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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 7h

Contaminated raw milk does not SMELL, TASTE, or LOOK unusual. It *seems* fine. Don’t ever give to kids.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 14h

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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Luckily, Dennis' physique fits neatly inside a coozie on cold mornings.

sidewalk chalk drawing of a small lizard standing on the street with a purple foam rubber can cooler fit snugly around his torso

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is going to absolutely ruin the housing market--anybody with a decent mortgage rate absolutely can't afford to sell, and anybody not sitting on six figures of cash can't afford to buy.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 30/09/2026

"Meanwhile, the big picture is being missed: We know how to prevent this." to the point from @drdebhoury.bsky.social in @time.com measles bad, vaccines good!

found only in CDC’s online archives: Get your child up to date on routine vaccinations. During the country’s largest measles resurgence in decades, that should be the nation’s most urgent back-to-school message.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Simplify your life by hibernating from now until spring

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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm glad this stupid unscientific food trend--being given oxygen by RFK and his minions--is being punctured. The Upshot audience already knows that protein-packed pop tarts, Doritos and vodka are not on the road to wellness. Lots of Americans happily spend on this junk, though. #nutrition #diet

nytimes.com

How Supermarkets Became Protein-Maxxed (Gift Article)

Protein is everywhere — in chips, candy, cookies, even water. Does that make these products healthy?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

if you’re calling it a “second opinion,” you’re practicing medicine without a license or malpractice insurance

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Whether you’re a North or South Sider, there is something for everyone in Chicago to be excited for tonight as the Cubs and White Sox kick off the MLB postseason! Best of luck to both teams as they start their playoff runs and represent our great city.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you can, please donate to a local food bank this week 💔🍎 Find yours here ➡️ www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

The survey found broad swaths of people who acknowledge they:
• Cut the sizes of their children's meals, due to the cost of the food
• Have children who didn't eat for an entire day
• Skipped meals, to save money

Children’s food access image from https://macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-understand-the-scale-of

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 28/09/2026

I joined several Senate Democrats in demanding the Trump Administration abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grantmaking process. I urge my Republican colleagues to follow suit and work with us to protect science-based medical research.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Why shouldn’t I custom-generate all of my child’s media?” Because the point of children’s literature, music, art, and movies is not to optimize leisure time, it is to provide your children with cultural, emotional, societal, and epistemic touch points via which they can relate to the wider world.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you can, please donate to a local food bank this week 💔🍎 Find yours here ➡️ www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Morning Glory. Flashback to Friday's sunrise in Chicago.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Read this Read it again Then read the thread Then read this.

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No one should have to choose between putting food on the table and paying their medical bills. I was proud to eliminate $1.1 billion in medical debt for more than 500,000 Illinoisans.

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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...

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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you cannot prevent your whiz-bang gizmo from doing crimes, then you shouldn’t be in business. If your gizmo keeps doing crimes after repeated revelations, the law has to assume intent. Severe penalties must follow.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really appreciate this talk from Dr. Pikula discussing the exodus of women from medicine in midlife. 36% of women physicians leave medicine around 15+ years into practice. This is largely due to systemic factors such as discrimination, pay gap, lack of support, etc. What a dramatic loss of talent.

Photo of Dr. Pikula in front of a slide showing men’s career path stays largely steady but around midlife 36% of women leave

Photo of Dr. Pikula in front of a slide showing the proportion of women at each rung of the academic leader (going from 54% students to 25% department chairs) and systemic barriers: Pay gap: *$20,000/year
Caregiving: +8.5 hrs./week
Less sponsorship
Promotion barriers
Work-family conflict
Discrimination effects

Occupational challenges:

Burnout: 30-60% higher in women:
& Institutional support
T Administrative burden
Professional isolation
Peak clinical demands
Promotion pressure

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/09/2026

This part is really difficult to understand for people who don't know the intricacies of ACA. Did you know you can be too poor for Obamacare but not poor enough for Medicaid?

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Learned yesterday that there's a vast swath of rural counties in New Mexico with a total population of 247,000ish people, covering an area id 53,259 square miles, without a pediatrician www.instagram.com/p/DdoegYHjFw...

15 New Mexico counties have zero pediatricians NM county map, revevant counties without pediatricians are:

Catron
Cibola
De Baca
Guadalupe
Harding
Hidalgo
Lincoln
Luna
Mora
Quay
Rio Arriba
Sierra
Torrance
Union
Valencia

NEW MEXICO
VOICES
FOR CHILDREN

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RFK Jr has accepted over $270k in gifts in the last year, on top of his $4M in book deals. And then there’s Cheryl Hines…

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“For, in order to be fruitful, scientific research must be free - free from the influence of pressure groups, free from the necessity of producing immediate practical results, free from dictation by any central board,” -Vannevar Bush, President Roosevelt’s, and then President Truman’s, science czar

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2026

I decided to share my health journey with GLP-1s because I thought it might make a difference for others. I don't take for granted that we now have tools to help us live healthier lives — and I hope sharing encourages people to explore their options.

chicago.suntimes.com

Gov. Pritzker opens up about his 80-pound weight loss, use of GLP-1 — ‘I think it’s what I need to succeed’

More than two years into his weight loss journey, Gov. JB Pritzker says he wants to talk about it, largely in part because he knows millions of Americans are suffering from obesity-related health cond...

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 21/09/2026

Last week, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia scrambled to protect babies exposed to measles. Meanwhile, the nation’s top health official keeps promoting the movement that helped bring measles roaring back. www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-secret...

thebulwark.com

RFK Jr.’s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count

Measles showed up at a children’s hospital. The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🔵 March 2, 2026 on left 🔴 September 20, 2026 on right same Costco, suburban Chicago

Close up of gas prices at suburban Chicago Costco pump on March 2, 2026. Reg $2.99/gal, premium $3.99/gal

Screenshot from app @ same Costco warehouse on September 20, 2026. Regular gas $4.99/gal, Premium $6.09

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026

Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.

nyti.ms

White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 2016, Carole King was honored by Aretha Franklin at The Kennedy Center. I will always stop to watch this performance, the two women celebrating each other, and the Obamas in absolute awe 🥹💖

youtube.com

WATCH: Aretha Franklin sings "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Read this entire thread, and the attached piece. And please be sure you and your kids are vaccinated against measles. This is seriously awful. #PedSky

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 2016, Carole King was honored by Aretha Franklin at The Kennedy Center. I will always stop to watch this performance, the two women celebrating each other, and the Obamas in absolute awe 🥹💖

youtube.com

WATCH: Aretha Franklin sings "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Read this entire thread, and the attached piece. And please be sure you and your kids are vaccinated against measles. This is seriously awful. #PedSky

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

yahoo.com

Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

making this my new email autoreply

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Addleben @addleben.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am over 50 years old, have a bleeding disorder, had 2 surgeries and have 3 children. I have...never had a medical bill.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is no justification for this. It’s just pseudoscience with a side of social Darwinism.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s National Women in Medicine Day, and I’m thankful for all women who serve as healthcare professionals! Selfless servant leaders.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At 18, I got myself vaccinated. My mother claimed religious exemptions to skirt school requirements when I was a child. Recently, I find myself reflecting on how lucky I was to grow up then and not now. And how grateful I am to the largely vaccinated community I grew up around, who kept me safe.

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Alyson Smith @pedsaly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Are you telling me that not only did you invent a secret plan to fight inflation, but now you don’t support it?

youtu.be

Josh Defends Himself to the President | The West Wing

YouTube video by The West Wing

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