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Liz
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Live Long and Prosper 🖖🏻 | Health Policy Nerd | Leftist | MPH | https://linktr.ee/ech18
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in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their prices for 2026. n.pr/4jGdmyS
Trump struck deals with 16 drug companies. But they're still raising prices this year
All 16 drug companies that inked deals with the Trump administration over the past few months still raised some of their prices for 2026.
n.pr
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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I spoke with two seasoned nutrition researchers about RFK Jr.’s anticipated recommendation. While they had different views on how harmful saturated fats are, they both agreed that simply upping consumption is a bad idea, and that dietary guidance should focus on foods, not nutrients. My latest.
October 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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And all of this is stolen from countless game developers who made buildings, textures, animations, rigs, lighting, shaders, doodads. Many of whom don't have jobs right now either
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Subject matter experts weigh in: “His advice to the thieves?
Get out of France if they have not done so already. Although traveling by airplane is a risky proposition, Mr. Lawton said, there are ways to smuggle jewels…
“It’s called suitcasing,” he said. “It’s when you hide something in your rectum.”
‘It’s Got to Be an Inside Job’: Jewelry Thieves Weigh In on Louvre Heist
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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the only time in my memory make some noise as been won with two words
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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With wealth inequality worse than the Gilded Age, Donald Trump, who is using the presidency to balloon his net worth, is tearing down the White House wing Roosevelt built for a massive ballroom funded by his oligarch pals—all while gutting regulations on their businesses and public goods.

Get it?
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Nothing could have prepared me. NOTHING.
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Might be the most vacuous person of the last decade. An empty vessel for lobbyist cash.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
NYC shooter had two 'mental health holds' in Las Vegas. They didn't affect his legal right to own guns
The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
n.pr
August 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Hell ain't hot enough.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:
August 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It boggles my mind that we expect young people to start a family, be engaged civilly, volunteer, donate money, and buy a house when wages haven’t increased proportionally to inflation, the social safety net is in ruins, and many young people are working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
August 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Measles update: Texas is now confirming 309 cases, which is more than the entire country’s total last year, and there have been 40 hospitalizations in Texas. New Mexico is reporting 42 cases and two hospitalizations.

TX: www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

NM: www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/id...
Measles Outbreak – March 21, 2025 | Texas DSHS
www.dshs.texas.gov
March 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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go birds
Bless

"THE Philadelphia Eagles plan to snub an invitation to the White House after winning the Super Bowl, The U.S. Sun has learned."
February 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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New at Public Health:

1 in 5 people *think* they're well-informed about Long COVID, but struggle to answer basic qs about it. "Meta-ignorance" in turn motivates vax. hesitancy.

w/ @thcallaghan.bsky.social @jencornacc.bsky.social & RIDOH + Policy Lab team!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Identifying and mitigating the public health consequences of meta-ignorance about "Long COVID" risks
While past work studies public concern about "Long COVID," fewer have asked what the public knows and/or purports to know about Long COVID. This is an…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money

Crypto in 2025:
February 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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And an NIH director whose big idea with the COVID pandemic was letting the virus rip.

And an FDA commissioner who doubts mRNA vaccines.

And a surgeon general who endorsed a quack COVID treatment and also cast doubt on vaccines.

It’s not just Kennedy.
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
GLP-1s have been around for *decades* with a very good safety record. People just don’t want to admit that obesity isn’t a choice.
January 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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There is no working with RFK Jr., a man who makes millions of dollars promoting anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

His nomination should be blocked. But it’s not just him.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s pick for NIH, and Dr. Marty Makary are also extremely dangerous spreaders of misinformation.
January 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM