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Musk has done a lot just this past week to bring back the slur here - often leveled at people who are neurodivergent. This is after he falsely claimed to be the first person on SNL with a certain kind of autism. That trailblazer credit belongs to Dan Aykroyd. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

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People who support Israel are going to believe that the Bibas family was killed by Hamas and people who support Palestine are going to believe they were killed by Israeli air strikes and honestly I don’t see the point of debating how a baby died when the baby is dead

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

I don’t even know what to say anymore.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Republican lawmakers sound antsy about cutting a program that benefits many of their own constituents.

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On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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One odd thing I saw while reporting this measles outbreak: A CDC template advising principals to keep unvaccinated kids home for 21 days if they're exposed appears to be missing. Details in my latest story @kffhealthnews.org / @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

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“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

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Stand with the @apnews.com, stand with the First Amendment!

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

#Breaking - HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Fueled by pandemic frustrations, populist parties are embracing anti-vaccine figures — in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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This is easily one of the least bad things happening right now, but I was hoping to take my baby on a first family trip to Shenandoah National Park this summer and I have no idea if that will be possible or if the park will even be functional or open.

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

Shaunna Thomas, co-founder and executive director of the gender justice organization UltraViolet, is stepping aside to make way for the next generation of leaders.

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The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

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WaPo/Ipsos poll: 57 percent of respondents say Trump has exceeded his authority since taking office. More than 8 in 10 say he should follow court rulings. That includes more than 9 in 10 Democrats along with roughly 8 in 10 Republicans and independents.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Life-threatening infections in Texas have soared among women losing a pregnancy after the state’s abortion ban. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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I talked to developers about Microsoft's newly announced generative AI model, Muse, and its role in video games: "When we rely on this stuff we are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives." www.wired.com/story/xbox-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Mugger (pointing gun at my friend): Give me your wallet Me (helpfully): Calm down he's just trolling

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Most accurate headline about the recent shooting award goes to Times of Israel:

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American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Jetblue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines joined a petition to try and overturn a rule that protections disabled passengers. www.scribd.com/document/829...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

submitted 4 days ago • 1134 comments

The most shocking thing about this is that anyone took him at his word.

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didn’t have a lot of hope that the Bibas kids were alive, but looking at my own baby right now, the news is just extra soul crushing. I can’t even imagine what Yarden Bibas must be going through as the only surviving member of his immediate family.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

About 4.5 million people receive #Medicaid home care (or HCBS) services annually. New @KFF brief examines who is covered, and what services were available in 2024. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

Wrote about the morally vacuous, strategically unsound (and also wrong!) anti-“woke”diagnosis everyone’s still sticking with, even in the midst of civil rights apocalypse.

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

My spouse suggested using our sous vide in the baby’s bath tub to make the water the right temperature and I am too tired to tell if that’s the best or worst idea ever.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 7 days ago • 479 comments