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@elbaylow2.bsky.social

Columbus, OH. Interested in news, politics, history, tennis, animals, pop culture, and other things.

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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

10.11.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15192    πŸ” 4093    πŸ’¬ 258    πŸ“Œ 202
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IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

14.10.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1756    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 125
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Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧡)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

14.10.2025 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6139    πŸ” 3258    πŸ’¬ 285    πŸ“Œ 1489

The β€œOops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

14.10.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4695    πŸ” 786    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 44
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Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

14.10.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16862    πŸ” 2402    πŸ’¬ 332    πŸ“Œ 164
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

07.10.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 56358    πŸ” 21131    πŸ’¬ 1723    πŸ“Œ 1240

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

06.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13306    πŸ” 5842    πŸ’¬ 161    πŸ“Œ 105
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More people should be talking about this.

26.09.2025 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7486    πŸ” 3416    πŸ’¬ 434    πŸ“Œ 398

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

21.09.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12995    πŸ” 3832    πŸ’¬ 390    πŸ“Œ 200

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

20.09.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 59067    πŸ” 13377    πŸ’¬ 1781    πŸ“Œ 524
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Noah Wyle wins Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the #EMMYs for β€˜THE PITT’

15.09.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 9

Charlie Kirk called me a β€˜lunatic’ and a β€˜prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

10.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 38978    πŸ” 6078    πŸ’¬ 2398    πŸ“Œ 459

showing up at cracker barrel dressed as the scrapped new logo, sobbing uncontrollably in the gift shop, screaming desperately at the day manager to give me another chance

27.08.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1182    πŸ” 126    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 4
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Happy cows

24.08.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12771    πŸ” 2368    πŸ’¬ 249    πŸ“Œ 226
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Concentration Camp Duty: The Last SS Guard Gregor Formanke stood guard in Sachsenhausen. Jerzy Zawadzki was nine years old, and a prisoner. When Formanek is indicted at age 99, their lives intersect once more.

It’s worth your while to spend some time with this piece.
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

20.07.2025 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1540    πŸ” 636    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 51
DHS Twitter account: 
FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES!

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DHS Twitter account: FIRE UP THE DEPORTATION PLANES! Image of a skeleton doing squats with the text MY BODY IS A THAT TURNS MACHINE ICE FUNDING INTO MASS DEPORTATIONS

This is a real tweet from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

09.07.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6569    πŸ” 2220    πŸ’¬ 851    πŸ“Œ 737
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A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.

Breaking news: An imposter using AI to pose as Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacted three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.

08.07.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 391    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 87

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

27.06.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40900    πŸ” 8665    πŸ’¬ 440    πŸ“Œ 208
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Everyday painkiller made from plastic β€” by E. coli Study highlights potential for sustainable synthesis of paracetamol.

E. coli bacteria being used to convert plastics into paracetamol is the feel-good science story of the week that I needed to read.
#science
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

27.06.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

I watched "Trainwreck: Poop Cruise" on Netflix. There is no amount of money you could pay me to get me on a cruise ship. It's just not an option for me.

25.06.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.

Make sure everyone knows who to blame when their costs go up www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...

04.06.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 581    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
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NYT: β€œThe episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

31.05.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10132    πŸ” 4717    πŸ’¬ 1367    πŸ“Œ 753
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wearing a suit and tie, is sitting at a table. A headline reads: "White House Health Report Included Fake Citations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wearing a suit and tie, is sitting at a table. A headline reads: "White House Health Report Included Fake Citations." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times.

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a β€œclear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

29.05.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1836    πŸ” 731    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 130
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Trump’s tax bill to cost 830,000 jobs and drive up bills and pollution emissions, experts warn Bill will unleash millions more tonnes of planet-heating pollution and couldn’t come at a worse time, say experts

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035.Β 

Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

27.05.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4233    πŸ” 2023    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 91
Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams β€œbudgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had β€œleft” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with β€œdo not resuscitate” – or DNR – and β€œdo not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their β€œcode status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams β€œbudgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had β€œleft” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with β€œdo not resuscitate” – or DNR – and β€œdo not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their β€œcode status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

21.05.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5591    πŸ” 2973    πŸ’¬ 219    πŸ“Œ 604
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Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

β€œUnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

21.05.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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FEMA Has Canceled Its Four-Year Strategic Plan Ahead of Hurricane Season Multiple FEMA employees tell WIRED that they did not know of another time when a strategic plan was rescinded without another in place.

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

21.05.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2652    πŸ” 1496    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 213
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LISTEN as GOP Sen. Johnson admits the GOP tax scam will increase the deficit by $4 trillion with the Big Beautiful Bill, and that Medicaid will be cut: "Now what are you going to cut? Medicaid, absolutely"
#StopTheBillionaireBailout

21.05.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5341    πŸ” 2481    πŸ’¬ 221    πŸ“Œ 134
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ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen.

Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison.

@nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

21.05.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8403    πŸ” 4542    πŸ’¬ 842    πŸ“Œ 685