Naomi Kaufman Price
@writeo.bsky.social
Flaneur. Interest packrat: Medicine, #medsky, especially patient experience, safety & OpenNotes. #birds. Retired journalist; still a newshound.
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It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.
December 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.
No, but I did want to see the camera tight-focused on his face while the reporter played clips of the prison.
At no point watching the 60 Minutes segment did I think, “gee, what would Stephen Miller have to say?”
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No, but I did want to see the camera tight-focused on his face while the reporter played clips of the prison.
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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Denmark’s vaccine schedule is the most minimalist of any developed country. Even other Nordic nations cover more diseases. Sweden, Norway, and Finland all have broader schedules. The U.K. is adding varicella in 2026. Germany is adding meningococcal B in 2025.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”
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December 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Denmark’s vaccine schedule is the most minimalist of any developed country. Even other Nordic nations cover more diseases. Sweden, Norway, and Finland all have broader schedules. The U.K. is adding varicella in 2026. Germany is adding meningococcal B in 2025.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
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Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing.
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing.
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...
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Kansas tribe ends nearly $30 million deal with ICE
Kansas tribe ends nearly $30 million deal with ICE
Kansas tribe ends nearly $30 million deal with ICE
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Kansas tribe ends nearly $30 million deal with ICE
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In California, you can kill someone with your car and not even have a point on your license.
That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt
📸 Fred Greaves
That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt
📸 Fred Greaves
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
In California, you can kill someone with your car and not even have a point on your license.
That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt
📸 Fred Greaves
That’s because of a criminal justice reform law passed in 2020, allowing judges to effectively erase a misdemeanor case from existence. bit.ly/4s4gYyt
📸 Fred Greaves
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Are you a doctor, nurse or other frontline medical provider who has recently left your position at a VA hospital or clinic?
We want to hear from you. Tell us your story:
We want to hear from you. Tell us your story:
Why Did You Leave the Department of Veterans Affairs?
ProPublica wants to hear from doctors, nurses and other front-line medical providers who recently left positions at a VA hospital or clinic.
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Are you a doctor, nurse or other frontline medical provider who has recently left your position at a VA hospital or clinic?
We want to hear from you. Tell us your story:
We want to hear from you. Tell us your story:
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Boris Gurman and Sofia Gurman. 💔 They died Al Kiddush Hashem. May their memory be a blessing and a shield.
Couple in dashcam footage who tried to fight off Bondi shooter identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman
Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrests a gun from him
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Boris Gurman and Sofia Gurman. 💔 They died Al Kiddush Hashem. May their memory be a blessing and a shield.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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What’s happening in Indiana right now is so important & it’s about more than maps. When the GOP stand up to Trump publicly, loudly, & with visible support, it creates permission. Permission to dissent. Permission to leave. These moments crack the illusion of unanimity that keeps people trapped.
'We can't be bullied': How Trump and the GOP's redistricting push in Indiana backfired
Aggressive tactics employed by Trump and his allies did not sit well with state lawmakers, who delivered a major political blow to national Republicans ahead of the midterms.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What’s happening in Indiana right now is so important & it’s about more than maps. When the GOP stand up to Trump publicly, loudly, & with visible support, it creates permission. Permission to dissent. Permission to leave. These moments crack the illusion of unanimity that keeps people trapped.
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From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
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December 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
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Amazing!
New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed the fastest test yet for diagnosing hepatitis C virus (HCV). The highly accurate diagnostic delivers results to patients in just 15 minutes —...
www.eurekalert.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Amazing!
New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
New 15-minute hepatitis C test paves the way for same-day treatment | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Love this city. 🫡
How exotic dancers became some of the biggest donors of toys to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
Tatas for Toys has evolved from a small charity show to a major fundraiser that collected $38,000 last year.
www.oregonlive.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Love this city. 🫡
Is this creepy? Yes.
But before we call people out as possible security risks based on what they read, recall the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Gays fired as security risks.
But before we call people out as possible security risks based on what they read, recall the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Gays fired as security risks.
This story is insane, but the moral appears to be don’t fuck with @dfriedman.bsky.social.
Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.”
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Is this creepy? Yes.
But before we call people out as possible security risks based on what they read, recall the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Gays fired as security risks.
But before we call people out as possible security risks based on what they read, recall the Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Gays fired as security risks.
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Parents outraged as Corbett school principal delays reporting to County Sheriff of student circulating AI-generated nude image of another student:
katu.com/news/local/c...
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Corbett families question administration's delayed reporting of nude AI image of student
Amid concerns over delayed police reports of an AI image depicting a student naked, questions remain on the timeline of when the incident was reported.
katu.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Parents outraged as Corbett school principal delays reporting to County Sheriff of student circulating AI-generated nude image of another student:
katu.com/news/local/c...
katu.com/news/local/c...
Oh well.
In this trial, a high-dose inactivated influenza vaccine did not result in a significantly lower incidence of hospitalization for influenza or pneumonia than a standard dose among older adults.
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High-Dose Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Hospitalization in Older Adults | NEJM
High-dose inactivated influenza vaccine has been shown to provide protection against
influenza that is superior to that with the standard dose. However, data from individually
randomized trials on ...
www.nejm.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Oh well.
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utterly lawless but for Brett Kavanaugh's idiocy
no standards, no rules, no decorum, no equality
no standards, no rules, no decorum, no equality
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
utterly lawless but for Brett Kavanaugh's idiocy
no standards, no rules, no decorum, no equality
no standards, no rules, no decorum, no equality
Not a great record to set.
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
Oregon sets record for whooping cough cases amid declining vaccination rates
Health officials say lower vaccination rates have contributed to the surge in cases.
www.oregonlive.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Not a great record to set.
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www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
Oh this is awful: #Portland surrogacy broker shuts down; money disappears. Surrogates& prospective parents in limbo. #oregon
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/h...
A Surrogacy Firm Told Parents-to-Be Their Money Was Safe. Suddenly, It Vanished.
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Oh this is awful: #Portland surrogacy broker shuts down; money disappears. Surrogates& prospective parents in limbo. #oregon
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/h...
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RSV infections are associated with an increased risk of heart attack according to a JAMA Network Open study of 17K matched patients age 45+. RSV associated with 4.69 additional cardiovascular events for every 100 patients in the year after infection jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Cardiovascular Events 1 Year After RSV Infection in Adults
This cohort study estimates the 1-year absolute excess risk of any cardiovascular event following laboratory-confirmed respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection among adults in Denmark.
jamanetwork.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
RSV infections are associated with an increased risk of heart attack according to a JAMA Network Open study of 17K matched patients age 45+. RSV associated with 4.69 additional cardiovascular events for every 100 patients in the year after infection jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The Portland school board's shoddy discussion about a $61m contract revealed a board chair who can't command a meeting, a superintendent resistant to questions and a board dynamic close to breaking down. This bodes poorly for the public. Editorial: www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...
Editorial: A PPS board breakdown signals bad news for the public
Last week's poorly run Portland Public Schools board meeting about a controversial contract revealed a board chair who can't command a meeting, a superintendent resistant to questions and a board dyna...
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December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Portland school board's shoddy discussion about a $61m contract revealed a board chair who can't command a meeting, a superintendent resistant to questions and a board dynamic close to breaking down. This bodes poorly for the public. Editorial: www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...