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Alyson Smith
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Pediatric PA. Associate Professor. Passionate about healthy policies for kids, equity, and Simpsons memes. Chilli Heeler is my spirit animal. Grateful mama. 💕
#MedSky #PedSky #MedEd

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Chicago 💙
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Kent Brockman (The Simpsons) “The circle of life is complete, Fat Tony. Do you have any comment?” Fat Tony: “I don’t get it.”
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Danny Concannon (Timothy Busfield, The West Wing) “Is the reason you won't tell us about it that it's a... secret?”
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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The First Family at the Capital Area Food Bank, November 23, 2011

Support your local food bank here 🍎 www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
#feedpeople #HCWvsHunger
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha, and Marian Robinson greet people as they fill care packages with food for Thanksgiving at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C., Nov. 23, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/100441
November 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Homer Simpson in disintegrating salamander suit
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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the attorneys
Simpsons attorneys
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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heyyyyyyy #PedSky #KidVengers and all who love kids…our chance to feed tons of families is coming soon! 👀🍎🎉

*can’t wait for this to arrive too
Pink #HCWvsHunger hoodie with a red apple and medical cross logo. Available @ https://www.bonfire.com/healthcare-workers-vs-hunger/
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Americans deserve scientifically sound, factual information from trusted experts. Our kids and grandkids are depending on it.

Call *your* Reps/Senators, plus Dr (Senator) Bill Cassidy, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

All can be reached here:
📲 (202) 224-3121
FIND YOUR TRUSTED SOURCES STEP 1 LOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HYPERBOLIC. FEAR IS A POWERFUL MOTIVATOR OF ACTION. SO, THOSE WITHOUT GREAT DATA WILL USE OTHER MEANS TO GET ATTENTION TO SWAY OPINION THEIR WAY Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ FIND YOUR TRUSTED SOURCES STEP 2 LOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE SOURCES FOR THEIR STATEMENTS. IF YOU ARE SHARING FACTS, YOU AREN'T AFRAID OF PEOPLE DOUBLE CHECKING YOU PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES & HONEST COMMUNICATORS WANT TO GET IT RIGHT SO THEY AREN'T AFRAID OF FACT CHECKING Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ FIND YOUR TRUSTED SOURCES STEP 3 LOOK FOR THE SAME INFORMATION FROM MULTIPLE TYPES OF SOURCES. SOURCE TYPES: A RESEARCHER, AN ACADEMIC CENTER, LARGE NEWS SOURCE, YOUR DOCTOR Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ ABOUT THAT DEAL WITH THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE.... During his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr stated he would not do anything to limit access to vaccines. His actions since show otherwise. Skilled scientists belong in the role of head of HHS, not skilled snake oil salesmen Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🚨 Helpful CDC update, plus steps to find accurate vaccine info, from pediatrician @drelizabethmurray.bsky.social via Instagram
THE CDC HAS FALLEN Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ Autism and vaccines - CDC page, updated November 19, 2025 (NONE OF THIS IS TRUE) “KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.” Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ “HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.” Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/ SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS CANNOT FIX THIS PROBLEM ON OUR OWN. FOR NOW, HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO ↪️ Image source - Dr. Elizabeth Murray https://www.instagram.com/p/DRSAmLTkQaL/
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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My little girl and I were hit by hMPV in ‘23 also, during the outbreak that caused so many pediatric ICU admissions.

Absolutely flattened us - avoided hospitalization but she needed daily close follow-up with her pediatrician. Brutal. 😷
Image showing a rise in pediatric human metapneumovirus cases in early 2023, at the same time other respiratory viruses were decreasing. Image via https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-rsv-rates-decreasing-spring-lesser-virus-rise/story?id=99691489
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Bad as they come ❤️
Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois 📷: https://newmobility.com/tammy-duckworth-champion-congress/
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Pink- and green-streaked northern lights against a clear, starry sky #northernlights #photography #stars #nature #Chicago
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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getting intense! ✨

#northernlights #photography #nature #Chicago
Pink- and green-streaked northern lights against a starry sky
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Northern lights in Chicagoland!

*run outside and look northwest - best viewed via phone camera while your eyes adjust 💖
green and pink northern lights against clear, starry skies green and pink northern lights against clear, starry skies Intense pink northern lights against clear, starry skies
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Homer to doctor - hey, I came here to be drugged, electrocuted, and probed, not insulted
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Chicago-style 🍂❄️
several inches of snow cover a white railing and fading green plants yellow magnolia tree leaves against a backdrop of white snow one small green leaf lays in the snow dried green and brown aster flowers topped with fresh fallen show
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🚨 Read this Chicago Tribune investigative piece. Please.

This ICE agent - charged with DUI - told arresting officers he was driving back his hotel after working at the detention center.

Driving through our suburbs. 😡
An Oak Brook police bodycam video obtained by the Tribune through an open records request captures the early morning Oct. 26, 2025 arrest of Guillermo J. Diaz-Torres, an off-duty ICE agent from Albuquerque, N. M., who was charged with DUl after he crashed a rented 2025 Kia Telluride into a row o tall hedges in the west suburban town. Police allege Diaz-Torres had fallen asleep at an intersection, then crashed the car after a Westmont police officer attempted to wake him. Operation Midway Blitz - the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's mass deportation effort in the Chicago area - was launched in honor of a young suburban woman who was killed by a man accused of driving drunk while being in the country without the legal paperwork.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Marge Simpson to Bart and Lisa: “I won’t have any aggressive condiment passing in this house”
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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dog wanted dinner at 3:30 and I’m already in pjs what are we even doing here #FallBack
fuzzy white pup with speckled ears sleepily rests head on couch #daylightsavings #dogsofbluesky
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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For my people. 💕🫩
This weekend, time goes back an hour. That means you get an extra hour of- NOTHING. You get nothing. You're a parent.
November 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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We’re somewhere between a scatter graph and a pie chart.
Assorted candy sorted by type on a cream colored polka dot rug.
November 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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In honor of Halloween, one of my all-time favorite cartoons by @katiemckissick.bsky.social

#MedSky #IDSky #HappyHalloween 💊👻🎃
Cartoon of person dressed as a ghost, speaking to another person What are you supposed to be? “An unfinished course of antibiotics. I can lead to antibiotic resistance Aren't I terrifying?” And Beatrice was never invited to a Halloween party ever again. By Beatrice the Biologist
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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do not recommend trying to fit family in here
close up of OP photo showing the words “Family-Sized Capacity” with various foods in the pan
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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*taps sign*
@HillaryClinton Twitter acct "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." —Hillary 10:18 PM • 7/28/16
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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this seems suboptimal
back of staggered multicolor house - concrete deck drops off precariously back of multicolored house - appears landing of a raised deck leading from back of house was partially gutted with old lumber strewn about on ground
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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lol @allisonjo1.bsky.social
[Threads] allisonjo1 I love snooping around on Zillow because you never know when you're going to find a house that's actually like, five houses wearing a trenchcoat https://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/11130-Seola-Beach-Dr-SW-98146/home/179088
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM