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How Rob Curley’s plan to make the Spokesman-Review ‘The People’s Paper’ ended in a newsroom revolt (Reported in collaboration with RANGE) www.investigatewest.org/rob-curley-s...
How Rob Curley lost the Spokesman-Review newsroom
Newsroom staffers tell InvestigateWest and RANGE that concerns about Curley’s leadership festered until his August suspension — weeks before the paper was set to transfer to his nonprofit
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When catastrophic wildfires blazed across Spokane and elsewhere this summer, DEOHS researchers and partners mobilized to collect short-lived evidence that could have a long-lasting impact on people's health. #NationalPreparednessMonth @uwsph.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu @uw-edge.bsky.social
I bet insurance companies are thrilled with the Trump administration‘s message to policyholders that they need to file claims on every policy they have or they might risk losing it.
They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoAssistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
Turns out union busting can have effects on citizens health.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.New at Can We Still Govern?: At a time when other institutions have bent the knee, public sector unions have fought Trump, acting as canaries in the coalmine, warning us how cuts will lead to disasters like the explosion of food borne illnesses we've seen. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unions-aga...
New at Can We Still Govern?: At a time when other institutions have bent the knee, public sector unions have fought Trump, acting as canaries in the coalmine, warning us how cuts will lead to disasters like the explosion of food borne illnesses we've seen. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unions-aga...
Unions Against Voughtism
Federal unions can connect the dots to reveal the dangers of gutting government capacity.
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Earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance breathlessly made an announcement about stopping fraud that probably had nothing to do with real fraud and everything to do with kicking people off health insurance. Read me @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2157...
Check Your Mail. JD Vance Might Have Canceled Your Health Insurance.
The vice president’s task force is recklessly canceling Obamacare enrollees over allegations of fraud. It will result in eligible people losing their insurance.
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The people who built AI with seemingly little care for the havoc it could cause and no guardrails to protect public should be held accountable for every problem AI is now causing. They want to make billions but don’t want to accept responsibility for their technology. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
Breaking: OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal.
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#rfkjrmustgo news.bloomberglaw.com/pharma-and-l...
RFK Jr.-Linked Group Offered Access to US Officials for Fee (3)
A nonprofit group with ties to US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solicited payment from companies in exchange for access to top agency officials at an upcoming event, accord...
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#rfkjrmustgo episode infinity... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/h...
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Everybody keeps talking about how natural treatments and cures should be utilized, well here's exactly that. A cancer treatment that harnesses the power of your immune system to take down cancer cells. It only took four decades to make, thanks to reliable funding of science and research.
NEW: in a speech to the antivax organization he founded, RFK Jr. amplified vaccine risks, falsely claiming vaccines are not safety-tested and linking them to chronic diseases, and vowed to fight for those who say they are vaccine-injured w/ @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Daniel Wu wapo.st/4xuuInG
RFK Jr. says Americans worried about vaccines have a ‘friend at the White House’
Since being confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made clear he wants to overhaul the nation’s immunization system.
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Patrick Hunter MD, the pediatrician on the panel, has a small twitter account that has only been tweeting about his opposition to pediatric gender affirming care. Literally every tweet starting in 2021.
Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: RFK Jr. appointed 8 new members to the US Preventive Services Task Force, after more than a year of stymieing its work. I'm diving into their backgrounds now and will update soon. The selection process was opaque and HHS didn't provide required public access to the nomination materials.
#rfkjrmustgo www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/w...
RFK Jr. Names New Members to Powerful Health Panel Whose Work He Has Blocked (Gift Article)
Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly interfered with the work of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, whose recommendations guide insurance coverage for many Americans.
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#rfkjrmustgo 🎁🔗 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
RFK Jr. uses military aircraft as he campaigns for GOP in midterms
The White House and Department of Health and Human Services lawyers signed off on the plan to let the health secretary use military jets, according to people familiar with the plan.
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Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.
There are still spots open for our LEGO Stop-Motion Studio program on Wed, 9/9, at 10am. This program is geared towards kids age 8-14, and due to the time of this event, is great for homeschooled kids. Register ASAP at the link in our bio!
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
HOLD UP: on top of countless food recalls & a surging measles outbreak that's killed two people, we now have a COVID surge, too? And the RFK Jr's CDC is downplaying the risk by "bluewashing" of its risk maps, downgrading severity without explanation amid rising transmission." Read this:
Judy Stone@drjudystone.bsky.social · last mo.New: Covid-19 Cases Surge—Here’s What’s Different This Summer That Will Help via @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... #Ensitrelvir #Metformin #Paxlovid #azelastine #bluewashing #SwissCheeseModel
Heartbreaking stuff from @citizencohn.bsky.social on the likely long-term toll of Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. Great reporting: www.thebulwark.com/p/cancer-bre...
This Cancer Breakthrough Has Scientists Cheering—and Crying
They know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible.
thebulwark.com
Dolly Parton saved many, many people’s lives with her contributions to the Moderna vaccine and that is what I will remember about her more than anything. We should all hope to do this much good. www.knoxnews.com/story/entert...
Dolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccine
Dolly Parton's philanthropy extended to any cause anywhere she felt she could make a difference, big or small. That’s just who she was.
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