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Chris Hendel

@chrishendel.bsky.social
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Vermonter. Retired. Previously Telecommuting Adjunct Research Instructor of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 2019-2024; COVID-19 research & projects, ProPublica, 2020-2022; former chief medical researcher at Consumer Reports, 1989-2018.

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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 4h
🤣 🤡 “The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the #NobelPeace prize, but didn’t. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump fumes over Nobel peace prize snub and criticizes Norway
President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h
Read this thread.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 13h
RIP, Coach. Remembering #MikeDitka via David Letterman youtu.be/mZINZ0zfTJ0?...
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Remembering Mike Ditka | David Letterman
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 14h
Good grief. 🤦 And has Trump ever use "wherein" before? 😆
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h
"But this is what happens when the, quote, strongmen meet reality. Suddenly they are humiliated. They are perceived as weak, as unpopular, and they are becoming unglued. And we are seeing this. So now they whine. They complain. They go running to Fox." trib.al/SBovSzz
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
EVERCORE: “.. Early or mail-in voting is underway in the majority of states. .. Cook Political Report moved Kansas to Toss Up, which is surprising given the state last elected a Democratic U.S. senator in 1932.”
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 19h
"...regardless of the facts and evidence" A reminder: #SCOTUS blocked Trump’s first major effort to oust Cook in June, ruling that she had not been afforded due process. Chief Justice Roberts & Justice Kavanaugh joined the court’s three liberals in the 5-4 decision allowing Cook to remain in post.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 20h
Yep. 🍁 💕 October by Linda Pastan How suddenly the woods have turned again. I feel like Daphne, standing with my arms outstretched to the season, overtaken by color, crowned with the hammered gold of leaves.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 21h
You know what else is dangerous and incites hostility? Wildly shooting at a car carrying a 5-year-old on a city street
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Eye contact may act as a learning “switch” for babies’ brains www.psypost.org/eye-contact-...
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Eye contact may act as a learning "switch" for babies' brains
Do babies soak up everything they hear? Not quite. A study of infants in the U.K. and Singapore suggests eye contact helps them decide which words are worth learning, possibly by syncing their brain a...
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“We let the infants listen to all three languages and it turned out they were selective in what they learned,” Leong said...“They’re not just passive sponges. They heard all three languages, but only learned the one, which was when they could see the speaker’s eyes.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Adult-to-infant unidirectional neural coupling mediates selective social learning in infants from the United Kingdom and Singapore - Nature Communications
Infants are sensitive to social cues like eye gaze as a signal for learning. Here, the authors show, in cohorts from Singapore and the United Kingdom, coupling of adult and infant brain activity media...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is incitement. Racist incitement.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These people are morons.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: A heavily redacted report obtained by ProPublica shows SpaceX used videos from Club Med tourists and Disney cruise attendees to learn more about a Starship rocket crash last year, seemingly using “the public to fill the gap,” in the view of one expert.
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Club Med, a Disney Cruise and an Exploding Starship: SpaceX Used Bystander Videos to Track Falling Debris
A heavily redacted report obtained from the FAA by ProPublica reveals that SpaceX used videos from tourists and travelers in the Caribbean to help track falling debris after one of its Starship rocket...
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
😬 😔 💔 Kenya: 10 people in quarantine as officials try to reach 57 more contacts of deceased #Ebola patient The most recent from the DRC shows 8,665 confirmed and 4,178 deaths, with a case-fatality rate of 48%. via @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/kenya-...
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Kenya: 10 people in quarantine as officials try to reach 57 more contacts of deceased Ebola patient
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"He is deranged and dangerous." "In an event in May, after CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz said that one in three Americans are under-babied, Trump called himself the father of fertility." Panic by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/panic?r=jp...
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Panic
To read this letter, click here:
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good grief. As of today, there are 1,333 #datacenters operating in the U.S. and 2,359 planned projects, according to market researcher Cleanview. cleanview.co/data-centers...
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Free Data Center Tracker Tool — Cleanview
Track operating and planned data centers across all 50 states in the US. Free tool with capacity data, developer info, and interactive maps.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Hamilton defined new forms of software engineering and helped launch an industry that would forever change human history. Her software architecture led to giant leaps for humankind, writing the code that helped America set foot on the moon.” RIP #MargaretHamilton 🚀 news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Sadly, this is not an issue the Republicans who control the House and Senate will seriously consider. Most of the GOP has sold its soul and ignored its constitutional oath in order to remain subservient to Trump."
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leaked audio of Minnesota Republican candidate Michele Tafoya's advice to Americans concerned with skyrocketing prices: "Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks... Let’s just try to be patriots about this."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Important piece by @keribla.bsky.social: I’ve Covered Death Row Cases for Nearly a Decade. What Happened to Christa Pike Wasn’t an Anomaly.
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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This 👇 should be posted every day for the next 28 days... #Vote #Elections2026
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 12/01/2026
My name is Mary Peltola, and I'm running for U.S. Senate to fight for fish, family, and freedom – and that begins with fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska. We need systemic change if we're going to lower costs, save our fisheries, and fill our homes with abundance again.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Mr. Burns' Evil Laugh and Scheme
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kennedy wins another Pinocchio Award It may be time to proclaim this a Lifetime Achievement Award by @garyschw.bsky.social garyschwitzer.substack.com/p/kennedy-wi...
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Kennedy wins another Pinocchio Award
It may be time to proclaim this a Lifetime Achievement Award
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
😔 Some CDC foreign offices shutting their doors as US implements ‘America First’ policy via @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
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Some CDC foreign offices shutting their doors as US implements ‘America First’ policy
Offices in Angola and South Sudan closed last week, with the Zimbabwe office and others not far behind.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tylenol misinformation drew outsized TikTok views as public health agencies largely stayed silent via @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
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Tylenol misinformation drew outsized TikTok views as public health agencies largely stayed silent
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
COVID levels decrease (albeit temporarily for now!), a brief how-to use wastewater resources, new MAHA appointee, measles on the rise, and some thoughts on organizing. Excellent 👏 @peoplescdc.org COVID-19, Weather Report, October 5, 2026 peoplescdc.substack.com/p/peoples-cd...
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People's CDC, COVID-19, Weather Report, October 5, 2026
COVID levels decrease (albeit temporarily for now!), a brief how-to use wastewater resources, new MAHA appointee, measles on the rise, and some thoughts on organizing.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/10/2026
This should be considered a 5-alarm democracy fire.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oooh that's a good burn!
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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So, is Susan Collins concerned, upset, bothered or disappointed?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"It’s not a coincidence that culture warriors on the right like to suggest that this wouldn’t be risky behavior if we all got married and stayed at home right after high school. They do not want women out in the world, educating themselves, making decisions, acquiring power of their own."
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👀 ‼️ 👀 NEW from @propublica.org "...as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens too. We’re showing you every case — the reality that the administration denies — along with the receipts."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: Amid public health concerns over online sports betting, major operators like DraftKings say their in-app safeguards can prevent users from spiraling out of control. Our reporter decided to find out for himself whether that was true.
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Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.
ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson immersed himself in the world of online sports betting on DraftKings to test the limits of the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. Here are five things he learn...
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yep. That pretty well sums it up. 👍 "...the sad, disgusting, pathetic diatribes of a lame duck president with record-low approvals." Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina
Annie Andrews is a physician running against Sen. Darline Graham.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2026
The separatist Parti Québécois has won Quebec’s provincial election, returning to power a party that has promised another referendum on independence from Canada.
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Quebec separatist party that promises another independence referendum projected to win election
The Canadian Press projected the separatist Parti Québécois has won Quebec’s provincial election. That outcome in Monday's vote would return to power a party that has promised another referendum on independence.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump keeps promising checks to Americans. Polls show voters may not be buying it. finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti... Yep. There's always a song... "You made me promises, (promises) promises Knowing I'd believe Promises, promises I knew you'd never keep..." youtu.be/1wRD0uSYgfU?... RIP #PeteByrne
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Trump keeps promising checks to Americans. Polls show voters may not be buying it.
Giving out checks to Americans has emerged as one of President Trump's major messages in the final weeks of the campaign season. Americans are skeptical.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“This case does not cause undue concern,” @cidrap.bsky.social director @mtosterholm.bsky.social said. “We would like more information, of course.” Suspected plague incident leaves 1 dead, 200 under quarantine in Siberia www.cidrap.umn.edu/plague/suspe...
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Suspected plague incident leaves 1 dead, 200 under quarantine in Siberia
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pennsylvania’s health dept today confirmed the state has recorded 1,004 measles cases this year, an increase of 106 cases in the past week. www.pa.gov/agencies/hea... Pennsylvania confirms more than 1,000 measles cases @lizszabo.bsky.social @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/penn...
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