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Jacqui Lough
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Public health researcher-in-training, dual Australian/American citizen, former interactive news editor, formerly extremely online, New Yorker at ❤️ though I live in Melbourne. Mum, spouse, student, dog supporter
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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · Sep 10
*picks up phone*
*puts phone back down*
jacquilough.bsky.social
Foreign policy via how much wood could a woodchuck chuck 🙃
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d
What a headline:

US Senators Say They Spoke With Rubio About Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Who Denied It Is a US Plan

(This as other US officials are still saying it is the US plan)
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
jacquilough.bsky.social
I just realised our new doggo is an Australian Australian Shepherd 🥰
Photo of our Australian Shepherd puppy (11 weeks) sleeping at my feet. She's very cute, a blue merle pup with black white and tan fur.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion!

1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who.

You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...
Max Headroom 1987 Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
YouTube video by andrew867
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
jacquilough.bsky.social
It's 6am, I've been up since 5 watching my daughter sing Let It Go, and we all have COVID. How's everyone else doing?
November 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
jacquilough.bsky.social
"Perhaps the old left v right binaries really are dead. This was a case of game recognising game – of Queens recognising Queens."

Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I ❤ NY: Queens recognises Queens as Trump gives Mamdani warm reception
No fists, no fire – the president and the mayor-elect met in Washington, and things went bewilderingly, bizarrely well
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
jacquilough.bsky.social
I've been offline due to family illness but I'm not sure I want to read the news anymore. And I used to, uh...
maxberger.bsky.social Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 3d
I can’t quite put it into words, but Trump praising Mamdani on the same day that MTG resigns in opposition to “big Tech, big Pharma, the war complex and big donors” feels like a harbinger of realignment.

There is a political earthquake trembling beneath the surface waiting to break through.
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
jacquilough.bsky.social
Swastikas and calls for executing congresspeople? WTF is happening over there, USA?
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans.

> 74 thousand trial participants affected

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

1/4
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
jacquilough.bsky.social
Oh good grief
usili.bsky.social SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 8d
What the fuck are these paragraphs from Nuzzi's book.

This like, genuinely makes me feel like I am a much better writer then she is.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
vanityfair.com Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 8d
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.

In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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I hate this timeline.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10d
A heartbreaking response
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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wow, washington post.

lol that’s the actual headline: comma, epstein.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump faces heat from MAGA base on ‘America First’ agenda, Epstein
MAGA leaders erupted over the president’s assertion that the U.S. needs foreign workers. That rift and others have raised GOP concerns about enthusiasm ahead of the midterms.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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paulgp.com
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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davidakaye.bsky.social
of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
jacquilough.bsky.social
When I left the NYT for the BBC, I found the same strange mix of brilliance and inertia.

An editor once told me that pushing for change at the BBC was like trying to steer a massive ship. Luckily for me I was brought on to innovate reporting and distribution processes 🤪
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Whoa, the DG _and_ news head have resigned over this?! www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
jacquilough.bsky.social
Just doing some research on different project management frameworks for public health interventions and, damn, get a load of the alert at the top of this CDC page...
Screenshot of CDC Approach to Program Evaluation page featuring the following alert at the top: "The Trump Administration is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Certain federal government activities have ceased due to a lack of appropriated funding. During the government shutdown, only web sites supporting excepted functions will be updated. As a result, the information on this website may not be up to date and the agency may not be able to respond to inquiries."
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
jacquilough.bsky.social
I wish more of the news was like this. The style section but actually stylish.
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Shit like this is why I honestly feel more like an elder👵elder millennial ('77) than supposed Gen X.
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
jacquilough.bsky.social
I'm already seeing good signs from the whole situation, but my god the last several weeks have been insanely punishing: toddler overcoming previous reactive dog plus wild & bitey puppy, hectic university schedule, fucking housework forever, cooking and lol meal planning...
November 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Thanks a lot for this 5 years ago memory google photos 🙄
Photo of my tv election night 2020 featuring Kamala Harris giving her VP victory speech.
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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I spent Halloween chasing ghosts. Not kids in costumes, or jumpscares in a haunted house. I spent Halloween chasing ghosts of a different kind: careening from one ICE spotting to another. I wrote an essay about it, and about other ghosts we’re chasing. dansinker.com/posts/202…
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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altcdc.altgov.info
Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social!

CDCDataProject.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM