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Laura

@llizbeth.bsky.social
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Clean Air, Clean Water, and Safe Food Advocate | Lazily Driven, Simply Complex, and perfectly flawed. | Lover of Dogs | Drinker of Coffee | Keeper Of The Flame

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We should all worry about the chaos at the CDC But there’s an even larger and longer-term health threat quietly unfolding For @theatlantic.com I wrote about how the Trump admin’s ‘AI Action Plan’ risks hardwiring bias and inequity into medicine for decades. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Will Automate Health Inequities
By gatekeeping health data, the AI Action Plan risks hardwiring bias into the future of American medicine.
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Honest and Unfiltered @momazonrises.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#ProudBlue Every word that Scott Galloway said 👏👏👏👏👏👏 I feel it all to my core. I’ve been screaming this since Trump came down the escalator. Why are we excusing their abhorrent behavior? Musk & Trump are morally bankrupt. Kevin O’Leary doesn’t even know what to do with his face.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 05/05/2025
After the L.A. fires, federal and state disaster agencies refused to perform comprehensive soil testing to ensure properties in burn zones are free of fire-related contamination. Testing conducted by The Times reveals elevated levels of arsenic, lead and mercury in postfire soil.
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When FEMA failed to test soil for toxic substances after the L.A. fires, The Times had it done. The results were alarming
The federal government decided not to test the soil of L.A.'s burn areas for hazardous substances. A Times investigation found high levels of lead and other heavy metals.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Carl Sagan unveils the Pale Blue Dot image 🎥 : The Planetary Society
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/03/2025
A contagious, fatal illness in deer, elk and moose has slowly taken hold in the US and is now reaching other countries – with potentially devastating effects on human health.
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‘Don’t call it zombie deer disease’: scientists warn of ‘global crisis’ as infections spread across the US
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Whether in our water, on its bench, or in the White House, the Supreme Court is a big fan of raw sewage.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 02/03/2025
Comparing WWII’s alliance with Stalin to Trump’s love for Putin is nonsense. We teamed up with Stalin to defeat Hitler — then spent decades fighting his tyranny. Trump praises Putin by choice, not necessity. It’s weakness, not strategy, and it betrays everything America stands for.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Your representative is supposed to protect your right to vote. The SAVE Act could take it away.
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Tell Congress To Protect Your Vote and Block the SAVE Act
Tell your representatives to protect the rights of millions of eligible American citizens to cast their vote.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The CFPB will begin deleting agency data as soon as today. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Musk staffers are rewriting history on U.S. government websites and erasing data from databases nationwide—removing information that doesn’t align with their political agenda.
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Eli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Do Americans want safe food? Which Departments are responsible for food safety? USDA HHS -> FDA and CDC Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries) If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food Enjoy your dinner 🍲
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Judge orders CDC and FDA to restore webpages removed after Trump order
US agencies told to reinstate critical public health information that had been scrubbed from public view
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 09/02/2025
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U.S. influenza cases reach 15-year high despite declining COVID-19, CDC says - UPI.com
U.S. medical services providers are seeing the greatest numbers of flu cases since the 2009-2010 flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
calling it: this nike spot is the best one of the day
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 05/02/2025
US clean-energy companies are headed to Capitol Hill to urge Republican lawmakers not to kill lucrative tax credits contained in former President Joe Biden's landmark climate change law reut.rs/40I4oIh
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Clean energy companies press US lawmakers to protect subsidies
U.S. clean-energy companies are headed to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to urge Republican lawmakers not to kill lucrative tax credits contained in former President Joe Biden's landmark climate change law.
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Mike Conley @m0nkeyl1ce.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The petition can be found at calexitnow.org. You can download it, print it (on 13x17" paper), sign it, and return it now. It's a paper-only process. Volunteers to help gather signatures (I'm one in the Bay Area) are welcome!
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California Independence Is One Vote Away - CALEXIT NOW!
CALEXIT is the term used to refer to California exiting the union and becoming an independent, self-governing nation. CALEXIT is not independence. Rather,
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Do you wonder why you haven’t heard much about this massive TB outbreak recently? Cuz the CDC can’t hold any press conferences or issue public statements of any kind. abcnews.go.com/Health/kansa...
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Kansas faces one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in US history
Kansas is currently facing one the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in U.S. history with 67 confirmed active cases and 79 confirmed latent cases.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Mandatory reading from @hcrichardson.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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January 24, 2025
“NUTS!”
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Laura @llizbeth.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Where do I sign? ktla.com/news/califor...
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Measure to make California an independent country cleared to gather signatures
(KTLA) – Another ballot measure asking whether California should be its own country is cleared to start gathering signatures, the California Secretary of State announced Thursday. According t…
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days: He used the constitution to shatter the constitution." The WH felon is doing just this to us: using the power of our government to destroy it. No answers in this piece. It's up to us. Important article. Gift link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I have a feeling someone may need this today. This is a time that will try all our souls. We must let our friends & family know we see them, we value them & we will stand up to protect everyone’s right to be themselves.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025
"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 15/01/2025
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Senator Tammy Duckworth to Pete Hegseth during his Senate confirmation hearing: "The American people need a SecDef who is ready to lead on day one. You are not that person." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Did you know? “More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America's egg supply since the outbreak began.” www.kpax.com/news/nationa...
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U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak
Data from the USDA shows more than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I’m proud to be among the founding contributors of this new outlet, beholden to nobody, dedicated to the defense of our constitutional democracy — to keeping the republic alive against all threats, foreign and domestic www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/m...
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Jen Rubin exits Washington Post, joins Norm Eisen to launch new outlet countering ‘authoritarian threat’ | CNN Business
Veteran opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin is becoming the latest in a long list of Washington Post figures to leave the troubled institution.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@governor.ca.gov just launched a new site to ensure the public has access to fact-based data around the Southern California wildfires. Get the facts: californiafirefacts.com
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California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus on California: We have fire crews in the danger zones. The Canadian military is now on full alert to help. That’s what we do—we help our neighbors in times of crisis. The fact that Trump isn’t there.. is shocking but this is what criminal grifters do.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
He’s guilty of 34 counts of business fraud He stole classified documents and led a conspiracy to obstruct the retrieval of them He pressured elections officials in Georgia to overturn their election results He tried to overthrow an American election And he won't face consequences for ANY of that
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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
If people want to help and are able to donate to help those affected by these LA fires, here are places they can donate: friendsindeedpas.org/donate-to-fr... cpf.salsalabs.org/disasterreli... www.directrelief.org/emergency/ca... www.pledge.to/ccfwildfirer... www.globalgiving.org/projects/cal...
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California Fire Relief
In response to fire across California, Direct Relief provides N-95 masks, medicine, and other resources to public agencies and first responders in wildfire-affected communities.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
RIP Jimmy...🖤
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Laura @llizbeth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I painted this little Christmas bauble. May your holidays be magical.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
THIS ⬇️ !! And USE your library card!
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
America has lost control of bird flu. Now it’s in the hands of the Trump, likely RFK Jr, and Mother Nature. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News
Exclusive reporting reveals how the United States lost track of a virus that could cause the next pandemic. Problems like the sluggish pace of federal action, a deference to industry, and neglect for ...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Brian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
These people eliminated 190 million dollars in childhood cancer research money to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history. I’m a no.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/11/2024
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The Week Ahead
November 24, 2024
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Laura @llizbeth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My first Pineapple emerging 🙌 #GardeningFeed
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