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Kat McGowan

@mcgowankat.bsky.social
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Journalist reporting on caregiving. Also, pictures of owls, crows and Mr. Peanut. www.katmcgowan.com.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Why would Peter Hegseth want to purge women from combat? Look no further than his spiritual mentor, Doug Wilson, and their ideas about "biblical masculinity." Read ‪@kieraevebutler.bsky.social‬'s full story here: bit.ly/3UM5Yd4 📹: @samveep.bsky.social
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Holy COW please read this
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you haven't read this story, do yourself a favor and click.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan. The US has the largest morbidity gap. Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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birdsinmuseums.com @birdsinmuseums.com · 09/06/2026
Flower Vase (Late 1910s) Itaya Hazan MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan
Flower Vase (Late 1910s)
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MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I did not know! Chart from Briefing book, which has a longer analysis of why this is happening. It should be a bigger story! When 2025 numbers all come in, it may be the lowest murder rate since 1900. open.substack.com/pub/briefing... !!
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Caitlin Gibson @caitjgibson.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“I didn’t think, ‘I can’t believe that this happened.' I’m very well aware that this can happen.” I wrote about the parents of children with mental illness and substance use disorder, for whom the tragedy of the Reiner family carries a particularly painful resonance. Gift link: wapo.st/4todI0b
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Parents who see themselves in the tragedy of Rob and Michele Reiner
Some families see a cycle of drug abuse and mental illness that they know too well and are following the murder case with dread: Could this happen to us?
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Beth Pinsker, CFP ® @bethpinsker.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“My Mother’s Money” is this month’s Color of Money book Club selection from @michellesingletary.bsky.social I’m so honored! www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
Column | Managing a parent’s money is the hardest job you never applied for
This book can help you prepare for and manage a role that many of us will be asked to fill at some point in our lives.
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/05/2026
TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26/04/2026
The proper approach journalists should take to any element of power is skepticism that at times tips over into distrust. That’s the job.
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A California quail on an ocotillo at Borrego Palm Canyon (Sicco Rood).
A California quail on an ocotillo branch.
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Xander Wolk @xander-wolk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Bug I saw in a dream once #art
Digital illustration of a rhinoceros beetle with gold legs and a delft blue pattern shell
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Ashwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Multiple Myeloma. 4-generations of pharma-driven drug discovery.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Your weekend wisdom from Thelonious Monk: “A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.” “Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy.”
The piano keyboard reflected in Thelonious Monk's sunglasses
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
There are two different places you can live in America, one is a place where lemons cost a little more than you think they should, and the other is a place where people are handing you lemons trying to get rid of the giant pile of lemons
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birdsinmuseums.com @birdsinmuseums.com · 26/03/2026
Life (2017) Nagai Kazumasa Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Life (2017)
Nagai Kazumasa
Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Eli Cahan @emcahan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
1 month after Trump nominated Ben Landa, who owns >100 nursing homes, for Ambassador to Hungary, the President's own agency estimated his facility received over $31 million in excess taxpayer money via Medicare. Landa then sued the gov. It's just the beginning. www.propublica.org/article/benj...
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Nominee for Ambassador to Hungary Co-Owns a Nursing Home That’s Suing the Trump Administration Over Medicare Payments
A month after Benjamin Landa’s nomination, the Health and Human Services inspector general said a nursing home Landa co-owns received at least $31.2 million in Medicare overpayments. Now the facility ...
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is intense, and difficult. Cesar Chavez was a hero to my parents. They were not farmworkers but they admired him and what he stood for.
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for..." Dolores Huerta's powerful statement on Cesar Chavez' abuse. medium.com/@dolores_hue...
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A Statement from Dolores Huerta
March 18, 2026
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Matthew Ponsford @interspecies.agency · 13/03/2026
Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine
Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cmI can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is another one of those moments where I point out that I pitched the Washington Post on an editorial about family caregiving, an issue that affects 1 out of 4 American adults, and never got any response. Newsworthiness is in the eye of the beholder!
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Yves Jeanrenaud @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making
A screenshot of an Android app. Text:

▲ Nearby Glasses

Smart Glasses are probably nearby
Device: Unknown
RSSI: -42 dBm
Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E)
Company: Meta Platforms, Inc.

This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning.

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Jen Olsen, DrPH @caradigm-shift.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
How many times during your #publichealth course work did you learn health impacts of #bereavement? For me, that number was 0. Working w #caregivers & formers, I missed understanding that went beyond #grief. Check out special topic of @frontiersmedia.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
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Frontiers | Editorial: Exploring bereavement and public health: the role of family and friend caregivers in community well-being
[Please update social media impact numbers before final publication].The circle of bereavement after the deaths of family and friends broadly influences soci...
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is just terrific. Do yourself a favor and read:
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Got me through the 1990s. Your turn: Post a banger not in English. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jGs...)
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TARKAN Şımarık (original music video)
YouTube video by Emmanuel Saada
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We used to think that the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was dependent on weight loss. Now we know so many health benefits have little to do with that! Today's report: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New MACPAC data show the highly effective Medicaid Drug Rebate Program reducing gross Medicaid drug costs by 54.9% in FY 2024. Earlier Congressional Budget Office research found that Medicaid gets the lowest net prices of other federal programs/agencies even the VA: www.macpac.gov/publication/...
MACPAC table showing how much rebates reduce Medicaid prescription drug costs.
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
So it's a power move to make lots of typos and spelling mistakes? I am just figuring this out.
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...
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Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed
New documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday reinforce that long after his criminal convictions, many prominent professors continued to communicate with him.
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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 03/02/2026
This image is a bit different than my usual "style," if that's even a thing. Much more minimalistic given the Snowy Owl sitting out in the field. Not sure how well this image translates to a smaller screen (phone, thumbnail, etc.) but thought I'd share it nonetheless. #wildlife #birds #owls
A female Snowy Owl, with black colouring sits in a field with a few blades of grass to her left poking through the grass.
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Good for her.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 03/02/2026
How HHS is implementing Trump AI mandates, in numbers I take a look at the AI tools the nation's health agency is using for everything from controversial audits to helping the agency cope with layoffs & executive orders. Full charts in the story @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/n...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
As plenty of others have noted, one striking thing the Epstein files reveal is just an extraordinary level of moral rot among elites, even if you assume most of his eager friendly correspondents were not directly involved in his crimes.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 27/01/2026
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Selective silencing of the CDC: ~50% of surveillance databases have halted updates —87% of these were vaccine related www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... editorial www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a reflection on the limits of the authoritarian assault – and the need to push back against the idea that America is inevitably and irresistibly marching towards a Trump dictatorship. This week’s piece:
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The Limits of Violent Authoritarianism
Trump’s authoritarian desires are boundless. But the past year proves that his ability to impose them on America is not.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Pretty galling what the first urologist tried to do here. www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/w...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Holy hell, what an obituary
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14/01/2026
"Last April, HHS had informed staff of plans to terminate around 90% of NIOSH's roughly 1,000 employees, eviscerating the agency." Nine months later, the decision is reversed and layoff notices to workplace safety workers have been revoked. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Reverses Deep Cuts to Safety Agency Niosh, Reinstating Hundreds
The Trump Administration is reversing its deep staffing cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, reinstating hundreds of employees.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Trump administration reinstated on Tuesday hundreds of CDC employees who had been placed on administrative leave in April. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...
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C.D.C. Brings Back Hundreds of Suspended Workplace Safety Employees
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/01/2026
hi! do you want to be my editor? i know you do - come work with me
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Senior Editor, Science
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 07/01/2026
🚨 NEW: DRAMA! House to vote on 3-yr extension of enhanced #ACA tax credits this week...while Senate GOP tries to cobble together SOMETHING acceptable: acasignups.net/26/01/07/dra...
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DRAMA! House to vote on clean subsidy extension this week, while Senate GOP scrambles to slap together something acceptable...
When last we checked in on the U.S. House of Representatives before Christmas, there was much High Drama after four supposedly "moderate" (aka "extremely vulnerable") Republicans gave up on trying to ...
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David Zahniser @davidzahniser.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Homicides have dropped in L.A. by roughly 43% since 2021, according to a Los Angeles Times review of crime stats. The LAT's @liborjany.bsky.social & Richard Winton have details: www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for debate
Theories about why killings were near historic lows last year include greater investment in community programs, a push by the LAPD to target repeat violent criminals and fallout from the Trump adminis...
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Jen Olsen, DrPH @caradigm-shift.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
@mcgowankat.bsky.social writes of the double stigma of being a #caregiver supporting a person living with severe #mentalillness. There are not meal trains or get well soon cards, rather suffering and silence
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Kat McGowan @mcgowankat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I grew up glued to the Iran-contra bearings—so shocking at the time!—so I see a lot of wisdom in this framing of the Venezuela coup as an 80s reboot
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jomom55 @jomom55.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🦉
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm so proud of ProPublica's journalism from 2025. In case you missed it, here's our most-read stories, as well as some you may have missed: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2025
Our reporters published investigations this year on the Trump administration, health care, education and more. These are the stories readers spent the most time with in 2025.
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