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slooterman.bsky.social
Disabled disability and aging reporter at The 19th. Opinions are my own. Signal: slooterman.18 Email: sluterman at 19thnews dot org On parental leave. Will be back at work July 30.
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I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

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Dr. Casey Means says the nation’s health and food systems are corrupted by special interests. Yet she has promoted dozens of health and wellness products in ways that put money in her own pocket.

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if you are terminally online STAY ON LINE

submitted 16 hours ago • 19 comments

Scoop @motherjones.com: Trump’s budget proposes eliminating the Women’s Bureau, a DOL agency tasked w/ supporting women in the workforce founded 105 years ago today. Nine current & former staff see it as “a specific [effort] to get women out of the workplace.” ⤵️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

blog wars are BACK

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

submitted 19 hours ago • 359 comments

CMS announcement today on EMTALA and abortion helps explain why @acog.org put this out yesterday: www.acog.org/news/news-re...

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Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social‬)

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Jupiter says “trans pride 4-ever”

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“Instead of structured play & standardized testing, I’m learning masonry at my own pace with the hands-on experience of bricking you up in this wine cellar.” “…” “I really like this approach; think I’m gonna try to make it a thing.” “For the love of God, Montessori.” “Yes. For the love of God.”

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side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about American Jewish communities in the wake of recent attacks - and how there is consensus that there is fear, but not on causes or solutions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Since we’re doing School Closure Discourse, I want to take a minute to point out that online learning absolutely did not work for disabled kids, so they basically just didn’t get anything resembling an education during that time.

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NEW: Since this tip line seems most likely to target providers and programs helping trans youth with non-invasive therapies, people are onrushing the line with demeaning and foul-mouthed comments, according to two sources familiar with the matter and a recording shared with Rolling Stone.

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What’s a movie everyone thinks is terrible that you love to pieces? I’ll start.

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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year eliminates funding for programs that provide lifesaving vaccines around the world, including immunizations for polio. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/h...

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let WIRED take you through all the cybersecurity threats that keep our security team up at night!

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Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

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Breaking News: Israeli troops opened fire near a Gaza aid site, the military said. Gazan officials said at least 27 people were killed.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Not to diss Steve Kornacki in any way, but this is way more fun than the Kornacki Cam. Why are we not doing this?

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Researcher Amita Gupta has spent more than a decade planning and running a $70-million trial to study a new tuberculosis drug, enrolling ~6,000 participants in 13 countries. It might all have been for nothing. That's because a new NIH policy has abruptly cut off billions to trials abroad. 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

On Sunday, my friend, Jonathan Joss was murdered and it took me a minute to find the words... Like so many of our lives, Jonathan's existed at the powerful intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, visibility, and vulnerability. He was fierce, funny, flawed, and real in every way that mattered.

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments