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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🐳 Pacifica Municipal Pier 9.5.26
Humpback whale breaches with birds flying overhead at Pacifica Municipal Pier in Pacifica, CA
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KFF @kff.org · 23/08/2026
Vaccine exemptions among kindergarteners reached a record 4.2% in 2025–2026, up from 2.5% before the pandemic. Non-medical exemptions drove the increase, rising from 2.2% to 4.0%. KFF examines the latest trends in vaccination rates for kindergarteners: on.kff.org/4p5I7j5
This chart from KFF shows the number of U.S. states with exemption rates in select groups by school year, from 2019-2020 to 2025-2026. Exemption rates are divided into three categories: exemption rates of less than 3% (green), 3-4.9% (blue), and 5% or more (dark blue). The chart indicates that states have experienced increases in exemption rates over the years.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Like being visited from the ghost of tummy trubs past.
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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
and then what happened
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/07/2026
Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk. www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...
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How an Estimated Seven Hundred Thousand People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts
Atul Gawande, the former assistant administrator for global health at U.S.A.I.D., on the devastating effects of cuts to international aid by DOGE and Elon Musk.
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11/06/2026
Federal forecasters confirmed that El Niño is here and said it could be one of the largest such events since 1950. California can expect impacts.
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El Niño is here — and likely to be historic. Here's how California will be impacted
Federal forecasters confirmed that El Niño is here and said it could be one of the largest such events since 1950. California can expect impacts.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026
Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals
Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/03/2026
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/04/2026
The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys. Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.
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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2026
The success of the U.S. vaccination system depends on two fundamental pillars: parents trusting in vaccines and children having access to them. Under RFK Jr., both are in peril.
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Too young for MMR, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks: reminder: the risks for young babies are higher than older children. They are very vulnerable when anti-vaccine movements bring back disease. @lauraungar.bsky.social and Devi Shastri @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...
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Too young for the MMR shot, babies become 'sitting ducks' in measles outbreaks
Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/03/2026
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 16/02/2026
Travel writer Rick Steves, who is heading to San Francisco, says you don’t need to slow down as you age — you just need to travel smarter.
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The biggest mistake older travelers make, according to Rick Steves
Travel writer Rick Steves, who is heading to San Francisco, says you don’t need to slow down as you age — you just need to travel smarter.
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Pia Guerra @piaguerra.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Unfinished. #LiamRamos
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✶ MarcusD ✶ @marcusd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Full Bad Bunny speech
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 25/01/2026
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Michael Pina @michaelvpina.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
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Edward Harrison @edwardnh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
US households pay 96% off tariffs. “the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Absolutely ill about this even though we knew it was coming. Zero expert input, no meetings, just a fiat and poof, done.
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US revises childhood vaccine schedule to recommend fewer shots
The move advances one of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s long-term goals.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Canadian officials are correct, and it’s truly a tragedy.
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Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information
Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations
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STAT @statnews.com · 31/12/2025
Explore American Science, Shattered A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries Part 1: Scientists lost a reliable partner, with ‘nothing to replace it’ www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a... By @mmolteni.bsky.social @aniloza.bsky.social
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Trump has ‘shaken the hell’ out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
Trump has "shaken the hell" out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now?
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
After the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life. @theguardian.com 'For four months, the men were routinely beaten, abused and, in some cases, sexually assaulted, enduring treatment that human rights groups have characterized as “systemic torture”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life
After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2025
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program. (Published Oct. 2025)
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Unannounced by the administration, we're now learning that individuals from Myanmar (Burma) and 18 other countries no longer have a pathway to citizenship, green cards, or political asylum, impacting the lives of thousands of refugees across the US www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I suspect FDA no longer has qualified people willing to do this job. "FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency’s drug unit,...." endpoints.news/fda-to-name-... @endpts.com
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Breaking: FDA to name Tracy Beth Hoeg, who helped lead Covid shot investigation, as acting CDER chief
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has appointed Tracy Beth Høeg, a longtime skeptic of Covid-19 vaccines, to be the acting director of the agency's drug unit
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.
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Pearl Freier @pearlf.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Updated FDA org chart from BioSpace: nearly 90% of sr leaders who were at FDA a yr ago are gone. Most FDA employees are usually "career staff" who worked 4 multiple FDA commissioners & yrs of training 2b knowledgeable incl cell & gene therapies. Pazdur had worked 4 Bush, Obama,Trump & Biden #medsky
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA: former FDA commissioners call out Dr. Prasad's departure from previous standards in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM
Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/12/2025
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
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Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"As a nation, we must not erode our regulatory infrastructure...We should not accept increased development costs that do not serve the patient, lapsed commitments, and unfounded disdain for scientific experts." #FDA #biotech www.nopatientleftbehind.org/the-importan...
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The Importance of a Strong and Predictable FDA — No Patient Left Behind
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"82% of biopharma respondents said they were concerned about the FDA’s ability to function...confidence in the agency has been shaken by inconsistent and unpredictable decisions, with most leaders reporting concerns about the FDA’s abilities" www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/lett... #FDA #biotech
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In letter to Makary, biotech CEOs push for FDA stability and say volatility threatens US innovation
Hundreds of industry leaders have signed a letter to FDA Director Marty Makary, M.D., about the importance of having a predictable regulatory agency, citing a survey in which 82% of biopharma respo | ...
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Axios @axios.com · 19/11/2025
Pope Leo XIV today backed the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops' rare statement criticizing the Trump administration's immigration and mass deportation policies and called on immigrants to be treated with "dignity."
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Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S.
"We have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/11/2025
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible. But the Trump cuts to the program could change it all. Meet Audrey and Jeremy, who went viral for talking about how the GOP's Medicaid cuts could devastate their everyday.
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What Trump's Medicaid cuts mean for two podcasters with Down syndrome
Medicaid-funded services are their lifeline—and make their work possible.
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In a number of cases, trials that were mostly completed were rendered useless without the money to finish and analyze the work, the letter says. “Ending a $5 million research study when it is 80% complete does not save $1 million,” it says, “it wastes $4 million.” apnews.com/article/nih-...
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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
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Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Decision-based evidence-making" — that's how one former #CDC leader described the approach to scientific decision making under the HHS secretary in a meaty examination of Kennedy's unprecedented tenure by several @statnews.com colleagues. www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
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How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
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andyong.bsky.social @andyong.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This is beyond the pale: "Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease...The funding cuts likely disrupted patients' lives in different ways." www.statnews.com/2025/11/17/n...
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NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the NIH's funding cuts, according to a new report.
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