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PhD Epidemiologist focused on aging. I'm worried about how difficult it's becoming to do it well.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Rep. Beatty asks that a federal judge make it crystal clear that Kennedy Center cannot be demolished and requests an emergency hearing to make it happen "The Kennedy Center is a sacred, living memorial to President Kennedy — not collateral damage in placating Trump's ego."
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agewell.bsky.social @agewell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A reliable guide to vaccine recs by professional groups that we can depend on since our government doesn't seem to be on it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/w...
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Medical Groups Issue Guidance on Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Shots
Leading health organizations joined forces to issue the recommendations, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/07/2026
An apparent ICE-related shooting in Maine is a good time to remember to treat the agency's initial claims with skepticism rather than credulity.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"The ultimate deciders of these grants will be the political employees at the agencies,” Duncan* noted in testimony. *nominee for OMB Deputy Director, i.e., Vought's #2. When research is decided by politicals, then the ultimate cost will be paid by the public. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants
The administration is expected to finalize the proposed changes as soon as this summer.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 22/05/2026
The Trump administration is now telling people who entered the country legally to “go home” and apply for green cards there. These are immigrants already legally working in the United States.   It was never about illegal immigration.
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Trump directs legal migrants to return to home country to apply for green cards
The Trump administration on Friday announced prospective immigrants would need to return to their home country to apply for green cards, a move that would stifle the most common pathway used for le…
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Vaccines and autism
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/01/2026
We’re in a dark chapter of American history when the government targets those who document injustice instead of those who commit it.
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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For this week's column, I hung out with members of the rescue squad and other retired super-volunteers. Turns out they are not only enhancing their wellbeing -- they are extending their lives by slowing aging. Gift link. wapo.st/4t9F8rK
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Column | Here’s a proven way to slow aging. Any volunteers?
New research shows that you can lengthen your own life by improving someone else’s.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Jesus Christ. Every Sunday host should be asking every Republican if they think Tim Walz murdered Melissa Hortman. And when they say no, ask what it says about this president that he’s amplifying this garbage.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“.. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was named by Congress.” 🤡 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Imagine a world where Alzheimer’s, cancer, and deadly diseases could have been stopped and then realize someone chose to let it slip away. Ending research that could have cured Alzheimer’s, cancer, and countless diseases isn’t politics it’s a crime against humanity’s future.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Let me say the same thing today, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, as I said when Brian Thompson was assassinated, when the CDC campus was shot & a police officer lost his life, and when school shootings happen: *Violence is never the answer.* Our rhetoric & actions need to make that clear. 💔
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agewell.bsky.social @agewell.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This is a great must-read column by Paula Span and one of those pieces where the comments add even more to the topic of falls. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/h...
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Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
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Video Chief CDC scientist resigns amid the firing of director over vaccine policy
Dr. Debra Houry stepped down as chief medical officer and deputy director for programs after Trump fired CDC Director Susan Monarez.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Q: If Trump is gonna ban mail-in voting is he gonna make voting day a national holiday to help people deal with the massive lines? A: Of course not. Because it isn’t about voter fraud, it’s about voter suppression.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Care beyond kin: Study urges rethink as nontraditional caregivers step up in dementia care news.umich.edu/care-beyond-... by @umich.edu #Alzheimers #dementia #caregiving
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Care beyond kin: U-M study urges rethink as nontraditional caregivers step up in dementia care
Friends, ex-spouses and neighbors are playing a growing role in caring for older adults with dementia—yet surveys and policies still act as if only spouses and children matter.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 28/07/2025
Respectfully, Mr. Reich, they're gonna go up a lot more than 75% for a lot of enrollees. That's just the AVERAGE amount @kff.org estimates they'll increase. In some cases enrollees will have to pay 3-4x as much as they do today, or even more than that. acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
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How much more will ACA enrollees have to pay if the IRA subsidies expire?
USE THE DROPDOWN MENU ABOVE TO PICK A STATE. It was in early 2021 that Congressional Democrats passed & President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which among other things dramaticall...
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Maria Sacchetti - reporter - The Washington Post @mariasacchetti.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported after firing shots in a Houston suburb & reentering the U.S. illegally. Now he’s being freed. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Trump wants to punish Harvard by cutting off federal grants but the result is cutting research into cancer, mental health, opioid addiction, sleep deprivation and hundreds of other projects that benefit Americans. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My God, the mindless destruction : www.al.com/politics/202... Only you can save Birmingham’s medical rainforest: op-ed from UAB researcher - al.com
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Only you can save Birmingham’s medical rainforest: op-ed from UAB researcher
he fuel that propels Academic Health Centers like UAB comes, in large part, from NIH funding.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
If Joe Biden did not know that Russia was ejected from the G8 in 2014 precisely because it invaded Crimea, & that Justin Trudeau was not PM at the time, we would be having a National Conversation™️ about how Democrats can continue supporting a senile president who is a huge national security danger.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Researchers catalogued many fears — about the questions they won’t get to answer, the cures they will fail to find and the colleagues they will lose... But most of all, they said they worried about the people who, because of these cuts, will die” projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
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Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
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agewell.bsky.social @agewell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The Trump and Elon breakup would be pretty funny to watch if I didn't know how much is on the line here: 10 million people could lose Medicaid and 2 million kids could lose food assistance. Don't let this drama distract you from what matters.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 08/05/2025
“Alarm bells about the GOP Medicaid cuts aren’t partisan fear-mongering. They're coming from the independent CBO.” The budget office warns of terminated insurance for millions. Jeff Nesbit explains the proposal’s real intentions.
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CBO: The GOP’s Medicaid cuts will drop millions of people
It was never about 'waste, fraud, and abuse.'
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
meanwhile: outbreaks are occurring without us noticing www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Making America healthy? 🤔😕🛟
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Because… Why, exactly?! Tell me how this actually makes America healthy?!
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Christopher Monks @crmonks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you’re on the fence about going to the march today, read this piece by @lisaborders.bsky.social and consider it your rally cry. It packs a punch. bsky.app/profile/mcsw...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Now that’s a screenshot. > @atrupar.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“There isn’t a single person in this entire country whose life isn’t impacted by the essential functions of HHS, and soon we’ll see what happens when those functions are destroyed.”
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Tracking the HHS April Fools’ Massacre
The Handbasket has created a document to capture the destruction.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/04/2025
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
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The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Early voting is under way in the Florida special election! Time to cast your votes: ☑️Josh Weil in Florida's 6th Congressional District ☑️Gay Valimont in Florida's 1st Congressional District These candidates will bring sanity back to Congress and fight for everyday Americans.
Graphic supporting Josh Weil and Gay Valimont in Florida's special election. It also shows the dates of early voting, through Sat. March 29.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
God grant me the serenity to lie about the things I think I can get away with, courage to deflect from the things I can't and the wisdom to know the difference
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agewell.bsky.social @agewell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
⬇️⬇️ important!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
House Democrats held strong against the Musk-Takeover Spending Bill Yesterday. We need your help to ensure that the Senate Democrats do the same. Follow the link and script below to make calls. This vote happens TODAY! indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution
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The Real Josh Weil @therealjoshweil.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hearing a lot of folks asking for Town Halls. Good. Because my team’s already on it. We’re coming to every county in District 6—because I’m not waiting for Day 1 to do what Representatives should be doing already. Show up. Speak your mind. Tell me what’s weighing on you most right now. 1/2
Josh Weil for Congress Town Hall featuring Grammy Award Winner Le'Andria Johnson

Sunday March 16th 6 pm to 8pm 
Allen Chapel AME Church
580 George W. Engram Blvd
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
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agewell.bsky.social @agewell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If this doesn't get us taking to the streets en masse I don't know what will. As if it isn't already ridiculously difficult to age well in this country.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/03/2025
He’s laying the groundwork to dismantle Social Security—just like the rest of our government. If people don’t think Trump, Elon, and the GOP are coming for it, they’re not paying attention.
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Joshua Martin @joshuarmartin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The GOP has their SMALLEST majority since 1932! There's 2 special elections happening RIGHT NOW and if they go blue, power in the house shifts! President Musk and VP Trump are scared, let's pitch in $5, $10, or whatever you can to send a message! Let's go! secure.actblue.com/donate/speci...
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Save America, Flip Florida!
Special elections in Florida's 1st and 6th Congressional Districts!
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Meidas_Lea 🟦🟧🇺🇸🦅❌ @gato918.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
www.aol.com/lifestyle/te...
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New Test Detects Early Pancreatic Cancer with 85% Accuracy — and Researchers Say It Costs ‘Less Than a Penny’
Pancreatic cancer has a low survival rate and is usually found too late — this new test may help change that
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