Platform Shift: What is Beyond EHRs?
What's in the pipeline beyond EHRs? In this webinar, we will discuss the emergence of UDHPs (Unified Digital Health Platforms).
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.news.com.au/technology/m...
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
independent.co.uk
Americans spent about as much on weight loss drugs in 2023 as foreign aid
Weight loss drugs such as Ozempic saw a spike in growth as they gained attention on social media
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Imagine how the MAGA mentality would marginalize this vital historical resource! The fact that Harvard University will house this reminder of the slave trade would be yet another thorn in Trump’s side. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu
Slave trade database moving to Harvard — Harvard Gazette
Publicly accessible digital tool compiles four decades of scholarship on more than 30,000 voyages and 200,000 people.
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Jody Ranck @jranck.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Trump administration is sabotaging your scientific data | Jonathan Gilmour
Burying our heads in the sand won’t stop the climate crisis or pandemics. We’re taking action to preserve government tools
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