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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD

@bethpathak.bsky.social
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Epidemiologist and program director in Bethesda; @Wesleyan_U @UNC grad; pro-labor anti-racist scholar. I stan Black radicals. Solidarity forever 👊🏼 Private, NOT official opinions.

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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a typical solicitation mailed to a Gen Z consumer. How can these kids ever get ahead? #interestrates #creditcards
Disclosure statement 36% APR, high annual fee
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eoin’s piece is worth reading in full. The point is that it’s critical to hold the responsible parties to account and certain types of language obfuscate that responsibility. That said, I fear we’re already trying to close the barn door after the fact when it comes to precision of language.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯 x 💯‼️
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sometimes something that looks like incompetence is actually sabotage.
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NPR @npr.org · 16/09/2026
The remarkable revelation comes after previous warnings about countries such as Russia possibly weaponizing a global frontier long agreed in treaties to be used for only peaceful purposes. n.pr/4xz6XuJ
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U.S. acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space
The remarkable revelation comes after previous warnings about countries such as Russia possibly weaponizing a global frontier long agreed in treaties to be used for only peaceful purposes.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Supreme Court blocks sweeping mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections - The Washington Post
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Colson Whitehead is the emperor of sentences 🐐
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Don Jr. is compromised by the Russian government—something you could have guessed, but is now fully confirmed by this ProPublica investigation about an oligarch who helped pay for his wedding.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How many Nazi staffers does it take before it becomes a Nazi party? Is there a Nazi threshold or tipping point?
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gentle reminder that you never ever needed an Apple Watch ... it's a sunk cost so why not enjoy smashing it with a hammer? 🤭
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
vimeo.com/1224659811/7... Thrilled that I finally had the chance to watch this moving and inspiring documentary by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Among many standout moments was archival footage of Fred Hampton saying "If you are afraid of socialism, you are afraid of YOURSELF!" 🙌🏽🔥
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🤦🏼‍♀️ @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A bit of good news... John Galliano Withdraws From Met Museum Show After Backlash www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...
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John Galliano Bows Out of Met Museum Show After Criticism Mounts
Donors, politicians and Jewish leaders questioned the Met’s decision to honor Galliano, a fashion designer who was found guilty of a hate crime for his antisemitic outbursts.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Virologist/molecular biologist Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal altered the trajectory of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. First to clone HIV-1 & complete its genetic mapping, directly leading to life-saving antiviral drug cocktails. Most-cited female scientist of the 1980s. Born #OTD in 1946. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white portrait of Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal (1946–2020), the pioneering Chinese-American virologist who first cloned HIV-1 and mapped its genome. Sitting in her research laboratory, she faces forward with a composed, direct, and confident expression. Her dark hair is styled in a short, neat bob, and she wears long, slender dangling earrings. Over a dark, patterned blouse, she wears a crisp white laboratory coat. She rests her left forearm on a lab counter beside her, while her right hand holds a dark binder resting on her lap. The background shows a busy lab setting filled with shelves of scientific glassware, chemical bottles, and equipment, all slightly out of focus to draw attention to her. The composition places her slightly off-center, capturing an professional and scholarly mood that underscores her historical significance as a leading figure in molecular biology during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The only time Republicans get upset about kids getting shot is when it’s with vaccines.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
feeling this one hard this morning 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
let's goooooooo!!!!!!!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 02/07/2026
JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
et tu Atul Gawande?
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.
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ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from custody
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE could not avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Irony is DEAD!!! U.S. launches largest-ever effort to denaturalize citizens accused of fraud - CBS News
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
as many of you will remember, I dug into detailed local reporting about a different ICE victim every day of Lent to meditate on their stories, and when you read them all lined up some clear patterns start to emerge. the starkest to me was that every employee of GEO Group should be sent to The Hague
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Just a reminder that you can still circumvent google's ai results by typing -ai at the end of your search phrase. It may not work forever but it's still working now!
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
Republicans want billions of dollars for ICE funding, slush funds, and billionaire giveaways. When it comes to lowering health care costs or helping families afford groceries, suddenly there's nothing left. That's the choice they're making.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
FFS
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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APHA @apha.org · 04/06/2026
Pride is DEI. Pride is suicide prevention. Pride is public health.
The graphic has 12 squares that are each a different color. They are meant to be an approximation of the pride flag based on APHA's brand colors. Overlaid on the squares is white text in a blue box that says, "Pride is public health." At the bottom of the graphic is the APHA logo.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/06/2026
NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com
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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations
The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.
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Wail of a Tale Productions @wailofatale.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New Milan cohort study (n=248,176): COVID-19 raised the risk of new-onset diabetes by 13% overall, and by 31% in women aged 41 to 60. Matched design, 415-day follow-up. More evidence that PASC includes metabolic consequences. #LongCOVID #Diabetes #COVID19 #PASC #Epidemiology
Research Insights COVID-19 raises the risk of developing diabetes by 13% on average — and by 31% in women aged 41 to 60. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-026-13467-4; text is overlaid across an image of three smiling middle-aged women in athletic gear outside.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.
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Starved, smashed and bloodied: The violence at ICE’s Delaney Hall
Brutality towards detainees and protesters continues to unfold in Newark, NJ. The Handbasket was on-site to report.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Absolutely insane. Treasury went out of the way to hide that a SCOTUS justice’s son was working *in their office of legal counsel* and didn’t disclose this even when SOT Bessent was a litigant *in a case that went before Alito.* This would be instant disbarment for any other judge in the country.
Alito’s employment with the department is something of a closely guarded secret. He doesn’t maintain a public resume or LinkedIn, the Treasury Department website makes no mention of him, and his three professional bar listings are outdated or incorrectly list previous employers.

Alito was hired to the Treasury general counsel’s “front office” in the first months of the second Trump administration as the White House sought to staff loyal political appointees across the federal government, according to one former official with direct knowledge of the arrangement. His exact role was still being sorted during his first few weeks there as senior officials rearranged professional responsibilities, this official added. The younger Alito was an attorney at the Treasury when a lawsuit against the department and several other agencies was argued before the Supreme Court in November challenging Trump’s use of emergency powers to issue tariffs. The department never disclosed that in court documents. His father, Justice Alito, did not recuse himself from the case.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
International: Bangladesh and/or Calcutta The only truly cringe line in my fav musical Rent is about Calcutta
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/05/2026
Bruce will be back in D.C. on Oct. 3, as a special guest of the first-ever Power to the People Festival — joining Tom Morello to play a few songs with his band for another night of music and resistance.
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Pay attention #medsky #episky #publichealth open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Elizabeth Pathak, PhD @bethpathak.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#episky #medsky #publichealth
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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem
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flying_hun @flying-hun.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.
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Louise @louiseplease.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
If you never read the book or saw the movie, you missed one of the greatest Pulitzer Prize winning sagas ever written. To dishonor Alex Haley like this is disgraceful.
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