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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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RFK Jr. fired everyone on a key vaccine panel. Here’s who he replaced them with. 19thnews.org/2025/06/rfk-... via @19thnews.org

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These are job loss penalties. They call them "work requirements" because they are trying to trick you. So, what exactly are job loss penalties? They kick people off Medicaid by creating administrative traps, cut ppl off from care if they lose their job or can't prove work, punish poverty & precarity

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Finally sat down and read @daniellekbrown.bsky.social analysis of media coverage of protests over the long term and as a journalist its pretty damning. We eventually get it right but mostly when people aren't paying attention anymore imho (that's not what she says it's my take away)

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

There's a shadow over the initiative, @rosebroderick.bsky.social at @statnews.com reports. www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/n...

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NEW: The Trump administration said their research did not "enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness." Thousands of scientists disagreed. We heard from +150 researchers impacted by the NIH grant terminations on what is being lost in the cuts. 🧵👇 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

submitted 7 hours ago • 10 comments

The catastrophe of RFK Jr.’s new anti-vax vaccine advisory committee was perfectly predictable. Read more on the disaster we all saw coming from @eggerdc.bsky.social in Morning Shots

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

lots happening so it’s easy for massive news to be buried: the trump admin is now moving forward with a clear effort to get SCOTUS to overturn the law banning presidential impoundment & let the federal government decide how money given by congress is spent

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Kennedy appointed Robert Malone to the top vaccine advisory committee ACIP. Malone is one click off Andrew Wakefield. He thinks the covid shots killed 17 million and that bird flu vaccines are a deep state psyop.

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

submitted 20 hours ago • 218 comments

I feel like nobody told me about a lot of the things that would be different about my body during and post-pregnancy, and I don’t really understand why. The information would not have changed my decision to have a kid, but it would have helped me prepare more.

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

BREAKING: RFK Jr. names Martin Kulldorff and Robert Malone and six others to ACIP. x.com/SecKennedy/s...

submitted 23 hours ago • 80 comments

"Long overdue." "An awesome thing." "Great news!" Anti-vaxxers are rejoicing after RFK Jr. fired all the CDC's vaccine experts.

submitted 1 day ago • 717 comments

When I asked Bill Cassidy about RFK Jr’s ousting the entire ACIP, and he said “I’m not actually discussing secretary kennedy, kind of in the hallway.”

submitted 22 hours ago • 6 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says people "don’t want us to look at environmental exposures" for autism. But his Department of Health and Human Services killed a grant to research the "environmental etiology of autism spectrum disorder" taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

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Floridas’s child-welfare agency — in a reversal of a 30-year policy — is now willing to turn minors over to ICE. This 17-year-old was taken from his foster home in handcuffs and shackles. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

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When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

SCOOP For years an FDA warning about the dangers of chlorine dioxide helped prevent it going mainstream. Bleachers spent years calling for it to be removed In May, it disappeared Now, the bleachers think RFK will make all their dreams come true www.wired.com/story/chlori...

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

here’s how we know vaccines do NOT cause autism - feb. 2025 story newly relevant… www.statnews.com/2025/02/03/v...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We're hiring a a full stack engineer! 💰: $115,000 – $140,000 📌: Remote (U.S. only) 📆: Apply by June 16 Learn more here: 19thnews.org/full-stack-e...

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shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

There are some baby books that are for adults and not babies and I hate them. People get them as gifts for our baby, meaning well, but they just take up space on our bookshelves and never get used.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 1 day ago • 1032 comments

Ok, so the administration is forcing layoffs at the VA — and then charging the VA for layoff consulting. Really. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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BREAKING: Terry Moran is out at ABC News. "We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew," an ABC spokesperson says.

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