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Tara Haelle

@tarahaelle.bsky.social
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Science/health journalist • teacher • author • photographer 📷• kidlit • dog lover 🦮• rat mom 🐀• Texan • ADHD • neurodivergent • she/her Pro: 👩‍⚖️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽💉😷📚⚖️ tarahaelle.net

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7h
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 5h
TOMORROW! RSV & flu & Covid OH MY! Get ready for #respiratory #virus season w @healthjournalism.org & EVAT on #vaccines' safety, effectiveness, availability & recs PLUS anticipating/addressing inaccurate info AND ALSO the latest on #measles! Oct 6 at 12pm ET healthjournalism.org/event/fact-a...
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Fact and fiction on measles and respiratory virus vaccines
In this AHCJ and EVAT webinar, panelists will discuss vaccine costs and recommendations and share facts about the ongoing measles outbreak.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 9h
TOMORROW! Register to get ready for #respiratory #virus season! Join @healthjournalism.org & the EVAT team on #vaccines' safety, effectiveness, availability & recs PLUS anticipating/addressing inaccurate info AND ALSO the latest on #measles! Oct 6 at 12pm ET healthjournalism.org/event/fact-a...
healthjournalism.org
Fact and fiction on measles and respiratory virus vaccines
In this AHCJ and EVAT webinar, panelists will discuss vaccine costs and recommendations and share facts about the ongoing measles outbreak.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jfc. How do you fight this?
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Azhrie Drake @azhrie139.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am beginning to believe judges will never hold anyone in contempt.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Flu & COVID & RSV, oh my! Ready for resp #virus season? Join @healthjournalism.org & the EVAT team re #respiratory #vaccines' safety, effectiveness, availability & recs PLUS anticipating/addressing inaccurate info AND ALSO the latest on #measles! Oct 6 at 12pm ET healthjournalism.org/event/fact-a...
healthjournalism.org
Fact and fiction on measles and respiratory virus vaccines
In this AHCJ and EVAT webinar, panelists will discuss vaccine costs and recommendations and share facts about the ongoing measles outbreak.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Are you ready for #respiratory #virus season? Join @healthjournalism.org & the EVAT team re respiratory #vaccines' safety, effectiveness, availability & recs PLUS anticipating/addressing inaccurate info AND ALSO the latest on #measles! Oct 6 at 12pm ET healthjournalism.org/event/fact-a...
healthjournalism.org
Fact and fiction on measles and respiratory virus vaccines
In this AHCJ and EVAT webinar, panelists will discuss vaccine costs and recommendations and share facts about the ongoing measles outbreak.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Flu & COVID & RSV, oh my! Ready for resp virus season? Join @healthjournalism.org & the EVAT team re respiratory vaccines' safety, effectiveness, availability & recs PLUS anticipating/addressing inaccurate info AND ALSO the latest on measles! Oct 6 at 12pm ET healthjournalism.org/event/fact-a...
healthjournalism.org
Fact and fiction on measles and respiratory virus vaccines
In this AHCJ and EVAT webinar, panelists will discuss vaccine costs and recommendations and share facts about the ongoing measles outbreak.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
everyone is worried that the polls are overstating democrats… but, what if they’re actually overstating republicans because respondents are lying about not supporting Trump in 2024
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Two pollsters I've spoken to in the last few weeks say they are certain their respondents are lying on the 2024 recall question.
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NEW @HouseMajPAC poll in #TX15
Bobby Pulido: 54%
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They're lying by saying they voted for Harris.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seven women are now at the center of this investigation. Five may be dead. No final account has been established. We should not need a million files, a room full of chemicals, and the possibility of a serial killer before missing women become visible. www.swopbehindbars.org/post/seven-w...
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Seven Women Were Missing. Why Did It Take a House Full of Evidence to Make Them Visible?
The unfolding Philadelphia investigation is not yet a solved serial-killer case. It is already a warning about whose disappearances are treated as urgent - and whose are allowed to become background n...
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
True-crime culture will be tempted to turn this case into a tour of a “house of horrors.” The media will study every grotesque detail. Audiences may soon know more about a the killers creative persona than about the women whose lives may have ended there. That is another kind of disappearance.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People are not high-risk. Situations are dangerous. Predators are dangerous. Housing instability, criminalization, poverty, isolation, and institutional indifference create danger. A woman does not become less missing because her life was complicated.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We need more journalists to do stories that convey this.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When a missing woman has used drugs, traded sex, experienced homelessness, or had an arrest record, her disappearance is the consequence of a “high-risk lifestyle.” That phrase performs a moral trick. It shifts responsibility from the person who caused harm to the person forced to navigate danger.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Those facts may help investigators reconstruct what happened. But in public storytelling, they can also become code - signals telling the audience which lives to value less. We have seen this pattern before.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Investigators say they have identified 58 people depicted in the files. Seven are missing women. In recordings, four appear lifeless, while another video may show what happened to a fifth. News coverage has emphasized drugs, pornography, the women’s possible connections to street economies.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The unfolding #Philadelphia investigation is a warning about whose disappearances are treated as urgent - and whose are allowed to become background noise What police found is staggering: more than one million digital images, guns, false law-enforcement credentials, urns containing cremated remains
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We try to post threads because we know not everyone will click links. This is one of those threads, please read it, but please also click the link and read the entire piece. We have been watching this story unfold but haven't seen much media traction. There is a serial killer in Philadelphia.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
First eyewitness accounts from this afternoon’s ICE shooting in Austin is here, from freelance reporter Emiliano Tahui Gómez.
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Here in North Austin, where ICE agents appear to have shot an individual in his car. I spoke to two of the only witnesses.

Nedevia Bolaños and her husband, Carlos, own a business just off the intersection where the shooting happened. Shortly before 1 pm they says they heard what sounded like two gunshots. Carlos ran out first. A blue Toyota sedan and a black Escalade were stopped under the highway.Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such
 
He said he saw an olive-skinned man, seemingly in his 30s, leaning backwards against his seat. A masked agent was standing outside the car. The agent refused to answer questions. Within a few minutes as many as 10 other ICE agents arrived.

Carlos asked the victim if he was ok. "Yes," the man said in Spanish, but he looked exhausted. Carlos asked why they had shot him. "Because I didn't stop."Combined tweets, cutting tags and other such. 

Bolaños ran up next. She said she continously asked the ICE agents about why they'd shot him and if they were going to render aid. They didn't answer her. It was an APD officer who later arrived and cut open the young mans shirt, revealing a deep hole between his shoulder blades. The ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after and carried him off. "I've never seen all this. Thank God I'm a citizen," Bolaños said in Spanish. "Or I'd be living like this. In a dream of terror."
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Holy crap - this is maddening.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Medscape: Once-Monthly Investigational PrEP Drug Could Be Manufactured for $3 a Year by Tara Haelle @medscape.com @tarahaelle.bsky.social wb.md/3UAYuJQ
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Inflamed Procrastibaker @drtwillett.medsky.social · 07/09/2026
I always love to see @tarahaelle.bsky.social on a great article. Here the takeaway is yeet those tubes, y'all. ( am am hoping to find an excuse as I'm TERRIFIED of "ovarian" cancer) ACOG Strengthens Ovarian Cancer Prevention Guidance - www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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ACOG Strengthens Ovarian Cancer Prevention Guidance
The new recommendations make the procedure routine for any gynecologic surgery that would otherwise prevent future fertility.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump says that Ken Paxton was the best state attorney general in any state over the last decade, which should be news in Texas, where he was indicted on three felony charges and then impeached by his own party.
Ken's mugshot, looking super creepy
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It challenging to address such a complex, fraught issue as defining clinical obesity, esp given the long-time use but huge problems w BMI and that fat/over-sized people can be metabolically healthy. There's more to dig into, but hopefully I've done some justice to the topic.
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Doctors are finally starting to agree on when obesity is a disease
It might seem like semantics. But whether a health condition qualifies as a disease can have a huge impact on patient experiences and treatment options.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Two people, both unvaccinated, died from measles in Pennsylvania. Measles in the U.S. is now at its highest level since the 1989-91 outbreaks led to a 2nd MMR rec. But measles isn't the only vaccine-preventable disease on the rise. Tetanus, Hib, rotavirus... healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/08...
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Pennsylvania measles deaths highlight need for vaccine reporting
Measles cases are at their highest rate in three decades as vaccine-preventable diseases like tetanus are surging. Here's what to cover.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
No, I can’t take another so soon after Dolly. We’re losing all the good ones. 😢
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Peptides made headlines this summer when an FDA advisory panel let compounding pharmacies prepare 6 peptides for patients with an Rx—great news for wellness influencers, celebrities & Kennedy but how safe are they? Find out FRIDAY at 11am ET in this AHCJ webinar healthjournalism.org/event/everyo...
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Everyone's talking about peptides: What reporters should know
In this webinar, medical experts will tell you need-to-know facts about peptides, what the media often gets wrong and more.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Your must-read thread for the week. ❤️
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
At least one public school district has already used the shock gloves on STUDENTS. www.wowt.com/2026/08/17/o...
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Parents raise questions about shock gloves after Omaha Police detail incident at special education school
Omaha Public Schools is addressing the use of shock gloves in district schools during its board meeting Monday night. Parents raised concerns about the devices during the meeting’s public comment peri...
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
[interrogation room] SUSPECT: I’ll never talk DA: [opens up Bluesky, shows this video] S: OKAY I’LL TALK I’LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT JUST STOP SHOWING ME THAT VIDEO
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 14/08/2026
This Elon Christ Superstar AI movie goes on for SIX minutes, and it’s as hilarious at is terrifying due to the reflection of just who exactly has taken control of everything in this world
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I thought Lipton’s post earlier was the most pathetic thing I’d see this week. Reader, I was wrong. (This has the bonus of being pathetic and painful and terrifying all at once.)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Not how any of this is supposed to work
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
His name is Martin Lagunas. He’s pulled his gun on US citizens, threatened people, and repeatedly lied despite video evidence. He & his team have terrorized ppl across multiple states w impunity—on the taxpayer’s dime. unraveledpress.com/chicago-ice-...
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Invalid Handel @invalidhandel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Accountability, transparency and truth only matter when the administration is speaking to Mr. Lipton personally. The rest of us can go fuck ourselves.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's cool that they're friendly in private. But isn't it your job to get answers for the public, you know, like your readers?
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s remarkable how a single social media post can epitomize and encapsulate everything that’s been wrong with NYT political coverage for the past 10 years.
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Scromitin' Jay Hawkins 🇺🇦 @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think Mr Lipton shares the Trump administration's indifference to the truth, while lacking the courage to embrace that.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Serious and non-snarky question: Why would you post this? Her dealings "in public" have been relentlessly and aggressively hostile and dishonest. Why compliment her for being "helpful" in private when in public she epitomizes the Orwellian "truth is what we choose to say" Trump approach?
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The only word that comes to mind when I read this is “pathetic.” It also makes me feel like I should apologize for my peers, but political journalists have never been my peers since I deal in facts while avoiding false balance. This kind of post is just pathetic and shameful.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Look, they may call us enemies of the country to a violent base. They may celebrate when we’re fired or have our shows canceled or die. And, yes, they did just make us decoys for an assassination attempt. But have you considered they respond to emails in a timely fashion?” Dear God, grow a spine.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump’s EO has ZERO LEGAL POWER to change anything about US vaccine policy. CDC red’d vaccines stay the same. The ONLY thing it does is cause confusion. Here’s the history/context to the order and how reporters can accurately cover it for their audiences. healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/08...
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What Trump's latest executive order means (and doesn't mean) for vaccine policy
While Trump’s order on vaccines won't change policy or insurance coverage, it may create confusion and contribute to vaccine hesitancy.
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh dear, Slater, what happened to you…
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tuberculosis on the rise in US: Local story angles to consider healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/07... via @tarahaelle.bsky.social @healthjournalism.org
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Tuberculosis on the rise in US: Local story angles to consider
Tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S., particularly since the pandemic. Journalists should cover TB as both a global and local topic.
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