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🎙️ Critically Speaking with Dr. Therese Markow: a science podcast exposing disinformation & making complex issues clear. Covering genetics, health & society. Listen at https://pulselink.bio/criticallyspeakingpodcast
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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 5h
Dr. Tami Rowan has helped thousands of women navigate pregnancy over the past 20 years. And she's breaking down what actually happens when pregnant women avoid treating fevers. The risks might not be what you think.

Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
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🤦‍♀️ WTF? A disgrace and an insult

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...
Trump administration plan to exclude nursing from professional degrees sparks outcry
Nursing advocates say a proposed rule could worsen a shortage of professionals in the field and lead to worse health outcomes.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Dr. Tami Rowan has helped thousands of women navigate pregnancy over the past 20 years. And she's breaking down what actually happens when pregnant women avoid treating fevers. The risks might not be what you think.

Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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💪🏼💪🏼

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against James Comey and Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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But white South Africans are welcome! #racism #whitesupremacity

apnews.com/article/trum... pledge to 'immediately' end protections for Minnesota Somalis sparks fear and legal questions
Trump pledge to 'immediately' end protections for Minnesota Somalis sparks fear and legal questions
President Donald Trump has pledged to end temporary legal protections for Somalis in Minnesota, sparking fear in the state's immigrant community.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
criticallyspeaking.bsky.social
Oh, please! The gold standard? Not everyone is stupid.
apnews.com/article/trum...
RFK Jr. says he's following 'gold standard' science. Here's what to know
President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say they want the government to follow “gold standard” science.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Texas A&M committee rules professor's firing over gender identity lesson was unjustified
A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature le...
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Caracara on organ pipe cactus near Las Bocas, Sonora. Fieldwork is therapy for the stressed!
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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That’s why he was appointed 😡
johnshirley2024.bsky.social John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 2d
How it can be is congress allowed Trump to appoint a guy to run the EPA who hates the EPA and laughs at environmental protection and who is invested in things like pesticides and is all about complete and total deregulation.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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How terrible. My father died from this 40 years ago. Painful death and still no real treatment. And even less hope now that NIH funding in down the drain. She’s a wonderful young woman with little ones. Tragic.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, announces terminal cancer diagnosis
Journalist, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, reveals she has acute myeloid leukemia
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Pure cruelty. Nastiness.

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Trump says Zelensky can agree to peace plan or ‘fight his little heart out’
President Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky, as he pushed Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to help bring an end to the war.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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What? How can this be?
So scary.

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EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
wapo.st
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
criticallyspeaking.bsky.social
The plan from the get-go.
No surprise. Sickening

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
Trump Offers a Ukraine Peace Plan the Kremlin Can Love
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Thanks @babs05.bsky.social for sharing! (sorry forget to tag you in the post!)
November 14, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Blame the victims. Typical playbook against women
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Group of Epstein abuse survivors say they have received death threats
In a signed statement, 28 victims say they are bracing for blame for their abuse and threats of harm
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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They call it "therapy." Scholars call it something else entirely. @lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social shares the truth behind conversion therapy.

➡️ Hear the full conversation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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And just what type of “partner” is the US?

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Ukraine facing choice between losing major partner or its dignity, says Zelenskyy as he considers US plan – Europe live
Ukrainian president warns that next week could be ‘very difficult’ for his country as he stresses he will not betray its national interests
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Frankness? How absurd.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Democrats’ Video to Military ‘Punishable by Death’
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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This has to stop.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don't cause autism
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
criticallyspeaking.bsky.social
Things are getting more frightening every day.😬😡
This is an outrage. #antisemitism #racism
#nazis

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
criticallyspeaking.bsky.social
Conversion therapy didn't start in hospitals. It started in churches.

@lukeslamdunkwilson.bsky.social traces conversion therapy's evolution from religious practice to the harm that still exists today.

👂🏻 Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critically-speaking/id1463016517
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM