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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Debunked Autism Claims Resurface After Press Conference
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Debunked Autism Claims Resurface After Press Conference, And Supreme Court to Hear Cases on Conversion Therapy and School Vaccine Mandates — The Monitor | KFF

This volume analyzes false narratives about autism rates in Cuba and among Amish people in the U.S.; health-related cases before the Supreme Court, including challenges to bans on conversion therapy f...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

AUTHORITARIAN UPDATE
N.Y. AG Letitia James' indicted on 2 charges www.axios.com/2025/10/09/n...

Read: N.Y. AG Letitia James' indicted on 2 charges

"We will fight these baseless charges," James said on X.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson: "Of course" we'd give back pay to federal workers www.axios.com/2025/10/09/m...

Mike Johnson: "Of course" we'd give back pay to federal workers

The White House has made clear that back pay isn't a guarantee.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

GOP SHUTDOWN
White House declines to engage Democrats as shutdown drags into second week www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House declines to engage Democrats as shutdown drags into second week

The White House has yet to engage Democrats on ending the government shutdown, despite the potential political ramifications of the closure.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson sticks to no-show shutdown strategy as resistance mounts www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mike Johnson sticks to no-show shutdown strategy as resistance mounts

"There is absolutely no reason for the House to be out of session," GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley said. "It’s embarrassing.”

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Nine days into government shutdown, military families worried about missing paychecks www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...

Nine days into government shutdown, military families worried about missing paychecks

With the government no closer to reopening, military families say they are concerned about potentially missing a paycheck next week. One military mom made a direct plea to Speaker of the House Mike Jo...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

The BLS is prepping a delayed inflation report www.axios.com/2025/10/10/g...

The BLS is prepping a delayed inflation report

The data is crucial to figuring out the annual Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Southwest U.S. faces "significant" flood threats from tropical storms www.axios.com/2025/10/10/u...

Southwest U.S. faces "significant" flood threats from tropical storms

Arizona and other parts of the Southwest face days of flood threats.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Effects of Medicaid Coverage on Work: Evidence From Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Health Services Research</em> | AcademyHealth & HRET Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective To evaluate the effects of the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) on work outcomes of women for whom the FFCRA effectively expanded income eligibility for Medicaid beyond 60 day...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Exploring State‐Level Change in Health Care Value Over Three Decades in the United States, 1991–2020 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Health Services Research</em> | AcademyHealth & HRET Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective To examine trends in state-level health care value over three decades, defined using statewide health care spending and cause-specific mortality, and to explore its associations with poten.....

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Enact work requirement for the U.S. Congress.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

John Thune’s shutdown strategy:
Wait for the Democrats to fold www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

John Thune’s shutdown strategy: Wait for the Democrats to fold

Thune hopes Democrats will soon, under pressure, vote to reopen the government: “It’s up to them.”

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa www.axios.com/2025/10/10/a...

MAGA media wages asymmetric warfare on antifa

MAGA-aligned journalists frame their coverage as exposing the "truth" mainstream outlets ignore.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

Missouri Supreme Court refuses to review $600 million judgement in Roundup cancer lawsuit missouriindependent.com/2025/10/09/m...

Missouri Supreme Court refuses to review $600 million judgement in Roundup cancer lawsuit • Missouri Independent

German chemical giant Bayer must pay a $600 million Missouri court judgment that found its herbicide Roundup causes cancer.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

The prize was awarded to the opposition leader for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Illinois National Guard Deployment www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Illinois National Guard Deployment

The decision deals a blow to the president’s efforts to use troops in the Chicago area.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Opinion: My mother had Alzheimer’s. I watched her slip away in the fragile care system www.statnews.com/2025/10/10/a...

My mother had Alzheimer's. I watched her slip away in the fragile care system

My mother had Alzheimer's. Watching her slip away in a place that promised so much but gave so little drained me.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Listen: Why “TrumpRx” Might Not Save You Money kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Listen: Why “TrumpRx” Might Not Save You Money - KFF Health News

On the "Today, Explained" podcast, KFF Health News' Julie Rovner recaps the TrumpRx announcement and why the direct-to-consumer initiative may not save you money on prescription drugs if you have insu...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Hospital at home providers navigate complexities during government shutdown www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/c...

Hospital at home providers navigate complexities during government shutdown

When the government entered a partial shutdown Oct. | State laws played a major role in how many patients had to be transported from their homes to a physical hospital room when the federal government...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Newly passed California laws tackle prior authorization, private equity in care and more www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/n...

Newly passed California laws tackle prior authorization, private equity in care and more

Changes to prior authorization, charity care screening and corporate influence in medicine are on the way for Californian healthcare organizations. | Several bills signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newso...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

How AI Is Redefining Healthcare’s Front Door www.forbes.com/sites/spence...

How AI Is Redefining Healthcare’s Front Door

AI is upending medicine’s long-held “grand bargain,” shifting knowledge from physicians to patients and raising new questions about trust, power, and care.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

World Food Program boss Cindy McCain suffers mild stroke | AP News apnews.com/article/cind...

Cindy McCain suffers a mild stroke and will take leave from World Food Program while recovering

Cindy McCain has suffered a mild stroke this week and is said to be recovering well. That is according to a press release issued Thursday by the U.N.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee surely is sending a message to the world with this award.
Excerpt from their press release:
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Quote from 2025 Nobel Peace Prize presentation:
"...we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more & more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence. The Venezuelan regime's rigid hold on power and its repression of its population is not unique in the world"

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING:
María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader | CNN www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Nobel Peace Prize goes to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader | CNN

The winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was revealed at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Follow for live updates

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING:
Facts about 2025 Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Maria Corina Machado
NobelPrize.org www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

Nobel Peace Prize to be announced in about 3-4 minutes here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRB...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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