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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social

Writer and editor. Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent.

created May 1, 2023

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Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Best part of the film by far

2/9/2025, 1:17:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Nadler is a mensch and this is an apt tribute

2/9/2025, 1:12:23 AM | 194 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

This is 100% going to be a movie. Also Burning Man attendee who claims she didn’t know she was pregnant and then gave birth there to a nearly 4lb baby? Hello? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

1/9/2025, 12:37:18 PM | 63 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Zingher (@zingherpolisci.bsky.social) reposted

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

1/9/2025, 12:23:55 PM | 3511 1045 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CHOAM Nomsky (@samthielman.com) reposted

New York actually is extremely dangerous. Was walking down the street with my son this morning and this person accosted us and started yelling. If you see them please be careful

A kitten rubbing up against my leg The same kitten rubbing up against my kid’s leg
1/9/2025, 1:07:25 AM | 271 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture timothy faust (@tbone.malware-virus.biz) reposted

happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.

3 hours for work 6 hours for rest 15 hours for posting
1/9/2025, 1:09:31 AM | 5862 1431 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

This is like waiting for shooting stars. But yes, eventually someone will Storrow a truck

1/9/2025, 12:26:52 PM | 73 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Samer (@samer.is) reposted

It is definitely aurora season

A line of aurora mixed with clouds can be seen over the Grótta light house outside Reykjavík A line of green aurora and clouds above a shack on the side of the road in Seltjarnarnes A line of purple and green aurora can be seen behind some clouds with the Big Dipper hovering above Some green aurora and clouds can be seen over the water with city lights in the distance
1/9/2025, 1:46:39 AM | 621 94 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture United Farm Workers (@ufw.bsky.social) reposted

Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

A beautiful piece of art of farm workers laboring in the fields
1/9/2025, 1:01:00 AM | 3445 1117 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s got a ticket masala She’s got a ticket masala She’s got a ticket masala And she don’t care

1/9/2025, 11:41:03 AM | 42 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Admirable statement—a nonpartisan commitment to Americans’ health is why we now live so much longer and healthier than when these people began their decades running the CDC. Now, for some reason, RFK Jr is trying to use the CDC to kill us.

1/9/2025, 11:35:23 AM | 86 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Am I 13? Very well, I am 13

1/9/2025, 2:39:25 AM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

That was their actual name? Amazing, enviable indeed

1/9/2025, 2:38:03 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

🍆

1/9/2025, 2:37:34 AM | 53 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly

1/9/2025, 2:34:51 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a really big busy highway with exits, not like a Highway 1 with stores along it

1/9/2025, 2:34:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

On the highway?? That doesn’t make any sense either

1/9/2025, 2:28:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Very puzzling statement

1/9/2025, 2:25:35 AM | 63 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

If someone ever tried to perpetuate this level of BS on me, I would hope someone would be trying to bring the rule of law to bear on the situation and that person would have a name like Judge Sparkle Sooknanan

31/8/2025, 8:30:36 PM | 150 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

I really appreciate the combination of these extremely pained, serious comments about the government trying to deport unaccompanied children in the wee hours of a holiday weekend…and the name Judge Sparkle Sooknanan

31/8/2025, 8:28:45 PM | 678 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."

31/8/2025, 6:18:48 PM | 2499 439 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Judge Sooknanan: I am trying to do the best I can to fulfill my obligation as an Article III judge. I appreciate you all showing up today, and I particularly appreciate the government's representation. But I'm going to put it on the record again, just so there's absolutely no ambiguity...

31/8/2025, 6:18:48 PM | 1452 158 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.

31/8/2025, 6:13:53 PM | 1616 225 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.

31/8/2025, 6:12:43 PM | 1803 310 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.

31/8/2025, 6:10:25 PM | 3486 910 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eileen Ridge (@eileen4ever.bsky.social) reposted

#FlowerReport from VA: flower of the week for me is #dahlia! They’re more work than anything else I grow, but I love them so much. 🌱

Peaches and Dreams dahlia Kelsey Dwarf dahlia Bumble Rumble dahlia. Bee Happy dahlias with Bumble Rumble in the background.
31/8/2025, 7:31:28 PM | 159 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Insane. We are inheriting some stuff from an older cousin but I’m hoping to purchase exactly zero

31/8/2025, 5:55:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

This is real and yes there is a doll ($135!) www.americangirl.com/collections/...

31/8/2025, 4:29:19 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jude "BE NOT AFRAID #3 out 8/27" Doyle (@judedoyle.bsky.social) reposted

Found my kid's historical American Girl novel and sadly I have now died

It's COURTNEY, the American Girl from 1986 with permed hair, a scrunchie, and high-tops, playing an arcade game as an example of her benighted Olden Tymes existence
31/8/2025, 4:06:05 PM | 230 42 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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31/8/2025, 2:15:06 PM | 4733 1436 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Terrific obit for a truly badass historian of women in science

31/8/2025, 4:12:39 PM | 45 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Well, I know that 2+2 = 5, so there

31/8/2025, 4:04:57 PM | 47 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted

VA is a disaster right now. I generally don't trust the private sector with my healthcare, yet had wrist surgery three weeks ago at Baylor Scott & White in Dallas because VA couldn't handle it. First time I've had a major procedure or serious condition treated outside the military or VA since 1996.

31/8/2025, 3:48:26 AM | 481 209 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emma Sanders (@emsandersbbc.bsky.social) reposted

Loved learning about Union Berlin and their incredible support for their women’s team. They are preparing for a debut season in the Frauen-Bundesliga having gone pro 2 years ago. They have the 4th highest average attendance in Europe. ✍🏻 👇🏻 🇩🇪 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

31/8/2025, 8:14:23 AM | 149 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Stipe (@michaelstipe.bsky.social) reposted

I can

I can
30/8/2025, 5:14:21 PM | 13998 3372 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

You know I'm automatically attracted to soft, beautiful stone—I just start kissing it. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. No gashes, though

30/8/2025, 7:55:08 PM | 55 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

I like bananas but still don’t want to be chased by the dystopian banana robot

30/8/2025, 7:50:00 PM | 80 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

“Reversing centuries of progress in” is definitely a different frame, probably better supported by the facts

30/8/2025, 3:54:38 PM | 53 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Great photo

30/8/2025, 3:22:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

And it’s full of weird guilty-pleasure snacks and treats (I just got sparkling watermelon juice?? Delicious) and they give the kids stickers

30/8/2025, 3:09:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

From today

andykaczynski * 1h Trump was spotted this morning by the WH press pooler on his way to golf at his club in Virginia.
30/8/2025, 2:53:18 PM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooh, that’s splendid

30/8/2025, 1:06:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful

30/8/2025, 11:43:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Ding ding ding

30/8/2025, 8:41:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Hecka cute puppy

30/8/2025, 4:39:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah

30/8/2025, 4:39:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

On brand

30/8/2025, 4:38:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

I had no idea

30/8/2025, 4:36:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s lovely

30/8/2025, 4:35:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow!

30/8/2025, 4:33:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

!!!! Is it in some kind of yoga position?!

30/8/2025, 4:32:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh that’s beautiful

30/8/2025, 4:30:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted

Don't buy it, he's Ferris Buellering us

30/8/2025, 4:27:36 AM | 342 27 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed

30/8/2025, 4:28:59 AM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture slate (@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social) reposted

i don’t like the idea of the president missing. he could be anywhere. i am suddenly aware how little i appreciated opening my shower curtain knowing the president would not be standing there

30/8/2025, 3:33:41 AM | 6334 777 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh no

30/8/2025, 4:26:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture slop enjoyer (@slop.guru) reposted

nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy

30/8/2025, 4:04:00 AM | 11236 1646 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Okay, timeline cleanse. Post an image from your summer that confers peace

Sunset field against mountains with a little covered bridge off to one side
30/8/2025, 4:24:13 AM | 152 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Why did you do this to all of us

30/8/2025, 4:15:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, looks like The Last Post

30/8/2025, 4:12:02 AM | 134 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

I woke from a literal nightmare and this was practically the first thing I saw. Not helpful

30/8/2025, 4:11:33 AM | 30 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Coincidentally, that is where we appear to be going

30/8/2025, 4:10:06 AM | 29 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the exchange I want to see in my feed 🔥

30/8/2025, 4:08:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Where did you find this Satanic thing, Caleb

30/8/2025, 4:06:43 AM | 70 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Or the world he plans to leave us

30/8/2025, 4:05:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Cursed image

30/8/2025, 4:03:37 AM | 51 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Uggggh

30/8/2025, 3:57:11 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

On top of the workers in food production already being persecuted, and the obvious fact that all of us need to eat…almost every food-related biz I know, from farms to restaurants, works with really tight margins as it is. This could put so many people out of business

30/8/2025, 2:06:00 AM | 41 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

I have small children — “so boring it causes sleep” is the highest compliment

30/8/2025, 1:03:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

This is going to suck for so many different people

30/8/2025, 12:51:39 AM | 183 56 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Fascinated by this insanely boring bedtime story podcast, in case you know anyone who needs to be bored to sleep slumberstudios.com/snuggle/

30/8/2025, 12:44:25 AM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Threatening the people who give out the Nobel Peace Prize

30/8/2025, 12:19:12 AM | 1020 191 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Right — I mean if you put the person yelling on the corner about Bill Gates microchipping people through their blood in charge of the nation’s health, that person would be similarly out of step

29/8/2025, 6:36:48 PM | 64 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Why isn't this a show, though

29/8/2025, 5:48:12 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...

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29/8/2025, 5:23:17 PM | 1806 458 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Melody Schreiber (@melodyschreiber.com) reposted

Schumer is calling for Kennedy' termination

29/8/2025, 5:12:45 PM | 95 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture andy™ (@andylevy.net) reposted

i assume he was quietly transferred to another server

29/8/2025, 4:45:39 PM | 3215 499 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

With Trump's capture of the right and attempt to dismantle federal function (aside from police state and enriching the ultra wealthy) as fast as possible, it's going to take efforts of many kinds and directions to put back some speed bumps. Say what you will about Newsom, but he is not complacent

29/8/2025, 4:44:38 PM | 36 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

This interview is worth a listen, even if you are a Newsom hater and would never support him in a primary. He has a striking sense of pragmatic urgency around interrupting Trump's 2026 gerrymandering grab--that this is really a last-ditch place to stop him and other states need to get serious fast.

29/8/2025, 4:40:09 PM | 78 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

We are all slowly dying, Sean

29/8/2025, 3:53:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

So true. I usually just blocked anyone who was making drama and it got better quickly

29/8/2025, 3:53:19 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

You can't even inform your constituents you are leaving them to their inevitable deaths anymore, because of woke

29/8/2025, 3:52:51 PM | 50 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

That part was extremely strange. I don't know if it was exactly great, but it was interesting

29/8/2025, 3:49:22 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

O rly

29/8/2025, 3:45:40 PM | 76 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Extreme “interview from my yacht” vibes

29/8/2025, 2:23:58 PM | 51 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

I just found my childhood copy and have been reading it to my kids!

29/8/2025, 11:12:41 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, that’s right. He is beloved but leads this tenuous existence where he can be pulled from his family and sent to the zoo. Crocodile Alcatraz, if you will

29/8/2025, 9:07:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Janet French (@jantafrench.bsky.social) reposted

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Edmonton public school principals and teachers are being told to remove more than 200 titles from libraries and classrooms this fall in response to a new provincial government order that purports to keep sexually explicit material away from students. #AbEd #Ableg #yeg

29/8/2025, 5:18:23 AM | 77 52 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Useful insight

29/8/2025, 3:32:58 AM | 22 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah Weinman (@sarahweinman.com) reposted

No words.

29/8/2025, 2:40:52 AM | 57 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

The good news is that this terrible pratfall post allowed me to see your previous post with the giant bucket of Reese‘s pieces

29/8/2025, 2:26:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gary Hershorn (@garyhershorn.bsky.social) reposted

Big clouds over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center as the sun sets in New York City, Thursday evening #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #sunset

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29/8/2025, 2:14:38 AM | 83 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Just kidding, they love Spotlight, because at least they get Santarpio’s and can be portrayed by Batman

29/8/2025, 12:44:45 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Journalists love SUPERMAN, which most accurately captures our lives outside of the office

29/8/2025, 12:39:41 AM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what happens when you put a Friend of Measles in charge

29/8/2025, 12:34:54 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social)

Seems extremely bad

29/8/2025, 12:32:33 AM | 140 34 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) reposted

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

28/8/2025, 9:34:56 PM | 10424 2243 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg what happened

28/8/2025, 11:29:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At least there was an entire movie warning people not to ask them in

28/8/2025, 11:28:52 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted

Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.

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