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HELLody SchreiBOO

@melodyschreiber.com

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Health contributor/reporter at Guardian US, contributing editor at the New Republic, freelance elsewhere. Arctic obsessive and book enthusiast. Email: [email protected] Signal: melodyschreiber.06 Newsletter: notadoctor.news

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · Aug 21

I have never seen federal workers and outside experts speak so forcefully about anyone in power. But RFK Jr. poses an unprecedented threat to American health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health

More than 750 health workers say Kennedy’s misinformation fuels violence and endangers lives

www.theguardian.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 13m

It's such an interesting place to be, always questioning whether an image is real or not

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 24m

Bez Smug indeed

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 26m

No, it's cleaner 🥁

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 37m

I'm doing a health and safety course to co-op at our preschool and either we're using stock images in other languages or AI

Three spray bottles - the first one, which looks like Windex, says "W5: Plyn Do Mycia Szyb, 1 litr"

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 9h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1h

This @lopatto.bsky.social banger completely changed my view of the Bari Weiss CBS takeover www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Zackary Berger שלום בערגער @drberger.bsky.social · 2h

In the Baltimore Sun today we ask Governor Wes Moore to cancel Avelo Airlines' contract with BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport. He can do it today. It doesn't require the assembly. It will help stop ICE & help our patients and neighbors.

Please share widely.

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/11/w...

How Wes Moore can deal a blow to Trump’s immigration agenda | GUEST COMMENTARY

Guest commentary: Gov. Wes Moore has a novel opportunity to undermine Trump’s immigration agenda by targeting an airline participating in ICE’s deportations.

www.baltimoresun.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1h

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 1h

frog

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2h

Her kids get age-appropriate socialization and education

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 4h

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 7h

Anti-vaccine activists: children get too many vaccines.

Also anti-vaccine activists: let's give children three needles instead of one, for no good reason. Just to make it harder to fully vaccinate, I guess? via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.theguardian.com

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 11h

It depends. It can be paid or unpaid.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 22h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 22h

It's so widespread

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 22h

USAID was a test and soon it will be American children screaming in agony

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 22h

I genuinely have no words about the CDC destruction

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire Washington staff and MMWR editors

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

It's the best newsletter out there!

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

Yes I was wondering if he's left yet!

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

This just seems like an extension of "natural is always better"

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

Cc @rusty.todayintabs.com

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