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Sheri Fink

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Author: Five Days at Memorial, War Hospital. EP, Pandemic (Netflix); producer, Five Days at Memorial (Appletvplus). @nytimes.com. MD, PhD. Sherifink.net/bio

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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Why epidemics breed rage at health workers: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/m...
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Why Epidemics Breed Rage at Health Workers (Gift Article)
Some people have fought Ebola containment measures in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Scholars have seen similar responses across societies and throughout history.
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Dr. CSP @drcsp.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“ ‘There seems to almost be a hostile reaction to the idea of going on caring for a kid with trisomy 18,’ Dr. James Hammel, then the division chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery … at Children’s Nebraska ... ‘So what constitutes a worthwhile life?’ he said. ‘That’s the question.’ “
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
My latest for the @nytimes.com , with with photographer Stephanie Sinclair. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/m...
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Noah Is Still Here
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2025
Trisomy 18 is usually fatal within weeks of birth. Some families are getting more time, with surgeries, luck and incredible effort. This is the story of what Noah, and his family, are up against. nyti.ms/44Z7TgU
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/07/2025
Trisomy 18, a rare chromosomal condition also known as Edwards syndrome, is normally fatal within weeks of birth. But some parents are getting more time — with surgeries, luck and an incredible amount of effort. This is Noah's story.
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Trisomy 18 Was Once Seen as Too Lethal to Treat. Some Kids Are Now Surviving.
Trisomy 18 is normally fatal within weeks of birth. But some parents are getting more time — with surgeries, luck and an incredible amount of effort.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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Noah Is Still Here
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Vid… @nytimes.com.web.brid.gy · 27/07/2025
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News Organizations Urge Israel to Let Reporters and Aid Into Gaza
Saying that journalists in the territory, like many Gazans, are facing starvation, the groups urged Israel to allow more food in.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2025
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
And for anyone who wants to dig into just how flawed this AI tool was in concept and execution, @bxroberts.org and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social talked to a bunch of experts to drill down on the code itself:
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Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health
Experts who reviewed the code for ProPublica found numerous and troubling flaws in the system, providing a disturbing glimpse into how the Trump administration is allowing artificial intelligence to g...
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thank you @kevinault.bsky.social for this
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Opinion | COVID Vaccine Guidance in Pregnancy Has Shifted — But the Science Hasn't
Pregnant women should still be considered an at-risk population
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Tim Lahey @timlaheymd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Some day hopefully soon we’ll say, “we did what?” when told dentists irradiated lots of mouths without sufficient reason www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/w...
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Are Dental X-Rays Safe?
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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Eleven public health experts on the first 100 Days of the Trump administration.
Here's what some major leaders in the field are watching most closely.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
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5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information (Gift Article)
Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The fact that NWS field offices are not able to operate 24/7 anymore in growing number of locations, & that offices servicing major population centers no longer have supervisory meteorologists in charge, & that radar techs are becoming unavailable, is highly alarming.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 02/05/2025
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented? We Asked 35 Historians. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Are Trump’s Actions Truly Unprecedented? We Asked 35 Historians. (Gift Article)
We categorized 22 of Mr. Trump’s actions, ranging from those that have no comparable historical example to those that do.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If we really want to take on chronic diseases.... by @virusesimmunity.bsky.social and @hmkyale.bsky.social #LongCovid, post-infection syndromes, immune system assessment and intervention gift link www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 28/04/2025
Why buying groceries in Canada is taking forever: Shoppers have to study the lineage of every can of soup.
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Label Obsession Grips Canada as Shoppers Shun American Products
Grocery store trips take forever when you have to trace the lineage of every can of soup; O SCANada
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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PBS Newshour
"Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape"
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"When a government begins to imprison writers for their words, when it abandons legal norms for political convenience, when it cloaks oppression in the language of national security, alarm bells must ring. Loudly." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...
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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention (Gift Article)
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 22/04/2025
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
✨Please share! My newsletter is out. In this issue: 🚗Mild COVID infection increases car accidents 25% 🧒Kids higher risk of CV (heart) and kidney disease after COVID 🫀HRV and VT1 for Long COVID pacing 🔴Measles: 800 cases, 11% hosp., 3 deaths, so far & much more buff.ly/RGDj1ct #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
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COVID & Health News, 4/19/25
The CDC reports that respiratory illnesses are decreasing overall, with the exception of Pertussis (Whooping Cough) which continues to be elevated nationally.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"Firing on a U.N. vehicle, the statement added, involved 'a breach of orders' in a combat setting." "Israeli soldiers later buried most of the [15 medics'] bodies in a mass grave, crushed the ambulances, fire truck and a U.N. vehicle, and buried those as well." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/w...
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Israel’s Military Cites ‘Professional Failures’ in Killings of Gaza Medics (Gift Article)
In a statement summarizing its investigation into the deadly episode, the military said a deputy commander would be dismissed.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"Like the other 11 children, Abdo starved to death in the weeks after President Trump froze all U.S. foreign assistance"..."as the American money dried up, hundreds of soup kitchens closed in a matter of days." For shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...
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As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce (Gift Article)
The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“This person constitutes a bridge, and we’ve torn that bridge down instead of embracing it.” ... “He is working on a peace process. That is what is so ironic about it. It is just the complete opposite of what the government is painting him as.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...
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A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him. (Gift Article)
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Tonight, WHO Member States converged on a draft text for the pandemic treaty, which will (surprises notwithstanding) be adopted at World Health Assembly in a couple weeks. Here's an explainer on the last three years of negotiations, what they've won, and what happens now. (1/10)
WHO webinar screen with the Final report of the meeting from INB13 and footage of the room.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Employees who were subject to the RIF, as well as some who remain at the agency, tell WIRED that without intervention, they believe the systems they managed could go dark, potentially putting the entire health care system at risk."
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MS NOW @ms.now · 14/04/2025
Israeli military strikes Gaza City's last functioning hospital www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.
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Shanti @fuhwhat.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
It sounds cliche but get a library card, not only do you support your library but it gives you an opportunity to read a book and THEN if you like it you can decide whether or not to buy.
Poster listing services you can get with a library card. With the text "instead of paying for...-> use your library card" Netflix = kanopy, Audible = libby, Spotify = Freegal, Rosetta Stone = Mango.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Among the Trump Administration's demands: "Harvard must implement a comprehensive mask ban with serious and immediate penalties for violation, not less than suspension." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...
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The Promise of American Higher Education
No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
From Reuters: "The president of the [International Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org ] described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as 'hell on earth' and warned that its field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks": www.straitstimes.com/world/europe...
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Gaza 'hell on earth' as hospital supplies running out, warns head of Red Cross
GENEVA - The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as \"hell on earth\" and warned that its field hospital will run out of supplies within two weeks. Read ...
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Over half of 108 @who.int country offices surveyed in March reported moderate or severe aid cuts. Vast majority experienced health system disruption. Most severely affected: humanitarian aid, health emergency preparedness/ response, public health surveillance/services www.who.int/publications...
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The impact of suspensions and reductions in health official development assistance on health systems
Findings from a rapid stock take with 108 WHO country offices on the extent of impact of suspensions and reductions in health official development assistance (ODA) on health systems, mitigation measur...
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now, The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You
Databases that Elon Musk’s team is trying to access include more than 300 personal details about members of the U.S. public.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pew Research Center figure and headline stating: More Americans disapprove than approve of ending USAID and leaving the WHO, Paris Climate Agreement.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Some 42 programs that were previously slated to survive the final round of USAID cuts were killed, primarily for humanitarian assistance or emergency food aid in Africa and the Middle East." A 'death sentence for millions' as US cuts more aid www.devex.com/news/a-death...
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A 'death sentence for millions' as US cuts more aid
Some 42 programs that were previously slated to survive the final round of USAID cuts were killed, primarily for humanitarian assistance or emergency food aid in Africa and the Middle East.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/04/2025
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27
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South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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AVAC @avac.org · 08/04/2025
The House Budget Appropriations Comittee is about to discuss #PEPFAR streaming live. AVAC Comms Director @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social wrote recently on the human cost of PEPFAR’s PrEP restrictions. avac.org/blog/prep-ba... www.youtube.com/live/MgyFrQx...
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Hearing – Assessing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
YouTube video by House Appropriations Committee
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Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...
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Here’s What One of Trump’s Grantee Termination Letters Looks Like
This NEH grantee was told the “immediate termination” of her grant “is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” Is this America?
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The posts by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social on the destruction of American biomedical science and health infrastructure are becoming increasingly painful and necessary reading open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
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HHS "reductions to absurdity," one week on.
We now have more details on last week's cuts. The analysis is not pretty.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Today marks the 31st anniversary of the first full day of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda — an ominous memory.
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Sheri Fink @sherifink.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"Washington Post review of websites operated by the National Park Service — among the key agencies charged with the preservation of American history — found that edits on dozens of pages since Trump’s inauguration have already softened descriptions of some of the most shameful moments of the nation"
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)
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