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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 1d

"Over recent months, we have watched with increasing alarm as the foundations of our nation’s public health system have been undermined. Science and expertise have taken a back seat to ideology and misinformation."
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Scott Clement @sfcpoll.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: What American Jews think about the Israel-Gaza war, according to a Washington Post poll
Story with Naftali Bendavid & @emgusk.bsky.social , a project also led by The Post's sage religion reporter @michelleboorstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 9d

How big should the illustration go on this page?
Bigger.

(Illustration by Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral)

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 13d

Fantastic stuff again from Sergio and Lola
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 15d

We got a little Easter egg (actually, it's hard to miss) in this column about the inefficacy of current parental controls in technology
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 15d

Vamoooooooos

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Álvaro Valiño @alvarovalino.bsky.social · 15d

Just published! New research is focusing on the 'exposome' to find clues for the rise in young cancer
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Toxins, tech and tumors: Is modern life fueling the rise of cancer in millennials?

Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 20d

A new America 250 column, a new SergioGarcía/Lola Moral illustration
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 23d

Hans Sauer writes against the Trump administration's proposal to hike patent fees.
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bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social @bonnieberkowitz.bsky.social · 23d

Mondo Duplantis just set his 4th world record this year! Here’s how he does it. wapo.st/42xMMR3

What makes Mondo fly?

A look at the unique jumping style of the world’s best pole vaulter, Armand “Mondo” Duplantis, who is favored to win his second Olympic gold medal in Paris.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 25d

Morato is helping quite a lot on that

Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 28d

Since Trump took office, your breakfast became 2% cheaper.
Your sandwiches, backyard barbecues? 4% more expensive.
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Opinion | Have food prices changed since Trump’s inauguration? We are tracking it.

In partnership with Numerator, we’re tracking inflation over more than 30 essential ingredients for your daily food consumption.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Sep 3

"Last week, I and two colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned after the White House’s firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez," Debra Houry writes.

Here are three questions for RFK Jr.:

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Opinion | I resigned from the CDC. Here are three questions for RFK Jr.

I’ve seen the secretary’s effect on public health policy firsthand.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Sep 2

I spend like half of my workday confirming entering passwords, codes from text messages, using my fingerprint and other tasks to confirm I am who I say I am.

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here is a look at of "Who is government?" which is edited by Michael Lewis.

The book expands on a Post Opinions project in which seven writers examined some of the remarkable people who make up the federal workforce:

Opinion | Who is government?

Seven writers go in the search of the essential public servant, individuals who have put themselves forward to lead our government.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 25

It’s very difficult to get to interview a soccer player in Europe beyond the official press conferences. Meanwhile, in baseball, ESPN interviews players while they’re playing on a high-rivalry game

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Colin Millar @colinmillar.bsky.social · Aug 23

Lots of Barcelona match squads will include Toni Fernández and Guillermo Fernández this season. The two teenagers are cousins, born less than a month apart. The really weird thing is that not only are the players two fathers brothers, but their two mothers are sisters too.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 22

Aburrirse con Lopetegui estaba infravalorado

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 22

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Kilmar Abrego García set free after illegal deportation, smuggling charges

The Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador has been released as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. ICE may try to quickly deport him.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 22

Last week it was a nest of Asian giant hornets by the kids' bedroom window.
Today it was a black widow right on our entrance door.
Nature is trying to kick us out of this house.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 21

The whole set of stories and illustrations (so far) here:
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 21

Each time we publish a new America 250 story means a new illustration by Sergio García Sánchez and Lola Moral and another great day
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 20

New superhero origins story just dropped
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FDA urges recall of Walmart shrimp over radioactive contamination fear

The FDA detected Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, in one shipment of Great Value frozen raw shrimp to Walmart. It said the affected shipment wasn’t sold.

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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 20

Un ahorro de casi el 30% en letras para el Sevilla

Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · Aug 20

Always in favor of having illustration of (robotic) animals pooping on newspapers (you have to click to see it...)
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Opinion | Can the news industry stop AI theft? It might be a long shot.

The limited good news is that the fight has begun on multiple fronts.

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