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Rick Weinmeyer

@rickweinmeyer.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor - Loyola University Chicago Law • PhD - Northwestern, JD - Minnesota • I study public health law, public health ethics & health policy • A blend of serious & humor • Minnesotan ✊🏼 • Gay 🏳️‍🌈

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 11h
Hey now! It gives some of us pathetic losers hope.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 16h
Someone stole the title of my yet-to-be-written autobiography.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fact: People love bidets.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sure, but never forget this about the Foo Fighters. www.motherjones.com/politics/200...
motherjones.com
Foo Fighters, HIV Deniers
A platinum-selling alt-rock group may be endangering their fans by promoting a dangerous myth.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Proud to have signed up for today's Twin Cities Marathon and bailed on training in May. #passiton
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's a little tip: If you ask your parents "Is MS NOW on 24/7?" and your parents say "No," they're lying to you.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is how the end of the world should look. Not AI crap.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh wow! Congratulations!
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No, I killed a one-eyed whatever it is.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"By deleting the body’s memory of earlier infections, measles causes a condition called 'immune amnesia.' . . . That leaves people newly vulnerable to bacteria and viruses against which they were once protected, either through infection or vaccination."
cidrap.umn.edu
Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One of those things got into our house once. I had to kill it with a broom.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To anyone who doubts the genetic/biological hardwiring of chronotypes, it's 12:59 A.M. in Charleston, S.C. I'm working, and my parents are up and watching TV.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy to be included in his estimate if it means I don’t have to hear about this shit anymore.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Confession: I do not understand sweater crop tops.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sound bites and media savvy ≠ effective or ethical law making
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simple people living simple lives. “Oh, my dad? He invented SOUND.” “Me? I’m a novelist, director, stand-up comedian, film producer and principal in Water’s End Productions, a film development and production company.”
nytimes.com
Tom Dolby and Spencer Alcorn Marry at Lake Tahoe (Gift Article)
Tom Dolby, whose father created the sound system, and Spencer Alcorn, a seventh-generation Californian, lead a cinematically stylish life.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I didn't realize Flowers was a judge now. He comes up every year in my Public Health Law course because he argued against OSHA's temporary emergency standard for workplaces (requiring either COVID vaccination OR testing and masking) while sick with COVID. He had to give his argument virtually.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Live your dreams.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My go-to source about anything AI-related is @wired.com, so this week's Big Interview was informative.
wired.com
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interested in my plans to live forever & never age? Then I have the symposium for you. Join the Beazley Inst. and Annals of Health L. & Life Sci. on Friday, Oct. 9th for our Symposium: Biohacking: Risk, Regulation & the Future of Longevity Medicine. reg.planetreg.com/E8310124030343
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2026 Beazley Symposium on Health Law and Policy
2026 Beazley Symposium on Health Law and Policy - online management provided by PlanetReg
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding."
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can't believe summer is almost over.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This "beehive" used to be located just a few blocks from where I grew up. There were still lots lilac bushes in the area, too.
startribune.com
What’s that giant stone beehive beside Hwy. 100?
The curious structure is a rare remnant of a Depression-era scenic route lined with lilacs and picnic parks.
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Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can payment make an otherwise permissible act wrong? Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join me and @uvalaw.bsky.social co-hosts Joe Keys and Jake Ross on Taboo Trades to discuss Markets without Limits: organ markets, corruption, rescue duties, and the law. www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...
buzzsprout.com
Markets Without Limits with Jason Brennan & Peter Jaworski - Taboo Trades
Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski join Kim Krawiec, student co-hosts Joe Keys and Jake Ross, and members of UVA Law’s Taboo Trades seminar to discuss the second edition of Markets without Limits: Moral...
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's random moment of joy: Seeing nuns playing volleyball. Had I not been on a 10-mile run, I would've snapped a picture.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lucky invitees will have the honor of hearing my rendition of Mandy Moore's "I Wanna Be with You." We'll depart the venue on my bad-boy-he-doesn't-play-by-ballet-rules motorcycle.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Noted.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I simply won’t stand for that kind of language about Center Stage.
static.klipy.com
Donna Murphy: End Of Discussion
ALT: Donna Murphy: End Of Discussion
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nothing nerdily warms my heart like a tribute or remembrance of a fantastic editor.
vanityfair.com
Longtime Vanity Fair Editor Wayne Lawson Dies at 94
Remembering the editor—known as VF’s “secret weapon”—who shepherded the careers of Dominick Dunne, Marie Brenner, Maureen Orth, and many other greats.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We set a high standard at my high school. Or, as my gym/health teacher called it, "Let's get HIGH school."
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I never took a "business" class, but I do remember people complaining that one week a business teacher just played "The Breakfast Club."
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NEVER forget: RFK's "associates . . . have also been allowed direct access to senior CDC staff members. Dr. Ben Edwards, a physician in Lubbock, Texas, who treated children WHILE HE WAS INFECTED WITH MEASLES . . . , asked senior CDC officials to look into cod liver oil as a treatment for measles"
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"'Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning,' said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, who led the agency’s center for H.I.V. and sexually transmitted infections till April 2025 . . . ."
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
youtu.be
MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love a Christmas movie.
youtu.be
WERWULF - Official Trailer 2 [HD] - Only In Theaters This Christmas
YouTube video by Focus Features
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Public spaces for the public. Big if true.
newyorker.com
Are Public Spaces Really for the Public?
A group of locals is trying to reclaim city spots for the people—including lobbying to turn vacant lots into gardens and fighting the event venue Guastavino’s over a courtyard.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sounds like you all did a good job hiding the body.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ooof
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What?!?! I thought this was a senior scholar!
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Family Love
ALT: Family Love
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As I tell my students, "Always be polite and kind. It costs you nothing, yet it's priceless." Apparently more faculty need to hear this, too.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hopefully the professor on the receiving end is okay, and I have no doubt others in the room later told them "fuck that person."
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your bravery and reslience shine through yet again.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My comments were OFF THE RECORD. But seriously: those words are brutal, and sadly, not unfamiliar.
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If my personal life is ever described in a national publication, I want it to include the phrase "showered him with gifts."
nytimes.com
Kyrsten Sinema’s Home Is Ransacked by an Ex-Bodyguard, Officials Say (Gift Article)
The man, Matthew Ammel, dated Ms. Sinema while he was part of her Senate campaign security detail and was married, according to court filings.
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Look i'm glad this is out but the time to resign is when you're ordered to do something unethical!
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...
youtu.be
We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
x.com/dominiquedaw...
x.com
Dominique Dawes (@dominiquedawes) on X
Hanging out backstage at Life Surge with author, John C. Maxwell learning about his book, “Failing Forward”…my fall at the ‘96 Olympics in Atlanta ironically empowered me to soar!
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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another fun tip for @gymcastic.com: Dominique Dawes spoken at a Life Surge event (or events) featured in this article: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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