Kristi Durazo
@krash63.bsky.social
Social justice builder, curious about everything, appreciative of ecclectica
American Heart Association Director Strategic Planning and Equity. Views are my own.
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American Heart Association Director Strategic Planning and Equity. Views are my own.
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Interesting attire for a US Ambassador at a formal occasion.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Interesting attire for a US Ambassador at a formal occasion.
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
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Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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#Mesky🧪 #IDsky #endosky #immunosky #publichealth This review highlights the need to consider #obesity in general & adipose tissue in particular as an active disease modifier of viral infection with implications for future pandemics.
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#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #endosky #cardiosky #publichealth In this large, prospective, population-based study of 15,516 participants from the MDCS cohort, the study observed that familial burden of diabetes was independently associated with increased relative risk of a hospital diagnosis of #COVID
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#Mesky🧪 #IDsky #endosky #immunosky #publichealth This review highlights the need to consider #obesity in general & adipose tissue in particular as an active disease modifier of viral infection with implications for future pandemics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope #Canada
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A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope
A new Canadian-U.S. study gives glioblastoma patients hope and doctors a new doorway to treat brain tumours.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A breakthrough of bubbles and sound: Canadian scientist gives glioblastoma patients hope #Canada
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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
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Sunday thought
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Sunday thought
The rot at the top
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November 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Sunday thought
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Women have been highlighting equality and equity disparities in healthcare for some time.
Disturbing to see 3 stories in as many days about the continued decline and outright failure of our systems to care for Black women, particularly in maternal healthcare.
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Disturbing to see 3 stories in as many days about the continued decline and outright failure of our systems to care for Black women, particularly in maternal healthcare.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Women have been highlighting equality and equity disparities in healthcare for some time.
Disturbing to see 3 stories in as many days about the continued decline and outright failure of our systems to care for Black women, particularly in maternal healthcare.
🧵…
Disturbing to see 3 stories in as many days about the continued decline and outright failure of our systems to care for Black women, particularly in maternal healthcare.
🧵…
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🚨 The One Big Beautiful Bill Act excludes public health degrees as well as several other health professions degrees. This change could restrict access to federal loan support & affect the public health workforce.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚨 The One Big Beautiful Bill Act excludes public health degrees as well as several other health professions degrees. This change could restrict access to federal loan support & affect the public health workforce.
Learn More & Get Involved: aspph-webassets.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Call+to+Acti...
Learn More & Get Involved: aspph-webassets.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Call+to+Acti...
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Chemists have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity against drug-resistant bacterial pathogens
This discovery suggests a new paradigm for antibiotic discovery through identifying and testing intermediates in the pathways to diverse natural compounds
#SomeGoodNews
This discovery suggests a new paradigm for antibiotic discovery through identifying and testing intermediates in the pathways to diverse natural compounds
#SomeGoodNews
New antibiotic found hiding in plain sight
warwick.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Chemists have discovered a promising new antibiotic that shows activity against drug-resistant bacterial pathogens
This discovery suggests a new paradigm for antibiotic discovery through identifying and testing intermediates in the pathways to diverse natural compounds
#SomeGoodNews
This discovery suggests a new paradigm for antibiotic discovery through identifying and testing intermediates in the pathways to diverse natural compounds
#SomeGoodNews
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics
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AI Regulation is Not Enough. We Need AI Morals
"The challenge of our time is to keep moral intelligence in step with machine intelligence."
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"Ethical due diligence should become as routine as financial due diligence. Before asking how large a technology might become, we should ask what kind of behaviour it incentivises, what dependencies it creates, and who it leaves behind." #AIEthics
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time.com/7332888/we-n...
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It’s #VeteransDay! Thank you to each & every person who served this country.
It’s disgraceful that the senate GOP, House GOP & the felon occupying the WH, will spout worthless accolades your way, while withholding adequate healthcare and SNAP from you.
#DemsUnited ♥️🤍💙
It’s disgraceful that the senate GOP, House GOP & the felon occupying the WH, will spout worthless accolades your way, while withholding adequate healthcare and SNAP from you.
#DemsUnited ♥️🤍💙
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s #VeteransDay! Thank you to each & every person who served this country.
It’s disgraceful that the senate GOP, House GOP & the felon occupying the WH, will spout worthless accolades your way, while withholding adequate healthcare and SNAP from you.
#DemsUnited ♥️🤍💙
It’s disgraceful that the senate GOP, House GOP & the felon occupying the WH, will spout worthless accolades your way, while withholding adequate healthcare and SNAP from you.
#DemsUnited ♥️🤍💙
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Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet www.newscientist.com/article/2503...
Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet
Thousands of holes arranged in a snake-like pattern on Monte Sierpe in Peru could have been a monumental accounting device for trade and tax
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Mysterious holes in Andean mountain may be an Inca spreadsheet www.newscientist.com/article/2503...
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Ancient DNA from Argentina reveals a previously unknown lineage that has endured for over 8,500 years, reshaping what we know about the peopling of South America. #Archaeogenetics #Argentina #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
The Lost Lineage of the Pampas: How Ancient DNA Rewrites 8,500 Years of Argentinian Prehistory
A vast new genetic study reveals a long-hidden population that endured droughts, migrations, and empire without ever disappearing.
www.anthropology.net
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ancient DNA from Argentina reveals a previously unknown lineage that has endured for over 8,500 years, reshaping what we know about the peopling of South America. #Archaeogenetics #Argentina #HumanOrigins #AncientDNA www.anthropology.net/p/the-lost-l...
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Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic might accelerate brain aging.
The COVID Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain—Even If You Never Got Sick
Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic might accelerate brain aging.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how, according to a recent study, living through a pandemic might accelerate brain aging.
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Why aren’t all the businesses that depend on air travel calling a stop to this. elbows up America???
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Why aren’t all the businesses that depend on air travel calling a stop to this. elbows up America???
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Dear Zohran Mamdani and Muslims in America,
Witnessing the simply staggering hatred directed at you during the New York City Mayoral campaign, and one hundredfold now in the wake of the Mayor-Elect’s victory, as an American Christian, I wanted to apologize.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/an-apology...
Witnessing the simply staggering hatred directed at you during the New York City Mayoral campaign, and one hundredfold now in the wake of the Mayor-Elect’s victory, as an American Christian, I wanted to apologize.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/an-apology...
An Apology to Zohran Mamdani and Muslims in America, From A Disgusted Christian
Dear Zohran Mamdani and Muslims in America,
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Dear Zohran Mamdani and Muslims in America,
Witnessing the simply staggering hatred directed at you during the New York City Mayoral campaign, and one hundredfold now in the wake of the Mayor-Elect’s victory, as an American Christian, I wanted to apologize.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/an-apology...
Witnessing the simply staggering hatred directed at you during the New York City Mayoral campaign, and one hundredfold now in the wake of the Mayor-Elect’s victory, as an American Christian, I wanted to apologize.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/an-apology...
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Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
There’s a Monumental Cosmic Map Hidden beneath Mexico’s Oldest Maya Site
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
www.scientificamerican.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
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Risk of myocarditis is higher after Covid infection than after vaccine. Shocked! Shocked, I say!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Vascular and inflammatory diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination in children and young people in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study using linked electronic health recor...
Children and young people have higher risks of rare vascular and inflammatory diseases
up to 12 months after a first COVID-19 diagnosis and higher risk of rare myocarditis
or pericarditis up to 4 week...
www.thelancet.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Risk of myocarditis is higher after Covid infection than after vaccine. Shocked! Shocked, I say!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...