@jesserosenbluth.bsky.social
NEW: A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other neurodevelopmental diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.
But Trump has halted those efforts.
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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"For-Profit Healthcare" is a crime against humanity, and should be outlawed in America immediately.
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"For-Profit Healthcare" is a crime against humanity, and should be outlawed in America immediately.
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I will not think about the cowards in the Democratic Party today. Not on this day.
Gordon Lightfoot - "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" - Chicago - 1979
YouTube video by Jonathan Clark
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November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I will not think about the cowards in the Democratic Party today. Not on this day.
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According to Pablo Maníquez, Chicago residents stop ICE fascists mid-abduction at 63rd & Kostner.
You’re telling me these ICE fascists aren’t modern day Nazi gestapo? Smh this is horrific and wrong.
Video and journalism credit to
@migrantinsider & @hamoza85
You’re telling me these ICE fascists aren’t modern day Nazi gestapo? Smh this is horrific and wrong.
Video and journalism credit to
@migrantinsider & @hamoza85
October 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
According to Pablo Maníquez, Chicago residents stop ICE fascists mid-abduction at 63rd & Kostner.
You’re telling me these ICE fascists aren’t modern day Nazi gestapo? Smh this is horrific and wrong.
Video and journalism credit to
@migrantinsider & @hamoza85
You’re telling me these ICE fascists aren’t modern day Nazi gestapo? Smh this is horrific and wrong.
Video and journalism credit to
@migrantinsider & @hamoza85
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Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
October 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.
Elections matter.
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Elections matter.
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
White House Says New C.D.C. Director Is Fired, but She Refuses to Leave www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
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“Billionaires’ constant tax dodging leads to underfunded power grid.”
#fixingcomplicitheadlines
finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tec...
#fixingcomplicitheadlines
finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tec...
Big Tech is power-hungry, and America's aging grid can't keep up
As Big Tech companies continue to pour money into the data centers that underpin AI and cloud-computing technology, they are counting on a fragile, unstable, and possibly unequipped power grid.
finance.yahoo.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“Billionaires’ constant tax dodging leads to underfunded power grid.”
#fixingcomplicitheadlines
finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tec...
#fixingcomplicitheadlines
finance.yahoo.com/news/big-tec...
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
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Erasing history. Another characteristic of autocrats and dictators.
July 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Erasing history. Another characteristic of autocrats and dictators.
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Again… cuz America couldn’t bring itself to elect a qualified Black woman.
This is anti-scientific, immoral and economically irresponsible. I say this without hyperbole - when the history of this era is written, Donald Trump will have been responsible for more deaths than Stalin, Mao and Hitler combined. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Again… cuz America couldn’t bring itself to elect a qualified Black woman.
Elections matter.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Elections matter.
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Elections matter.
The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
(Published April)
(Published April)
Trump’s NOAA Budget Cuts Could Gut Critical Climate Modeling
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Elections matter.
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I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
Elections Matter:
“And overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.”
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
“And overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.”
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Elections Matter:
“And overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.”
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
“And overall, autism rates did not decline after thimerosal was removed from the vaccines, as many anti-vaccine groups suggested it would. Instead, the rates increased.”
What to Know About the Vaccine Preservative Thimerosal www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
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Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
Mass murderer.
(gift link)
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Kennedy Withdraws U.S. Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.
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“They’ll get over it.”
“We’re all going to die.”
Republicans don’t give a damn about their constituents facing life-or-death consequences if they gut Medicaid.
They’ll jam through this bill.
And leave everyone but billionaires to fend for themselves.
“We’re all going to die.”
Republicans don’t give a damn about their constituents facing life-or-death consequences if they gut Medicaid.
They’ll jam through this bill.
And leave everyone but billionaires to fend for themselves.
June 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“They’ll get over it.”
“We’re all going to die.”
Republicans don’t give a damn about their constituents facing life-or-death consequences if they gut Medicaid.
They’ll jam through this bill.
And leave everyone but billionaires to fend for themselves.
“We’re all going to die.”
Republicans don’t give a damn about their constituents facing life-or-death consequences if they gut Medicaid.
They’ll jam through this bill.
And leave everyone but billionaires to fend for themselves.
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Get government out of my health decisions.
The data is undeniable:
•15 of top 16 states with the highest rates of infant mortality are red states that deny/ban repro access.
•12 of top 13 states with the lowest rates of infant mortality are blue states that protect repro access.
Why is this even a debate?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/three-year...
•15 of top 16 states with the highest rates of infant mortality are red states that deny/ban repro access.
•12 of top 13 states with the lowest rates of infant mortality are blue states that protect repro access.
Why is this even a debate?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/three-year...
Three Years After Roe—What We Feared Is Confirmed
Infant and maternal mortality rates continue to spike, with Black and brown women and babies suffering the most
www.qasimrashid.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Get government out of my health decisions.