Rebecca Raskin

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Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

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Stand with Condé Nast Union  We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Use the link in bio to add your name.

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Do you know how you are going to feed your family this month? If you don’t know how you are going to feed your family this month, this post has a list of resources you can look into today.

If you don’t know how you are going to feed your family this month, this post from @emkayhey.bsky.social has a list of resources you can look into today.
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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I wrote about celebrities and worms, but more importantly, how worms are a major global health problem.

Aaron and Claire have some incredible stew recipes! aaronandclaire.com/category/sou...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter.

Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

Just me again, writing about all the health videos on TikTok

If this scheme unleashes mass roundups and forced incarceration, decree would take us further down the road of cruel authoritarianism that other anti-democratic leaders have pursued. Forget anodyne terms such as “civil commitment,” which disguise a brutal and inhumane approach to homelessness.

What’s the deal with heavy metal poisoning? Heavy metals, like lead, can build up in the body and cause poisoning or toxicity. For most people, this is unlikely to happen from everyday exposures.

Heavy metals, like lead, can build up in the body and cause poisoning or toxicity. For most people, this is unlikely to happen from everyday exposures.
Read the full post from Rebecca Raskin-Wish here: thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

APHA Joins Leading Medical Professional Societies, Patients Sue HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Unlawful, Unilateral Vaccine Changes AAP, ACP, APHA, IDSA, MPHA, and SMFM Join Together to Stop Assault on Public Health Today, the American Public Health Association (APHA) joins the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Physicians (ACP), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Massachusetts Public Health Alliance (MPHA), Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), and a pregnant physician, filed suit in American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to defend vaccine policy, and to put an end to the Secretary’s assault on science, public health and evidence-based medicine.

NEW: The country's top medical and public health professional societies are suing RFK Jr for unlawful anti-science changes to government vaccine guidelines.

Folks did you know you can just buy "Bad Jews" by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social? It's true! Maybe get a copy
for yourself and another for the Fox-addled in your life. www.harpercollins.com/products/bad...

This is not the "Republican Party." It is the Fourth Estate carrying water for a Narrative™️ it is desperate to tell.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.

Getting big money out of politics. 

Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare...

This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I keep hearing about full-body MRIs. Are they worth it? For most healthy people, no, full-body MRIs aren’t necessary. It’s much more important to work with your provider and discuss your own risks and health goals.

For most healthy people, full-body #MRIs aren’t necessary. It’s much more important to work with your provider and discuss your own risks and #health goals.
Read the full post by @rjraskin.bsky.social here:
thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/i-keep-hea...

So many ✨incredible✨ professionals have signed up to attend Take Your Kid to Publishing Day! Like… Ivan Taurisano @amynielsen.bsky.social
@naomikirsten.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social & more! Please keep sharing about this FREE #kidlit event so more kids can join the fun! #writingcommunity

A couple years ago the people banning books were like "we're not banning books we're just removing them from schools, you can still get them elsewhere" and now here we are

Supporting medical science in the USA The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

“Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.” The Lancet calls for Kennedy’s resignation. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Trump Takes a Major Step Toward Seabed Mining in International Waters A new executive order pits the United States against the rest of the world over the question of who can exploit mineral resources in shared waters.

No exaggeration, deep sea mining could cause the massive collapse of the entire deep sea ecosystem and food chain.

This is an existential risk to every person on this planet.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/c...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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What’s up with NAD+ supplements? NAD+ is heralded by celebrities as the fountain of youth, but there’s no solid evidence to back that up.Though NAD+ shows some early promising benefits in

To learn more, read the full post by Nerdy Girl Rebecca Raskin-Wish @rjraskin.bsky.social here:
thosenerdygirls.org/nad-suppleme...

#supplements #NAD+ #publichealth #ThoseNerdyGirls

Not to repost my own writing, but...

House Republicans in competitive districts are about to rip healthcare away from up to 29% of their constituents. I recently posted Congressional District-level breakouts of total enrollment in ACA Exchange Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans, Medicaid/CHIP programs as well as Medicare. You can view the m...

🚨 NEW: House Republicans in 29 competitive districts are about to rip healthcare away from up to 29% of their constituents.

I've broken out all 29 of them.

acasignups.net/25/02/24/hou...

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Other Countries See Trump for Exactly What He Is He wants us to disbelieve our own eyes and memories. Ukraine’s neighbors have seen it all before.

New from @emilyctamkin.bsky.social on how down is not up: “Zelensky had simply said that Trump was living in a ‘disinformation space.’ That is only an attack on Trump if one considers telling the truth to be an attack on the president’s authority. Evidently, Vance does.“ slate.com/news-and-pol...

Week 4 Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

We do this all to stay focused, not flooded. I share the sense we’ve made in a late Friday night debrief.

There is a lot to feel sad & sick about. I can’t tell you things will be okay, but I can tell you A LOT about efforts to make it better.

This was week 4.

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