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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Heartbroken by the passing of @helenbranswell.bsky.social She was an exceptional reporter & human being. Over the years, we became closer, and I am thankful for that friendship. My heart goes out to her family, her STAT family and everyone who knew and loved her. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h...
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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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STAT @statnews.com · 13/10/2026
We are going to miss you very much, Helen. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/helen-b…
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Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69
Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)
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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026
While RFK Jr.'s been shouting "Make America Healthy Again" from the rooftops, over 160 foods have been recalled so far this year. There’s nothing healthy about food-borne illness.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/09/2026
Mamdani has announced that NYC restaurants can have outdoor dining all year round. This is actually a big public health win because fall and winter is when respiratory virus cases surge. Dining outdoors helps reduce the risk of disease spread.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT Professor Develop Technology That Could Detect Ovarian Cancer Before It's Too Late After losing loved ones to cancer, MIT Professor Angela Belcher developed a technology that detects ovarian cancer early, before it spreads.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This isn’t the Middle Ages, we should be able to Trust Our Food….. “Grow your own food" is a dumbass response to food recalls. I can't grow a year's supply of salad, but I can pay taxes to a govt that regulate food producers and keeps food safe.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/07/2026
nyc giving out free KN95s at these public libraries (for the wildfire smoke on its way, but like, let’s do this all the time) www.nyc.gov/site/em/abou...
FREE MASKS
AVAILABLE AT DISTRIBUTION
LOCATIONS
To protect the health of New Yorkers, especially those at greatest risk, free KN95 masks are available at public library branches across the five boroughs. These include Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library locations, as well as the following New York Public Library branches: St. George Library Center in Staten Island, the Bronx Library Center in the Bronx, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (the main branch) in Manhattan. Emergency Management is working to expand availability at additional distribution sites and will announce further locations if air quality worsens.
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ᴍᴇʟᴏᴅʏ @mossy-mel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
homies on antidepressants, please be aware that there is a major heat wave building (in the US). if you're on antidepressants, such as SSRIs and SNRIs, you're more likely to experience heat exhaustion and/or dehydration. please be sure to take care of yourselves and hydrate!!!
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Morgan @larubia22.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.
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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 07/06/2026
We know that Pride Month can stir up feelings about family and community. Here are some of our favorite reads and resources on queerness, belonging, and community. Zero pressure to “do Pride” in any one way, just resources for whatever this month looks like for you: 🧵
Text: "Here's a resource a day for every day of pride month by & for LGBTQIA+ folks because it's Pride at Scarleteen every day of the year!" is written on concentric arches in different rainbow colors. Below "week two" is written on a white cloud.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Important #Ebola terminology: “Bundibugyo” is not a strain of Ebola virus—it is a distinct Ebolavirus species, separate from Zaire & Sudan. A species is a major genetic grouping with differences in virology, epi & medical countermeasure effectiveness; a strain is a genetic variant in a species.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:
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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11/05/2026
What the US did to this family is pure evil.
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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day to the mother of us all. (And who deserves to be treated better.)
Earth from space. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#Measles is still doing in the US what measles does super well — spreading. As of 5/7, there have been 1,842 confirmed cases this year, which is 80% of the 2026 total in just over 4 months. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Gee, thanks "teach the dems a lesson voters." 😡😡😡😡
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JR Mayer @jrmayer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
My 15-year-old said the message of Romeo and Juliet is that "young love and old hate are both stupid."
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Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Conservatives think that yesterday’s federal ruling will end abortion pills by mail—it’s not happening. Some abortion providers plan to continue shipping mifepristone 👀 jessica.substack.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe
A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Hollywood has developed a collective eating disorder based around a particular set of medications that almost no one in Hollywood needs, and the result is that a lot of beautiful people now look like they're dying, and culturally, this is going to be so phenomenally destructive, esp for young ppl.
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FixNews ⛵ 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇲🇽 🇱🇧 ☮️Born Again Atheist @fixnewsplease.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.
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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We ordered Chinese food. First went to order from DoorDash until we noticed a $25 service fee. Went to the restaurants website, chose their delivery service of choice and saved $50 from the DoorDash price. Fuck DoorDash you thieving bastards.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
*banging pots & pans* UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE FIRST 3 GAME CHANGERS AUDIOBOOKS AT THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY libbyapp.com/search/queer...
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two men are holding hands in front of a bookshelf with the words intimacy coordinators hate them
ALT: two men are holding hands in front of a bookshelf with the words intimacy coordinators hate them
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 31/01/2026
if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.
venmo: @renthelpmpls
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 30/01/2026
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
BOY DO I LOVE BEING A HARBINGER THE PAY IS SO GOOD AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MISERY FIRST WHEN EVERYONE THINKS YOU’RE CRAZY IS SO FUN AND AFFIRMING
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/01/2026
i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist. please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
No one is too young for cancer. Heartbreaking outcome 💔 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Girl, 15, dies with breast cancer after doctors 'treated her like child'
Isla Sneddon found a lump in her breast age 15, but by the time she finally got diagnosed she only had six months to live, her parents say if she'd been treated as an adult she'd have survived
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 26/01/2026
Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/12/2025
Flu numbers are high in most states and almost all cases are variants of H3N2 and the vaccine includes H3N2 Get your flu vax if you haven’t already! Even if you still get the flu, the symptoms will be easier to manage if you get vaccinated!
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
If KOSA passes, never expect Dems to win again. youtube.com/shorts/8NfV8...
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If KOSA passes, dont expect Dems to win another election
YouTube video by Imani Barbarin
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/12/2025
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025
Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/11/2025
They don't have to ban vaccines outright. They can just force people to jump through enough hoops to get vaccines that they eventually stop trying and give up.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Who remembers those early Palantir trades
AOC on MTG retiring:
"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office.

She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Male loneliness crisis but some men don't read the science about how women are more at risk of long Covid, don't mask for us in public, don't test, minimize the virus etc
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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