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maggieastor.bsky.social
Reporter at The New York Times writing about the intersection of health and politics. NYT Guild steward. No, not one of those Astors.
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Women spent a lot of time trying to persuade their husbands to pull into a gas station already and ask for directions ffs

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I wrote one article about normal pressure hydrocephalus because Billy Joel announced he has it, and it has since become clear that I will be receiving PR emails for the rest of my life suggesting that I write about this or that startup trying to sell full-body MRIs to people with no symptoms

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Gift link to a must-read from my colleagues. "I think people should know that research that they probably would support is being canceled," said Eden Tanner, who lost a grant to work on a new glioblastoma treatment. "I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial."

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 50 comments

I DON'T WANT TO CHAT WITH AN INANIMATE OBJECT

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

"We are not cutting Medicaid in this package." "We're not doing any cutting of anything meaningful." "the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years" These are lies. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

I would pay real money for a browser extension that did this, which wouldn't help on my phone but would be SOMETHING

submitted 14 hours ago • 5 comments

God I hate women's fashion

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

To be clear, I googled and the interview on the right was published in 2023, so it's not a new comment from Frey. But I'm seeing it now, so I'll respond to it now: I don't really see how this is meaningfully different from plagiarism. 1/x

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The "remedial math" that the Trump administration (repeatedly) has claimed Harvard is teaching is college-level calculus. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Once viewed as the path out of the pandemic, mRNA vaccines are now being vilified — & not just by fringe figures. The attack on this important platform could render the US far more vulnerable in the next pandemic & trailing China in the field of scientific advances. www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Vinay Prasad, the director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who has been a face of RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy at HHS, just said at the NORD rare disease symposium that he's never met RFK

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Just received a campaign text that is so long it would take four screenshots to capture it all. Not an email. A text.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

"One case is an unvaccinated Dakota County child who was contagious while visiting Nickelodeon Universe in the Mall of America on May 24."

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NEW: These families say they're leaving the U.S. because of its anti-transgender climate For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”

submitted 3 days ago • 415 comments

Now see, this line from a candidate's campaign website is the sort of writing error that matters, not the "like" versus "as if" pedantry people email me about

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I was just idly exploring the statistics Goodreads offers for the books I've read, and I cannot stop laughing at this Y axis

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

A salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers has sickened at least 45 people across 18 states, health officials said Friday and they warned that the number of people infected was likely higher.

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 1597 comments

Americans are losing programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments that inspect restaurants, respond to outbreaks and do other critical work are being hollowed out because of huge cuts by the Trump administration - my latest w/ Laura Ungar at @apnews.com

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"However, the picture is less certain now for pregnant women. ... The official C.D.C. position for pregnant women is 'no guidance' ... a troubling turn of events for experts familiar with research showing that their risk of stillbirth, hospitalization and death rises if they have Covid."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Today in town-hall responses for the history books

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments