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I've been around too long and can't believe it's ending like this.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.
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Sean Kitchen @seankitchen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
NEW: Pennsylvania Working Families Party is calling for a primary challenge against US Sen. John Fetterman and is looking to recruit potential 2028 primary candidates. keystonenewsroom.com/2025/11/18/f...
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Progressive organization calls for primary challenge to Fetterman
A major organization launched an effort to train and recruit potential primary candidates for the commonwealth’s 2028 US Senate primary against John Fetterman.
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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Between the end of February & mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease & brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found.
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NIH funding cuts have affected over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments, a new report says
A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts.
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Lisa Bee (she/her) @leebee4life.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
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Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
action.consumerreports.org/nb_20251117_...
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Hold Meta accountable for fraudulent ads
Facebook exposes users to 11 scam ads a day
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Yup, exactly that—we have a HUGE problem in the US: the MAGA/MAHA men in charge of the health system are dismantling it, while spouting damaging BS, but because they were at Hopkins (Makary) or Stanford (Bhattacharya) or Harvard (Kulldorff) or UCSF (Prasad), apparently the world should believe them😢
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
As academics we need to get a lot better at calling out the bullshit and bullshitters from our own institutions. When a Hopkins Professor of Medicine can point to the words of the Harvard Dean of Public Health to support their BS, it's hard for people to disregard that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Kulldorff points out that low rates of COVID-19 vaccination are a reflection of a lack of trust in vaccination, as though this is a tragic accident he spectated rather than something he played an active role in
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Ironically, in the 1920s Stephen Miller's grandparents, Jewish immigrants who settled in central Pennsylvania where they created the inter-generational wealth that helped fund Miller's lifestyle, were attacked with this exact same rhetoric from the immigration restrictionists of their day, the KKK.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
RFK Jr. is anti-science, anti-vax, anti-public health, and in charge of preventing infectious disease in the United States. If I’m flying I’m masking.
Photo of a  brunette in tortoiseshell glasses sitting in an airplane seat. She is wearing a grey shirt and a white KF94 mask.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary”. Been saying this for months now.
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James Carville warns RFK Jr’s vaccine plan will have fatal consequences for Americans
RFK Jr. recently purged all 17 member of CDC vaccine advisory panel, replacing them with members experts say are critical of vaccines
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Lee Johnson for US Senate @handle.invalid · 03/06/2025
Lindsey Graham’s had decades to fix healthcare. Instead, he tried to repeal it. I’ll protect it, expand it, and make sure no one in South Carolina has to go without it.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/06/2025
“We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @wavynews10.bsky.social.
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Ducksoup @goose55.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
No, COVID vaccines aren't causing AIDS In fact, despite the recent preprint, there's no evidence they're damaging your immune system at all. My new piece with @immunologic.org open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...
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COVID-19 Vaccines Aren’t Causing AIDS
The truth behind a new preprint from a team at Yale
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back: 1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is a very unusual pattern for COVID. I'm really curious as to what is driving it.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
In *this* household we’re celebrating Tinsel’s 4th anniversary. I fostered Tinsel when she was a bag of bones. She was visibly old, stinky, & nobody wanted her. I figured given how rickety she was, she’d be alive < a year, so I just adopted her. Here she is 4 years later, no longer stinky & plump.
Tinsel the calico cat looks goofily at the camera with her tongue sticking out
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
SoCal friends: Many animal shelters are overwhelmed from people dropping off beloved pets they can't take with them as they flee. Please consider donating and fostering. Pasadena Humane is one such org. Contact your local animal orgs to see if they need help. pasadenahumane.org/eaton-canyon...
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Shannon Osaka @shannonosaka.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people. www.watchduty.org
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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In our study we showed how angry neutrophils are massively entering the brain after #COVID infection, which is associated with Blood-Brain-Barrier disruption & Neuroinflammation. The photo below shows neutrophils infected with SARS-CoV-2. More data coming! www.cell.com/cell-reports... #NeuroCovid
Microscopy photo showing activated neutrophils positive for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (orange) being recognized by astrocytes (cyan) after blood-brain-barrier disruption with Neurocovid in rhesus macaques. Nuclei of all cells in purple.
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Natalie Wright, Ph.D. @coereba.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If you are sick & have to be out & about, especially in a crowded indoor space or on public transit or an airplane, please don’t be an asshole. Wear a damn mask. The amount of coughing, snorting, & sneezing coming from all directions on the last flight was gross. I was one of only 2 people masked.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
When I was a child, I learned that the Constitution didn’t apply to people like us. I said the Pledge of Allegiance from inside a barbed wire camp, the words “with liberty and justice for all” wholly meaningless. But I did not give up on America. I’ve spent my life fighting for its ideals.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
24 November 1903 | A Czech Jew, Robert Glück, was born in Prague. He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 September 1944. He did not survive.
Vintage portrait of a man in a suit with a signed inscription "Robert Glück.
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Bess Kalb @bessbell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Since Nancy Mace is in the news, I'll post the one thing that was enjoyable about my time on Twitter:
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And just like that, they no longer care how much your groceries cost.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The truth is, none of us really know what the next four years will look like. It’s incredibly difficult to predict what happens next. It does not feel good.
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JR @janewantstorejoin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just shared this, Carole. It's an urgent, and terrifying, read. Thank you for keeping our eyes open and for hammering the point that there IS such a thing as truth and "do not obey in advance"🙏
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Some thoughts: 1. Many, many Secs of HHS (including Biden’s) are lawyers 1a. But almost all have had executive experience, including most w/experience overseeing some aspect of a state health system 2. No secretaries of HHS are perfect 2b. But to my knowledge none have been labeled as …
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Health leads the list of things people worry about. These concerns are all ameliorated with functioning public health systems & partnerships.
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Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Here is the link to the entire article. thetransom.com/p/matt-gaetz...
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Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That
Crush Some Viagra And Pour The Red Bull In Your Veins
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Gradually Decomposing @jcgc50.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I understand that the new Department of QAnon will be headed by either MTG or Boebert. My money is on MTG.
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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Why is RFK Jr such a disaster for public health? Because when you sacrifice public health at the altar of conspiracy theory, innocent people die - just remember Thabo Mbeki's AIDs denial policy let 350,000 innocent painfully and needlessly.. youtu.be/SitRrMFFUS8
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Why is RFK Jr a disaster for public health?
YouTube video by David Robert Grimes
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/11/2024
I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
If others are less focused on the democracy beat these days, don’t fret: Law Dork is here. I’m covering the courts, with skepticism and without false neutrality, and (obviously) linking to the documents so you can check things out yourself. Subscribe now. www.lawdork.com/subscribe
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
link here wapo.st/3UqHWRM
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Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/04/2024
By now many of you are probably well aware of the H5N1 "bird flu" epidemic sweeping through US dairy cattle. How on earth are we not deploying wastewater testing? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/o...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Question a public editor might ask whoever wrote this headline: What is an example, in US political history, of *any* trend being "guaranteed" to ensure an electoral result? So why does it make sense to frame the 2024 "economy is good but 'feels' bad" phenomenon this way?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Here’s an account to follow and share widely
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
Apartheid Clyde believes “illegals” are somehow voters Again, he’s not just racist. He’s also mind-blowingly stupid.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 06/02/2024
The GOP is such a well functioning party they can't even impeach a guy on completely made up charges they came up with.
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