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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 1d

“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/article/new-...

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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 4h

The bad news for public health continues to be unrelenting. cc: @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 20h

Finding out how he’s doing

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 21h

Good for him.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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paghetti.bsky.social @paghetti.bsky.social · 2d

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d

More precooked pasta meals have been recalled due to possible links to a sprawling listeria outbreak that has led to four deaths.

What to know about the listeria outbreak tied to precooked pasta

The outbreak has been linked to pasta from food supplier Nate's Fine Foods.

nbcnews.to

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Who gives even half a shit, @nytimes.com? I mean, really and truly?

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Hope the show was better than the game!

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, man! Lots of key people are free agents. Could be other players moved, too. Think it's way too early to be making predictions, though I love the enthusiasm!

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Farewell to the 2025 #Yankees, a good team that just couldn't sustain the flashes of greatness it showed at times. Guessing the '26 edition will look a lot different; Goldschmidt & Williams are almost certain not to return. Hope Wells doesn't. Might be time to move on from Volpe. Sell high on Jazz?

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Hah! And so are the Yankees!

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

I do hope Bellinger is back with the #Yankees next year.

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Thirty years after sending the #Yankees to Seattle up 2-0 in the first-ever Division Series across the street from the current Yankee Stadium, Don Mattingly is presiding over the vanquishing of his only pro team in the visiting dugout.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder whether Jazz's highs are worth the lows. He's a dynamic player, but he often loses focus in big moments, the worst possible times. Tonight's 2-run error was the crusher. Wonder whether Cashman will conclude he could do better this winter. #Yankees

WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Volpe is so comically lost at the plate. I'm sorry, but it may be time for the #Yankees to move on from him this winter.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

Kind of fitting that Devin Williams puts the final nails in the 2025 #Yankees' coffin, barring some kind of Mystique and Aura appearance on the opposite side of the street from where they appeared nightly in the postseason in the late '90s.

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Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social · 2d

"One of the fired FBI employees, a combat veteran who was months away from becoming eligible for retirement, was called back to the office after having left for the day and informed of the dismissal, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News."

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The three agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Jack Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referenced.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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WordMan ⚾️🐦📕🎞️🇫🇷📰🇮🇪 @wordman.bsky.social · 2d

1 run in 5.2 innings against a series of middling at best relievers. Not good, #Yankees

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 2d

@drneilstone.bsky.social

This is an iron lung for polio victims. Remember these? Me neither, it’s now in a museum where it should stay. Why? Because vaccines work.

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