Gretchen Patrick

Gretchen Patrick

@gretchenpatrick.bsky.social

Native Washingtonian, dog lover, wife, mother of daughters. Retired RN/public health nurse. Knitter, spinner, wannabe weaver. Fan of British mystery shows, books, museums, and sunshine. Science is real and doesn't care about your opinions.

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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The owner in this shop allows stray dogs to come in when it is dark so that they can spend the nights safely .. he put blankets to cover the cold tiles so everyone has a comfortable bed .. such initiatives must be shared!

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This is Inna Maryukhna and her 1-year-old daughter, Anhelina. ​Russia killed them on October 19 when a drone struck a local park in Nova Vodolaha where families were resting. Inna was a primary school teacher at Nova Vodolaha Lyceum No. 1. The lyceum shared the news on their FB

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He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.

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Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

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He ought to be asked about this when he’s presented as a Democratic strategist.

David Moore@davidrussellmoore.bsky.social

David Plouffe, a Coinbase adviser, is on MS NOW the same day that the Fairshake super PAC it bankrolls announces it will spend $30M vs. Sherrod Brown in #OHSen. Last year, Sen. Tim Scott publicly thanked crypto industry "for getting rid of Sherrod Brown." Brown had called for consumer protections.

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Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.

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“I describe how this loss of leverage in the media occurred, and how Trump capitalized on it, but it is critical to observe how early the seeds of destruction were planted—and that the media reaped the harvest of its own demise.” ℍ𝕚𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕟 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕊𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝓢𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓱 𝓚𝓮𝓷𝓭𝔃𝓲𝓸𝓻 open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

open.substack.comCovering Crime with ScandalThe oldest, and deadliest, trick in the book.

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This is what we've been saying for years and now TIME magazine is saying it too. We must change the conversation from "workforce shortage" to "retention problem." Staffing ratios are our North Star in terms of safe, quality care, and decreasing nurse burnout and incidents of workplace violence.

time.comStop Saying There's a Nursing ShortageThe U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.

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Nurses, physicians, unions & advocates joined @governorferguson.bsky.social on the eve of #WACares launch. Nurses supported WA Cares when it was introduced & when it was defended/strengthened at the ballot box. Now this first-in-the-nation long-term care program will begin delivering for WA State.

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Washington State Department of Health Officer Dr. Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett is urging residents to get the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, as 26 measles cases have been identified in Washington since the start of the year.

opb.orgMeasles cases are on the rise in Washington statePublic health officials have reported at least 26 measles cases across four Washington counties since the start of 2026. That's more than double the number of cases found in the state last year.

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Much looking forward to buying and reading this

Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org

Congratulations, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! 💐 THE BEGINNING COMES AFTER THE END is officially a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered or picked up a copy this week.

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Elon and his goons at DOGE broke our government from the inside out and rifled through sensitive data they had no business being near. And now, there are serious allegations that ex-employees stole it to use for their own purposes. Congress should throw the book at these crooks.

washingtonpost.comWhistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new jobThe Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

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Democrats want to get TSA agents paid, but we won't help Republicans cut a blank check to help Stephen Miller terrorize Americans.    And I won’t let Trump blackmail Democrats into funding rogue ICE agents just because he started a war with Iran.