Shirley Chang
@shirleychang.bsky.social
Writer, reader, traveler, home cook, crafter, engineer, cancer caregiver, mental health and homelessness awareness supporter. #WritingCommunity | #AmWriting |
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Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer.
We choose cruelty.
We choose cruelty.
July 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer.
We choose cruelty.
We choose cruelty.
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A quick message from the @pbsnews.org Please support PBS and NPR. Both organizations produce high quality journalism.
July 22, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A quick message from the @pbsnews.org Please support PBS and NPR. Both organizations produce high quality journalism.
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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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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
I hate it here. 😭😭😭
This is going to create more people I serve on the streets. I'm still recovering from surgery but will pick up ASAP.
This is going to create more people I serve on the streets. I'm still recovering from surgery but will pick up ASAP.
Republicans pulled an all-nighter to:
-strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans
-take food assistance away from 3 million Americans
-eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids
-send energy costs soaring
-add $3.3 trillion to national debt
-raise health care premiums for seniors
-strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans
-take food assistance away from 3 million Americans
-eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids
-send energy costs soaring
-add $3.3 trillion to national debt
-raise health care premiums for seniors
July 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I hate it here. 😭😭😭
This is going to create more people I serve on the streets. I'm still recovering from surgery but will pick up ASAP.
This is going to create more people I serve on the streets. I'm still recovering from surgery but will pick up ASAP.
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This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism
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You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
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🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you moms and fur baby moms!!
I miss my mom very much.
I miss my mom very much.
May 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Happy Mother’s Day to all of you moms and fur baby moms!!
I miss my mom very much.
I miss my mom very much.
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BREAKING: Newark Airport is a full-blown disaster—800+ flights canceled, 5-hour delays, and the FAA bleeding staff like a severed artery.
This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system.
And guess what? It’s about to get worse.
This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system.
And guess what? It’s about to get worse.
May 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
BREAKING: Newark Airport is a full-blown disaster—800+ flights canceled, 5-hour delays, and the FAA bleeding staff like a severed artery.
This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system.
And guess what? It’s about to get worse.
This isn’t just Newark—it’s a nationwide meltdown in real time caused by a rotting, underfunded system.
And guess what? It’s about to get worse.
I see a new Tarantino movie “Kill Pill” where the main character uses “one pill exploding five heart” technique.
By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.
May 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I see a new Tarantino movie “Kill Pill” where the main character uses “one pill exploding five heart” technique.
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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i do not think the american public is going to respond well to the supply shocks that are currently rushing toward us
April 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i do not think the american public is going to respond well to the supply shocks that are currently rushing toward us
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TRUMP'S PATH OF DESTRUCTION
CDC & FDA GUTTED
KATELYN JETELINA
4/1/25
"Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Some found out when they tried to badge in, only to be denied entry."
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
CDC & FDA GUTTED
KATELYN JETELINA
4/1/25
"Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Some found out when they tried to badge in, only to be denied entry."
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Why we keep going
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
TRUMP'S PATH OF DESTRUCTION
CDC & FDA GUTTED
KATELYN JETELINA
4/1/25
"Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Some found out when they tried to badge in, only to be denied entry."
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
CDC & FDA GUTTED
KATELYN JETELINA
4/1/25
"Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Some found out when they tried to badge in, only to be denied entry."
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Science friends, in honor of April Fools Day, let’s share our favorite @theonion.com article about our area of expertise! I’ll go first.
theonion.com/nation-s-sha...
@bencollins.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌎
theonion.com/nation-s-sha...
@bencollins.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌎
Nation’s Shark Experts: ‘You Could’ve Had This Job’
BIMINI, BAHAMAS—Saying that with just a modest degree of effort and planning you could be boarding a boat alongside them right now and heading out to dive at a picturesque coral reef, the nation’s sha...
theonion.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Science friends, in honor of April Fools Day, let’s share our favorite @theonion.com article about our area of expertise! I’ll go first.
theonion.com/nation-s-sha...
@bencollins.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌎
theonion.com/nation-s-sha...
@bencollins.bsky.social 🧪🦑🌎
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Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.
March 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.
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Have information you think the public should know about the Census Bureau, Postal Service or other parts of the federal government?
I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01
I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01
March 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Have information you think the public should know about the Census Bureau, Postal Service or other parts of the federal government?
I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01
I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01
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My phone is now blowing up.
I run @thexylom.com, America's only Asian American-serving news outlet dedicated to science, climate and environmental reporting.
I also hosted the AAPI journalist meetup at ScienceWriters2024.
Please consider supporting the news you don't hear in legacy media:
I run @thexylom.com, America's only Asian American-serving news outlet dedicated to science, climate and environmental reporting.
I also hosted the AAPI journalist meetup at ScienceWriters2024.
Please consider supporting the news you don't hear in legacy media:
The Xylom - Open Collective
We grow science with words. The only Asian American-serving science newsroom: independent, nonprofit, run by Gen-Z!
opencollective.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My phone is now blowing up.
I run @thexylom.com, America's only Asian American-serving news outlet dedicated to science, climate and environmental reporting.
I also hosted the AAPI journalist meetup at ScienceWriters2024.
Please consider supporting the news you don't hear in legacy media:
I run @thexylom.com, America's only Asian American-serving news outlet dedicated to science, climate and environmental reporting.
I also hosted the AAPI journalist meetup at ScienceWriters2024.
Please consider supporting the news you don't hear in legacy media:
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I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.
February 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.
Were there Germans who regretted supporting Nazis? Because today a friend told me she supports everything that’s happening: privatizing government services, dismantling health organizations (she’s anti vaccine, anti chemo) and that I am trusting all the wrong sources. (Even lancet?)
February 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Were there Germans who regretted supporting Nazis? Because today a friend told me she supports everything that’s happening: privatizing government services, dismantling health organizations (she’s anti vaccine, anti chemo) and that I am trusting all the wrong sources. (Even lancet?)
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A MEDICATED EMPIRE by Timothy M. Yang reveals the story of Japan's pharmaceutical industry & its connections to the nation's empire.
Learn how Hoshi Pharmaceuticals shaped public #health and #medicine in early 20th century #Japan.
Now in paperback: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Learn how Hoshi Pharmaceuticals shaped public #health and #medicine in early 20th century #Japan.
Now in paperback: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
A Medicated Empire by Timothy M. Yang | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business HistoryIn A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
February 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A MEDICATED EMPIRE by Timothy M. Yang reveals the story of Japan's pharmaceutical industry & its connections to the nation's empire.
Learn how Hoshi Pharmaceuticals shaped public #health and #medicine in early 20th century #Japan.
Now in paperback: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Learn how Hoshi Pharmaceuticals shaped public #health and #medicine in early 20th century #Japan.
Now in paperback: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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In the 1960’s there were 400,000 - 500,000 measles cases per year in the U.S.
In 1990 there were 27,808 Measles cases in the U.S.
In 2012 there were 55 Measles cases in the U.S.
So far in 2025 there are over 130
In 1990 there were 27,808 Measles cases in the U.S.
In 2012 there were 55 Measles cases in the U.S.
So far in 2025 there are over 130
February 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In the 1960’s there were 400,000 - 500,000 measles cases per year in the U.S.
In 1990 there were 27,808 Measles cases in the U.S.
In 2012 there were 55 Measles cases in the U.S.
So far in 2025 there are over 130
In 1990 there were 27,808 Measles cases in the U.S.
In 2012 there were 55 Measles cases in the U.S.
So far in 2025 there are over 130
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An #NIH-funded research team has developed an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer. Results from the clinical trial were published this week in Nature.
#pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky
#pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky
In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group
Learn how MSK researchers are deploying mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer.
www.mskcc.org
February 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM