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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14h

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 23h

Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75.

Of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos and convicted of fraud in 2022, Gardner said, “She was a young kid with only rudimentary engineering training and no medical training.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/s...

Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75

www.nytimes.com

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Six federal circuits—the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th—all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public.

Taught my students last week that they have a First Amendment right to record in Pennsylvania. So do folks in Chicago and Portland.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 15h

The primary argument I’ve heard for teaching the “responsible” use of AI is the fact that our students are using it whether or not we endorse it, and attempts to prevent its use in and out of the classroom are bound to fail.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 17h

There are already plenty of doctors out there giving terrible advice without consequence (other than making a ton of $). They’re operating wellness clinics, w IV vitamins & O2 to healthy people, and prescribing testosterone to “boost energy”.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 1d

Old line in reporting. "If one side says it is raining and the other says it is sunny you don't print what they say you look at the window" never has that been more true and more important.

This is pure delusional brain melt if you take a camera crew almost anywhere here in #Portland.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 1d

Unprecedented, truly massive turn outs for #NoKingsDay are crucial. Not only for themselves, but to build momentum for a #GeneralStrike and boycott. Money alone talks.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 2d

This figure notwithstanding, the scale isn’t standardized.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Wait until you hear about the edema scale. 😉

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 3d

Did it not count when the previous health professionals at the CDC stated quite clearly that everyone without an established contraindication should get a COVID vaccine?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Based on the experience of countries that have tried this, there’s overwhelming evidence that it is utterly unnecessary.

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 3d

This serves absolutely no purpose other than to reduce vaccine uptake:
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

www.reuters.com

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 6d

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k.

2025: $228
2026: $1142

She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care.

This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 3d

😡😡😡

@keck.usc.edu

www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 4d

It is irresponsible to have a headline like this while burying the lede 8 paragraphs down that what Trump is saying is a lie.

(Truth: the cost of groceries has objectively risen since Trump took office.)

www.nj.com/politics/202...

Trump insists grocery prices are down. Do Americans buy it?

"The midterms might hinge on a 'cleanup on Aisle 4!'"

www.nj.com

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 4d

The comments in response to this Reddit post on hospital staff wearing earbuds at work are pretty wild.

I’m sorry if you think you are underpaid, but listening to a podcast while actively engaged in patient care is not ok.

www.reddit.com/r/medicine/c...

From the medicine community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the medicine community

www.reddit.com

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 5d

I believe part of it is also because the day-to-day lives of most Americans are not yet impacted in a visible way. Although what's been happening to the US is an existential threat to our nation's future, it remains too easy to ignore.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 5d

Trump's Gestapo is breaking the law. Where are the Illinois State Police in all this?

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 6d

I admire your optimism.

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 6d

The bottom line is that Republican leaders in Congress are refusing to negotiate at all because previous Republican leaders were ousted after their base saw negotiation with Democrats as a betrayal.

That, combined with Republicans controlling all parts of the govt, makes this shutdown 100% on them.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6d

Weirdest government shutdown ever

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 6d

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort..."

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 6d

Hear! effing Hear!

[Gift link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 6d

Why are the state police not protecting the people of Chicago from ICE?

ICE are domestic terrorists, and Illinois should treat them as such.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance.

"If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 6d

I appreciate the authors' play on words, referencing an earlier paper of Schoenfeld's.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27805470/

The dose-response relationship between resistance training volume and muscle hypertrophy: are there really still any doubts? - PubMed

The dose-response relationship between resistance training volume and muscle hypertrophy: are there really still any doubts?

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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