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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 15m

Campanelle/gigli. Great presentation, fun to eat, sauce loves to stick to it!

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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 1h

The massive downsizing in the spring across many agencies was also "botched," lest we forget.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1h

alcohol is very bad for you, forget every bullshit story about heart health and wine, alcohol is very bad for you on multiple levels 🩺

Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1h

🍷 New research overturns the “light drinking protects the brain” myth. Even a drink or two a day isn’t risk-free — any alcohol use is linked to higher dementia risk. Using genomics data from 2.4 million people, researchers found that every threefold increase in drinking
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

No amount of alcohol is safe, at least for dementia risk, study finds

Even a drink or two a day is linked to a chance of developing dementia as you age.

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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 16h

Cars.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

NHANES runs mobile clinics that travel the country measuring height, weight, & blood pressure while collecting blood and urine samples. These samples are our only national source for tracking everything from blood sugar to hormones, heavy metals, and more.

The entire operation has been eliminated.

Kevin C Klatt, PhD, RD @kcklatt.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone across biomedicine should be very loud about this so this team's RIF status gets reversed. Nhanes has been key for tracking obesity & diabetes rates, identifying high blood lead levels in kids in the 70s, tracking progress on cholesterol lowering, guiding nutrient fortification programs etc

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 19h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until people realize their kids won’t get to play sports.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 3d

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The agency cut nearly everyone who works to administer federal funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, one staffer said.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

If cars are so bad for our health, our cities and the planet, why can’t we quit them? Three new books argue it’s time to really try.

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 4d

Does this count for people illegally “RIF”d in the spring, too?

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Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 4d

I pretty much regret it every day so I pledge to help.

Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 4d

They do if government does the booking and chooses the more expensive property. Again, not everything is done by per diem.

Stacy Lu @moxieluhu.bsky.social · 4d

Right,so what the hotel chooses to charge may vary. I’m not talking about the per diem. If a Ritz Carlton knocks off 10 bucks and the best western knocks off 10 bucks, the end prices are likely quite different. Some agencies book travel directly from time to time, too.

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