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Christina S. Ho

Christina S. Ho

@christinasho.bsky.social

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law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · May 3

Alright: the ballet/health policy crossover content that you didn’t even know you needed this weekend—me talking with the Royal Academy of Dance about embodied rites of social cooperation, about the agitprop adult ballet collective we organized in Beijing 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

S10 E7: Christina Ho

Podcast Episode · Why Dance Matters · S10 E7 · 35m

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 23h

I have got an answer to that one! Check out my book global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 23h

Photographer Danelle Manthey frames the practice of Christmas decoration as a kind of folk art in the book “American Christmas.” Peace on earth and installation art for all!

A Photographer Captures Christmas Kitsch Across the US

With American Christmas, Danelle Manthey presents elaborate decorative traditions as a form of folk art, but one can’t help but wonder if White Christmas might be a more accurate title for her…

hyperallergic.com

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Rupert Murdoch International Tribunal 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸 @hey.rupert.murdochbait.click · 1d

In his will, Hungarian composer Béla Bartók requested that no street or square in Budapest be named after him until the names of Hitler and Mussolini had been expunged from every street sign in the city.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

“This is so important — I can’t afford to get sick.”
“I didn’t get the shot last year. I don’t want to miss it again.”
“I’ve never gotten it, but my friends said I needed to.”

…People weren’t doing this just for themselves. They were doing it for their castmates. For their crew. For the show.”

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Mike Johansen @mikejohansenmd.medsky.social · 2d

Lazy science that goes with our priors largely got a pass.

The EBM literature from the 2010's critiquing evidence quality was low quality evidence that I really enjoyed at the time.

Reposted by Kevin F. McCarthy, Christina Ho, Dan Immergluck

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.

This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 2d

Roberto Bolle and Darcey Bussell as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince in The Nutcracker, Royal Opera House, December 1999 - Photos by Eleni Leoussi / ArenaPAL

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud

Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

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@a16z
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America spends more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, but 90% of those dollars are spent managing chronic conditions after people get sick.
@truemed is changing that.
Truemed enables consumers to spend HSA and
FSA dollars on evidence-based lifestyle interventions, shifting more of our healthcare dollars toward True Medicine: exercise, good sleep, supplements, movement - the things that prevent disease before it starts. Today, that includes Peloton, Eight Sleep, Barry's, and many more.
Cofounder & CEO Justin Mares has a decade of experience as a serial founder in health, and we are compelled by his mission at Truemed to make prevention become the default setting of American health.
We couldn't be more proud to be partnering with Justin and leading the company's $34 million
Series A.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

For an excellent study of medicalizing euphemisms please see Golfo Alexopolous’s history of the Gulag, entitled "Illness and Inhumanity."

Text reading: ICE Detainee Dies After Being Held at a Troubled Jailhouse in Newark. Jean Wilson Brutus, 41, was one of four migrants to die in the past week after medical emergencies in detention centers in New Jersey, Michigan, Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

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Flosshilde @susanjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Bleuenn Battistoni in Balanchine's Theme and Variations
Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris
Photo by Maria-Helena Buckley

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 3d

This where we are:

On Thursday Trump made a multi billion dollar PERSONAL bet on a competing energy source and Monday he straight attempted to cancel potential competition.

It's incredible how inured the world has become to his naked corruption.

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Judith Mackrell @judithmackrell.bsky.social · 4d

Always v happy to catch a Nutcracker matinee. Joshua Junker danced a storm as Hans-Peter & I like James Hay's Drosselmeyer, imperious & a little tetchy. A good time, I hope, to flag that I've just embarked on a book for grown up lovers of Nutcracker. Xmas 2027 @royalballetandopera

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 4d

Here’s a snapshot of the services MSF provided in #Gaza in 2025. We’ve received no updates on our Israeli registration process for 2026 and it is unclear if we will be able to continue activities.

- 800,000 consultations

- 22,700 surgical operations

- 700 million litres of water

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

Skilled-worker visa holders who traveled back to India this month to renew their US work permits are now stranded far from home after their appointments were abruptly canceled by U.S. consular offices and rescheduled for months later.

H-1B workers flew to India to renew U.S. visas. Now they’re stuck.

H-1B holders who returned to India this month to renew their visas had consular appointments canceled, stranding them far from their homes and jobs, lawyers said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Windmill Cinema - Littlehampton @windmillcinema.bsky.social · 6d

Be sure to watch Royal Ballet: #TheNutcracker 2025 this coming Mon 22-Dec at 6:15pm. Book now: www.windmillcinema.co.uk

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Chicago News Bot @chicagonewsbot.bertshouse.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'
https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'

A Bulgarian man from Chicago arrested during an immigration enforcement 'blitz' has died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Michigan private prison, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.

abc7chicago.com

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 6d

When Trump declared he wanted drug companies to voluntarily cut their prices, few executives wanted to go first. Now, no one wants to be last — and risk the wrath of the president.

At least seven more drug-price deals coming at White House today.

Drug companies line up to make deals with Trump after initial hesitation

More and more drug companies are making deals with the White House on drugs sold to the government and to Americans through a new website, TrumpRx.gov.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 6d

Military families are ‘pissed’ after IVF coverage cut from defense bill trib.al/ZHaMgbk

Military families are 'pissed' after IVF coverage cut from defense bill

Congress slashed military insurance coverage for IVF treatments in the defense bill, angering spouses who feel let down.

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Juicy Cake of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ @datadivajf.bsky.social · 7d

DID JANE AUSTEN WRITE A PIANO SONATA?

www.instagram.com/reel/DSVXReN...

BBC Radio 3 on Instagram: "Was this charming little piano sonata composed by Jane Austen? Pianist David Owen Norris explores the theory on the novelist's 250th anniversary – complete with a look at J...

4,787 likes, 61 comments - bbcradio3 on December 16, 2025: "Was this charming little piano sonata composed by Jane Austen? Pianist David Owen Norris explores the theory on the novelist's 250th annive...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Of note: three major prison healthcare companies have gone bankrupt in recent years, each time letting them avoid having to pay out lawsuits against them for insufficient care. Yes, private equity is playing a role here too. These issues, bad as they are in ICE detention, are not unique.

Private-equity backed prison health companies continue despite decade of alleged constitutional violations

The Guardian examined two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death

www.theguardian.com

Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, me too, kinda?

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SQOX.com @sqox.bsky.social · 7d

Hans van Manen, Celebrated Dutch Choreographer, Is Dead at 93
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/a...

Hans van Manen, Celebrated Dutch Choreographer, Is Dead at 93

www.nytimes.com

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 7d

US sales of #antibiotics for livestock climbed 16% last year, FDA report shows

Expert attributes the "troubling" increase to "a failure to put in place common-sense steps.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Photo: Camelia Montoy / US Navy

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Gramilano @gramilano.com · 7d

Review⭐⭐⭐⭐: Contrasts – Paris Opera Ballet perform works by Trisha Brown, David Dawson, and Imre and Marne van Opstal – a dialogue of styles and executions that makes for a heady night.
www.gramilano.com/2025/12/revi...

Review: Contrasts – Paris Opera Ballet perform works by Trisha Brown, David Dawson, and Imre and Marne van Opstal

Matthew Paluch sees the Paris Opera Ballet in Contrasts – a dialogue of styles and executions that makes for a heady night.

www.gramilano.com

Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 8d

RIGHT. this is super helpful for tracking. Thank you!

Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 8d

So House R position amounts to 4.4 million Americans losing coverage? 4 million from the expiration of the ACA tax credit subsidies, 300,000 from the botched appropriation of the cost sharing reduction subsidies if the plans don’t cover abortions, and 100,000 from the Association Health Plans scam?

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Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · 8d

FDA will now accept deidentified and aggregate real world evidence for certain device submissions with plans to extend to drugs and biologics. This removes a major barrier to using EHRs registries and claims data in regulatory reviews www.fda.gov/news-events/...

FDA Eliminates Major Barrier to Using Real-World Evidence in Drug and Device Application Reviews

FDA Eliminates Major Barrier to Using Real-World Evidence in Drug and Device Application Reviews

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Petra Meijers @petrameijers.bsky.social · 8d

Mooi In Memoriam voor Hans van Manen van het Nationale Ballet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCS...

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 8d

Not sure if I've come across a better explanation of legal epi than this!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.