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KeriRN

@kerirn.bsky.social
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Mom. RN - MedSurg, Oncology, Risk Management. Singer. Gardener. Sewist. Reader. PFLAG/LGBTQ+. She/Her.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Ventura! #handsoff #democracy #wethepeople
The power of the people is greater than the people in power - Cory BookerDo justice. Love kindness. Walk humbly. Hands off our things. Grocery bag, previously unknown to our dear leader. Opens news. So … what inconceivable shit did he do today?
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Sari Beth Rosenberg @sari.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Senator Booker broke Senator Thurmond’s record for the longest speech on the Senate floor. Thurmond used his time to stand in the way of progress. Booker is using his to stand for it. This is powerful. This is the America we’re fighting for. This is our moral moment & we must all answer the call.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/02/2025
BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years
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NPR @npr.org · 13/02/2025
The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys.
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ACLU and other advocates sue for access to migrants moved to Guantánamo Bay
The lawsuit alleges the migrants have been "disappeared into a black box" and are unable to communicate with attorneys
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee. The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee. The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee. The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Diversity is a fact: All kinds of people exist. Equity is a goal: All kinds of people deserve a chance at success. Inclusion is how we get to equity. By including them, they can achieve success. It's that simple.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If only experts existed who could warn Americans repeatedly that foreign aid is money spent to pay Americans and buy things from Americans but no one's ever said it out loud so who can blame people for not understanding
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MJ64 🦋 @mj644.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: In a massive lawsuit, the AFL-CIO has SUED the Treasury Department: “for their unlawful…disclosure of personal and financial information…to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE).”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you’ve taken the oath to serve, today would be a good day to honor it.
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’m doing training today for our new medical record and they used Moira Rose as one of the patient’s friends. 😁 #SchittsCreek
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/01/2025
I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is. Know your rights. Pass these around…
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Interesting clouds on my menty b prevention walk today
Dark grey rain clouds hang low over an old wooden house and defunct church steeple
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
From the excellent writer and editor Derek Franz:
Seeking the light today, Jan. 20, 2025, Trump’s 2nd inauguration. This administration trumpets a platform of vindictiveness, revenge and repression. This admin thrives on the dumpster fires of divisiveness, misinformation and intimidation. It’s easy to feel that I am a peon, that 99.9% of us are peons who will never matter, never make a difference in the outcome of the world while the comforts of our lives hinge on those we serve. This is objectively true, has always been true to some extent. There are kings who pull strings according to whatever vanities suit them and the populace pays the price. But we do hold power on a daily basis—we can add light, even happiness to our surroundings.

For example, in my past jobs in customer service, I often felt as though I mattered the least of anyone. Lately I’ve noticed what a difference it makes in my stressful days when a waiter or cashier gives me a genuine smile, patience, humor—reminders that we are connected, here together. It helps me kindle my own brightness, however small, to pass on.It can feel like hard work, and anger often gets the best of me, but we have more agency to build the communities around us than what we tend to believe or take responsibility for. We citizens build the light and understanding. We are either the kindling for good or rage, there is no middle ground, for indifference fuels evil every time. So it is I watch the dawn of some strange new chapter. It’s the color of orange and red, and I turn to the stars and galaxies twinkling beyond with the knowledge that change is always inevitable, that light is defined by darkness, and I am resolved to be whatever small agent of positive change I can be. There will always be messages that I’m not doing enough for this or that, not giving enough, not caring enough, not good enough. No one can dictate what I have to offer or when or how. I must continually find the light within before I am able to share it. That is the hard part of the work.

 This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.🕯️✊💫
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 25/01/2025
I mean we knew it would be bad but holy fuck
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/01/2025
‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde
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‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde
This week, the bishop of Washington delivered a sermon in front of President Trump urging him to show mercy towards LGBTQ+ and migrant communities. The president condemned it as ‘nasty’. We reproduce it in full O God, you made us in your own image and…
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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SpudWebKam O_G_ @jagarvaken.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
#RESIST
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/01/2025
one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
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News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Official Page of Newark, NJ News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Big hearts to Costco Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
Costco
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH. No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts. And no indication how long the pause will last. With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.
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Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review
The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025
shoutout to the dudes who insisted that a vote for harris was a vote for endless war. you crazy for that one!
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Argh! I hate the amount of second guessing I feel that I have to do on emails. As a ✨woman ✨ how many “we feel” or “I think we should” or goddamn exclamation points do I need to make the (usually male) recipient feel psychologically secure enough to read and absorb the content of the message?!?!?!
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I cannot understand billionaires who spend their days on oversight panels and talking to crypto bros. Like you have more money than you could ever spend. The planet isn’t going to habitable for more than a few generations. I’d be partying while simultaneously raining cash onto everyone around me.
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers. Science works, y'all. www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
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Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
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🌻🌊🇺🇲Mr.Resister🇵🇷🌊🌻 @mrresister.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
It's nothing new. Just keep fighting. Without the fight, they will prevail.
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brycehaymond.bsky.social @brycehaymond.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas, everyone, even Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah @regenceutah.bsky.social, who is currently denying coverage of a cancer drug for my wife's breast cancer treatment. You are the Scrooge/Grinch in this Christmas story. But you can have a change of heart. You can be different. 💗
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 24/12/2024
A Christmas Carol is one of our most enduring stories because it teaches us that old rich jerks will change their fuckin tune if you scare the living shit outta them
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
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Esther M Johnston, MD MPH FAAFP @esthermjohnston.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do you use AI-powered transcription tools in your clinic? Journalist & NYU professor Hilke Schemmann highlights how hallucinations in one commonly used AI program differentially impact interview transcriptions from people of marginalized backgrounds apnews.com/article/ai-a... #medsky #healthpolicy
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2024
A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I live space exploration so much! Tearing up listening to this podcast about the Mars rovers. #NASA #JPL #Spirit #Opportunity #ThisIsLove ❤️❤️❤️ pca.st/episode/1f47...
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Tau = 10.8 - This is Love
Love is more than you think. From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Happy #thanksgiving
A family sits down to Thanksgiving dinner and thanks Jesus for the food. Farm worker Jesus replies, “De nada.”A hot rod toy car drifts and throws a whipped cream dust cloud around the rim of a pumpkin pie. White Jesus with bright large teeth cuddles an oddly proportioned child with the most ridiculous cheekbones anyone has ever had and rag doll legs. This is the yearly holiday Jesus painting on the mattress store window.
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KeriRN @kerirn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Almost avoided it but the Drumpf talk has started. Shite.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Researchers found a 62% drop in cervical cancer deaths in young women over the last decade due to HPV vaccination! That’s huge!  www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill... #MedSky #BlueSky 🧪 #medtwitter #IDSky #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky #MedEd #fmsky #pedsky #publichealth
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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TheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This needs to be said, loud, and often.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/11/2024
Sarah McBride: "It is an attempt to distract ... Every single time we hear them say the word 'trans,' look what they're doing with their right hand. Look at what they're doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing Social Security and Medicare."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
How many of these do we have?
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