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Nellie Hermann

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Novelist, THE CURE FOR GRIEF (Scribner) & THE SEASON OF MIGRATION (FSG). Creative Director, Narrative Medicine @ Columbia.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
A USPS mailbox in New York City
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you're looking for some food banks to donate to, we vetted a ton all over the country back in 2020, in conjunction with our marble league sponsorship, a sentence that I swear made sense in context. Anyway -- there are links to 17 of them in this thread. (And apologies for linking to... y'know.)
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Last Week Tonight on X: "Congratulations to all the winners of Marble League 2020! Through our sponsorship, they raised $100K for worthy causes. Here’s a thread of the winners and where their funds went:" / X
Congratulations to all the winners of Marble League 2020! Through our sponsorship, they raised $100K for worthy causes. Here’s a thread of the winners and where their funds went:
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/09/2025
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country — Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally
Demand ABC Bring Back Jimmy Kimmel Live!

RALLY TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
12pm - 1pm

310 HUDSON ST, MANHATTAN
(7 Hudson Sqaure between Spring 
and Vandam, outside ABC Network)

RSVP: WGAEA.ST/KIMMEL-RALLY
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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”
A screenshot of the last paragraph of the letter to AG Bondi:

On behalf of the people of Boston, and in solidarity with the cities and communities targeted by this federal administration for our refusal to bow down to unconstitutional threats and unlawful coercion, we affirm our support for each other and for our democracy. Boston will never back down from being a beacon of freedom, and a home for everyone.

Sincerely,
Michelle Wu
Mayor of Boston
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 12/08/2025
Hey guys... this is serious please go and opt out NOW!
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Why we so stupid?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20/07/2025
As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a severe blow to 1,500 local public stations, as well as PBS and NPR
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Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to NPR and PBS.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Dismantling these departments that warn us about the weather is in Project 2025, and the core reason is they say these departments (RIGHTLY) drive “climate chang alarmism”, which “is harmful to future prosperity” (aka BIG OIL PROFITS)
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/06/2025
Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style. The stamps will be available in July but you can pre-order them now. [kottke.org]
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Chris Ware Creates Stamps For USPS
Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style. The pane of 20 interconnected stamps show a bird’s-eye view of a mail carrier’s route through
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/07/2025
The Trump administration has placed on leave roughly 140 staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency who signed a letter of dissent protesting the agency’s current direction and policies, according to emails obtained by The Post.
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Roughly 140 EPA staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter are put on leave
Trump officials have placed 139 employees who signed a letter of dissent protesting the Environmental Protection Agency’s current direction and policies on leave Thursday.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With passage of the Big Bill, it is worth noting that this is the largest rollback in health coverage in history. To date since WWII, and since the passsge of Medicare, Medicaid and ACA generally all legislation EXPANDED coverage, but this is the largest RETRACTION in health insurance coverage ever
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Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Crossposted to SciAm from @eenews.bsky.social -- the megabill will raise U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and likely put our climate goals out of reach. 🧪
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Republicans’ ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Not So Beautiful for the Climate
Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reach
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 30/06/2025
There’s still time to stop Republicans from taking healthcare away from over 16 million Americans. Join tonight’s phonebank as we mobilize Medicaid recipients to contact their senators and stop Trump's Tax Scam. Every call counts: www.mobilize.us/move...
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Phone Bank to Save Medicaid! · MoveOn
Congress will soon vote on whether to advance a budget resolution that would take away nearly a trillion dollars of support and assistance from everyday people, including the largest proposed cuts to Medicaid in history. This budget would enact more than $1 trillion in cuts to vital public programs their own constituents depend on, including Medicaid, food assistance, and education, to help fund their massive tax giveaway for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations. Join **MoveOn, Working Families Power, Indivisible, Community Change Action, and Public Citizen** for a national phone bank to Medicaid recipients urging them to call their Senators ahead of the upcoming budget vote to stop the cuts and save Medicaid!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Just to underscore--the president is attending the opening of an immigrant tent city that was purposely built (in one week) on an abandoned airfield in the middle of the Florida Everglades because it's surrounded by alligators and pythons to deter people from fleeing, or kill them if they do.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Shortly before dying from cancer in 2002, anthropologist Grover Krantz arranged to have his body donated to the Smithsonian under one condition: his remains and that of his dog would be displayed to replicate his favourite photo. More info: shorturl.at/hEqbT
A photo of Krantz standing with his large dog jumping up to greet him. The pose is replicated on the right, but it's the skeletons of Krantz and the dog.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!
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Claire Heddles @claireheddles.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Pentagon Sends Hurricane Forecasters Scrambling After Suddenly Announcing Shutdown of Key Satellites Forecasters could miss out on “six, eight, 10 hours” of early warning about dangerous storms, one expert said. w/ @emilykennard.bsky.social www.notus.org/climate-envi...
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Pentagon Sends Hurricane Forecasters Scrambling After Suddenly Announcing Shutdown of Key Satellites
“I've never seen anything like this,” a former NOAA administrator said of the surprise announcement.
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matt tuckerbaum @mrtuckerbaum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My god. 6 MILLION acres of public lands in Oregon, including the vast majority of our national forests, will be sold in a fire sale if the MAGA budget passes.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Trump signed an executive order in April to 'restore American seafood competitiveness' but in revoking the Columbia River agreement has canceled millions of dollars to support the programs that seed the ocean with fish to catch." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmo...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The New York Times headline writers now call groups like the AMA and the College of Physicians and Surgeons "pro-vaccine groups." They get more preposterous with each passing day.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/06/2025
Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration reut.rs/402V1Ds
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Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration
All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Someone’s paying $1k in Trumpcoin for seat fillers for his birthday Nuremberg rally
Seat Fillers Needed - June 14th - Constitution Avenue - DC
T-Mellon Events is looking for seat fillers and extras to provide their time for space maximization and attendance perception for an event taking place in Washington DC on June 14th. Extras and Seat fillers will check in on the morning of June 14th at 9:00 a.m.
Extras are required to wear Red, White and Blue clothing and will be provided a RED hat to wear. GOLD accessories are acceptable as well. The team will advise the extras where to stand or sit according to the line of sight from a VIP viewing platform area.
Extras and Seat fillers will be paid a flat daily fee and will be provided a lunch of fast food and soda.
We encourage people of color and ethnic groups to sign up for maximum perception control and these individuals will be prominently displayed on the televised broadcast
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In short: don’t let the absence of the words “Insurrection Act” fool you. Trump has authorized the deployment of troops anywhere in the country where protests against ICE activity might occur. That is a huge red flag for democracy in the United States. 19/19
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/06/2025
Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.
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Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....
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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.
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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I am *so hoping* that Mamdani can break the Curse of the NYC Mayor. Please vote the WFP slate (Mamdani, Adams, Lander, Myrie) plus one more, and DO NOT RANK Cuomo or Adams.
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If you're faculty, especially if you are tenured faculty, you need to be sending *all* the alarms up the chain until central admin says something (preferably something involving the word "lawsuit")
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Lux in the Bronx @rlux.nyc · 24/05/2025
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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Regulations.gov
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/05/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, posted photos on Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
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RFK Jr. Swims in Washington Creek That Flows With Sewage and Bacteria
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...
The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If your literary organization lost an NEA grant this week, I'd like to hear from you for a story I'm writing for the LARB. DMs are open, email is adam@thefrontlist.org.
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Tom Clark @tomsclark.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Well, this is definitely not a good sign.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This by itself is impeachable.
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
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