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Executive Editor, KFF Health News Read and republish everything we do for $0: kffhealthnews.org/about-us Florida man | Never cruise *I do not respond to most PR pitches* AlexW@kff.org

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Florida has executed nine men this year, more than all other states combined. This description by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social of what that looks/feels like is definitely worth your time. www.propublica.org/article/flor...
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We’re gonna find more places to park Bram with a card table and a “let’s talk xxx” sign
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2
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Ms. Rachel goes to Washington, carrying letters from children in ICE custody
The children’s media star is urging lawmakers to end family detention and reunite the kids and parents who had been separated by ICE enforcement.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
People were burned out of their homes with children inside. City busses were set on fire. This is what the face of DHS is supporting?
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I checked with Bluesky-famous shark biologist @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and he declined to rule out with certainty that Congressman Kean was swallowed by a shark.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
FIFA painted over a beloved Wyland mural of whales, one of just 100 in the world, to advertise for the World Cup. Apparently without talking to anyone before doing so. www.espn.com/soccer/story...
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Outcry as World Cup art replaces beloved Dallas whale mural
As Dallas pulls out the stops for the World Cup this summer, one makeover is causing an uproar: the sudden disappearance of a beloved, giant mural downtown of swimming whales.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Brilliant story on RFK's push for an unethical study that withholds vaccines from 7000 children in Guinea-Bissau, based on a "house of cards." Guinea-Bissau says they never approved of this. And yet HHS calls it an "opportunity." By Arthur Allen @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/a-dani...
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A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy
The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t.
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
NEWS: Trump's stock trades included up to $680,000 in Eli Lilly as his administration was preparing policies that would benefit the drug company's GLP-1 business. $LLY Trump personally signed the disclosure. By @dariustahir.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
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Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs - KFF Health News
New ethics disclosures show the president invested in Eli Lilly and a company that manufactures injectable devices as his health agencies implemented policies that benefited them.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 14/05/2026
A growing number of states are using their health agencies as arms of immigration enforcement, requiring them to report recipients of Medicaid to DHS if their legal status is in question. @arjonesreports.bsky.social has the story⤵️
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Trump Demands Medicaid Data for Deportation. Some States Go a Step Further. - KFF Health News
Several states have required their health agencies to take on another job: verifying immigration status among Medicaid recipients and reporting them to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. North ...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Pope Leo XIV gifted Marco Rubio a plant of peace. In return, Marco Rubio gave the pope a crystal football. The pope’s response? “Wow. Okay.”
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Jackie Fortiér @jackie-fortier.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
GLP-1 medications like Wegovy and Zepbound will be available to some Medicare enrollees for weight loss for the first time. The program will cap the monthly cost of the popular drugs at $50. bsky.app/profile/kffh...
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Daniel Payne @danielpayne.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Amid plenty of hantavirus headlines... The official leading CDC’s cruise ship program has retired, according to an internal announcement obtained by STAT www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
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Official leading CDC’s cruise ship program retires
The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius has focused the public's attention on cruise ship safety.
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
NEWS: Medicaid work requirements begin in Nebraska *tomorrow* -- nine months ahead of the One Big Beautiful Bill's deadline. But the state published a list of thousands of health conditions that will exempt people as "frail." Via @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/neb...
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Trump’s Medicaid Work Mandate Debuting in Nebraska to Much Dismay - KFF Health News
On May 1, the state will become the first to require people on the government health program to fulfill a work requirement or lose their coverage under a new rule that was a key part of congressional ...
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 29/04/2026
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that three of the women suspected was because of their gender.
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Jackie Fortiér @jackie-fortier.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A lot of people choose their health insurance the same way they shop for a flight - sort by the lowest monthly price and click “buy.” If you have a high-deductible plan, we've got tips to make it work better for you. @kffhealthnews.org @npr.org
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How to make a high-deductible health plan and HSA work for you
If you chose a cheaper health plan, you may be stuck with some hefty medical bills until you meet your deductible. Here's how to get the most out of your plan and health savings account.
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 02/04/2026
Introducing over 11,000 new members of the Solar System...and our main survey hasn't quite started yet! ☄️ Using pre-survey observations from 2025, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory scientists have reported more than 11,000 new asteroids and comets! 🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/11000-n...
Illustration of the solar system with planet orbits, surrounded by a blue donut cloud of asteroids. Rays of turquoise dots in the front half of the donut show thousands of objects revealed by Rubin.
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
NEWS: After an unexplained delay, the CDC has begun publicly releasing taxpayer-funded sequences of genomes from measles outbreaks. The data will help determine whether we've lost our status as a measles-free country. By @amymaxmen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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US Scientists Sequence 1,000 Genomes From Measles, a Disease Long Eliminated With Vaccines - KFF Health News
This week, the CDC began to publish long-awaited data that will reveal the extent of measles’ comeback. While applauding the science, researchers say the Trump administration has done little to contai...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 01/04/2026
UPDATE: Two hours ago, Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death was ruled a homicide by the Erie County Medical Examiner.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.
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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 30/03/2026
This is so wrong. Great reporting, as always, by @kffhealthnews.org ’s Elizabeth Rosenthal.
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She Owed Her Insurer a Nickel, So It Canceled Her Coverage — KFF Health News
When medical bills started rolling in, a teacher’s aide in Florida wondered why her insurance suddenly wasn’t covering them. The answer? She owed a balance of 5 cents, so her insurer canceled her poli...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/03/2026
President Trump showed a classified map from his first term to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress.
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Trump showed classified map to passengers on his plane in 2022, memo says
The document offers a snapshot of an early moment in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation and adds new shading to the public understanding of Smith’s probes.
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Ashley Kirzinger @ashleykirzinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
One of the great things about my job at @kff.org is coming up with innovative survey designs. In a rare instance of longitudinal survey data, we went back to our 2025 ACA Marketplace Enrollees to see how they fared during open enrollment. www.kff.org/public-opini...
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Cost Concerns and Coverage Changes: A Follow-Up Survey of ACA Marketplace Enrollees | KFF
This KFF survey is a follow-up survey of adults who had ACA Marketplace insurance in 2025. The survey examines the cost concerns and coverage changes that these 2025 Marketplace enrollees are experien...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/03/2026
An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers co-founder, groomed and sexually abused young girls who worked in the movement.
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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years
An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem is out at DHS. Here's a TV commercial of her on a horse, filmed five months ago at Mount Rushmore, for an ad campaign that cost more than $200 million
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Katheryn Houghton @k-hought.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Hi — new to BlueSky! I’m a journalist covering how health policy and systems impact people. Lately I’ve reported on federal cuts hitting a rural bioscience hub, a town recovering from meth, and a man who said he had to break Medicaid rules. Based in Montana, I write for both 📰 and 📻
Lonny Fritzler installs paneling on a future therapeutic foster home for kids whose parents need addiction treatment elsewhere. He says he had to leave his hometown of Lodge Grass to recover from his own addiction to meth.Illustration by Oona Zenda of a man having to weigh prioritizing either his job or access to health care with a lawmaker in the background. Hundreds of people join a protest in downtown Hamilton, Montana, in April supporting the work of federal employees as President Donald Trump oversees efforts to restructure the nation’s government.
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Michael McAuliff @mcauliff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
CBO finds after passage of Trump's tax cuts and recent economic adjustments, the Medicare hospital trust fund will be exhausted in 2040, "12 years earlier than in our most recent estimate.. which was published in March 2025." www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/02/2026
Just months after receiving a presidential pardon, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao appeared at Mar-a-Lago last week, placing himself squarely in the Trump family’s crypto orbit.
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Binance’s Zhao Touts US Growth Bid at Trump Family Crypto Bash
Just months after receiving a presidential pardon, Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao appeared at Mar-a-Lago last week, placing himself squarely in the Trump family’s crypto orbit.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you
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STAT @statnews.com · 23/02/2026
When a clinical trial showed that lung cancer patients treated in the morning had a massive reduction in the risk of progression compared to those treated in the afternoon, many scientists were intrigued, if skeptical. Now that study is coming under fire.
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Nature Medicine to investigate study that found cancer treatment is better in morning
Nature Medicine starts an investigation into inconsistencies in a study that found it was better to have immunotherapy in the morning.
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW: DOJ told a judge in New Jersey that it had violated court orders about 54 times between Dec. 5 and this week — the latest accounting of a phenomenon that used to be rare and is now rampant. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 12/02/2026
Moderna spent years and $1 billion studying a new mRNA flu vaccine for adults. Now, the FDA is refusing to review it. “How do we expect companies to invest in new medicines like this if the FDA is basically acting on vibes?” asks @julierovner.bsky.social. Listen for more on this week's news🎧 ⤵️
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New Flu Vax? FDA Says No Thanks - KFF Health News
It’s been a busy week at the FDA, with a political appointee overruling agency scientists to reject an application for a new flu vaccine. Meanwhile, anti-abortion Republicans on Capitol Hill complain ...
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
News: The top-secret whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The fact that James Van Der Beek had to auction off memorabilia from his movies just broke me. It shouldn't be like this, not for beloved stars, not for anyone.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/02/2026
ICE has been tracking the names of protesters in an internal database for several months, according to two US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operations reut.rs/46wwn1j
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ICE is cracking down on people who follow them in their cars
Becky Ringstrom was heading home after following federal immigration officers in her gray Kia SUV in suburban Minneapolis when she was suddenly boxed in by unmarked vehicles.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...
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ICE's Masks Are All a Lie
Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.
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Politico @politico.com · 10/02/2026
ICE chief refuses to apologize for Minneapolis shooting victims being labeled terrorists
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ICE chief refuses to apologize for Minneapolis shooting victims being labeled terrorists
ICE chief Todd Lyons also sidestepped questions from House lawmakers at a DHS oversight hearing about whether he concurred with other Trump officials that the shooting victims were domestic terrorists.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10/02/2026
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...
The high wouldn’t last. Seahawks safety Julian Love soon intercepted a throw from New England quarterback Drake Maye, and the Patriots never recovered. In the end, Kane lost a bit less than $100,000 in bets that favored the Patriots.

“What are you gonna do about it? You get very numb to these kinds of numbers,” said Kane, who works out of his one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
NEW: The Justice Department unit responsible for pursuing potential wrongdoing by law enforcement, including during the crackdown in Minneapolis, has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force. www.reuters.com/world/justic...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2026
continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/02/2026
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
“Unconscionable,” Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor.

“Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,” he wrote. “Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.”

That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference.

Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone.

“Google,” the message read, “has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Having a body cam is just the first step. You also gotta turn it on and release the footage. DHS has footage of Alex Pretti's killing. Yet it won't even say whether it's own investigators have it. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Does your health insurance now cost more than your mortgage? Or did you drop your coverage altogether this year? We want to hear from you. Check out our new series, Priced Out, and tell us about your own experience trying to pay for health care. kffhealthnews.org/priced-out/
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Priced Out - KFF Health News
Skyrocketing health care costs and insurance premiums combined with congressional inaction have forced a perilous decision upon many people: Pay higher prices for health insurance or go uncovered. KFF...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵
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Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Went to Terry Black's once at the advice of the Uber driver who picked me up at the airport. Good, but overpriced even for Austin. Plenty of other choices.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 22/01/2026
The loss of enhanced ACA subsidies, coupled with the challenging economic conditions, has made health coverage unaffordable for many farmers. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Farmers Now Owe a Lot More for Health Insurance - KFF Health News
More than a quarter of the agricultural workforce purchases health insurance through the individual marketplace, a much larger share than the overall percentage of U.S. adults. After a tough year for ...
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 22/01/2026
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
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