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Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!!

@madmay.bsky.social

Rip Grrrr Cat... best, just the best friend and love of my life Absolutely crushed he's gone. There I did that...

created August 1, 2023

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

Ugh!!! Im doom scrolling!!! Been at it all fucking day!!! Why????

2/9/2025, 10:40:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Well they were young once, we just didn't watch for their expiration dates, is all... my bad...

2/9/2025, 10:22:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure, im a hedge witch with punk and grunge influence, doesnt hurt i loved mechs! And can weld!

2/9/2025, 10:18:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture vanoreo (@vanoreo.bsky.social) reposted

remember like a month ago when everyone got Super Serious about making sure the epstein case and trump’s connection to it doesn’t quiet down and then it quieted down

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2/9/2025, 8:39:36 PM | 1390 295 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sinéad Rhiannon (fae/it/he/they) (@sineadthefae.bsky.social) reposted

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2/9/2025, 8:44:16 PM | 71 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

2/9/2025, 8:20:30 PM | 12739 3602 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture luke steuber (@lukesteuber.com) reposted

Keep railing on the Epstein stuff. It's the only thing that seems to have been working to divide his base; don't let people forget, they're trying to run out the clock on this one too

2/9/2025, 7:56:31 PM | 60 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indigo (it) ⚧️ $105 / $246 (@indigofatale.me) reposted

If a sex worker doesn't already have their location available, don't ask. The information listed is the information we want you to know.

2/9/2025, 7:55:21 PM | 38 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julian Power🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ (@julianrwpower.bsky.social) reposted

This prize would make the winner the only tax-paying billionaire in America.

2/9/2025, 4:14:06 PM | 101 65 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

My roommate husky just stepped my the back of my slipper as I was stepping and stuck his nose in my butt!!! GODDAM DOG!!! ITS NOT FUNNY!!! (He always stops when he does that and has a big open mouth tongue sticking out smile on his face) Cause he thinks its funny!!!

2/9/2025, 4:51:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

They happen, just had my ex in my weird dream a minute ago, the locked door incident...

2/9/2025, 4:48:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

I must be sleep walking g again... took nap, woke up to leave my roo. And the door was locked.. I never my bedroom door... and I was having some weird ass fucked up dreams again... (Locked door, walked into the damn thing cause it didn't fucking open cause it was FUCKING LOCKED!!!)

2/9/2025, 4:45:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

Comedian and political commentator, @johnfugelsang.bsky.social, is imploring Democrats to fight harder against Donald Trump’s agenda! He hopes to see Dem leaders hit the streets, and be a bigger part of the resistance!! Thank you for being vocal!! 💙 I second this!!

2/9/2025, 4:21:35 AM | 617 256 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Not the announcement I wanted...

2/9/2025, 4:40:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, well, I guess thats a big deal, but seriously, he'll just strip the money out them another way, and I doesnt mean anything, he's always made bid announcements and it didn't have this lead time, and they were WAY bigger deals than this...

2/9/2025, 3:10:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@kristenobacter.bsky.social) reposted

In case you need some real good news this morning: scientists have found a diet supplement that will help save the bees! 🧪🐝 phys.org/news/2025-08...

2/9/2025, 2:50:53 PM | 16 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

And he's STILL shorting them on their pay!!!

2/9/2025, 3:03:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I say, if God hates trans people, like they say, then why does She paint the sky our colors all the time?

2/9/2025, 2:58:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the announcement? It inst like every other thing, he just blunts it out? This is the important thing? This is stupid... WHO CARES?

2/9/2025, 2:56:44 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

Getting ready for my day off, laundry day, do a little shopping, a bunch of napping... and maybe hang out with my friend Ellie, thats if I can get her to get up and do anything... (its her day off to, and she says she just lays around the house in her PJ's..)

2/9/2025, 2:50:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

This is absolutely AMAZING!!

2/9/2025, 1:20:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew Highton (@matthighton.bsky.social) reposted

You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.

2/9/2025, 7:37:09 AM | 2424 590 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CAKE (@thebandcake.bsky.social) reposted

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

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28/8/2025, 6:18:15 PM | 2162 1041 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

Yeah.... ive done that before.... (Didnt pay attention to the labels on the bottles...)

2/9/2025, 1:12:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

1/9/2025, 2:57:40 PM | 22004 7778 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eunuque de la ville (@holybible.bsky.social) reposted

All doctors are veterinarians because humans are animals

2/9/2025, 5:43:30 AM | 37 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ (@trans.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

redrawing of a bugs bunny animation still i did where he is saying “NO”
2/9/2025, 8:13:08 AM | 27 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Legend (@fubarrockchick.bsky.social) reposted

Woooooh

2/9/2025, 8:41:30 AM | 12 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a bluesky account that is literally Julie rides bikes, or something like that!! Julia?

2/9/2025, 11:15:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

Military honors for Ashli Babbitt "tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."

2/9/2025, 12:01:12 AM | 1220 327 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jordan Maison (@jordanmaison.com) reposted

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves Graham Greene in Maverick Graham Greene in The Last of Us Graham Greene in Marvel’s Echo
1/9/2025, 10:42:09 PM | 22204 4548 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

I can breathe clearly now the snot is gone!

2/9/2025, 2:43:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

That part was kind of a joke, but really not...

1/9/2025, 8:34:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Ive had sooo much death in my personal life, not just random people i knew, several family members, cancer, and murder.... Im sooo numb to death now, I probably won't even notice my own, and just keep going....

1/9/2025, 8:34:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, people constantly interrupting my convo with myself is annoying at times....

1/9/2025, 8:31:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup...

1/9/2025, 6:23:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Cause it'd be all caps!!

1/9/2025, 6:12:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture TizzyEnt (@tizzyent.bsky.social) reposted

When "owning the libs" goes bad.

1/9/2025, 6:07:12 PM | 593 62 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

That would be a nice change for once...

1/9/2025, 6:08:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saga, sighs queen (@saga.iam.bi) reposted

snap crackle pork

1/9/2025, 5:54:36 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

From one retired union member to your family thank you!

1/9/2025, 6:06:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

🫂 🫂 🫂!!

1/9/2025, 5:52:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cat 😊 (@cats.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 10:27:55 AM | 153 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ceej (@ceej.online) reposted

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Profile picture 💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 (@northjules.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture James Youngman (@jyoungman.bsky.social) reposted

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

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Profile picture Carl Ott, Author (@bubba687.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social) reposted

Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.

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Profile picture 💙💙~Patty ~💙💙 (@pattyger.bsky.social) reposted

#SaturdayNightParties 🥳🎉 @davidicw.bsky.social @bradfr.bsky.social @antoniobruno.bsky.social @yorksterbad.bsky.social @nanabee62.bsky.social @bosswoman.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @6cats4adomino.bsky.social @mersyme.bsky.social @rogerleethomas.bsky.social @redsealpainter.bsky.social

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30/8/2025, 8:42:44 PM | 13821 2472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hiro Ohta (@xlix.me) reposted

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Photo by Tomas Anunziata. A person stands atop a sand dune at night, illuminated by a soft glow, gazing at the star-filled sky. A streak of red and white light arcs across the sky, likely the trail of a rocket or aircraft captured with long exposure. The vast expanse of the cosmos contrasts with the solitary figure, evoking a sense of wonder and insignificance against the universe. Wisps of clouds and a faint Milky Way add depth to the celestial scene.
31/8/2025, 8:22:45 AM | 51 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

out, and everyone looks around rips their clothing off and as soon as the sun hits them the screen goes totally bright blinding white, because the reflection from them!!! It was hilarious!!!

31/8/2025, 10:12:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Most Seattle people's skin never sees the light of day long enough to tan... so nudity? Ya, blindly white skin and the sunlight? Nobody would be able to see!!! (That was a skit from 'Almost Live' years ago..) It was gloomy and dark people layered in heavy clothes and its raining then the sun comes

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Profile picture Transgender World (@transgenderreport.com) reposted

Minneapolis Tragedy Exploited by Joey Mannarino’s Transphobia www.transvitae.com/m... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

I remember this!!!

31/8/2025, 4:44:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

I am glad I dont get the attention you get sometimes, but I do love the way you handle them!! Classy!!! A truly original classic that one!!!

30/8/2025, 9:46:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

Monkey bread: Made for monkeys? OR Out of monkeys?

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

Been drinking too much coffee... gotta pee every hour!!!

30/8/2025, 3:18:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Megan Ranney MD MPH (@meganranney.bsky.social) reposted

Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...

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Profile picture Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) reposted

RFK Jr joined the fight on deadly diseases on the side of deadly diseases.

30/8/2025, 1:50:38 PM | 4233 809 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby) reposted

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

30/8/2025, 5:06:33 AM | 27250 7049 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

And... OUCH!!!

30/8/2025, 3:11:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Agree wholeheartedly!!

30/8/2025, 3:10:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hellvetika (@hellvetikaseraph.bsky.social) reposted

Found this gif. Had to share.

30/8/2025, 3:06:58 PM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture fleurgold 🔞 (@fleurgold.bsky.social) reposted

I'm officially OUT of my anti anxiety medication, please help! I need $50 for meds and some ramen so I don't starve! #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025 💕💸 www.paypal.me/fleurgoldFG

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Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

28/8/2025, 5:05:26 PM | 5477 2934 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Fairy on the ferry...

28/8/2025, 6:45:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

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Profile picture 🚩🚩 Samantha 🚩🚩 (@bolshevikmilf.bsky.social) reposted

i'm going to try again one last time. i have a friend in austin, a trans woman, who was fired from her job as an service coordinator because of transphobia. she's on unemployment now and housing insecure. if anyone has leads on trans/disability friendly work or a housing situation please reach out.

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Ive done that, it burns....

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Profile picture Crystal Frasier (@amazonchique.bsky.social) reposted

Demanding accountability of the entire trans community for this single mass shooting but not demanding accountability from the cis community for the thousands and thousands of other mass shootings is monstrous beyond all belief.

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Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

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Profile picture Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business. I am happy to stay on for two weeks to provide transition, if requested. This decision has not come easily, as I deeply value the work that the CDC does in safeguarding public health and am proud of my contributions to that critical mission. However, after much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people. Enough is enough. While I hold immense respect for the institution and my colleagues, I believe that it is imperative to align my professional responsibilities to my system of ethics and my understanding of the science of infectious disease, immunology, and my promise to serve the American people. This step is necessary to ensure that I can contribute effectively in a capacity that allows me to remain true to my principles. The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people. The data analyses that supported this decision have never been shared with CDC despite my respectful requests to HHS and other leadership. This lack of meaningful engagement was further compounded by a “frequently asked questions” document written to support the Secretary’s directive that was circulated by HHS without input from CDC subject matter experts and that cited studies that did not support the conclusions that were attributed to these authors. Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people. It is untenable to serve in an organization that is not afforded the opportunity to discuss decisions of scientific and public health importance released under the moniker of CDC. The lack of communication by HHS and other CDC political leadership that culminates in social media posts announcing major policy changes without prior notice demonstrate a disregard of normal communication channels and common sense. Having to retrofit analyses and policy actions to match inadequately thought-out announcements in poorly scripted videos or page long X posts should not be how organizations responsible for the health of people should function. Some examples include the announcement of the change in the COVID-19 recommendations for children and pregnant people, the firing of scientists from ACIP by X post and an op-ed rather than direct communication with these valuable experts, the announcement of new ACIP members by X before onboarding and vetting have completed, and the release of term of reference for an ACIP workgroup that ignored all feedback from career staff at CDC. Their desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults. Their base should be the people they serve not a political voting bloc. I have always been first to challenge scientific and public health dogma in my career and was excited by the opportunity to do so again. I was optimistic that there would be an opportunity to brief the Secretary about key topics such as measles, avian influenza, and the highly coordinated approach to the respiratory virus season. Such briefings would allow exchange of ideas and a shared path to support the vision of “Making America Healthy Again.” We are seven months into the new administration, and no CDC subject matter expert from my Center has ever briefed the Secretary. I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. At a hearing, Secretary Kennedy said that Americans should not take medical advice from him. To the contrary, an appropriately briefed and inquisitive Secretary should be a source of health information for the people he serves. As it stands now, I must agree with him, that he should not be considered a source of accurate information. The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines favoring natural infection and unproven remedies will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer. I believe in nutrition and exercise. I believe in making our food supply healthier, and I also believe in using vaccines to prevent death and disability. Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun. The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud. I am resigning because of the cowardice of a leader that cannot admit that HIS and his minions’ words over decades created an environment where violence like this can occur. I reject his and his colleagues’ thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed. For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics. I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision. Public health is not merely about the health of the individual, but it is about the health of the community, the nation, the world. The nation’s health security is at risk and is in the hands of people focusing on ideological self-interest. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for the opportunities for growth, learning, and collaboration that I have been afforded during my time at the CDC. It has been a privilege to work alongside such dedicated professionals who are committed to improving the health and well-being of communities across the nation even when under attack from within both physically and psychologically. Thank you once again for the support and guidance I have received from you and previous CDC leadership throughout my tenure. I wish the CDC continued success in its vital mission and that HHS reverse its dangerous course to dismantle public health as a practice and as an institution. If they continue the current path, they risk our personal well-being and the security of the United States.
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Profile picture Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted

I put my armor on, show you how strong I am (am)! I put my armor on, I'll show you that I am … I'm unstoppable! I'm a Porsche with no brakes! I'm invincible! Yeah, I win every single game! I'm so powerful! I don't need batteries to play! I'm so confident! Yeah, I'm unstoppable today!!

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Profile picture John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted

Occasionally I post an invitation for people with crowdfunding appeals to put them in the comments of a post, and guess what: This is that occasion! If you have (or know someone who has) a crowdfunding appeal, share it here. Everyone else, check them out and it feels right to you, give a little.

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Profile picture Tess (@itstessinadress.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I'm a formerly homeless trans woman trying to keep it together across the chasm from former employment ending to new employment starting to pay. Phone is cut off, running out of HRT, and falling behind on rent, plus these two goofballs need cat litter. Any amount/RT helps www.paypal.me/Tessicabess

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Profile picture David (@scotinus.bsky.social) reposted

Please amplify Sen. Patty Murray's comments. Unless you're cool with all this, and haven't had enough yet. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

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Profile picture CAKE (@thebandcake.bsky.social) reposted

Unfair comparison? Explain your nuanced approach

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Profile picture michaeledward (@michaeledward.bsky.social) reposted

Seattle according to conservatives who have never visited the city

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, oh fuck!!! And since its been put out there, NOBODY is going to double check ANYTHING else about them.... fuck is right!!!

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Giggle fit!!!

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Profile picture Nunsense & Shenunigans (@annaleehq.bsky.social) reposted

May i add take a page from Douglas Adams and carry a towel as well If LEO aims rubber bullets at you, it’s a shield If it’s tear gas, soak it and cover your face (bandanna works better) After you’ve discharged yr breadly weaoon (or eaten it), you can dip the towel’s corner in h2o and flick it

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Ive never open grinder, or have even searched for the app.... thats an app right? But, I also, dont date, ever....

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I have been thinking same.... the fact we have to do things like that is just disgusting.

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Yesh!! It definitely can be!

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

I know! Its kind of fun to watch their reactions, like "OH crap!! Did i just do that?" I just smile and help them with whatever it is they need... customer service you know...

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Me neither!! Cause im tall and skinny, ill have my back to a customer, and I get sir'd, and as soon as I turn around they apologize and say ma'am! And thats without makeup!!

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Haha!!! Can't blame me for trying! Lol!!

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Profile picture John Breen (@acab.dad) reposted

Free Alice www.them.us/story/alice-...

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope, not here!! Girlfriend seaon!! (Your turn!) (Rabbit season, duck season)

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Profile picture V://Astra Mutual Aid 🏳️‍⚧️ ☭ (@vastramutualaid.bsky.social) reposted

#UrgentMutualAid #FoodSupportMA #MedicalSupportMA Fleurgold is off work due to stress-induced psychosis and needs help urgently to get medicine and groceries, as well as covering faer monthly survival goals! Please help fae out by Liking, Reposting and Donating! #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕🏳️‍⚧️🍅💊

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Profile picture Mad May, 🏴‍☠️the Empress of Jupiter in Exile!!! (@madmay.bsky.social)

So, you wanna do it?

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