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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*taps sign* you do not have to support man city!!! this chart sent me into orbit, throw their medals in the bin (from: www.skysports.com/football/new...)

Bar chart showing the money paid by sponsors to Man City next to the money paid by Abu Dhabi United Group from 2009 through 2018. Man City inflated their recorded sponsorship income by over £900 million.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the angst I still feel about leaving out summer heights high 🥲

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

duncan 💔 youtu.be/XWa5RemIfpM one of the best musical demos ever, and his newest score was also magnificent

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Spring Awakening Demo - 13. Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind

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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Washington Post's data reporting team is looking for next summer's intern. If you're a journalist who codes and has a knack for telling compelling stories through data analysis, apply! The deadline is Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/washin...

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Newsroom Summer Internship Program 2027: Data Journalist

Application Instructions Please list all professional experience and explain any gaps in employment history. All of your application materials, which may include PDF files of work samples and/or links...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Near the end of his speech, Kennedy recalled past remarks he’d given to an early group of Children’s Health Defense officials. “I told Lyn [Redwood] and my early group of CHD that I would be in this fight and that I would die with my boots on,” he said. “And that’s what I intend to do.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kennedy’s remarks were preceded by MAHA Institute president Mark Gorton, who advocated for ending the country’s “mass vaccination program.” “The time has come to stop caveating every introduction with, ‘I’m not an anti-vaxxer, but,” Gorton said. “Vaccines are a nightmare.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The secretary’s presence at the meeting implies an endorsement,” said Deb Houry, the former chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who resigned a year ago to protest what she called Kennedy’s politicization of science.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Even if they are rare,” he said of adverse effects from vax, “in our country we care about rare illnesses and deaths. We care about every child who dies from measles. They get headlines … shouldn’t we, I ask you, care about children who are dying or suffering or being injured by vaccine injuries?”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Over the past 19 months, we have fundamentally changed how the federal government responds to parents who question what they’ve been told about vaccines,” Kennedy said. “President Trump will not allow the government to treat parents who question vaccine orthodoxies as lepers.”

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW: in a speech to the antivax organization he founded, RFK Jr. amplified vaccine risks, falsely claiming vaccines are not safety-tested and linking them to chronic diseases, and vowed to fight for those who say they are vaccine-injured w/ @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Daniel Wu wapo.st/4xuuInG

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RFK Jr. says Americans worried about vaccines have a ‘friend at the White House’

Since being confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made clear he wants to overhaul the nation’s immunization system.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

my god Bruno got away with one there but he fully ragebaited foden into that red

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

icymi this banger of a story from Lydia Sidhom found that Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have paid over $270 million to more than 270k doctors and other prescribers to promote their GLP-1 products since 2018!! That’s more docs than *every* other drug!!!

Bar chart showing the number of doctors that have received payments for different drugs between 2018-2025. Over 270k docs were paid to promote GLP-1s, larger than every other drug.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 11/09/2026

We also partnered with the Canadian Center for Child Protection to analyze Grok images produced during the nudification episode in Jan. It found images of known CSAM victims that were modified by Grok, and new CSAM that it created in response to requests from users. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

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Elon Musk Has Pledged to Rid His Platform, X, of Child Sexual Abuse, but It Persists (Gift Article)

Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.

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Caitlin McGlade @caitmcglade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

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A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I take it back, they’re looking solid as hell rn. Also rashy is on fire!!!

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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

ICYMI we reported on how TikTok captures users’ attention last year…and we just won a National Press Club award for it! now, Meta’s legally mandated screen time limits for kids could be adopted by TikTok too. @ence.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

a very cool/technically tough analysis on data center legislation across the country:

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

a third of the users who use AI in this way call it "a friend" and another 15% say their relationship with the chatbot is "more complicated" 💀

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Scooplet from me: the federal judge that blocked HHS’ new teen pregnancy prevention policy this month specifically criticized HHS for citing non-existent scientific evidence and potentially AI-generated citations to support their “body literacy” concept wapo.st/4gKELyw

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Judge rebukes HHS over AI use in cutting teen pregnancy prevention grants

He wrote that grant solicitations for changes to funding reference public health studies that appear not to exist or do not support what they are cited for.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

follow @wpdatateam.bsky.social for more updates like this one on the “Freedom Fuel” gas stations

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m running our team account this week!!! follow this account to get all the latest updates from our mighty data team across politics, health, climate, tech, biz, investigations and so much more

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely devastating reporting on the family who just lost their newborn in Lancaster PA from @tombartlett.bsky.social “They assumed that Anna’s severe case of measles contributed to their loss. That’s what the midwife told them as well.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

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The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son

The family at the center of Pennsylvania’s measles controversy tells their story.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the one week I go without Bruno in FPL he gets a hatty….

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the mainoo tielemans pairing ain’t it right now, hoping baleba can cook once he’s fit

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you’re curious where the 1.2 million number comes from, that’s roughly the total number of US deaths last year due to heart disease, stroke, chronic lower respiratory/liver diseases, diabetes, or kidney diseases put together—described by RFK Jr as “food-induced” www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vs...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“The state and Gov. Shapiro’s communication failures and opacity invited RFK Jr and his allies in by engraved invitation and they now control the narrative while an unchecked measles outbreak spreads throughout the state.” -Amesh Adalja, an infectious-disease physician in the Pittsburgh area

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But Diamantoni said the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy did not believe measles played a role in the death. The coroner said his office shared this information with the state health department hours before Shapiro’s announcement.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni said in an interview that officials discovered signs of a measles infection in a newborn who died of a spleen laceration hours after birth on Aug. 14.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As of Thursday, left-wing political influencers were talking about measles about five times more often than right-wing figures, according to a Washington Post analysis of their social media posts, podcasts and newsletters.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The back-and-forth over Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak offers an early glimpse of how vaccines, infectious diseases and trust in government could become defining issues in the next presidential campaign.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Kennedy and his allies have accused Shapiro’s administration of prematurely declaring that the outbreak had turned deadly. Some infectious-disease experts normally critical of Kennedy said Shapiro and his team should have offered more information from the start.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW: Shapiro + RFK Jr. are feuding over measles—Kennedy and his allies are attacking Dems after a coroner said measles didn’t play a role in the death of a newborn, while MMR rates in Lancaster have plunged from 94% to 87% since 2019. wapo.st/4xpgDsi @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social

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Measles’ role in child’s death ignites fight between RFK Jr. and Pennsylvania governor

A county coroner said that the pathologist who examined a newborn who tested positive for measles did not believe the virus played a role in the baby’s death.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Also from this speech: “any doctor who gives this vaccine to a child is committing medical malpractice” (re the Covid vax) youtu.be/MvBGWNI84j0?...

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The measles deaths in PA being in Lancaster County is really notable given it’s where RFK Jr spent time while he was leading CHD at the height of the pandemic. Last year we reported on one of his speeches there in which he said the cure for measles was chicken soup + vit A

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22/08/2026

Half the Answer #99: Vaccination rates are falling across the country, vaccine deniers are occupying positions of power in the U.S. government, and previously eradicated diseases are reappearing. Caitlin Gilbert fills us in on the state of disease prevention across America.

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For Back-to-School, It's Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (Half the Answer #99, with Caitlin Gilbert)

Vaccination rates are falling across the country.

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El Çid @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Grateful to be joined by a second Caitlin! @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I were joined by @caitlingilbert.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com on @halftheanswer.bsky.social to talk the falling rates of vaccinated children as the new school year begins, flu, polio, and a lot more too! Insane stuff.

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh thank god he’s subbed dorgu off for rashford

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ah nothing like introducing your child to a new premier league season, while passing down generational trauma as you watch your team get thrashed by a promoted side 🥲

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USC Center for Health Journalism @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🥬💩NEW from @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social and me on the FDA finally visiting the Taylor Farms facility—I was personally shocked at just how much food has been impacted by this one supplier so we made these charts to put that into context. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Pictogram showing the equivalent amounts each item that represents 3.1 million pounds, with small icons for the Statue of Liberty, blue whales and Boeing 737s

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