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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Last month, a hospital in Iowa quietly changed its policies to tell employees to give ICE/CBP agents sensitive patient information without a warrant going against national guidelines. www.patreon.com/posts/155034...

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The violence we don't see | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

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Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Iowa Medicaid is dominated by private insurers (MCOs) that waste taxpayer dollars and delay care—hurting patients, clinicians, and hospitals. MCOs were added by executive action 10 years ago, they can be removed with a new governor in 2027. Join our campaign to build pressure to kick out the MCOs.

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Reclaim Medicaid from corporate health insurers

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Stryker is a huge, international company, >50,000 employees. The group "Handala" claims to have stolen "50 terabytes of data before wiping tens of thousands of systems and servers across the company's network."

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Medtech giant Stryker offline after Iran-linked wiper malware attack

Leading medical technology company Stryker has been hit by a wiper malware attack claimed by Handala, an Iranian-linked and pro-Palestinian hacktivist group.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I’ll add that it appears real until you use the database links to view the article. The whole thing falls apart and it’s clear that the article doesn’t exist. This happens because AI generated citations cite fake article in real journals, leading to the fleeting impression of credibility here

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 30/11/2025

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/11/2025

When a travelling doctor questioned why a patient had been receiving dangerous cancer treatments for 11 years, he set off a chain of events that would divide a city and implicate a beloved oncologist in a string of suspicious deaths. (Published Dec. 2024)

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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients

Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

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Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

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Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Me studying for ID boards: rats can give you Hanta, Lassa, Lepto, LCMV, Rat bite fever, Plague.... and can snatch you up!

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/10/2025

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

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vanessamiller12.bsky.social @vanessamiller12.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

None of the 9 campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” have done so, but conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board of Regents to be the 1st. “Iowa has a chance to be a leader.” www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

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Iowa lawmakers urge regent universities to be first to sign Trump's higher ed compact

None of the nine campuses the Trump administration has asked to sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" have done so, but two conservative lawmakers in Iowa are urging the Board o...

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

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ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former Director of NIAID, is Fired by Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy in Retaliation for Filing Whistleblower Complaint with the Office of Special Counsel bit.ly/4gRA3yx

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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T. Neil Ku, MD, FSHEA, FIDSA @kutneil.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

More than 25% of farmers and ranchers rely on the ACA marketplace for their health insurance coverage. With insurance premiums expected to rise, more people may choose to drop health insurance coverage, especially as the cost-of-living has increased. #montana #healthcare www.kff.org/affordable-c...

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Occupations with Large Shares of Workers Who Rely on Individual Market Coverage | KFF

This analysis examines the share of adult workers in occupations that rely more heavily on individual market coverage for health insurance, which is largely made up by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Ma...

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 03/09/2025

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

All the media has to do is ask a question like “tell me what kind of study you’d like to see that hasn’t been done before” instead of letting these losers just spew antivaxx lies on air. Markwayne Mullin couldn’t find his way out of a multiplication table let alone talk about research methodologies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2025

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Thinking about this moment ahead of RFK Jr's Senate hearing tomorrow.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

'Tariffs threaten to hit antibiotics particularly hard. The drugs have very thin profit margins, they are vulnerable to shortages and U.S. production is very limited. Other widely used and vulnerable antibiotics include ciprofloxacin and doxycycline.' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

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Where Your Medicines Are Made

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"I feel like people misunderstood my $250,000 for Cuomo for real enthusiasm" belongs in the Louvre

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ICE crossed a line in LA

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Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The House budget reconciliation bill contains many health-insurance related provisions. Kaiser Family Foundation has a helpful table: (www.kff.org/tracking-the...). Among them are increased restrictions on enrolling into Medicaid. Here's why those restrictions are a problem...

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Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF

KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

What people don't seem to understand is that even if *they* are not using Medicaid, a large share of their providers' patient population does. That means that their healthcare providers may be unable to stay solvent and in practice when Medicaid is cut. We all lose when Medicaid is cut.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/04/2025

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News

Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is a very sad story, but what makes me crazy is that people tried to explain that this is what would happen and got caricatured as "woke" hysterics www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A lot of people have been tagging me in this article as confirmation of Thursday's Rolling Stone reporting, but I want to make clear that it is not. NACHA rules, which are incorporated into U.S. law, require payment returns on death notification. fiscal.treasury.gov/files/refere...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money. He was not dead.

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I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle

“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

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Arya Zandvakili @aryazandvakili.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Nice thread on NIH announcement from today to shift all review to CSR

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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I have good news and bad news. The terrible Senate vaccine bill is dead. But a bad House vaccine bill got through subcommittee today and is on the agenda for the full Judiciary Committee tomorrow. www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

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Iowa Legislature - BillBook

Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch

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