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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH

@nceld.bsky.social
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Retired Family Physician and Progressive Christian, striving to work for justice and equality.

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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is crazy!
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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United Church of Christ @unitedchurch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
❤️🤍💙 UCC is proud to partner with the US of Kindness, a nationwide call to action to complete 250 Acts of Kindness in 2026 in honor of America’s 250th year. This initiative elevates kindness as part of a larger movement across the country. 👉🏾 Learn more and join: ow.ly/gqcw50Zk18t
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 01/05/2026
#medsky
Jerome Adams- I’m hearing this from every pediatrician I talk to.  They’re tired of fighting misinformation, and it’s making them cynical.  It’s sad and shocking to see how quickly decades of life and country saving health measures is being dismantled.  We most definitely are not making America healthier.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Small, but mighty No Kings rally in the small town of Manzanita, OR. Hundreds showed up!
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I spent many wonderful days in Springfield during the 18 years I lived in Ohio. It is a peaceful, kind community.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an ICU nurse. 😢💔🙏 He spent his life helping people, and now our government is peddling lies in an attempt to make you believe them.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
January 5, 2026
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January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
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Indivisible Oregon ❌👑‬ @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#PillarICE
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 28/10/2025
A colossal waste of time and resources. Meanwhile, millions of Texans may go hungry as SNAP benefits lapse during the government shutdown.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I have to agree. I am dumbfounded by this maneuver.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/10/2025
“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
wapo.st/3KuOywj At the end of a depressing month, we can enjoy the Fat Bear Week champion, Chunk, who overcame adversity to win the crown. With thanks to all the Park Rangers and staff at Katmai NP for also struggle with their own adversities...
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Fat Bear Week has a new champion. And he’s a total ‘Chunk.’
This year’s Fat Bear Week champion offers a lesson in persistence. Or he’s just a bear that ate a lot of salmon.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
PLEASE! Whatever you do, do not take medical advice from Trump and RFKJ. Just don't. From a worried physician.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My fear, too.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is such an important point. Anyone can make reports to VAERS about any incident or event possibly related to a vaccine. These reports must then be studied and evaluated, which takes time, money and scientific knowledge and skill.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Well said.
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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Wow. Just speechless at the collapse of what had been the shining star of public health, the CDC. Read their resignation letters. They are powerful.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Don't forget to breathe. (Neakahnie Mountain, Oregon)
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This makes me so mad! I have depended on these recommendations for years to offer my patients quality, evidence based care. My colleagues who served on the USPSTF over the years were some of the smartest and wisest people in medicine.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/07/2025
PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.
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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities
The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The Hemophilus influenza vaccine was introduced in 1985. I was a Family Med resident from 83 to 86. I saw first hand the dramatic drop in sick, hospitalized babies. The residents I taught from 1990 onwards never knew what that was like. I fear they will see H. Flu sick babies again soon.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This IS outrageous!
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Breathe
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
So true! The devastation of science and health is on a par with the devastation of human rights in this country.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Agreed. There is so much wrong with RFK's report! Smoking, poverty, adverse childhood events... totally important in children's health, but neglected here.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Succinct and clear!!
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This is just wrong!
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I have to agree with this!
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OPB @opb.org · 10/04/2025
Top officials in Oregon are refusing to sign off on a demand from the U.S. Department of Education that requires states to abandon policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion if they want to keep receiving federal funding for schools.
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Oregon rejects Trump administration’s school funding threat over DEI policies
Top officials in Oregon are refusing to sign off on a demand from the U.S. Department of Education that requires states to abandon policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion if they want to keep receiving federal funding for schools.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/04/2025
✅ crashes stock market ✅ fires long covid researchers ✅ puts quack in charge of HHS ✅ seems friendly with measles Holy sh*t. Did we just elect a coronavirus for president? 😱
Photo of trump at his tariff announcement on "liberation day" clutching a giant graph labeled "reciprocal tariffs" and leaning into a microphone at a lectern. His head has been replaced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I had skin cancer (and much of my nose) removed in January. Grateful for my Medicare! Glad to be out protesting on behalf of those of you who can't physically participate.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It was awesome!
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hands Off, Beaverton, OR. One of dozens of rallies in the Portland metro area. With my daughter and her dogs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Howard Lutnick: "Let Donald Trump run the global economy. He's knows what he's doing. He's been talking about it for 35 years." Hello? Trump has killed almost every business he's ever touched. Watch. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?si=1AQLnUjnabA…
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How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich
Let’s set the record straight: Trump is not a “successful businessman.” He is, objectively, a business failure.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/04/2025
SAVE THE PENGUINS. STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is not a left or right moment, it is a right or wrong moment.

—Sen. Cory Booker
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's a long, hard struggle for justice. Don't forget to take in the beauty of nature along the way. (Then return to the work of doing justice and loving kindness)
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United Church of Christ @unitedchurch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Quote by: Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, GMP/CEO, UCC. 👉🏾 From her latest On My Mind Today blog entry: "Politics & The Church": www.ucc.org/politics-and...
The church should be a place of safety for all. A place where the human rights and civil rights of all are affirmed and defended inside and outside the walls of the church. If the call for justice & advocacy for “the least of these” is the action that deems us political & involved in politics, may the church always be that! Silence in the face of tyranny & oppression is antithetical to the prophetic call to seek justice. Quote by the Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. From her latest On My Mind blog entry, titled Politics and the Church.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Like many progressive Christians, I have my trust in a God I understand via the deeper truths of metaphor and parables, not "literalism." The Way of Christ is similar to the Way of other great spiritual leaders...it is the Way of compassion.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 22/03/2025
Grass roots grow national forests.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
NEW: GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept. @mckenziefunk.com
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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
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Nancy Elder, MD, MSPH @nceld.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
No kings.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.
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