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Erika

@texanfeminist23.bsky.social
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Living the dream as a blue dot in the reddest county in Texas. I’m in medical research and enjoy dogs, sports, politics, video games, reading, the outdoors and wine.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the doctors Children’s Health Defense has cited to blame child measles deaths on medical malpractice and hospital error recently escaped professional liability for the death of his patient. Ironically, Dr. Pierre Kory’s defense rested on a law anti-vaxxers, including CHD, have railed against
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Children’s Health Defense ‘Expert’ Who Blamed Measles Deaths on Medical Malpractice Found to Have Caused Patient Death
A federal appeals court granted Dr. Pierre Kory immunity under a law anti-vaxxers have railed against.
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
4 people stand around while our bags are jammed on a United flight after they took off an hour late. I fucking hate airlines
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/09/2026
16 Bullshit Excuses: When Trump banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House, Republicans fell in line behind him. Here are sixteen of the bullshit rationales they offered to justify his move. www.thebulwark.com/p/as-trump-a...
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As Trump Abuses the Press, Republicans Cheer Him On
His allies excuse and defend his ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico.
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It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping! @pipercat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guarantee that if her own daughter hadn’t been killed and someone else’s was, she would care less about them or what ICE agents are up to.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Supposed to take an @aircanada.bsky.social flight at 6:45 this morning to land in Toronto at 11. Up at 3 am for it. Sat is on the plane for while. Deplaned us repeatedly told us no update while the other flights to Toronto left, then canceled the flight and stuck us on one getting in after midnight
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is the darkest timeline
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Elizabeth @lizard714.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace." ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Their Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sometimes it takes a villain, to show us who the real villains are.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday Taquitos #30: Flock This! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social
A cartoon of two people standing under a flock camera speaking to each other. The man says “I’m fine with mass surveillance ‘cause I’m not doing anything wrong.” The woman responds “… Until someone changes the definition of what’s ‘wrong.’”
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What an excellent set of paragraphs here www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate had previously faced rape and human ​trafficking charges in Britain related to three alleged victims, the Crown Prosecution Service said. A British judge issued a warrant for their arrests in January 2024. They have not appeared in British court to enter a plea to those charges.
Britain is seeking to extradite the brothers to face both sets of charges.

Joseph McBride, a lawyer for the Tate ‌brothers, ⁠denied that the brothers were a flight risk, noting that they had attended their required court hearings in Romania, where they have been under criminal investigation since 2022 on human trafficking allegations.
"Innocent men don't flee from justice. Innocent men lean in to justice because justice vindicates them at the end of the day," McBride told reporters outside the federal courthouse in Miami after a status conference before Louis.
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ensuring that patients from underrepresented groups feel safe with you isn’t discrimination. a pride pin doesn’t discriminate against Christian’s a BLM pin doesn’t discriminate against white people. a Ukrainian flag doesn’t discriminate against Russians a Palestinian flag isn’t antisemitic
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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Why chiropractic is a ghost religion.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/07/2026
This forever.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Alex Pettis’ mom’s message. 💚 We can’t believe it’s already been six months.
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I just can’t with soccer. Jump on someone’s foot in the middle of the play? Red card Jump over a ref to shove an opponent to the ground repeatedly? You’re good buddy play on
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Madonna is the new ship of theseus
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Masons lip syncing and muppets on band. Yeah this is a very American show
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
i just need these people to genuinely enjoy something without worrying that enjoying something makes them gay
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One good reason to care about stigma against people who use drugs is cause it can be weaponized against you and the people you care about, too
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I want to get ahead of this speech tomorrow. You are going to hear a lot of cries of the sky falling. Remember: the President of the United States does not control elections. States and localities do, and even if you say "he has the military," there aren't enough in the 48 states to make a dent.
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OligarchyOfTheWest @resistancematters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Choose your children's reading material wisely!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This could be a good campaign issue. "Susan Collins has the ability to stop this war, but she won't."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
MAINE: “Vote her out! Vote her out!”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is nearly 1:1 what Alex Jones is doing. He was denied cert in the Supreme Court, which ends all appeal avenues for $1.35 billion in judgments, and is now delaying payout based on a second judgment he owes to a separate set of families. All the same playbook to never pay victims.

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NEW: Late last night, Trump’s new lawyer told SDNY Judge Lew Kaplan that E. Jean Carroll is not entitled to disbursement of the first $5 million-plus jury award. Why? Because he has a pending petition for rehearing at SCOTUS, which denied cert last month.
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Alan Shearer: "When the referee goes back to VAR for Egypts goal & cancels it due to an interference at the start of play, but doesn't go back to VAR for Agentina's winning goal despite 2 interferences at the start of play... then we're watching a "theatre" not a football match.
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
the Belgium player crying g on the ground to end our push because he ran into his own teammate is why soccer will never be in the top 5 sports in the US. It’s a cultural mismatch to be so unsportsmanlike and manipulative. I get it’s part of the sport. That’s why I say it’s a cultural mismatch
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Some of the same guys who act like there’s an unexplainable gender war going on are simultaneously the ones trying to equate masculinity with being sexually abusive to women. Gee I wonder what could be causing tension
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Listen, if you don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism, I’m not engaging with you. Crack a book.
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Less than 2% of octogenarians who need cpr at home will survive to 30 days. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
Figure 2. Thirty-day survival in relation to age. The distribution of observed 30-day survival rates at each age level. A smoothing transformation was applied to display the overall pattern in 30-day survival rates according to patient age.
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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 01/07/2026
Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So two players collide in air and come down on top of each other, red card Shove our goalie to the ground smacking his head on turf, play on Cool sport
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
FIFA refs: hey I said you could yank them down by their jerseys 10 times and that was the 11th!
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So other sports if the coach steals the ball we eject them. Just a thought
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Soccer is fundamentally stupid. Bosnia has been dragging our players to the ground by their shirts and then two guys bounce together and get a red card? This sport is dumb I want basketball back
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The US should just give Bosnia their jerseys and play topless since they want to hold onto them so much
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
For not liking hydration breaks Europeans sure like to take a lot of breaks in these soccer games
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bosnia team is very unsporting it seems. But I don’t know soccer maybe all games are this cunty?
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Erika @texanfeminist23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I don’t watch soccer so I need someone to tell me if all of this flopping is normal. Feels very bitch move honestly
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/07/2026
MAHA Voter Feels Betrayed   By Continued Survival Of Own Children theonion.com/maha-voter-feels-betra…
MAHA Voter Feels Betrayed   By Continued Survival Of Own Children
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Anthony Torino @torinoentertainer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Transgender people in sports is almost as big of an issue as voter fraud. Both are invented issues designed to scare the gullible idiots.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You might disagree with Kavanaugh about the constitutionality of high school athlete genital inspections, but you can't deny he's always been very consistent in his support for nonconsensually groping teen girls.
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