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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 19m

NEW: RFK transferred 70 public health officers to work for four months at far-flung Indian Health Service sites. Though the help is desperately needed, the deployment threatens to disrupt vital disease tracking and harm reduction work. www.politico.com/news/2025/10... w/ @mayakaufman.bsky.social

‘Straining everything in our system’: Indian Health Service transfers leave leadership vacuum

The four-month deployments are unusually long and target a chronic issue rather than an isolated emergency.

www.politico.com

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APHA @apha.org · 20h

Join APHA & our partners on Nov. 5 @ 2:30-4 p.m. ET on the National Mall to Rally for the Public’s Health. Be inspired & energized by powerful stories, bold ideas & calls to action as we highlight urgent public health priorities. More info: www.APHA.org/Rally #SpeakForHealth

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 34m

poster’s yin and yang

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 37m

search is totally broken rn

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 39m

yeah

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

they must be a/b testing

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

"I cannot begin to tell you how difficult and unnerving it is to have been in Chicago these past few weeks; to exist indefinitely in the contradictory space between knowing and living."

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

yes, this is so important to remember. even outside of sweatshop conditions, the work messes you up

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

we’ve seen what platforms look like when these tools are disabled—they look like X. this is just one of those things bluesky has an aversion to but literally all social media has to use it because of sheer volume

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

to be clear, ai moderation is unavoidable for any platform as large as bluesky. the image recognition misses from time to time, and appeal delays are annoying, but there’s not really any feasible alternative. the broader human-run moderation system needs that assistance to function

hailey @hailey.at · 10h

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 4h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

chicago pope being chicago direct

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1h

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2h

apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

apnews.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2h

mac and frank dancing on the guido yacht and frank is holding up the ham

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12h

one thing worth noting: the total number of National Guard troops deployable to Chicago is 700 (400 from TX, 300 from IL). that is compared to about 2000 in DC and 4,700 in LA at the height of both deployments.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15h

Donald Trump’s deployments of the National Guard to American cities “are best understood as an effort to erode the nation’s sense that such use of the military is unacceptable,” Quinta Jurecic argues.

Trump Is Destroying One of America’s Oldest Traditions

America has always had a strong aversion to seeing the military on the country’s streets. That is not stopping the current president.

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 3h

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

Parents Fear Losing Disability Protections as Trump Slashes Civil Rights Office

Black children and those with disabilities may suffer the worst consequences, since they disproportionately face harsh discipline at school.

capitalbnews.org

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h

gotta give her the hams

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4h

the US version of SHAMELESS. seriously

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

What are the best movies or documentaries about government and public administration?

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5h

hams??

a tux cat with huge hungry eyes looking at the camera

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

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