Erin E. Worrel 🍁
@erinerex.bsky.social
Vampire Slayer in training, graduate of Costco Law School
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Erin E. Worrel 🍁
@erinerex.bsky.social
· Oct 22
OK everyone this is really simple - Nazis bad. The end.
Correct. I've been saying this for months. Money doesn't do you much good if the treatment you need doesn't exist! The rich cannot just set up their own research institutions to replace what is lost.
The crazy thing is, this is the stuff rich people really need the government to be doing. No matter how rich you are, you can't replicate the health benefits of the government doing major studies like this. But they don't care.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Correct. I've been saying this for months. Money doesn't do you much good if the treatment you need doesn't exist! The rich cannot just set up their own research institutions to replace what is lost.
I really have no idea how the "good guys" kept going during other periods of unspeakable horror and cruelty, and didn't collapse from tje weight of it all. I'm sure there were people who think of themselves as good (not the people referred to in first sentence) who said bullshit like...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I really have no idea how the "good guys" kept going during other periods of unspeakable horror and cruelty, and didn't collapse from tje weight of it all. I'm sure there were people who think of themselves as good (not the people referred to in first sentence) who said bullshit like...
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Why did Mandani go to the WH anyway? Is that a standard thing for newly elected mayors of NYC?
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Why did Mandani go to the WH anyway? Is that a standard thing for newly elected mayors of NYC?
For real, what the fuck is this bullshit
Getting a lot of "fake issue, doesn't matter" replies to this post and I gotta say, it certainly matters to me that so many members of the Dem House caucus are credulous dupes.
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
For real, what the fuck is this bullshit
YES THANK YOU! I was trying and failing to come up with something like this earlier. It's not the scientists at fault.
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
YES THANK YOU! I was trying and failing to come up with something like this earlier. It's not the scientists at fault.
I'm never going to forget or forgive. There isn't a word that can describe my rage.
Bhattacharya's newest 1-page pandemic plan forcefully rejects the GBD, his previous 1-page pandemic plan.
It's really just an admission that he's not competent enough to control a virus and not caring enough to even try.
My latest devastating takedown.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...
It's really just an admission that he's not competent enough to control a virus and not caring enough to even try.
My latest devastating takedown.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/bhattacharya...
Goodbye to Focused Protection. Jay Bhattacharya’s Latest 1-Page Pandemic “Plan” is for Vulnerable People to Stop Being Vulnerable.
Jay Bhattacharya's new "plan" is really an admission that if there's a new pandemic, he’s not competent enough to do any of the incredible things he “would have” done regarding COVID. He's not
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm never going to forget or forgive. There isn't a word that can describe my rage.
The average American apparently has no idea how much of a positive impact our world-class research had on public health & have no idea how much misery & death will result from its destruction. I'm so fucking livid every day at the median voter's ignorance that led to this colossal fuckup.
we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The average American apparently has no idea how much of a positive impact our world-class research had on public health & have no idea how much misery & death will result from its destruction. I'm so fucking livid every day at the median voter's ignorance that led to this colossal fuckup.
No, it's unforgivable. The destruction of our research institutions, public health infrastructure, climate monitoring, USAID (which has already killed thousands, mainly kids), the terror unleashed by ICE, I could go on and on and on, will be felt for DECADES (at least). We may never recover.
People keep saying we need to show grace to those in MAGA who eyes are finally opened.
This is without question the hardest task I've ever been asked to do, because they're just so fucking stupid.
This is without question the hardest task I've ever been asked to do, because they're just so fucking stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No, it's unforgivable. The destruction of our research institutions, public health infrastructure, climate monitoring, USAID (which has already killed thousands, mainly kids), the terror unleashed by ICE, I could go on and on and on, will be felt for DECADES (at least). We may never recover.
Reposted by Erin E. Worrel 🍁
That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
That's why I say that, at its core, reactionary politics is not an alternative set of values, norms, & rules -- it is permission to *jettison* values, to ignore the dreary call of conscience, to wallow in impulse & instinct. It can't triumph via persuasion (it sounds awful out loud), only violence.
Damn throwing the f bomb out. This is the way!
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Damn throwing the f bomb out. This is the way!
You guys know what this means right
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
You guys know what this means right
Reposted by Erin E. Worrel 🍁
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
This is actually my family's portrait
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is actually my family's portrait
*Screams into the void*
we really need to nationalize healthcare but we're too corrupt to function so we're just going to have to wade through a bunch of corpses and suffering for the next five years while our feckless corporate press softsells the carnage
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
*Screams into the void*
On the other side of this, most everyone will pretend that they were actually against it the whole time. But NAH, I have the receipts you vile assholes.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
On the other side of this, most everyone will pretend that they were actually against it the whole time. But NAH, I have the receipts you vile assholes.
"They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t? So you’d rather let somebody die?” she said - aunt of Tierra Walker.
Literally yes. Dead women is a feature, not a bug.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Literally yes. Dead women is a feature, not a bug.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"They didn’t want to offer to end the pregnancy, because the government or someone says you can’t? So you’d rather let somebody die?” she said - aunt of Tierra Walker.
Literally yes. Dead women is a feature, not a bug.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Literally yes. Dead women is a feature, not a bug.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
I will never get over how voters chose this, more than once, or how every single institution failed at several stops along the way to allow this despicable and wildly unqualified cretin to be POTUS. Just a deep humiliation and indictment of this country.
This is how the depraved, unprincipled Trump excuses the murder of Jamal Khashoggi : blame the victim.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about, whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen,” he says sitting with the culpable MBS.
Sickening and infuriating.
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I will never get over how voters chose this, more than once, or how every single institution failed at several stops along the way to allow this despicable and wildly unqualified cretin to be POTUS. Just a deep humiliation and indictment of this country.
I really don't understand why this isn't an open and shut case. Nazis = bad, the end.
Yes, I think having a Nazi tattoo is a 100% NON-STARTER for a Democratic candidate.
It's sickening that people are trying to put him over despite that and his other racist and misogynist statements.
Disqualified.
Janet Mills is HIGHLY qualified, accomplished, proven.
#MillsForMaine
It's sickening that people are trying to put him over despite that and his other racist and misogynist statements.
Disqualified.
Janet Mills is HIGHLY qualified, accomplished, proven.
#MillsForMaine
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I really don't understand why this isn't an open and shut case. Nazis = bad, the end.
Thank you so much voters!
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. https://to.pbs.org/47KbPDE
NIH cuts affected over 74,000 patients enrolled in experiments, report finds
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding lapsed for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions like cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
www.pbs.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Thank you so much voters!
Reposted by Erin E. Worrel 🍁
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. https://to.pbs.org/47KbPDE
NIH cuts affected over 74,000 patients enrolled in experiments, report finds
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding lapsed for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions like cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
www.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. https://to.pbs.org/47KbPDE
Lol... lmao
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Lol... lmao
Lmao
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Lmao
I work with several other PhDs and some of them are so smug and pretentious. Calm down, even a loser like me has a doctorate so it's not actually the flex you think it is. Also they think my biology PhD is weak and "not elite" or whatever.
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I work with several other PhDs and some of them are so smug and pretentious. Calm down, even a loser like me has a doctorate so it's not actually the flex you think it is. Also they think my biology PhD is weak and "not elite" or whatever.