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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 20h

www.ktvu.com/news/ice-mis...

ICE mistakenly detains disabled 15-year-old California teen outside school

Another California school district is expanding 'safe zones' after a disabled student was mistakenly detained, at gunpoint, by immigration agents near a high school.

www.ktvu.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 20h

Happening all over www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Ann Arbor father detained after school drop-off released by ICE, feds say

Authorities confirmed the man was arrested in the Lakewood neighborhood early Thursday but later determined to be 'not amenable to removal from the United States.'

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 22h

“What would you say you do here?” youtu.be/U0tpjs8zflQ?...

Office Space Interview scene

YouTube video by Akshay Gowda

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 1d

"In North Carolina and other states, low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable to order Covid-19 vaccines through the VFC program."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/h...

Low-income families are still waiting on Covid-19 vaccines for kids, but states say they’re coming | CNN

Many low-income families who normally get no-cost Covid-19 vaccines for their kids through the Vaccines for Children program have been told those shots aren’t available because states have been unable...

www.cnn.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it’s similar to the de facto impunity seen in other institutions, but it’s more de jure. Until the mid-90s Congress exempted itself from civil rights, labor and occupational safety laws. Their staff still don’t have whistleblower or nonretaliation protection. www.propublica.org/article/do-a...

Do As We Say, Congress Says, Then Does What It Wants

Congress exempts itself from a number of laws that apply to the private sector and the executive branch.

www.propublica.org

Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 1d

The things (mostly) male legislators get away with doing to staff… it’s not like HR can fire them. Lots of after-hours work outside the office, lots of alcohol, young staff working for some of the most powerful people in the country. It’s a recipe for abuse.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the thing, though— none of us as consumers should have to be researching which brands of spices contain neurotoxins! We can and should use food safety monitoring and enforcement to keep lead out of the food supply.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

I’d like to see someone track down the lead in cinnamon problem and apply the successful interventions Bangladesh did to reduce lead chromate in turmeric. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Redirecting

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 2d

This is rocking bed erasure www.nejm.org/cms/asset/fb...

Series of 2 black and white photos. Child about 9 years old lying in a rocking bed that has a tilt mechanism for noninvasive ventilation. In the top photo the bed is tilted about 30 degrees with the child’s head at the top, and in the bottom photo the tilt is reversed so the child’s feet are at the top.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 3d

The GOP justices are highly intentional operators. Their approach of total solicitousness to Trump on procedural motions, while punting merits rulings for years, will allow them to time rulings to tie Democrats’ hands, if they see partisan winds shifting. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for writing this! Disasters contributing to retirement insecurity is an angle on the climate crisis I hadn’t thought about before, and you also cover the question of how market-invested retirement accounts help fund carbon-intensive corporations.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 3d

This one's for all the parents who have told me they're going through hell trying to find Covid vaccines for their children: It's not just you! Gift link:

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

www.nytimes.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 3d

This sort of trial balloon is only going to encourage more sick outs, and air traffic control had already started

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4d

Are you pregnant or breastfeeding and having trouble getting a Covid vaccine? I'd love to hear from you! [email protected]

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4d

The acting CDC director has finally signed off on the vaccine advisory panel's recommendations for the COVID vaccines.

While the CDC is trying to sell this as a win for antivaxxers, in reality this means that COVID vaccines will be more accessible than they have been in recent weeks.

CDC Immunization Schedule Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for COVID-19 and Standalone Vaccination for Chickenpox in Toddlers

ATLANTA—October 6, 2025— The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its adult and child immunization schedules to apply individual-based decision-making to COVID-19 vaccination and recommend that toddlers receive protection from varicella (chickenpox) as a standalone immunization rather than in combination with measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.The immunization schedules adopt recent recommendations by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which were approved last week by Acting Director of the CDC and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill. The schedules will be updated on CDC.gov by October 7, 2025.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 7d

“Fuck them kids” is also the MAGA response to people asking them to release the Epstein files.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 7d

Those in person visits are a real pain point, so pulling the info from the EMR to avoid redundant visits would be great. WIC definitely specifies brands for formula— states contract for it. During formula shortages this was a serious problem.

Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 8d

WIC only covers very specific brands and sizes of foods and formula, and it’s very heavy on dairy and light on foods appropriate to Hispanic and Asian American families. If you get to the checkout with the “wrong” item it’s embarrassing. It’s just harder to use than SNAP.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 8d

When you talk to mothers who have used both SNAP and WIC, they describe WIC as designed to judge and humiliate them. You have to bring your baby in person to the welfare office to be weighed and blood tested, get “advice” that seems to assume you don’t know how to care for them.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 8d

I bet the landlord hired the “moving crew” and the guys to board up broken doors, but the units aren’t vacant just because residents were detained. If you haven’t been evicted it’s still your apartment. They can’t legally take your stuff. Fed may be civilly immune but the landlord sure isn’t.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 8d

Currently, millions of children are unable to access COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, a program that provides free vaccines to families that are unable to afford them. Read the full story in AAP News. publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Pediatricians express frustrations over delay in COVID vaccines for children in federal program

Millions of children are unable to access COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program because federal health officials have not finalized recommendations on who should get vaccinated.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 8d

My colleague Dani Blum spoke to OB-GYNs and maternal-fetal medicine specialists who are seeing widespread confusion and access issues among patients. Dr. Jeanne Sheffield of Johns Hopkins Medicine urges "persistence" — if one pharmacy turns you away, try another. But of course, not everyone can.

Covid Shots Protect Pregnant Women, but Getting Them Now Can Be Hard

www.nytimes.com

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 8d

And did they get no-knock warrants? Under the 2021 DOJ policy, getting a no-knock requires (required?) a federal prosecutor and a supervisor to sign off before they go to the judge. It sure doesn’t sound like they knocked and announced before ramming all those doors in.

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Lex Luthor @tyrannosaurid.bsky.social · 8d

I can see how civil avenues are not promising here, but could the AG or the local prosecutor pursue some criminal investigations? Entering without a warrant and seizing people is assault, isn’t it? These aren’t the local cops who are buddies with the prosecutor.