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#HBCU professor of journalism and PR, ex-health care PR exec #Medicaid #Medicare, multimedia journalist, lover of cats, Dem from birth. Lived in CA, OH, MD, MA, AL, GA and now NC. No DMs. Period. #DoNotObey She/her.

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 18h

Where #NoKings protests are on Saturday in the Triangle (NC)

No Kings protests in the Triangle
Here's where the Oct. 18 No Kings rallies will be:
• Apex: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at 73 Hunter St.
• Carrboro: 3-4:30 p.m. at 301 W. Main St.
• Cary: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. at 110 SE Maynard Road
• Clayton: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at 100 W. Main St.
• Durham: 2-4 p.m. at 501 Foster St.
• Hillsborough: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. at 104 E. King St.
• Pittsboro: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at 40 E. Chatham St.
• Raleigh: 12-3 p.m. at 6200 Capital Blvd. between Oak Forest Road and
Old Wake Forest Road
• Wake Forest: 2-4 p.m. at 221 Brooks St.

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 37m

“We have no idea why certain programs were eliminated and others were saved,” Backus said in a press conference held Tuesday by NPHC. “At this point, it seems like the chaos and lack of transparency is the point.”

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

With new cuts at CDC, some fear there's 'nobody to answer the phone'

More than 1,300 staffers at the health agency got notices they were fired — but more than half were reinstated. The cuts will hobble some divisions, employees say.

www.npr.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 11h

Another memorial? Thought we’d been through this already

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 11h

They did it in 2015, remember? Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.

Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 14h

The Dixie Eggs

Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 14h

And he does the thing where he shows dominance by refusing to let go of her hand.

Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 17h

BTW, the screenshot above is from @theatlantic.com

Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 17h

Yup, “it feels like abuse.”

For CDC scientists who received layoff notices, the past few days have been disorienting. I spoke with one longtime scientist at the agency who learned on Friday that she would lose her job but then, on Saturday, received an email with the subject line "Rescission of Previous Notice of Reduction in Force." In other words, her job—deemed redundant the day before—was again apparently necessary. She told me that her short-lived firing "felt like the culmination of eight months of abuse" under the Trump administration. She was particularly distressed by Kennedy's June decision to fire the entire vaccine advisory board and stack it with his allies, but recent months have offered even more opportunities for stress and indignation. In August, a gunman who blamed COVID vaccines for his depression opened fire on the agency's Atlanta campus, killing a police officer. (The veteran scientist told me she shopped online for a bulletproof vest to wear to work, though she ended up not buying one.) Weeks later, Kennedy pushed out the agency's newly confirmed director, Susan Monarez. Three top CDC officials-Houry, Jernigan, and Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases—-subsequently resigned in protest.

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 18h

Do these ancient idiots not understand that some parents won’t take lightly the news that George wants to be called Jean?

That requiring teachers to get in between a parent and their child, to be the ones telling them something Jean doesn’t want them to know, could set off abuse?

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 18h

Where #NoKings protests are on Saturday in the Triangle (NC)

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 21h

Taco, taco time... hey, didn't somebody say something a few years ago about taco trucks on every corner? Whatever happened with that?

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 21h

Morning! It's a little cloudy here, but nice and cool. How about you?

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 22h

Every day feels like we are sleepwalking through a horrible nightmare, trying to wake up.

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 22h

Did you buy your insurance on the Marketplace? If you did, you might be living in one of the darker states you see here.

The GOP wants to hurt its own constituents, thinking they won’t notice.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It is a disgrace that Fox continues to put them on constantly day after day to spew their propaganda to their friends when Hegseth & Wilson are afraid to face real press and are obviously in the process of covering a lot up that they don’t want the American people to know.

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 22h

Mornin’ Kinley! On my second espresso of the day now

a fluffy cat is sitting on a table and looking at the camera .

ALT: a fluffy cat is sitting on a table and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 22h

Tim is looking older than his years. The regime and its authoritarian takeover of America are aging him.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"It is truly sickening to speak to somebody who raised three boys to go into the Marines because of how much he loved and believed in this country, only to be treated like that."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 22h

Serious stuff here, and reinforcement for NOT using antibiotics for minor infections.

Bacteria worldwide have learned how to resist the antibiotics we’ve been using. E coli, salmonella, other common bacteria are getting stronger. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sharp global rise in antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals, WHO finds

Experts describe findings as deeply concerning and predict 70% increase in related deaths by 2050

www.theguardian.com

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 1d

It may seem like a small thing, the refusal of the Speaker to swear in a new House member who was legally, officially elected…

But what if this happens en masse after 2026 elections? What if this is the first sign of a bigger plan?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 1d

IKR? Where’s my check?

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

2/ "Vance tried to dodge the question by saying that Pritzker “has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe.” (Meanwhile, violent crime in Chicago in recent months hit its lowest point in four decades.)"

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well

Vice President J.D. Vance tried to dodge questions about Border Czar Tom Homan's alleged accepting of a bribe and whether J.B. Pritzker is a criminal.

www.rollingstone.com

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Politics and Health 👍🏻🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️🦋 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is making a face with her mouth open and the word me is above her

ALT: a woman is making a face with her mouth open and the word me is above her

media.tenor.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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