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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/07/2026

NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”

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Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾 @moberzan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today, our friend Jay USAF Major Jason Watson read his oath to the Constitution and demanded that Congress do its job to IMPEACH this President and cabinet. He was arrested on the Capitol steps. #DOOR @defendersofourrepublic.org @removalcoalition.bsky.social @citizensimpeachment.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

No one “receives” Medicaid, as if it were some gift. The most VULNERABLE members of our society are PROTECTED by Medicaid. And after repeatedly stating they would “never cut Medicaid”, elected legislators voted to strip away those protections from their own constituents.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

An estimated 12M Americans will lose their healthcare coverage. Including patients with progressive and blinding diseases like glaucoma, and macular degeneration. How anyone can cheer legislation that results in untold human suffering is beyond my understanding. Decency dies in daylight.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/06/2025

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend

After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today. This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This administration is indiscriminately slashing the safely net from above and below the American people. And they DO NOT CARE about the grave repercussions, because the ensuing chaos of a completely destabilized nation is their endgame.

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The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Offering minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) at the time of cataract surgery is evolving as the standard of care. Invest in the relationships that will help minimize drop burden and maximize a patient’s quality of life. #glaucoma #cataract #MIGS #optometry #ophthalmology #preventblindness

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MIGS Comanagement for the Modern Optometrist - Modern Optometry

Paying attention to three key relationships will help ensure a positive experience for the patient.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

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IDSA @idsainfo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Weakening our nation’s vaccine infrastructure will lead to significantly lower immunization rates and result in many more outbreaks of serious, vaccine-preventable hospitalizations and deaths. Congress must hold Secretary Kennedy accountable for these actions. (1/2)

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share how the TINY nitric oxide (NO) molecule has made a BIG difference in the modern management of glaucoma. ❤️🔬 #nitricoxide #opticnerve #glaucoma #preventblindness #bauschandlomb

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day! Please enjoy this optic nerve OCT… cute, but grossly miscalculated. ❤️ Automated diagnostic tools may augment our medical decision making, but the complex art of the physical examination will always be the foundation of clinical care.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 07/02/2025

“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av

A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Digital book-burning happening in real time. 🔥 Pages that highlight the contributions of women to the safety and security of our nation have all been removed. Archived page from Jan 26, 2025: web.archive.org/web/20250126...

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

In our high school years, the concept of “WWJD?” was all the rage in my rural hometown. This beautifully written piece, by my childhood friend @drdavebuckner.bsky.social, contrasts the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith with the disparate actions of their de novo leader. #wwjd

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As a current clinician and former military Intelligence Officer, I am equally heartbroken and horrified at how these impulsive decisions will impact public health and damage our national defense.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

“If you want to live in the light, don’t turn it off.”

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Putting a bit of joy into the universe… Ray Charles enjoying a morning snack and Huckleberry Finn video bomb from the right. 💓

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Fascists regimes have historically treated scientists as enemies. The dedicated public servants of the NIH are being treated as such. (2/2)

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NIH study sections have been cancelled indefinitely… Without these, there are no grant reviews. Without grants, there is no research. This overreach doesn’t just halt life-saving clinical research - it jeopardizes public health, and spits in the face of scientific progress and collaboration.(1/2)

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Today I was afforded the incredible opportunity to share my clinical perspective with participants in the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health’s (ARPA-H) OCULAB Proposer’s Day. Each ARPA-H initiative challenges the known and has the potential to directly impact American lives. 🧬🔬

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Our society forgets that each elderly American is a unique person… who used to be young and filled with dreams. My sweet grandparents are 92 and 95 years old. Their dreams are now my dreams. And I’m thankful beyond measure to simply spend time with them.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A daily reminder to myself that I have a lot to be thankful for.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Cone photoreceptors bryanwjones.com/2020/07/cone... #SciArt #retina

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Although normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is being diagnosed earlier by the clinical community, primary aspects of its pathophysiology remain a mystery. Investigational studies of the NVU are critical to our understanding of this progressive, often relentless, blinding disease.

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Nora Lee Cothran @opticnervegirl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The late Sidney Poitier poignantly noted that, “Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit of mankind.” In our current time and space, this sentiment sure does resonate.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/11/2024

I think it speaks volumes that right wingers criticize bluesky for being “liberal” and “left wing”, when it’s really just that hate speech isn’t allowed.

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