Heather J. Chin
@heatherjchin.bsky.social
deputy editor @billy-penn.bsky.social @whyynews.bsky.social | @aajafreelance co-director + @aajaphilly nat'l board rep | @switchboardnyc | Always curious, often hungry | RT/like=🤔🤣🤗🔖
"There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it." www.wired.com/story/the-pa...
The Painful Truth About Long Covid
There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.
wired.com
This was alarming to experience across the city. It was storming so hard it looked like heavy fog slamming into the city. "...storms known as “microbursts” caused heavy damage Saturday to homes and infrastructure in West and South Philadelphia, &parts of Montgomery County." whyy.org/articles/phi...
Philadelphia recovering from Saturday's microburst that damaged homes
No one was hurt, but reported property damage is extensive after a rare summer storm brought 70 mph winds and major flooding.
whyy.org
🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued July 9 at 2:19PM EDT until July 9 at 5:30PM EDT by NWS Mount Holly NJ 🚨 Additional Details Here.
The Ben Franklin Bridge will close for its 100th anniversary celebration this summer on July 11! Here are the details. billypenn.com/2026/03/24/b...
Philly's Ben Franklin Bridge to close for 100th anniversary celebration
The bridge will close to traffic on July 11 for the celebration of what was once the world’s longest suspension bridge.
billypenn.com
@phillypaws.bsky.social is the city’s largest rescue partner. It provides services across the city that helps ensure animals have homes and pet families have support. Discover more about Philly neighborhoods all around the city at BillyPenn’s City Guide.
You know the system is rigged when out-of-state trawlers are destroying our fisheries, and subsistence fishermen are the ones hit with restrictions. Our "leaders” are punishing Alaskans to protect the corporations doing the damage. Ban factory trawling.
Alaskan frustration grows over trawling during the Yukon River salmon moratorium | CBC News
Alaskan tribal nations and small-scale commercial fishers say they are bearing the weight of salmon conservation while the commercial fish trawl industry continues harvesting in the ocean — and tens o...
cbc.ca
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
How did the government decide OpenAI's frontier model was safe to release? | TechCrunch
"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
techcrunch.com
New research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
State voter registration lists largely accurate and up-to-date, new research shows
Most of the states with higher active registration rates utilized cutting-edge methods to get voters to register, like automatic voter registration, same day registration, and online voter registratio...
democracydocket.com
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
inquirer.com
Reading about abuse of “anti-terrorism” in Trump admin, being pushed by Seb Gorka*. “Mr. Gorka has repeatedly told U.S. officials that ‘there are no lone wolves.’” I’m sure he’d agree this is true for all the mass shootings by anti-semitic, racist shooters. *who should be nowhere near power.
U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left
nytimes.com
Right-wing media hawks are scrambling to salvage an unprovoked war with Iran that failed to halt its nuclear program and disrupted global trade.
As Trump declares Iran ceasefire “over,” right-wing media hawks push for ground troops, regime change — even nuclear strikes
mediamatters.org
Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
motherjones.com
It's kind of beautiful and awe-inspiring hearing the rolling thunder [hear my cry] and watching sheets of rain come down over Philly, but only because I am inside and not drenched.
To be clear on this, there are still union work unit staff among the employed at SciAm. The axe just fell heavily on outspoken organizing committee members. see www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti... What happens next is an interesting story
WGAE-Scientific American Union Statement on Springer Nature’s Sale and Layoffs | Press Room
The following is a statement from Writers Guild of America East members at Scientific American on today’s decision to sell Springer Nature and lay off staff: “Earlier today in an all-staff meeting we ...
wgaeast.org
Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
group.springernature.com
I am not so old that it was that long ago when grade school civics taught us monopolies are something to be wary of and warded against.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House.
A medical examiner has ruled the death of Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker, a homicide by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after ICE released her from federal custody in freezing temperatures. #AbolishICE apnews.com/article/hait...
A woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office...
apnews.com
i really, truly, find this offensive
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2mo agoIn front of the Lincoln Memorial. This.
Philly Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel said that the scale of the event was part of the issue, while Jacen Bowman, president of Philly Black Pride, said law enforcement presence was far too excessive. billypenn.com/2026/06/09/p...
Philly officials respond to backlash against heavy police involvement at Pride festivities
“That is not us,” police commissioner Kevin J. Bethel said, rejecting claims that the department is hostile to Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ community.
billypenn.com
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
When you hear it said that the screwworm poses a threat to cattle and to livestock and to other animals, please understand that “other animals” includes you. * A compendium of the 326th week of plague poems… librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/p...
Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Sixth Week
As the week begins I look at the news and wonder which of the four horsemen will take the lead this week? And as the week begins I look at the news and wonder how many more than four horsemen are r…
librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
The Trump administration is expected to shut down all USDA Climate Hubs unless Congress acts to protect them. “Shuttering the program will likely end up costing us far more than what we spend on it,” said @julianjonreyes.bsky.social in a statement:
Congress Must Protect Farmers from Trump Administration Cuts, Save USDA Climate Hubs
The Trump administration reportedly intends to shut down all USDAClimate Hubs. Congress has a critical opportunity to protect them. Statement by UCS.
ucs.org
Insightful take: "Whether by design or ineptitude, it would essentially make the current system of federal science pretty much impossible. Even if one agrees that the system is in need of reform, breaking the system without having a robust, viable alternative would leave our nation very vulnerable."
Alan Gerard@wxmanms1.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe proposed OMB grant regs definitely warrant the concerns being expressed about the potential politicization of science - but trust me as someone who has managed federal science grant programs, the admin and process changes are very worrying all on their own as well. tinyurl.com/mr24jusr
RIP Anthony Stewart Head. TY for presenting kindness & bringing to life the Taster's Choice commercial guy, Sir Walter Elliot, a*hole ex husband in Ted Lasso, a*hole aristocrat in Bridgerton, etcetc, and, of course, now and forevermore, the best Watcher & fictional father figure, Rupert Giles.
SCOOP: I got exclusive internal documents from the white supremacist group Patriot Front, showing the group is in 49 states and has grown fast. The docs outline strict rules on propaganda and show the group’s expansion into racist “active clubs”: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Exclusive leaked documents expose growing white supremacist group
The documents, provided by a source inside Patriot Front, shed new light on the inner-workings of the group.
usatoday.com
NEW: The chair of the President’s Cancer Panel, Dr. Harvey Risch, is a co-author on a study touting ivermectin for cancer. The study is backed by two anti-vax orgs, including The Wellness Company, which sells the drug and with which he is affiliated. www.importantcontext.news/p/chair-of-p...
Chair of President’s Cancer Panel Co-Authors Ivermectin Cancer Study Backed By Supplements Company
“It’s marketing disguised as science.”
importantcontext.news
hate to be that bitch but trans people have been BEGGING libs and Dems to get muscular in the trans debate and we were universally demeaned, discounted, and attacked in response.
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe new Republican taunt, calling James Talarico trans, is (yes) bait designed to trap or divide the left. But it's also a witch hunt in the classic sense of the term. A dangerous escalation of degenerate MAGA politics. And something Dems should address muscularly. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...
a world, to say nothing of a Slate, without the Culture Gabfest doesn’t make sense to me. Legends all.
Carl Wilson@carlzoilus.bsky.social · 2mo agoVery sadly, it's been announced today that the @slate.com Culture Gabfest, which set the standard for arts podcasts, will end after this month. I had the honour of being one of the first regular guests to come say goodbye, with a final great conversation. carlwilson.substack.com/p/au-revoir-...
