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Reported from San Antonio area news -- There's a #Measles outbreak at the #Dilley detention center where #LiamRamos was being held. #LiamConejoRamos is back home but there are still 400 other children (1200 total detainees) still at the facility.
#MedSky #IDSky
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Imagine this in a trial.
Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing
Declaration filed in federal court:
"I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."
This still feels like an urgent and relevant call: mlkcelebration.com/mlk-the-man/...
Oral health is HEALTH: bsky.app/profile/kend...
Today ICE is allowed to resume using Medicaid data in deportation cases. The transfer of Medicaid data to ICE was unprecedented and put on hold. It's now back. We've uploaded the data sharing agreement here: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Science, not politics, should drive health care decisions.
CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined @strictscrutiny.bsky.social to talk about our suit against the Trump-Vance admin for retaliatory grant cancellations against @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and its advocacy for evidence-based vaccine policy.
Does digital information feel permanent to you? Well, it isn't.
A 2023 study found that in just 10 years' time, 38% of pages from 2013 went missing and 23% of news articles linked to a dead URL.
Learn more by clicking this functioning link ➡️ w.wiki/hrU
Agree. Lovely story.
I often find NYT frustrating, but I found these moving: 600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...
AAP learned this week that seven grants to AAP under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are being terminated. The sudden withdrawal of these funds will directly impact and potentially harm infants, children, youth, and their families.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Hundreds Quarantined in South Carolina as Measles Spreads www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...
I attended a talk by a scientist at a Chinese University and realized that all the background climate data that she used came from the US (CO₂ Keeling Curve, global temperature time series, etc.). Although China funds a lot of research, the destruction of US science will affect science globally.
Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
Best of luck to you!
This is helpful analysis for making sense of today’s SNAP whiplash: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...
“The US Government Accountability Office found that more than 2/3 of Georgia’s spending on a demonstration project to include work requirements in Medicaid expansion was spent on administrative costs, almost all of it going to contractors…
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If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.
So many of you asked if would be possible to view the full panels from our extraordinary Vision & Justice Now convening. Voila’! These conversations are SO rich. One every couple of days will get your thinking in high gear.
@the14thcenter.bsky.social
www.visionandjusticenow.com/panels
I don’t know how many times I have to say this but here we go again.
If you are standing in arms reach of me with a cute baby, I am allowed and OBLIGATED to try to take that baby.
Every legitimate court in the nation recognizes this right. Please be for real, gatekeeping cute babies.
Not to be THAT dictionary, but…
It’s ‘per se,’ not ‘per say.’
It’s ‘dog-eat-dog world,’ not ‘doggy-dog world.’
It’s ‘hunger pangs,’ not ‘hunger pains.’
It’s ‘one and the same,’ not ‘one in the same.’
It's 'buck naked,' not 'butt naked.'
From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.
NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises.
Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found.
By @emcahan.bsky.social
Book bans don’t “protect” kids; they erase perspectives, silence voices, and narrow our shared imagination. A free society thrives on stories that challenge, unsettle, and expand our thinking.
Let’s keep our shelves full, not empty.
#FreedomToRead #StopBookBans #IntellectualFreedom #LetKidsRead
CA Central Coast workers are harvesting peas. They're paid piece rate. On this day, they began at 7am & were still working at 5pm. A worker shared in order not to use time taking bathroom breaks they try to drink less, so they have the opportunity to harvest more. #WeFeedYou
