@toastappreciator.bsky.social
3x University of Washington husky: BA Economics, JD, MPH. Privacy and data use ethics by day, insomniac by night. Appreciates a good piece of toast.
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> Kentucky's health department said [it had] "confirmed none of the infants who died of pertussis in Kentucky over the past 12 months had been vaccinated, nor had their mothers."
Here's what whooping cough sounds like. Horrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
Here's what whooping cough sounds like. Horrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
> Kentucky's health department said [it had] "confirmed none of the infants who died of pertussis in Kentucky over the past 12 months had been vaccinated, nor had their mothers."
Here's what whooping cough sounds like. Horrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
Here's what whooping cough sounds like. Horrific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3oZ...
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NYT on Trump’s clear signs of aging: “At one point, Mr. Trump’s eyelids drooped until his eyes were almost closed, and he appeared to doze on and off for several seconds. At another point, he opened his eyes and looked toward a line of journalists watching him.”
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NYT on Trump’s clear signs of aging: “At one point, Mr. Trump’s eyelids drooped until his eyes were almost closed, and he appeared to doze on and off for several seconds. At another point, he opened his eyes and looked toward a line of journalists watching him.”
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Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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I love when someone builds a joke just for me and my precious sensibilities.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I love when someone builds a joke just for me and my precious sensibilities.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
We are witnessing a poisonous effort to destroy what the vast majority of Americans know is a key pillar of public health.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
Vaccines are responsible for 40% of the reduction in child mortality achieved in the last half century.
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The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines and autism, that has now been replaced with junk science.
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@sophiegilbert.bsky.social with the perfect lede
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
@sophiegilbert.bsky.social with the perfect lede
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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On scientific topics, especially in public health, federal government webpages have been a trusted way for the public to find reliable information.
A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
On scientific topics, especially in public health, federal government webpages have been a trusted way for the public to find reliable information.
A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
A CDC webpage with disinformation is dangerous in the short term and erodes public trust in science in the long term.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
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"Quiet, Piggy" and "Things Happen" are the distillation of Trump to his very essence. One manifests his vileness and misogyny. The other his dangerous amorality. They are a window into where his soul would be if he had one.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Quiet, Piggy" and "Things Happen" are the distillation of Trump to his very essence. One manifests his vileness and misogyny. The other his dangerous amorality. They are a window into where his soul would be if he had one.
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My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My god. My god.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
Oh fucking hell.
God.
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NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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"Do you think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?"
All:
Yes: 42%
No: 34%
Yes Among:
DEM: 79%
IND: 43%
GOP: 7%
YouGov / Nov 17, 2025
All:
Yes: 42%
No: 34%
Yes Among:
DEM: 79%
IND: 43%
GOP: 7%
YouGov / Nov 17, 2025
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"Do you think that Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein?"
All:
Yes: 42%
No: 34%
Yes Among:
DEM: 79%
IND: 43%
GOP: 7%
YouGov / Nov 17, 2025
All:
Yes: 42%
No: 34%
Yes Among:
DEM: 79%
IND: 43%
GOP: 7%
YouGov / Nov 17, 2025
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![It’s challenging to unpack the DOJ Letter because it contains so many factual, legal, and
typographical errors. Indeed, even attorneys employed by the Texas Attorney General—who
professes to be a political ally of the Trump Administration54—describe the DOJ Letter as
“legally[] unsound,”55 “baseless,”56 “erroneous,”57 “ham-fisted,”58 and “a mess.”59](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreigtp475fcs6vnligh2ayyriqx6jmnenfqailvbcbwpmr5rm7la7hu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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This is horrific.
@citizencohn.bsky.social talks to @agawande.bsky.social about the real consequences of Trump cutting USAID funding.
@citizencohn.bsky.social talks to @agawande.bsky.social about the real consequences of Trump cutting USAID funding.
November 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is horrific.
@citizencohn.bsky.social talks to @agawande.bsky.social about the real consequences of Trump cutting USAID funding.
@citizencohn.bsky.social talks to @agawande.bsky.social about the real consequences of Trump cutting USAID funding.
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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So true, nothing is more deflationary than *checks notes* radically shifting the labor supply curve inward.
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
So true, nothing is more deflationary than *checks notes* radically shifting the labor supply curve inward.
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Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Didn’t hear a “no” there
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Didn’t hear a “no” there