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Judy Stone

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Infectious disease doc. Holocaust memoir Author: Resilience: One Family’s Story of Hope http://bit.ly/ResilienceStone & Conducting Clinical Research http://bit.ly/CCRText ID doc, freelancer/Forbes contributor, amateur photographer.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · Apr 17

My talk at Garrett College last night focused mostly on a 5-year-old American citizen and her American mother and grandmother, imprisoned by the Nazis in WW2. They were then separated for almost 10 years.
Still think it can't happen here?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4yP...
#Holocaust #TeachTheShoah

"Magda's Story: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey" presented by Dr. Judy Stone

YouTube video by Garrett College

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

Last month, a Mainer found 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum in her Amazon package. Republicans quickly pointed to it as proof of election insecurity, but now some suspect the stunt may have been staged by the referendum's own backers. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

www.democracydocket.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

Gov. Pritzker: "The Insurrection Act is called the Insurrection Act for a reason — there has to be an insurrection in order for [Trump] to be allowed to invoke it. He can say anything he wants, but if the Constitution means anything...the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked."

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3h

Good riddance to #RussellVought. The pain and suffering he has brought to so many Americans is unforgivable. www.merkley.senate.gov/schumer-merk...

Schumer, Merkley, Murray, Peters Call On Trump Budget Chief Russ Vought To Resign - Merkley

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice-Chair of the Senat...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 2h

New study shows that 'receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in *ALL* age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.'
@sarafnovak.bsky.social @laurenjyoung.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 4h

Looking for inclusive visuals that represent the populations you serve for posters, newsletters, social media content, and websites?

Here is my list of favourote places to get FREE visuals that you use without breaking copyright!

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FREE Online Visuals

Finding Inclusive Visuals Online TIP: Choose visuals that do not require attribution when possible, to keep things simple. Images that are licensed as public domain do not require any citation. For...

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 56m

In Alabama, incarcerated workers in a work-release program must take jobs at private companies—but 40% of their wages are docked as a “labor-trafficking fee.” A recent lawsuit brought by incarcerated people argues this is a modern form of convict leasing.

The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered

A historian answers <i>Bolts</i> readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 2h

This is Trump's America

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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DocAtCDI @docatcdi.com · 55m

It's no longer called boxed wine; the classy term is Cardboardeaux.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

‼️ CHATTANOOGA - Public school kids outperform voucher kids AGAIN

As @GovBillLee steers more and more taxpayer funds away from public schools to private (mostly Christian) schools for wealthy families who are already there.

More: www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14h

Thankfully, some of yesterday's CDC firings have been rescinded.

But this should be a major scandal, not business as usual in this shitshow of an administration. It's either spectacular incompetence or an effort to make even politically untouchable positions feel precarious to those in them.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 15h

100s of #CDC employees were notified Friday they were being fired — RIF'd. The firings cross multiple parts of the agency, endangering its core mission of keeping Americans safe.
Saturday, some were informed they were RIF'd in error.
Hard to imagine how this happens www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

CDC battered by government shutdown firings, while some are rescinded

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · 6h

“Trump’s big bill reduced compensation hospital EDs receive for treating undocumented immigrants. That reduction hurts hospitals, not undocumented immigrants whom hospitals still must treat…Hospitals are partially reimbursed for uncompensated care they give to help ensure financial sustainability”

Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 7h

Government shutdown rhetoric begs the question: Should the sick and injured be denied emergency care?

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, federal law has required hospitals to provide emergency treatment to all who need it, regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens.

Government shutdown rhetoric begs the question: Should the sick and injured be denied emergency care?

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, federal law has required hospitals to provide emergency treatment to all who need it, regardless of whether they are U.S. citizens.

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JAMA @jama.com · 3d

Emergency Medicaid accounts for less than 1% of total #Medicaid spending, even in states with large undocumented populations.

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A JAMA "Research Letter" published online October 9, 2025, shows a US map depicting 'Emergency Medicaid Spending for Undocumented Immigrants.' States are color-coded to show the percentage of spending, ranging from 1 to 2%.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 13h

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 1d

Mehdi Hasan Has It Right….

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