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Bryant Furlow
@bryantfurlow.bsky.social
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Evidence-based medicine and public health reporting at The Lancet news desks and elsewhere. ProPublica LRN alumn. Virus watercolors by Michele Banks, @Artologica. (Used with permission)
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d
INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”
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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 11h
"A group of Chicago press associations, journalists, nonprofits and unions sued the Trump administration and its top officials Monday, saying federal agents had used 'extreme brutality' at local protests to silence both the press and civilians."
Chicago journalists, protesters sue Trump administration, alleging ‘extreme brutality’
The organizations are urging the court to protect the First Amendment rights of protesters to peacefully protest and journalists to “observe, record, and report on the federal agents’ activities and t...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 17h
My quote of the day

If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started.

John McCain
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Algernon D’Ammassa @algernonwrites.bsky.social · 1d
A notice for tomorrow’s federal register designates a project area across most of New Mexico’s international boundary for border wall and related construction, including a new north-south stretch in the Bootheel.
DHS clears way to build border wall across New Mexico
LAS CRUCES — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is once again waiving a raft of laws protecting wildlife, archaeological preservation and environmental protections in order to expedite border wa...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 1d
"Many mental health professionals and patient advocates say treating this as First Amendment speech could set a precedent under which any counseling is claimed to be free speech and no longer subject to professional standards, even if it's dangerous or inappropriate."
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Adriel Bettelheim @abettel.bsky.social · 1d
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Colorado conversion therapy ban. www.axios.com/2025/10/07/s...
Supreme Court seems skeptical of conversion therapy ban
A decision could force more than 20 states to revisit their bans on the practice.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 3d
The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap? #Climate
The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?
With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.
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T. Christian Miller @tchristianmiller.bsky.social · 8d
1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️
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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 3d
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Former 'Daily Lobo' editor victorious after 2-year records battle with UNM
Lily Alexander, now a reporter for The New Mexican, settled a lawsuit with UNM for $195,000 over its refusal to hand over police weapons records.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d
“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.independent.co.uk
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 5d
The 280 pediatric flu deaths are the highest number reported in the U.S. since the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic and the highest for a non-pandemic flu season since child deaths became nationally notifiable in 2004. The mortality rate was highest overall in infants under 6 months of age
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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 12d
Sadly, CDC reports highlight 2024-25 flu season's deadly impact on US kids | CIDRAP www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...
CDC reports highlight 2024-25 flu season's deadly impact on US kids
www.cidrap.umn.edu
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Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 6d
The New Mexico Public Education Department filed an initial draft of a remedial action plan in a landmark education lawsuit by a court-ordered deadline Wednesday, plaintiffs said. sfnm.co/4nUNcJA
State files Yazzie/Martinez draft action plan; plaintiffs say it falls short
The New Mexico Public Education Department has not yet released the plan or commented on what it has filed.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Sep 5
Sickening to see this happen to CDC.

CDC’s vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says www.statnews.com/2025/09/05/f... @statnews

"She encouraged people looking for answers to go to those medical organizations, hospitals, or their health care providers."
CDC's vaccine information no longer entirely trustworthy, former director says
The former CDC director says vaccine information on CDC website is no longer entirely trustworthy and urges people to get vaccine guidance elsewhere.
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d
My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 11d
Listeria Outbreak to include more Prepared Foods
->Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | #Food | More from BigEarthData.ai
Listeria Outbreak to include more Prepared Foods
A CDC food safety alert regarding a multistate outbreak of Listeria infections has been updated and expanded: https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/chicken-fettuccine-alfredo-06-25/index.html Key Points: Three additional illnesses and one additional death have been reported in this outbreak. Another product has been added to this...
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 11d
"The acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento has said she was fired after telling the Border Patrol chief in charge of immigration raids in California that his agents were not allowed to arrest people without probable cause in the Central Valley." Source: Los Angeles Times
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Veteran U.S. attorney in California insisted Border Patrol follow a court order. Then she was fired
Michele Beckwith, U.S. attorney in Sacramento, said she was let go after warning the border patrol's Gregory Bovino not to violate a court injunction.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12d
“Doctors from abroad make up nearly one quarter of the physician work force in the United States. They provide much of the staffing in rural and underserved areas of the country, and many fill positions in important areas of medicine that are often shunned by U.S.-trained physicians”
Medical Groups Warn Against Visa Fees for Foreign Doctors
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The Economist @economist.com · 11d
The hard right is dominating European politics. Our recommendations help explain the movement, its beliefs and its bugbears
Six books to read to understand Europe’s hard right
They help explain the movement
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 12d
Get a shot, protect your brain? Maybe so!

🔹️The 4 vaccines for which research notes an association w/ lower rates of dementia: flu, shingles, RSV & Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria & pertussis)

🔹️Causality isn't confirmed, b/c "people who get vaccines may be...

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4 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia
Some vaccine-preventable diseases are linked to accelerated brain atrophy and increased dementia risk years down the line.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d
The world is hot — and only getting hotter. Here's what places around the globe are doing to keep cool, from repainting surfaces and installing outdoor showers to planting trees and going underground. nyti.ms/46CXyqn
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12d
“Kennedy's approval has dropped… Only 17% of those polled in the current survey said they were very confident in medical information from Kennedy. Twenty-two percent said they were somewhat confident, 11% said they were not so confident, and 46% were not confident at all.”
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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12d
New poll shows Kennedy's approval down to 33%
Approval for the HHS secretary has dropped from a June 11 poll.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14d
“With the federal government in retreat, vaccine wars have shifted to the states.” @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about how states are abiding by, enforcing, or fighting against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s vaccine-policy rollbacks.
A New Era of Vaccine Federalism
As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.
www.newyorker.com
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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 14d
I deleted my original post, deciding it was irresponsible to weigh in so early after the shooting. But my first instinct was to check who actually uses that specific phrase.
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Bryant Furlow @bryantfurlow.bsky.social · 15d
Time magazine graph depicting number of politically motivated terrorist acts since 1975. The majority of these incidents were committed by political-right perpetrators. The Guardian headline: US DOJ removes study showing right-wing extremists commit much more terrorism and political violence than others.
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