Jan McVicker
@jmcvicker.bsky.social
Professor, SUNY (English, INDS) focusing on lit/theory/culture/media. Virginia Woolf studies/modernism. Opinions my own.
good effort by Ali Rogan to get comments on the methodology of this and the autism/acetaminophen link
FDA head explains decision to drop ‘black box’ warnings from menopause hormone treatment
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FDA head explains decision to drop ‘black box’ warnings from menopause hormone treatment
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FDA head explains decision to drop 'black box' warnings from menopause hormone treatment
The FDA announced it would begin asking drug companies to remove so-called “black box” warnings for hormones prescribed to treat symptoms of menopause. The FDA says the warning has dissuaded generatio...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
good effort by Ali Rogan to get comments on the methodology of this and the autism/acetaminophen link
FDA head explains decision to drop ‘black box’ warnings from menopause hormone treatment
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
FDA head explains decision to drop ‘black box’ warnings from menopause hormone treatment
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Trump pardons dozens of allies who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden
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Trump pardons dozens of allies who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden
As President Trump continues to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, he’s taken a new step to protect former administration officials and allies who have been accused of working to overturn...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Trump pardons dozens of allies who tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's is the first White House visit by a Syrian leader since the country became independent nearly 80 years ago. Damascus joined the global alliance countering ISIS, and the Trump administration extended temporary sanctions relief.
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Al-Sharaa meets with Trump at White House as Syria seeks closer ties with the West
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with President Trump on Monday. It's the first White House visit by a Syrian leader since the country became independent nearly 80 years ago. Damascus joined the g...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa's is the first White House visit by a Syrian leader since the country became independent nearly 80 years ago. Damascus joined the global alliance countering ISIS, and the Trump administration extended temporary sanctions relief.
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this pic says it all about the corruption of power...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
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November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
this pic says it all about the corruption of power...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says
The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
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A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
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Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
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November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
this could have incredible negative impact...
Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.
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Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.
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Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws
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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
this could have incredible negative impact...
Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
what was originally an 'advisory' of "4-6 inches" by Monday here is now a "8-11 inches through Tuesday" storm warning. Find the shovels and gloves!
Arctic Blast Is Sweeping East, Bringing First Snow of the Season www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Arctic Blast Is Sweeping East, Bringing First Snow of the Season www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Arctic Blast Is Sweeping East, Bringing First Snow of the Season
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November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
what was originally an 'advisory' of "4-6 inches" by Monday here is now a "8-11 inches through Tuesday" storm warning. Find the shovels and gloves!
Arctic Blast Is Sweeping East, Bringing First Snow of the Season www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
Arctic Blast Is Sweeping East, Bringing First Snow of the Season www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
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He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
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Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
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November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc
Struggling rural hospitals compete for billions of dollars in federal funding
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Struggling rural hospitals compete for billions of dollars in federal funding
Health systems in rural America are struggling. Many are losing money and over the past decade, more than 100 have closed. To address Medicaid shortfalls in the “One Big Beautiful” budget bill, Congre...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Struggling rural hospitals compete for billions of dollars in federal funding
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Children exposed to ‘horrific violence’ in Sudan’s civil war, UNICEF says
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Children exposed to ‘horrific violence’ in Sudan’s civil war, UNICEF says
Aid groups say tens of thousands of people have fled violence in el-Fasher, a city in the Darfur region of Sudan, which is in the midst of a yearslong civil war. This follows an official declaration t...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Children exposed to ‘horrific violence’ in Sudan’s civil war, UNICEF says
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
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"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
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Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
total disdain for actual people.. unbelievable
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits
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November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
total disdain for actual people.. unbelievable
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamp Benefits www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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Reposted by Jan McVicker
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
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Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
50 Years of Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Legacy papers have been weird and hostile toward Zohran Mamdani
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Legacy papers have been weird and hostile toward Zohran Mamdani.
The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Legacy papers have been weird and hostile toward Zohran Mamdani
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
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“A Summit man, who was once accused of firing a gun during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, was taken into custody last month after he was wanted for aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault in Utah.”
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Fugitive Nabbed On Kidnap, Sex Assault Charges Was Accused Of Firing Gun At Capitol Riot
Banuelos was charged last year for the Jan. 6, 2021, shooting at the U.S. Capitol riot, but charges were dropped after the Trump pardons.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“A Summit man, who was once accused of firing a gun during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, was taken into custody last month after he was wanted for aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault in Utah.”
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reposting this as the first forecast of snow in WNY approaches...
Why trillium have become the postr child for endangered native plants
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Why trillium have become the postr child for endangered native plants
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Why Trillium Have Become the Poster Child for Endangered Native Plants (Published 2022)
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November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
reposting this as the first forecast of snow in WNY approaches...
Why trillium have become the postr child for endangered native plants
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Why trillium have become the postr child for endangered native plants
www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/r...
Jamelle Bouie - There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Template for Winning Elections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Template for Winning Elections
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November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Jamelle Bouie - There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Template for Winning Elections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Video: Opinion | why is Trump so afraid of American voters?
From gerrymanders to voter ID to lies about mail-in ballots...
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From gerrymanders to voter ID to lies about mail-in ballots...
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Video: Opinion | Why Is Trump So Afraid of American Voters?
President Trump raged after Democrats won multiple elections this week. And now he’s calling on lawmakers to take action: To do more gerrymandering, to outlaw mail-in ballots and to make voter ID laws...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Video: Opinion | why is Trump so afraid of American voters?
From gerrymanders to voter ID to lies about mail-in ballots...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
From gerrymanders to voter ID to lies about mail-in ballots...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...