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Gift link because soo few people subscribe to local papers, and the impact of the Musk/Trump cuts is worth everybody knowing about.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The author of SIFT is @mikecaulfield.bsky.social. I first encountered it in 2020. See hapgood.us/2019/06/19/s...

I love that the entire point is (re)building context to support interpretation - “reconstructing the necessary context to read, view, or listen to digital content effectively”
SIFT (The Four Moves)
How can students get better at sorting truth from fiction from everything in between? At applying their attention to the things that matter? At amplifying better treatments of issues, and avoiding …
hapgood.us
February 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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#3 -final list of HHS cuts *do not include* CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service after all, sparing agency's so-called "disease detectives"

but other fellowship programs were not so lucky: multiple officials confirm Public Health Associate Program was cut
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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#2 - cuts by end of today span not just CDC, IHS and NIH as we heard previously...

...but also CMS, ASPR and FDA
February 16, 2025 at 5:14 AM