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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Elias☘️☘️🌵🌵 @ksksz.bsky.social · 2h

‏My son has been severely malnourished for three months, with digestive and immune system problems. Even after milk and food entered Gaza a week ago, he refuses to accept anything and is on intravenous drip. Help me treat him and be generous.
‏Vireted by @mommunism.bsky.social

gofund.me/015c8fe1

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

people to *read about this

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

Her behavior was a big enough breech, IMHO that she should have to find another line of work.

Just like RFK Jr. should never have been near healthcare after he was complicit in the deaths of many in that Samoan outbreak. It's a continuation of no consequences.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

But it's not like this is happening in a vacuum.

And despite her horrible behavior and breech of journalism she's landed a book deal where she expects people to write about this, and an editor job at a national magazine.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

It is in fact incredibly bad for reporters to have romantic relationships with their sources, especially when their sources are running for president of the United States.

Also, it sucks to say this, but it's a horrible trope of women journalists too. She shouldn't have to rep women journos

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

You realize they are two sides of the same coin: an astonishing lack of ethics which they will monetize to the highest bidder?

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

The ask when you got married is the worst!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

or have a narrow use case.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Have you ever read Vitamania I think you'd like it.

The first thing I tell people who are reaching for a supplement or vitamin is if they think they have an issue they should talk to their doctor first and get bloodwork run. I come across as anti-supplement and I'm not, I just think a lot are crap

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4h

There are lots of people concerned about Ed Markey's age who wanted him to get primaried. Yet the universal reaction this morning to Seth Moulton running seems to be, "Yeah, I'll stick with Markey."

That's how much Moulton sucks.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 4h

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

I wear a mask and luckily, it's not zero in NYC, but I've been told more than once I didn't need to or to take it off and the people who were telling me weren't raging MAGA.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.

Six people are being deported because of what they said online.

Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.

It won’t stop with these six people.

Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Yes I'm aware. But I said "before computers" because it's the computer systems that are the issue.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

That was true in 2020 and 2021 that isn't true anymore.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

(And I know that vitamins are technically different from supplements just making a point broadly)

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Yeah, I should have put natural in quotes. The point is that a lot of people think supplements are safer than pharmaceuticals because of the "natural glo". Many of them are not "natural" at all. I'm under no illusion that the vitamin D pill I take in winter is anything but irradiated lanolin.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

Yeah, but it's easier to do when you already have a backstock of stuff

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

the supplement industry got regular people to push for no regulation on supplements through misinformation, and now it's so firmly entrenched in the psyche that somehow supplements are natural and not in the business of making money unlike "big pharma"

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 2h

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 27d

New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...

Transatlantic Bridge Professorships

The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...

www.volkswagenstiftung.de

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2h

This is the thing that has been most shocking for long-time advocates. The CEO of my agency has been doing this work for 40+ years and she consistently says how support for policies supporting the disabled has long been bipartisan.

(Caveat in the next post that I can't fit in this post!)

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2h

It may be hard to believe, but for the better part of 40 years, Republican presidents frequently signed legislation promoting special education. Nixon signed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. George H.W. Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Educastion Act
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

The GOP once supported special education programs. Recent dismissals at the Education Department put an end to that support.

www.msnbc.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

I should check mine (but it's in a fire safe). Also same. Like this is my name from birth and it's so frustrating especially with airline systems. So often swipe my ID didn't work because one had the hyphen and the other didn't.

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