Megan Berry (Thompson)
@megeliber.bsky.social
Nurse. Texpat Arkansan. American. Fan of science, democracy, learning from experts, and human rights for all.
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The Arkansas Department of Health on Tuesday reported the state’s fourth confirmed pediatric measles case in an Arkansas resident. Because the child did not travel outside the state, this indicates the first case of community spread this year, according to a press release.
Arkansas health department reports evidence of community spread of measles | Arkansas Advocate
The Arkansas Department of Health on Tuesday reported the state’s fourth confirmed pediatric measles case in an Arkansas resident.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Arkansas Department of Health on Tuesday reported the state’s fourth confirmed pediatric measles case in an Arkansas resident. Because the child did not travel outside the state, this indicates the first case of community spread this year, according to a press release.
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$468,838.69 in Outdoor Recreation Grants awarded to Denning, Keo, Ozan, and Sulphur Springs for new park trails!
More info 👉 arkansasoutside.com/sanders-adph...
#ArkansasOutside #GreatStrides #OutdoorGrants #TrailAccess
More info 👉 arkansasoutside.com/sanders-adph...
#ArkansasOutside #GreatStrides #OutdoorGrants #TrailAccess
Sanders, ADPHT, ADH Announce Outdoor Recreation Grant Awards
Governor Sanders announces $468,838.69 in Great Strides Outdoor Recreation Grants for four Arkansas cities, expanding access to trails and promoting healthy lifestyles statewide.
arkansasoutside.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
$468,838.69 in Outdoor Recreation Grants awarded to Denning, Keo, Ozan, and Sulphur Springs for new park trails!
More info 👉 arkansasoutside.com/sanders-adph...
#ArkansasOutside #GreatStrides #OutdoorGrants #TrailAccess
More info 👉 arkansasoutside.com/sanders-adph...
#ArkansasOutside #GreatStrides #OutdoorGrants #TrailAccess
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Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
'Homegrowns are next:' Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.
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🚨 Join the #PeoplesMovement this Saturday #April19 for a National Day of Action!
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and more.
Hundreds of events are already listed at www.FiftyFifty.one/events.
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and more.
Hundreds of events are already listed at www.FiftyFifty.one/events.
April 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🚨 Join the #PeoplesMovement this Saturday #April19 for a National Day of Action!
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and more.
Hundreds of events are already listed at www.FiftyFifty.one/events.
Yes, people will be in the streets again. Others will be organizing food drives, volunteering at shelters, hosting teach-ins, and more.
Hundreds of events are already listed at www.FiftyFifty.one/events.
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Exclusive: The US consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to CDC staff cuts, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation reut.rs/4lvPWN4
Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Exclusive: The US consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to CDC staff cuts, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation reut.rs/4lvPWN4
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Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
How psychiatric patients get caught in a cycle of homelessness and spotty care
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Montana is investing $300 million to help those with severe mental illness from cycling through ERs, state psychiatric facilities, jails and homelessness. Advocates say they also need stable housing.
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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Delighted to have been invited to talk about out work exploring the antimicrobial potential of saccharin on @scifri.bsky.social
A new study found that the artificial sweetener saccharin may be able to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Dr. @ronanmccarthy.bsky.social joins us to discuss the research and explain why saccharin could even be used in wound treatment.
A Sweet New Treatment For Antibiotic Resistant Infections?
New research suggests the artificial sweetener saccharin could kill antibiotic resistant bacteria.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Delighted to have been invited to talk about out work exploring the antimicrobial potential of saccharin on @scifri.bsky.social
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Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
April 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador's president says he won't release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.
Live updates: El Salvador’s president says he won’t release Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to US
President Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House. The nation is holding Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
BREAKING: In a White House meeting with Trump, El Salvador's president says he won't release a wrongly deported Maryland man back to the U.S.
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BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States as he met with President Donald Trump at the White House reut.rs/42gTQCc
El Salvador's Bukele says he can't return man the US mistakenly deported
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on Monday he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States as he met with President Donald Trump at the White House.
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April 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
BREAKING: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the United States as he met with President Donald Trump at the White House reut.rs/42gTQCc
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Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” Approximately four hours later, he announced a 90-day pause on most trade tariffs, leading to a significant surge in the stock market. Do you think this is insider trading?
April 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, stating, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT.” Approximately four hours later, he announced a 90-day pause on most trade tariffs, leading to a significant surge in the stock market. Do you think this is insider trading?
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The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants' tax data to ICE, AP sources say
The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
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It’s clear: Trump and Musk want to make it harder and harder for the elderly and disabled to utilize Social Security.
They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.
They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.
April 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It’s clear: Trump and Musk want to make it harder and harder for the elderly and disabled to utilize Social Security.
They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.
They don’t care how much pain they cause. Their ultimate goal is to make Social Security dysfunctional, to privatize it and to let Wall Street take it over.
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A federal judge has ordered Trump to reinstate the AP to the White House press pool: “The Constitution requires no less."
Trump must reinstate Associated Press to White House press pool, judge rules
“The Constitution requires no less,” the judge said.
www.politico.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A federal judge has ordered Trump to reinstate the AP to the White House press pool: “The Constitution requires no less."
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Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
April 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
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The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in languages other than English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency confirmed to PBS News.
National Weather Service pauses severe weather alerts in Spanish and other languages
The contract for artificial intelligence modeling used to send emergency alerts in different languages is among the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contracts that lapsed this…
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April 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in languages other than English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency confirmed to PBS News.
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As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
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Last night, Ozark native singer-songwriter Jesse Welles made his late-night television debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He performed the song “Horses.”
Jesse Welles performed on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ last night - Arkansas Times
Last night, Ozark native singer-songwriter Jesse Welles made his late-night television debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He performed the song “Horses.”
arktimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Last night, Ozark native singer-songwriter Jesse Welles made his late-night television debut on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He performed the song “Horses.”
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Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
March 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
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Medicare for All isn't radical.
What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost.
Please don't tell me we can't do the same.
What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost.
Please don't tell me we can't do the same.
March 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Medicare for All isn't radical.
What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost.
Please don't tell me we can't do the same.
What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost.
Please don't tell me we can't do the same.
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The three members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation were invited to attend the event, but did not appear.
Congressional delegation a no-show at packed Little Rock rally
A coalition of local advocacy groups asked for their representatives to show up to answer questions, to no avail.
www.ualrpublicradio.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The three members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation were invited to attend the event, but did not appear.
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🚨 THIS IS DICTATOR BEHAVIOR 🚨
Trump just declared that he will VOID Biden’s pardons — including for members of the January 6th Committee. This isn’t just an attack on Biden — it’s a direct threat to political dissent and a chilling escalation of political persecution.
@polrev.bsky.social
Trump just declared that he will VOID Biden’s pardons — including for members of the January 6th Committee. This isn’t just an attack on Biden — it’s a direct threat to political dissent and a chilling escalation of political persecution.
@polrev.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🚨 THIS IS DICTATOR BEHAVIOR 🚨
Trump just declared that he will VOID Biden’s pardons — including for members of the January 6th Committee. This isn’t just an attack on Biden — it’s a direct threat to political dissent and a chilling escalation of political persecution.
@polrev.bsky.social
Trump just declared that he will VOID Biden’s pardons — including for members of the January 6th Committee. This isn’t just an attack on Biden — it’s a direct threat to political dissent and a chilling escalation of political persecution.
@polrev.bsky.social
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Israel carried out ‘genocidal acts’ against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a new report reut.rs/3XPpELz
UN experts accuse Israel of genocidal acts and sexual violence in Gaza
Israel carried out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a new report on Thursday.
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March 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Israel carried out ‘genocidal acts’ against Palestinians by systematically destroying women's healthcare facilities during the conflict in Gaza, and used sexual violence as a war strategy, United Nations experts said in a new report reut.rs/3XPpELz