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Amy Worden
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Journalist/teacher, PennLive, WaPost, AP, Phila. Inq,. D.C. native, NOLA, Toronto, NYC., Balt., Obie, UVM, Dickinson. Love street hoops, old buildings and all creatures great and small. www.amycworden.com
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December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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ACIP votes to end universal HBV birth dose for newborns. The consequence? Prepare to see a reversal of our rates of chronic liver disease and liver cancer as more children are left unprotected.

The birth dose has an up to 90% efficacy rate of protecting newborns from Hep B, which is incurable.
ACIP votes to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Dee Nickerson, contemporary painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #ArtAdvent
Painting of a white woman in a long grey coat, red scarf and black hat walking to the left in a snowy rural setting with her two cats
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Rolling into the weekend like…
Photo of Saint Nicholas riding a bicycle through a field with a layer of snow on it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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tracesoftexas.bsky.social
The Texas Quote of the Day:

"I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. "

----- former Texas governor Ann Richards, known (partly) for her immaculate silver locks
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt
Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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As a reporter, I can't imagine standing by quietly while a powerful person I was reporting on spoke to a colleague like that.

It just wouldn't be in me to keep my mouth shut.
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Trump rants at reporter calling her stupid 5 times and no one stands up to him. That sucks. Business as usual. Dictator.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.

More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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He is risen
The Pillsbury Dough Boy float at the Macy's Parade
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
Photo of an elephant facing right wearing a checked knitted blanket while on sandy outdoor ground under a chill bright blue sky
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
newsy1.bsky.social
In Canada, Paul McCartney leads his audience on an extraordinary magical history tour.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Overcrowding (80 in a cell), frequent fights, people in mental health crisis, meals of cold tomato sauce over rice. A released detainee gives a grim glimpse inside Moshannon detention facility in Pa. by @iveythewriter.bsky.social via @pennlive.com tinyurl.com/387pwbzt
Month of despair: One man’s ordeal inside an ICE detention center in Pa.
Columber Obioma had been working to secure a green card and amend his expired visa when he was picked up by ICE.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The moon peeks through ‘Second line in the sky’, a temporary art installation commemorating the victims of the January 1 attack, Bourbon Street, New Orleans
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Daily sketch 🌅🪾🥷🐈‍⬛️

Can you spot the cat ?

#art #artsky #sketch #ink #painting
Brushed ink sketch of a tree and a small red sun. A little samurai figure stands right of the tree. A cat is hiding somewhere.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Artwork featuring what could be two silkscreen flatbed cargo tricycles with some kind of demon or gremlin drawn on the left side. There are two cartoonish heads in the middle. The second (lower) cargo trike is in a negative image in its rear.
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Source www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Tonight's PBS premiere of Ken Burns' new series "The American Revolution" doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding for public broadcasting in the US. The message is clear: "We are still here." 🧵 www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/m...
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Pope Leo formally returns Indigenous objects held by the Vatican Museums to Canada
The items, including the Arctic kayak, are returning to Canada as part of reconciliation process
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Epstein described Trump as a “dirty” businessman who was “borderline insane,” untrustworthy and worse in “real life and upclose” than the image he sought to portray to the public.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: Trump Named in Emails Released by Democrats and Republicans
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Reading for researchers: The original post in this thread features a perspective piece encouraging researchers to look at the role of emotion in the spread of disinformation. The one directly below is an empirical study showing how outrage fuels the spread of misinformation online.
mjcrockett.bsky.social M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 25d
Nice piece, and consistent with our findings that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online www.science.org/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM