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AnnieGTMD
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Retired heart surgeon, current metalsmith, COO of the fam
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colin-dawny.bsky.social
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"A cartoon, titled "Quiet Piggy" by Steve Nease, depicts a Canadian beaver character applying duct tape over the mouth of a man identified as U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra. The beaver is holding a roll of tape and saying "Quiet Piggy," while the ambassador is holding a paper labeled "Anti-Canada Rhetoric". The cartoon is a political commentary on U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, and his undiplomatic comments regarding Canada."
December 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Has this been posted yet
2+7= _ I caNnot aNswer this qwestion, as it is agaiNst My reLigious principles. ٠١٨٨ IT'S WORTH A SHOT. aMI, 7 january 1986 NAITION
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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adammeyerson.bsky.social
The list of criminals Trump has pardoned dwarfs the list of pedophiles in the Epstein Files. Although I’m certain there’s lots of overlap.
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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j-lastcoolletter.bsky.social
But Remulac is an honor-based culture, so even mild criticism from inferiors is cause to rage out.
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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profhalloran.bsky.social
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
chrisvannini.com Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 1d
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.

He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).

MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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accountabilabuddy.bsky.social
LMAO they didn't even read the instructor's very polite and professional response to the student's inane gibberish.
November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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margask.bsky.social
A search of the TA's name brings up a link to a FB post from 2 days ago congratulating her on being named the outstanding teaching assistant of the year by the OU psychology department. Tried clicking the link but it appears to have been removed.
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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kissphoria.bsky.social
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter. First, the college acted immediately to address the academic issue raised by the student. College leaders contacted her on the day her letter was received and have maintained regular communication throughout the process. As previously stated, a formal grade appeals process was conducted. The process resulted in steps to ensure no academic harm to the student from the graded assignments. Second, the student reported filing a claim of illegal discrimination based on religious beliefs to the appropriate university office. OU has a clear process for reviewing such claims and it has been activated. The graduate student instructor has been placed on administrative leave pending the finalization of this process. To ensure fairness in the process, a full-time professor is serving as the course instructor for the remainder of the semester. OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student's right to express sincerely held religious beliefs. The UNIVERSITY of OKLAHOMA
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Renewable energy is the cheapest form of new electricity"

Doesn't seem like despots, dictators and crony capitalists really care

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution Tom Perkinsin Detroit, Michigan Fri 28 Nov 2025 13.00 GMT Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan coal-fired power plant online has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far, according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators. Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days. The Trump administration in May ordered utility giant Consumers Energy to keep the 63-year-old JH Campbell coal plant in western Michigan, about 100 miles north-east of Chicago, online just as it was being retired.
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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chelawallace.bsky.social
How about just saying that JP Morgan doesn't want to get caught bribing trump?
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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haydonmp.bsky.social
“We polled the national security council and state department leadership and had a remarkably consistent result across questions.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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marmel.bsky.social
if "God give me the confidence of a mediocre white man" was an angry alcoholic.
echamp.bsky.social Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 23h
As Pete Hegseth denies the cold-blooded murder of survivors on the U.S. boat attack in the Caribbean (aka war crimes), remember that this is the same guy who initially lied and said he didn't share United States attack plans with a journalist in a Signal group chat.

Roll the clip:
November 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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davekarpf.bsky.social
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.

Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.

Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.

Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
It’s an editorial choice to describe the legitimate criticisms of Vinay Prasad’s as being about his “leadership style” rather than his demolition of the institution and menace and harms he poses to the health of Americans.

We’ve petitioned AGSulzberger and NYT to bring back the Public Editor…

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He agreed that the case reports needed to be opened to further scrutiny. "I would not be surprised if the attributions turn out to be debatable, as these cases are often quite complex," Dr. Marks said after reading the memo. Dr. Prasad, whose leadership style has rankled some people internally and outside the agency, complained in the memo of staff members who disagreed with agency's direction and new policies, saying they were leaking information. He then outlined how employees could submit their resignations. The memo follows a recent missive exhorting staff members to refrain from publishing "obviously erroneous work" instead of work that furthers the agency's mission. Christina Jewett covers the Food and Drug Administration, which means keeping a close eye on drugs, medical devices, food safety and tobacco policy. See more on: U.S. Politics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
Irresponsible normalization and sanewashing of unqualified antiscience COVID vaccine denialist Retsef Levi “M.I.T. management expert”
to lead a panel on COVID vaccines.

Sabotaging vaccine research and increasing vaccine “hesitancy” will kill Americans.

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Wikipedia Retsef Levi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsef_Levi On June 11, 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced that he appointed Levi as one of the members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). [61 However, Levi did not have medical, epidemiological, or immunological training, experience, or background.
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
False equivalence enables antiscience.

These are editorial choices.

Excellent quotes from established experts like Drs. Offit, Osterholm and Marks are introduced later in the piece rather than frame the piece, the introduction or headline.

“anti-vaccine” makes an appearance later on

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Mr. Kennedy's team has issued new policies that are limiting access to the shots to people 65 and older as well as to younger people with underlying medical conditions. Public health experts have vociferously disputed assertions by Mr. Kennedy and health officials in this Trump administration that the Covid vaccines are dangerous. Previous federal health officials have acknowledged serious but rare side effects from the shots, including the incidence of myocarditis among teenage boys and young men. But those public health experts have also pointed to the number of lives saved by the shots and to the fact that the virus caused more than a million deaths among Americans. About 2,100 children have died of Covid since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. The findings of the new F.D.A. review have not been published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy's vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science "by press release." He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly. "On the other hand, we saw children admitted to our hospital with myocarditis from the virus," he said. "It was quite severe and caused admissions to the intensive care unit." Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a critic of Mr. Kennedy's vaccine policies, called the memo an example of science "by press release." He said the memo was devoid of context such as the number or rate of deaths from the virus itself among vaccinated and unvaccinated children. Dr. Offit said children with vaccine-related myocarditis showed up at the hospital, with cases that resolved quickly. "On the other hand, we saw children admitted to our hospital with myocarditis from the virus," he said. "It was quite severe and caused admissions to the intensive care unit." (COrrect traming +1) Some of Mr. Kennedy's anti-vaccine allies have been pressuring the government for years to delve deeper into the agency's database that includes unverified reports of harmful effects from the Covid shots. The memo said the analysis of deaths reported to the agency was led by Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, a senior F.D.A. adviser and a vaccine Skeptic, and reviewed by a team at the agency. In his memo, Dr. Prasad also announced changes to vaccine oversight and approval, saying there would be a requirement for randomized studies to include all subgroups, such as pregnant women. In addition, he labeled the annual framework for choosing the flu vaccine as a "catastrophe of low-quality evidence," and said it would also be re-examined. Dr. Prasad's memo is landing just before next week's meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influential vaccine committee. Mr. Kennedy's handpicked panel includes supporters of the so-called medical freedom community, who often eschew vaccines and oppose mandates.
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
“another sharp u-turn” ??

Grotesque euphemism to describe acts that will kill people by subversion of established science and reality.

Alternatively do the NYT and author doubt vaccine science?

They are not “critics” they are science deniers.
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Dr. Prasad declined to be interviewed for this article. (EDIT implementation of antivax agenda) His missive represents another sharp U-turn by federal authorities under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation's health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic who has frequently described In contrast, health officials in the first Trump administration, when the vaccines were developed during the pandemic, and in the Biden years, strongly endorsed the Covid shots as lifesaving measures.
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
This report sanitizes and normalizes the profound assaults on the FDA/CDC and the inevitable harmful impacts (morbidity and death) of antiscience.

The first paragraphs are pure stenography devoid of context or critical analysis.

This opening is as much a press release as it is a “scoop”.
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By Christina Jewett Nov. 28, 2025, 10:26 p.m. ET The director of the Food and Drug Administration's vaccine division said in a memo to agency staff on Friday that a review had found that at least 10 children had died "after and because of" getting a Covid vaccination. Dr. Vinay Prasad, the director, suggested in the memo that the deaths were related to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle. The memo, obtained by The New York Times and not publicly released, did not provide details such as the ages of the children, whether they had any other health problems or how the agency determined the vaccine-death link. Nor did it disclose the maker of the vaccines involved. "This is a profound revelation," Dr. Prasad wrote in a memo to staff members. "For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children."
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
NYT occupies a central hub of the news ecosystem. With collapse of funding for journalism more media orgs rely on NYT reporting either by syndication or reporting “The NYTimes reports…”.

Its failures are impactful.

See how NYT is the head of an information centipede: NYT-
Reuters-MSN
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Screenshot msn Reuters US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines, New York Times reports Story by Reuters • 11h
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.

The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
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The New York Times (edited headline subbed ) Without proof, vaccine denialists leading F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children's Deaths to Covid Vaccines The agency's top vaccine regulaith said hui deniew had found that the children were likely to have died "because of" the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data. are skeptical given his established anti-vaccine agenda.
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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primetimeswift.bsky.social
This would get an F in any decent J-school
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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whaler.bsky.social
Based on unverified VAERS reports. BASED ON UNVERiFIED VAERS REPORTS.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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queerkitty.bsky.social
(I do not think your note near the top of the article that the memo does not disclose how the agency determined the death-vaccine link is enough to make clear to readers that this memo is based on reports that can be completely fabricated and is often abused by anti-vax activists).
What VAERS Can and Can’t Do, and How Anti-Vaccination Groups Habitually Misuse Its Data - FactCheck.org
For decades, the ​​Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, has been exploited by people opposed to vaccination. Here, we’ll explain how VAERS works and run through five misconceptions that a...
www.factcheck.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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queerkitty.bsky.social
All experts are demanding proof, b/c this is based on VAERS reports, & VAERS does not require any proof whatsoever of reports made to it—not even medical records or autopsy reports, which your article does not mention. Nor do you include that Prasad links VAERS reports to myocarditis w/o proof.
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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jacobdplunkett.bsky.social
Did this juicy investigation give your bosses the clicks they wanted?
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM