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Susan Walsh
@swsunnybird.bsky.social
Editor. NYC / Sunnyside, Queens. Love grammar, my budgies, and new wave music. Oxford comma advocate.
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Hello, new followers and connections and friends from the other app! I’ve been taking social media breaks on the weekend and am still deciding how much I want to use this app, as nice as it appears. Have a good weekend and remember to take care of yourselves. 😊
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The CDCreported 1,544 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the US declared measles eliminated in 2000. #medsky #vaccines
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)
As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The storefront Democratic club HQ where the mayor just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony had a parapet collapse in dramatic fashion two years ago and is still subject to a vacate order, @katiehonan.bsky.social reports.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/08/a...
Get Out: Adams Opens Campaign Office in Building With Vacate Order
The storefront Democratic club HQ where the mayor just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony had a parapet collapse in dramatic fashion two years ago.
www.thecity.nyc
August 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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We made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.
July 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship.

Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.

What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.
I spoke to employers who were seeking to help employees abducted by ICE - including one boss seeking freedom for a U.S. citizen staffer who was arrested in the space between their uber and the front door of their workplace.

Their boss had their U.S. passport in hand, pleading for their release.
June 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
apnews.com/article/kenn...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Studies show that just one exposure to tear gas can increase the likelihood of respiratory illnesses. That's why in 2020, the ATS called for a moratorium on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents.

Learn more about the damage tear gas causes (via @wired.com‬): www.wired.com/story/what-t...
June 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Have you:
• Filed a complaint with the CFPB in the past year?
• Had problems with a company whose case the CFPB dismissed or stopped investigating?
• Been in touch with the CFPB regarding investigations or resolutions in the past year?

Let us know 👇
Have You Recently Sought Help From the CFPB? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is walking away from cases that might have helped return money to consumers across the U.S. We want to hear from people who feel left behind.
propub.li
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The fact that people accidentally text the wrong person is precisely why federal workers must use secure channels and hardened devices. Don't spin it, @usatoday.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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COME WORK WITH ME!

Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?

@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.

Deadline: April 14

*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.
ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
February 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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These companies want to be “non-banks” that can accept deposits of your money and then not have any legal obligations to protect it—which lets them use it to speculate on crypto etc—and not have FDIC insurance. They need to kill the cfpb to do that.
February 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“The Ledger would write something on a Sunday and all the newspapers would follow for the rest of the week,” said Peter J. McDonough Jr., a close aide to former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. “They called out the B.S.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/n...
A Storied Newspaper Prepares to Print Its Own Obituary
The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s longtime paper of record, will publish its final edition on Sunday and become an online-only news outlet.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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shout out to the nyt live blogger who’s really just going for it today. have you ever thought about hotels?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/n...
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Hello, new followers and connections and friends from the other app! I’ve been taking social media breaks on the weekend and am still deciding how much I want to use this app, as nice as it appears. Have a good weekend and remember to take care of yourselves. 😊
November 16, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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This explains the smoke smell…
November 15, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx.

If a fire breaks out near your home, here's what you can to keep your indoor air clean:

Read more here: https://buff.ly/4fKtbl4
November 14, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Was anyone in the NY/NJ tristate affected by the bad air quality from the fires last week and interested in telling your story to an advocacy group that works on human impacts of extreme weather? DM me if so!
November 12, 2024 at 7:31 PM