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Nancy Jean 🇨🇦
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Knitter, SF reader, Figure skating fan, Social scientist, believer in social justice! Proud grandma, 2! *Science matters*
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tjradcliffe.bsky.social
@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social THIS is how science-based public health guidance works!

You should direct BC public health institutions to hire scientists and engineers who are capable of understanding the physics of disease control to advise physicians who have no background in physics or engineering.
durhamhealthnc.bsky.social Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 11h
You may have seen masks mentioned a lot lately, especially as the spread of multiple viruses is currently high, so it’s important to know the facts in order to protect yourself and others. Learn more and stay safe this respiratory virus season and beyond! (Part 1/2)
myth : There’s no evidence masks work. fact: Studies have repeatedly shown that wearing masks significantly reduces your odds of COVID-19, flu, and other viruses that can spread through the air (airborne transmission / airborne spread). N95s & KN95s work best and should be worn if possible, but even cloth masks offer more protection than wearing nothing! Mask myths and facts. N95s and KN95s are the only masks that offer any protection against viruses. High-quality masks like N95s and KN95s (these are also called respirators) offer the most protection against viruses that can spread through the air, like COVID-19, flu, and more, but any mask is better than nothing! If you don’t have an N95 or KN95, it’s still a good idea to wear the best mask available to you. myth: There’s no point in wearing a mask if no one else nearby is wearing one. fact: Masks offer the most protection to the community when more people are wearing them, but they are still highly effective even when you are the only person masked! myth: Wearing a mask helps protect other people but has no impact on the person wearing it. fact: Wearing a mask helps protect you and others. Masks help keep virus particles you exhale from spreading in the air, and they help protect you from inhaling virus particles put into the air by others.
December 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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thebulwark.com
"That's like an extinction-level event... the anger and the frustration with the Canadians against America right now is something else."

@samsteindc.bsky.social, @crampell.bsky.social and @sonnybunch.bsky.social discuss the bourbon bust in Kentucky and the hammering of an iconic American industry.
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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charlesornstein.bsky.social
CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.
“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal
For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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canadahealthwatch.ca
Bluewater Health is the latest hospital to implement mandatory masking as flu cases surge https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mandatory-masking-bluewater-health-sarnia-9.7025144

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Bluewater health sign
December 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
Big opportunity for the @bcgreens.bsky.social! There's a huge constituency of those impacted by COVID and long COVID that currently has no political home - and those numbers are only going to grow as more people realize what's been done to them.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
About one in nine of all Canadian adults have experienced long-term symptoms from a COVID-19 infection By June 2023, about one in nine (11.7%) of the total adult population reported experiencing long-term symptoms, defined as the presence of symptoms three or more months after a COVID-19 infection that could not be explained by anything else. This represents 3.5 million Canadians, and nearly 1 in 5 (19.0%) Canadian adults who had been infected at least once.
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
I don’t know how people who defend and enable sending innocents to be tortured in a foreign gulag can sleep at night
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
njean416.bsky.social
@caulfieldtim.bsky.social have you seen this?
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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drkarenpinder.bsky.social
We sure did!
December 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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drkarenpinder.bsky.social
We also did this. #ElbowsUp
minibubbly.bsky.social Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d
Credit to pnwdaily—traffic coming into Canada from the US for Christmas holidays.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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crof.bsky.social
I don't like the sound of this at all: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Death of dog after avian influenza exposure marks second such case in Canada | CBC News
A dog in Alberta died in November after being exposed to highly pathogenic avian influenza. It's the second confirmed fatal case of avian flu in a domestic dog in Canada, with the first being reported...
www.cbc.ca
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
USA: "2 children in Wisconsin have died of respiratory illnesses"

"One child died of COVID-19 and the other from influenza. The state did not release information on the children’s ages or locations."

"Epidemiologist Tom Haupt said the deaths are “a reminder about how serious these viruses can be.”
2 children in Wisconsin die of respiratory illness in season's first pediatric deaths
Two children in Wisconsin have died of respiratory illnesses, the state Department of Health Services announced.
www.wpr.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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angierasmussen.bsky.social
This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
CDC to Fund Controversial Study in West Africa on Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines
The study prompted swift outcry from scientists in the U.S. who say it’s “unethical.”
www.notus.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
NYT columnist David Brooks wrote an op-ed a few weeks ago titled, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out,” lamenting people are too focused on the Epstein scandal + saying "the QAnon mentality has taken over."

Today he appeared in 4 photos from the Epstein dump. Welp! www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...
David Brooks Said ‘Count Me Out’ Of Epstein Story, Then Wound Up In Epstein Photos
There's no indication The New York Times columnist did anything wrong. But wow, the timing of his column and the photo dump is unfortunate!
www.huffpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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repbeatty.bsky.social
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
All that hard right Christian nationalist work down the drain. So sad.
Tweet from Ron Filipkowski stating that former Oklahoma schools chief Ryan Walters is reacting angrily after the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a mandated history curriculum that included Bible study and claims the 2020 election was stolen. Below is a video still of Walters speaking inside a car.
December 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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friendsofmedicare.bsky.social
In an open letter to the Prime Minister & Health Minister, Health Coalitions representing over three million Canadians call on the federal government to intervene in the face of two-tier Medicare being brought in by Alberta's Bill 11.

Read the open letter: www.friendsofmedicare.org/uphold_theca...
December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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propublica.org
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

(Published Nov. 2024)
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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thestarshipentity.bsky.social
Break in the case for long COVID investigators news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Research highlighting chronic inflammation opens path to treating illness that affects millions of Americans
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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bradheath.bsky.social
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
haleaziz.bsky.social Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 11d
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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brownecfm.bsky.social
Delighted to have the opportunity to discuss the current influenza surge in today's Belfast Telegraph; the virus itself, what we should be doing to mitigate it - vaccination, ventilation, masks - and how infection control has become ideological.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/...
‘Not a pleasant Christmas for the NHS’: ‘Super flu’ mutation will further stress NI healthcare system, says biorisk expert
The early surge in a so-called ‘super flu’ strain of the influenza virus is going to “dramatically stress” the Northern Ireland healthcare service in the run-up to Christmas, a biorisk expert has said...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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alsopharmb.bsky.social
So chicken farms have started spending millions of dollars putting in state of the art air filtration and circulation systems - because culling whole flocks to mitigate avian flu is expensive - but we have done zero to improve air quality in schools - because kids are expendable I guess.
December 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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crof.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Die-off of hundreds of birds something Manitoba hasn't experienced 'at this scale': biologist | CBC News
At least 500 carcasses of birds, the majority of them Canadian geese, have been recovered near water streams in southern Manitoba over the last month — a die-off scientists say they have not witnessed...
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
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December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM