@robinshook.bsky.social
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BIG NEWS!
KC's nonprofit, community-based bike share program (formally known as RideKC Bike) is now Bike Share KC. New name, new hub locations, new Spanish app, and same great service!
bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...
KC's nonprofit, community-based bike share program (formally known as RideKC Bike) is now Bike Share KC. New name, new hub locations, new Spanish app, and same great service!
bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...
Big news for bike share! (+ don't forget to take the survey)
New name, new hubs, new app en español, new survey, and hibernation season
bikesharekc.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
BIG NEWS!
KC's nonprofit, community-based bike share program (formally known as RideKC Bike) is now Bike Share KC. New name, new hub locations, new Spanish app, and same great service!
bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...
KC's nonprofit, community-based bike share program (formally known as RideKC Bike) is now Bike Share KC. New name, new hub locations, new Spanish app, and same great service!
bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...
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🧵 KC advocates and supporters, BikeWalkKC needs your support to keep fighting for a community where people aren't required to "drive to thrive".
2025 has been a challenging year for nonprofits, so if you are in position to give, your gift will be very meaningful❤️
2025 has been a challenging year for nonprofits, so if you are in position to give, your gift will be very meaningful❤️
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🧵 KC advocates and supporters, BikeWalkKC needs your support to keep fighting for a community where people aren't required to "drive to thrive".
2025 has been a challenging year for nonprofits, so if you are in position to give, your gift will be very meaningful❤️
2025 has been a challenging year for nonprofits, so if you are in position to give, your gift will be very meaningful❤️
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Police looking for driver of 2016 red Hyundai Sonata who hit Dr. Das at 39/Gillham, 8pm on Wed. Sept. 14th.
He was a fixture of Little Rock's bike community b4 moving to KC & Children's Mercy recently. He was on his way home from work when he was hit & left for dead.
www.kctv5.com/2025/09/24/s...
He was a fixture of Little Rock's bike community b4 moving to KC & Children's Mercy recently. He was on his way home from work when he was hit & left for dead.
www.kctv5.com/2025/09/24/s...
Support pours in for Kansas City children’s doctor critically hurt in unsolved hit-and-run
Dr. Saswat Das recently moved to Kansas City from Arkansas for his fellowship at Children’s Mercy. He always biked home from the hospital, and last Wednesday was no different.
www.kctv5.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Police looking for driver of 2016 red Hyundai Sonata who hit Dr. Das at 39/Gillham, 8pm on Wed. Sept. 14th.
He was a fixture of Little Rock's bike community b4 moving to KC & Children's Mercy recently. He was on his way home from work when he was hit & left for dead.
www.kctv5.com/2025/09/24/s...
He was a fixture of Little Rock's bike community b4 moving to KC & Children's Mercy recently. He was on his way home from work when he was hit & left for dead.
www.kctv5.com/2025/09/24/s...
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SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.
Data investigation: Childhood vaccination rates are backsliding across the U.S.
A monthslong NBC News data investigation finds that much of the U.S. doesn't have the protection needed to stop the spread of deadly diseases. St. Louis is a window into the problem communities face nationwide.
nbcnews.to
September 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.
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A new report shows that not getting enough physical activity is linked to $192 billion in U.S. health care costs. Being physically active can save money and is one of the best things a person can do to improve their health. #ActivePeople doi.org/10.1177/0890...
Inadequate Aerobic Physical Activity and Healthcare Expenditures in the United States: An Updated Cost Estimate - Jennifer L. Matjasko, Zhuo Chen, Geoffrey P. Whitfield, Laurie P. Whitsel, Ken Rose, K...
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A new report shows that not getting enough physical activity is linked to $192 billion in U.S. health care costs. Being physically active can save money and is one of the best things a person can do to improve their health. #ActivePeople doi.org/10.1177/0890...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men,” Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves write.
“It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men,” Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves write.
Opinion | Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s
It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men.
nyti.ms
August 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men,” Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves write.
“It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men,” Robert Putnam and Richard Reeves write.
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From @theathletic.com: How soon is too soon for children to start specializing in a particular sport?
One former NFL player-turned broadcaster thinks it's one of the biggest issues facing youth sports.
nyti.ms/3HgNzyG
One former NFL player-turned broadcaster thinks it's one of the biggest issues facing youth sports.
nyti.ms/3HgNzyG
August 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
From @theathletic.com: How soon is too soon for children to start specializing in a particular sport?
One former NFL player-turned broadcaster thinks it's one of the biggest issues facing youth sports.
nyti.ms/3HgNzyG
One former NFL player-turned broadcaster thinks it's one of the biggest issues facing youth sports.
nyti.ms/3HgNzyG
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Here, Vought doesn’t dispute slow-walking release of NIH grants from congressionally appropriated funds so that they can be cancelled in a couple of months through pocket rescission, thereby bypassing congress to enact huge cuts to NIH research.
BRENNAN: Are you going to release the cancer research funding?
RUSS VOUGHT: We're gonna continue to go through the same process that we have gone through with regard to the Dept of Education & we will release that funding when we are done
BRENNAN: The WH budget does call for a $18b cut to NIH
RUSS VOUGHT: We're gonna continue to go through the same process that we have gone through with regard to the Dept of Education & we will release that funding when we are done
BRENNAN: The WH budget does call for a $18b cut to NIH
July 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here, Vought doesn’t dispute slow-walking release of NIH grants from congressionally appropriated funds so that they can be cancelled in a couple of months through pocket rescission, thereby bypassing congress to enact huge cuts to NIH research.
Equitable access to youth physical activity and sport opportunities should be a 'Lasting Legacy' of Kansas City's World Cup. Learn more in the letter below and at www.kcphysicalactivityplan.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Equitable access to youth physical activity and sport opportunities should be a 'Lasting Legacy' of Kansas City's World Cup. Learn more in the letter below and at www.kcphysicalactivityplan.org
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NEW: Under GOP budget bill, 18.5 million Americans would need to prove they work to keep their Medicaid coverage.
One of them is likely a Kansas City woman who already had to make an excruciating choice due to Medicaid rules: give up guardianship of her disabled son to work as his caregiver.
One of them is likely a Kansas City woman who already had to make an excruciating choice due to Medicaid rules: give up guardianship of her disabled son to work as his caregiver.
To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works
Republicans have touted Medicaid work requirements both as a way to reduce federal spending on the program and as a moral imperative for Americans.
www.nbcnews.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
NEW: Under GOP budget bill, 18.5 million Americans would need to prove they work to keep their Medicaid coverage.
One of them is likely a Kansas City woman who already had to make an excruciating choice due to Medicaid rules: give up guardianship of her disabled son to work as his caregiver.
One of them is likely a Kansas City woman who already had to make an excruciating choice due to Medicaid rules: give up guardianship of her disabled son to work as his caregiver.
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Ted Koppel interviews my Hopkins colleague Prof. Liz Jaffee, world expert in pancreatic cancer, about the devastating cuts and slow roll out of cancer research funding by the NIH.
See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...
See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...
Saving money vs. saving lives
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Ted Koppel interviews my Hopkins colleague Prof. Liz Jaffee, world expert in pancreatic cancer, about the devastating cuts and slow roll out of cancer research funding by the NIH.
See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...
See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLwc...
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About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...
Who's calling the shots at NIH?
Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder.
DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder.
DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
About that "gold standard science" we've been promised ...
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ADVOCACY ALERT: #KCMO City Hall is threatening to cut funding for bike share and #VisionZero!
Learn more, take action, and please share:
bikewalkkc.org/blog/2025/05...
Learn more, take action, and please share:
bikewalkkc.org/blog/2025/05...
ADVOCACY ALERT: Funding under threat for Bike Share and Vision Zero
In the next few days City Council could make devastating cuts to bike share and Vision Zero safety projects without fixing the bus and IRIS funding crisis.
bikewalkkc.org
May 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
ADVOCACY ALERT: #KCMO City Hall is threatening to cut funding for bike share and #VisionZero!
Learn more, take action, and please share:
bikewalkkc.org/blog/2025/05...
Learn more, take action, and please share:
bikewalkkc.org/blog/2025/05...
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After Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding.
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything'
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
scim.ag
April 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
After Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding.
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Looking for an easy way to add fun and fitness to your family life?
Try this science-based 7-minute workout parents and kids can do together.
Try this science-based 7-minute workout parents and kids can do together.
Try this joyful 7-minute workout you can do with kids
Crawl like a bear, dodge lava and duck branches in this playful routine.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looking for an easy way to add fun and fitness to your family life?
Try this science-based 7-minute workout parents and kids can do together.
Try this science-based 7-minute workout parents and kids can do together.
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"'It's a huge blow," says Wactawski-Wade.'It's been one of the most productive studies in history.And to really understand older women's health-dementia, heart failure, frailty-we are the study to do that.And it's been eviscerated right now because of these budget cuts.'"
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
Funding cut for landmark study of women's health
The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"'It's a huge blow," says Wactawski-Wade.'It's been one of the most productive studies in history.And to really understand older women's health-dementia, heart failure, frailty-we are the study to do that.And it's been eviscerated right now because of these budget cuts.'"
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
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Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
Top researcher quits NIH, citing censorship under RFK Jr. | CNN
Dr. Kevin Hall joins The Lead
www.cnn.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thanks to @jaketapper.bsky.social for inviting me on his show yesterday! www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...
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My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
Leading Nutrition Scientist Departs N.I.H., Citing Censorship (Gift Article)
Kevin Hall said his work on ultraprocessed foods has been “hobbled” under the Trump administration. Scientists have been raising such concerns for months.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
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Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Hearing that the entire $82mil in funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program has been cancelled as part of the #ColumbiaUniversity #NIH grant terminations. This study has been ongoing since 1996. It’s hard to describe the disruption and impact of cancelling this study. @altnih4science.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hearing that the entire $82mil in funding for the Diabetes Prevention Program has been cancelled as part of the #ColumbiaUniversity #NIH grant terminations. This study has been ongoing since 1996. It’s hard to describe the disruption and impact of cancelling this study. @altnih4science.bsky.social
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"An amoeba that on very rare occasions enters and eats the human brain isn’t a problem the free market is likely to solve. There are never enough people dying of Balamuthia and willing to pay for a cure for a big pharmaceutical company to spend the money to find one."
Opinion | The free-living bureaucrat
Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"An amoeba that on very rare occasions enters and eats the human brain isn’t a problem the free market is likely to solve. There are never enough people dying of Balamuthia and willing to pay for a cure for a big pharmaceutical company to spend the money to find one."
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“I paid very little attention to politics,” Adam Strom said. “... They were talking about layoffs, cuts, executive orders. I was like, ‘Nobody’s worried about an NAIA coach in Lawrence, Kansas.’”
Until they were.
Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social
Until they were.
Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social
Column | This women’s college hoops coach lost his job in government’s mass firings
Adam Strom intends to finish the season at Haskell Indian Nations University, but he won’t be getting paid for it after recent federal cuts.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“I paid very little attention to politics,” Adam Strom said. “... They were talking about layoffs, cuts, executive orders. I was like, ‘Nobody’s worried about an NAIA coach in Lawrence, Kansas.’”
Until they were.
Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social
Until they were.
Column by @kevinbblackistone.bsky.social
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In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In case you were wondering how the Trump admin was still freezing NIH funds, despite court orders, this is how.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...