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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1/“The plague” is trending across socials, and I'm getting a lot of questions. So Dr. Marisa Donelly, @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social, and I sat down and compiled answers to some of the top questions we’re seeing to bring the nuance you may be looking for. First: your risk right now is essentially zero

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is an interesting article on how word meanings have changed since the authorized King James Bible was first published. It's a wonderful exploration of characters traits we want in society but no longer have accurate words to describe. theconversationus.substack.com/p/in-defense...

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In defense of meekness and docility

The word 'meekness' might seem old-fashioned – and not a positive trait. But understanding its original meaning can identify an important virtue.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The mysterious death of a scientist at a plague institute in Siberia has sparked “next pandemic” panic. I wrote about what we know, what we don’t, why plague is not the Black Death in 2026 and the real outbreaks we ignore while worrying about hypothetical ones. bktitanji.substack.com/p/plague-is-...

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Plague is Scary but That Doesn’t Make It the Next Pandemic.

Why a mysterious death in Siberia has captured our attention while far more consequential outbreaks struggle to do the same

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In case someone needs this: • National Crisis Hotline (call or text) 988 • Chat online at 988lifeline.org/chat • For TTY (teletypewriter) Users: Use your preferred relay service or dial 711 then 988. •Crisis Helpline Text CONNECT to 741-741 [Continued]

Photo of someone holding a cell phone with "988" printed in front.

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The fact that the United States Constitution and foreign affairs appear to be at the mercy of one man and the loyalists he has around him undermines the principles at the heart of our democracy. The fact that that one man’s mental acuity has collapsed is an immediate calamity." HCR [Link below.]

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Gezzer @gezzer3115.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Even the spooks want to deflock. #GTS

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026

We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.

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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights

After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Democrats want to win the midterms, they should be focusing on ONLY two things in these last few weeks before November 3 — and show how they’re connected. Let me explain... robertreich.substack.com/p/the-hear…

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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A purr fect cat fusion has been discovered #Cat #Caturday

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A heartfelt thank you to Heather Cox Richardson for seven years of helping her readers stay informed and hopeful, with gentle reminders of how we can each do our part to help enact the change we want to see. substack.com/@heathercoxr...

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September 15, 2026

Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

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Retiredrph @retiredrph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Landmark paper, with new iron deficiency diagnosis guidelines. Studies found that 27% of women have iron deficiency. Associated conditions (celiac, inflammatory conditions, kidney disease, heart failure) may be investigated and caught much sooner as a result. #anemia @shematologist.medsky.social

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you haven't seen this excellent video series, short one minute clips documenting our history this far, you should! youtu.be/B-tBlDQYNms

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You are not invisible. Share your story! Participate in the 2026 National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) conducted by the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies at the University of Kansas. ihdps.ku.edu/nshd-2026

Graphic and text describing how some disabilities are visible, using mobility aids, while others are invisible.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The New American Gothic, by Criselda Vasquez

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of my volunteer positions is tutoring elementary students online, with Reading Partners. This article explains how we educators can partner with families to help our students. theconversation.com/heres-how-te...

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Here’s how teachers and parents can collaborate and help Michigan’s 1.4M students succeed

Inflexible meeting times, transportation and childcare challenges can limit parents or caregivers from getting involved in their children’s education.

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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 02/09/2026

I think of measles as a mini HIV. Both infect the immune system itself. HIV takes the power to fight. Measles takes what you already learned, erasing 11% to 73% of antibodies in 77 children. Send to a parent on the fence: www.celinegounder.com/p/measles-mea…

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today, on the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: TOS, I hope we all can work towards the unity inherent in the TV show. I have always loved the Vulcan motto of "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations."

A button pin showing a rainbow outline of the USS Enterprise, with a Vulcan "live long and prosper" hand sign in the center. There's also a yellow wedge with a brown ring, overlying what might also be symbolizing The United Federation of Planets.

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why I’m Eating Lettuce Again: What the Cyclospora season can teach us about risk, recalls, and changing our minds when the evidence changes drrubin.substack.com/p/why-im-eat...

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Why I’m Eating Lettuce Again

What the Cyclospora season can teach us about risk, recalls, and changing our minds when the evidence changes

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The great mistake made was not the failure to stop the September 11 attacks in the first place, although that should have been achieved. It was the failure to understand how terrorism can amplify its impact through our response to outrage." theconversation.com/the-failure-...

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The failure to stop 9/11 was a catastrophe. But even bigger mistakes were made in its aftermath

The great mistake was not the failure to stop the attacks, but the failure to understand how terrorism can amplify its impact through our response to outrage.

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

STAT: Make infectious disease data boring again By Debra Houry and Demetre Daskalakis bit.ly/4xFjQUK @statnews.com @drdebhoury.bsky.social @drdemetre.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fall 2026 Vaccine recommendations for the flu, COVID and RSV.

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"While some greyhaired diehards (like one of the authors of this piece) might still click through to verify AI answers, this traffic is rapidly dwindling, as a direct result of AI summaries." I resemble that remark... Let's all click the website references. theconversation.com/ai-is-eating...

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AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

* “Don’t assume you’re being a burden when you reach out asking for help. Research shows we consistently underestimate how happy it makes others to lend a hand.” * 🧪🛟

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The new guidelines include, for the first time, the types of heart attack that primarily affect women and a lower troponin level threshold to diagnose heart attacks (also seen mostly in women).

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"We tend to imagine corruption as a transaction: money buying votes, quid pro quos in backrooms. But money's real power is quieter and deeper. It decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. (Continued)

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Congresswoman Nanette Barragán @repbarragan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trump and Republicans are trying to silence women at the ballot box. On Women’s Equality Day and the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, we are reminded that our fight for equal representation and women’s right to vote is not over.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/08/2026

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

When I was much younger, I knew her mostly as a caricature and the object of jokes, because young men are kind of stupid that way and I was no exception, and because she willingly played along with the joke, in part because she knew it would happen anyway, and this way she got to shape some of how that would play out for her, and use it for her own ends. It took me a while to realize how canny that was.

When I got older, I learned that underneath the caricature was a formidable songwriting and business mind. I had an inkling of what a rare combination that was in any person, but how even more rare it was for someone who was who she was, in the field and environment she worked in. Hidden in all those sparkles was a spine of steel.

When I got older than that I learned that in addition to a brilliant mind was a heart of kindness, which directed so much of the good fortune she amassed to herself right back out the door through philanthropic work, helping those in her communities, state and country, and which allowed to see the worth and dignity in those whom so many others treated (and still do treat) with contempt.

She was always all the things she was. What changed was my ability to see and understand who she was. I'm glad I was eventually smart enough to see it all.

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"The policy of Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to bring a “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon by putting it “on offense, not just on defense” using “maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” and having “violent effect, not politically correct,” has given the U.S. a tremendous loss in Iran." —HCR

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/08/2026

We want to train at least 100,000 volunteers how to defeat Trump's next coup attempt before, during, and after the midterms. We’re building the nationwide infrastructure to respond to attacks on voting rights anywhere — and it’s all powered by your donations of $5 or $10. Please chip in if you can!

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Chip in to help fund Indivisible's Election Protection Program

Show your support with a contribution.

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What Shall We Do with a Useless Congress? Love these raging grannies. I'd sing with them if I lived nearby. youtu.be/-9W79RPmOnI?...

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What Shall We Do With a Useless Congress?

YouTube video by Raging Grannies of Tuolumne & Calaveras (RGTC)

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Cherie Parks @macherie123.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Corporate America EXPOSED! (In the most unlikely place) The newspaper for America’s business-political class explains how the business-political class is wrecking American capitalism robertreich.substack.com/p/venality-c...

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Corporate America EXPOSED! (In the most unlikely place)

The newspaper for America’s business-political class explains how the business-political class is wrecking American capitalism

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