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Y. Mudpuppy

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Cancer biologist, evidence-based medicine.

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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is appalling. The US is such a backwards country. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...
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New maps reveal massive gaps in access to affordable birth control across the U.S
Because of a data lag, the current reality of access may be even worse.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"with the average focus across all publishers skewed toward Republicans. And headlines, the researchers report, systematically leaned more pro-Republican than the articles they accompanied." Results of a massive analysis of legacy media for various forms of bias. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has DENIED Trump's bid to continue with his USPS vote by mail restrictions! HUGE WIN.
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Sock Hopera @c-hennessy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ok but if killer robots are an option, I'd rather not be killed by lettuce.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans-Propublica One in 50 women will experience an ectopic implantation. Untreated, the condition is fatal and the treatment (a swift abortion) is very effective. No woman should ever die from an ectopic implantation.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.” Grover Cleveland, 1884
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"But the great tragedy of this era is how few powerful men and women have been willing to do the right thing to protect the rights of the many." -Marc Elias
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"These results suggest a decreased risk of developing ASD with MMR compared to monovalent antigens." Yes. There is actually an existing study directly comparing MMR to giving children all three vaccines separately in regards to autism. MMR is better. Jpn. J. Infect. Dis., 56, 114-117, 2003.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Important information to make sense of Trump's efforts to steal your vote via the USPS joycevance.substack.com/p/its-really...
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It’s Really About 2028
Recap from last night: The Supreme Court said Judge Indira Talwani, in Boston, got it wrong when she enjoined the government from implementing Trump’s executive order on voting.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Scientists invent 'world's greenest balloon'
Imperial College London experts say standard party balloons can take years to break down.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
MAGA NIH is rejecting grant applications for projects assessing the impacts of its policies on public health, such as lack of firearm regulations, changes to vaccination policies, removal of environmental controls, etc. No one will know the effects of these policies. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy
US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tell the CDC and the Trump administration: Restore mandatory tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses now! sign.moveon.org/petitions/cy...
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Restore tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses!
This cyclosporiasis outbreak is happening right as our ability to track the parasite has been gutted. Last year, the Trump administration made surveillance of cyclospora optional through FoodNet, a pa...
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sign here: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-fauci-p... to join with Stand Up For Science in demanding that Congress rescind the contempt charge against Dr. Fauci.
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SUFS Stand Up for Fauci Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Sign the SUFS Petition to demand Congress rescind they contempt referral immediately.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The promise that tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations would pay for themselves never materialized. Instead, the national debt rose dramatically." Weird how this happens so predictably.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Bad news for vegans. “Carnivory is likely far more widely distributed among [flowering plants] than previously believed,” study co-author Hang Sun told CNN. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence - Nature Communications
Carnivorous plants capture and digest insects for nutrients, an adaptive strategy typically found in wetlands. This study identifies carnivory in the alpine Saxifraga plant lineage, supporting Darwin'...
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on this. Fauci is a hero and Paul Rand is crazy. "Senate Homeland Security committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he will convene a vote this week on whether to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer questions at last week’s hearing."
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tell the CDC and the Trump administration: Restore mandatory tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses now! sign.moveon.org/petitions/cy...
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Restore tracking of cyclospora and other foodborne illnesses!
This cyclosporiasis outbreak is happening right as our ability to track the parasite has been gutted. Last year, the Trump administration made surveillance of cyclospora optional through FoodNet, a pa...
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The US just fell to #64 in terms of freedom of the press. rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-...
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2026 RSF Index: press freedom at a 25-year low
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for pr...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is billionaires: Trans people aren’t taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren’t defunding our schools. Immigrants aren’t cutting taxes for themselves + their rich friends… It’s billionaires & their puppet politicians.”
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
marchonwashington2026.com?utm_source=s...
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March on Washington 2026: Defend the Vote
August 28, 2026. Washington, D.C. Register to march, reserve a bus, or partner with us.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I really don't understand why they can't find the source of the "explosive diarrhea" problem. There's a fast PCR test for the presence of the Cyclospora parasite on produce. All you need is people to go collect samples and test them. I guess Trump fired all of these people?
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The only thing that Daylight Savings Time does is that it forces everyone to get up an hour early. Yes, that is what it does. It doesn't magically lengthen the day; it doesn't move daylight around; it doesn't save energy; it just makes you get up early. We should go to standard time always.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Look at the racism in figure B. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Deaths Caused by Law Enforcement in the US
This study uses national cause-of-death data to examine long-term trends in deaths caused by US law enforcement.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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allzie @alanr1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/06/2026
The ruling marks a major win for voters before the midterms. It halts the USPS from refusing to deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration.
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BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump order attacking mail voting, plan for national voter list
“The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” the judge wrote.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Please go here to submit comments about Trump's efforts to stop the post office from delivering ballots TO voters: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
The Postal Service is proposing to amend the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), regarding the transmission of mail-in or absentee ballots for federal el...
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
HIV does not respect global boundaries and if not kept in control everywhere, will spread rampantly in the US. Read the bit about how Trump is trying to blackmail them: embrace racism or no HIV treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...
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U.S. Plans to End AIDS Funding for South Africa
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional" The Secretary of War Crimes strikes again.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Two diversity-oriented programs supported by the National Institutes of Health doubled the odds that an undergraduate student would earn a Ph.D. The Trump administration terminated funding for both initiatives last year." MAGA don't want women and people of color to get education.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Prolife" actually means prosuffering and prodeath. Hundreds of thousands of women are not being treated properly for spontaneous abortions in states with bans on induced abortions. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Management of Spontaneous Abortion Among Commercially Insured Individuals in the US After Dobbs v Jackson
This cross-sectional study assesses the association of state-level abortion bans with spontaneous abortion management and receipt of mifepristone plus misoprostol among commercially insured individual...
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
www.27unihted.org/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration One Year Later — 27 UNIHTED
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This photo is insane.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Please submit a comment to stop Vought from taking over science in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is blatantly illegal and needs to be opposed by everyone: "the United States Postal Service has proposed that it will send mail-in ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting
It signaled it plans to send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Hegseth, who has now murdered 194 people in small boats, has surpassed Samuel Little's grim total of 93 people murdered and is closing in on the 345 people murdered by Harold Shipman, the most prolific serial killer on record.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
More people should know about this latest effort by Non-Dr. Brainworm to kill as many US citizens as possible. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...
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Opinion | Firing Prevention Experts Will Not Make Us Healthy Again
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Guess how miscarriages are treated: with a two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol that is identical to the one used in abortions or with a procedure known as dilation and curettage — which is also identical to the one used in abortions. 19thnews.org/2026/05/abor...
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Abortion bans are restricting miscarriage care, new study finds
The research is the first national analysis to quantify how abortion restrictions affect people losing their pregnancies.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)
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Glen Burbidge ❌️👑 @gburbidg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Very well said! And I like the quote from one of my top 5 favorite scientists.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
"the US had substantially higher death rates....between 1999 and 2022, despite having similar access to advanced medical technology. Many of these excess US deaths could likely be avoided by adopting health and social policies that have benefited other" countries. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Validate User
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Skanno @scanpipedreams.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Sleepy Joe had the Strait of Hormuz opened ALL through his administration
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The real goal of all of this voter suppression and gerrymandering is to strip the vote from everyone except rich white men. If you aren't a white male multimillionaire, you get no power in MAGA La La Land.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"The Trump administration is lifting a ban on the use of “cyanide bombs” on public lands." Yes, dangerous booby traps on YOUR public land that can and will kill your child and your dog, as well as endangered species, all so the welfare ranchers can ruin YOUR public land with their livestock.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"While making up data always existed, this is making it unprecedently easy and accessible" mikhoelias.substack.com/p/how-ai-bre... Fakes produced by AIs need to be required by law to be watermarked and labeled as such. Regardless of what the subject matter is. Also, consider supporting M. Elias.
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How AI Breakthrough Could Shake the Scientific Publishing Process
Recent Image generation and LLM models are so good they can produce digital assets nearly undistinguishable from genuine ones.
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𝔻𝕒𝕟 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 💙 🇺🇸 @danblueheart.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sign up as a volunteer to help protect the November elections at ProtectTheVote2026.org!
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Protect The Vote 2026 — Free, Fair, and Secure Elections
500,000 volunteers. 250 days. A people-powered election protection program across the swing states for the November 2026 midterms.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Weird how none of the legacy media is shrieking about the fact that Trump's illegal war has just become even more illegal after passing its deadline and not even a whimper from Congress. Congress has just told Trump he can use the US military for any purpose whatsoever, even attacking California.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"We talk to Chat and Claude and Grok as though we’re talking to people, but we’re actually interacting with a virtual manifestation of a corporate entity, and that corporate entity is responsible for everything its chatbot says and does." Worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | There’s a 900-Year-Old Answer to Our Most Modern Problem
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