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NEW: TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help since the Trump administration began dismantling the CFPB.
An important primer on vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Absolutely!! Can't wait to hear your first episode :)
Ahh congrats!!!!!
In the episode, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis touches on:
- RFKJ turning down briefings from the CDC
- Vaccine policy changed without input from CDC leaders
- CDC leaders denied access to data after policy changes were made
- Worry that public health policy will be driven by ideology, not science
"Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who led the center that oversees emerging diseases and vaccine safety, said he decided to resign before he was dismissed, in part hoping that doing so would allow Dr. Monarez to continue as the director."
"She had two lines in the sand ... One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.”
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CDC director Susan Monarez declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events.
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1/ Yesterday, the FDA changed the license for the #Covidvaccine.
The vaccine label has been limited to everyone over 65 and for those 6 months through 64 years old with at least one condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19. This is a deep dive to bring you up to date👇
a heartbreaking - gutting - overview of the scientists we have lost so far under this administration by my colleagues @bxroberts.org @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @pratheekrebala.bsky.social
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In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left, and the admin refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis, a thread...
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies.
We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left.
They refused to give us numbers.
So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵
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I'm a science journalist for @statnews.com looking to talk with folks who applied to biomedical Ph.D. programs and had offers rescinded earlier this year. What have you been up to since then? You can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com or via Signal (username jwosen.27). #journorequest
"GPT-4o had been known for its sycophantic style, flattering its users to the point that OpenAI had tried to tone it down even before GPT-5’s release... The extent to which people were attached to GPT-4o’s style seems to have taken even Mr. Altman by surprise."
HHS staffers implore RFK Jr. to ‘stop spreading inaccurate health information’ in wake of CDC shooting. Story by @megtirrell.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/08/20/h...
My latest on the Health Sec who promised to figure out what causes autism and the autism research that's been stopped along the way www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
1/ Popping back in with another #fallvaccine update. 👇
In case you missed it, Friday (or soon after) the FDA is expected to license the Covid-19 vaccine. Word is that the label will be restricted to adults 65+ and people at high risk.
But a few organizations have made different recommendations.
It looks like officers stopping a Massachusetts family as they drive home from church on Mother’s Day, shattering their window, and letting the kids in the back of the car watch as their dad is forced to kneel, then slammed chest-first to the ground. 9/
An article screenshot reads: "YOUR CAR is a constitutional gray zone. It doesn’t have the same Fourth Amendment protections as homes. You can refuse to open the door of your home if officers don’t have a judicial warrant; you can’t refuse to step out of your car. The Constitution still limits when officers can use force and how much they can use. But there are no firm rules. Should they shatter windows just minutes or seconds after making a vehicle stop? Should they drag someone through broken glass when they could wait to make the arrest another day? “Use of force has to be objectively reasonable,” says Bruce-Alan Barnard, a retired Fourth Amendment instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, where ICE officers train. The problem with “objectively reasonable,” Barnard says, is that “it’s an oxymoron. What’s reasonable to you might not be reasonable to me.” Immigration officers are given little guidance on whether or how they should breach car windows, former federal law enforcement..."
So “Is this legal?” may be the wrong question. “Is this normal?” was the better one. We did eventually find 8 instances of ICE and Border Patrol smashing car windows in the decade before Trump’s second presidency. But we’ve found nearly 50 instances in the six+ months since. 5/
THREAD: All over the country, immigration officers are smashing car windows to get at the people inside.
As we began tracking incidents, my @propublica.org colleague @nicolefoy.bsky.social and I had two questions: First, is this legal?
Second, is it, well, normal? Was this happening before? 1/
We can't address health disparities if we can't study them. These actions will harm so many communities.
With Deep N.I.H. Cuts, Research Into Health Disparities Falters www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/h... via @nytimes.com CC: @irenatfh.bsky.social @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social @sungheelee.bsky.social
AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel appeared on @wbur.org's Here & Now today to speak about the sweeping review of the Smithsonian ordered by President Trump. 🗃️
"New York City’s hospitals... depend heavily on international residents... At Brookdale, the rate of visa-holding residents is even higher, in part because the hospital has challenges attracting American medical graduates." by @annaoakes.bsky.social www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/14/b...
