Susan Walsh

Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article) As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.

The CDCreported 1,544 measles cases as of Sept. 24, the highest number of annual cases since the US declared measles eliminated in 2000. #medsky #vaccines
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Elite?

Get Out: Adams Opens Campaign Office in Building With Vacate Order The storefront Democratic club HQ where the mayor just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony had a parapet collapse in dramatic fashion two years ago.

The storefront Democratic club HQ where the mayor just had a ribbon-cutting ceremony had a parapet collapse in dramatic fashion two years ago and is still subject to a vacate order, @katiehonan.bsky.social reports.

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We made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship.

Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it.

What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

The ATS condemns the HHS Sec. Kennedy’s unilateral decision to dismiss all members of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This decision undermines decades of medical and scientific that have been vital to safeguarding public health.
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Studies show that just one exposure to tear gas can increase the likelihood of respiratory illnesses. That's why in 2020, the ATS called for a moratorium on the use of tear gas and other chemical agents.

Learn more about the damage tear gas causes (via @wired.com‬): www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Have You Recently Sought Help From the CFPB? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is walking away from cases that might have helped return money to consumers across the U.S. We want to hear from people who feel left behind.

Have you:
• Filed a complaint with the CFPB in the past year?
• Had problems with a company whose case the CFPB dismissed or stopped investigating?
• Been in touch with the CFPB regarding investigations or resolutions in the past year?

Let us know 👇

The fact that people accidentally text the wrong person is precisely why federal workers must use secure channels and hardened devices. Don't spin it, @usatoday.com

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

COME WORK WITH ME!

Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?

@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.

Deadline: April 14

*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.

These companies want to be “non-banks” that can accept deposits of your money and then not have any legal obligations to protect it—which lets them use it to speculate on crypto etc—and not have FDIC insurance. They need to kill the cfpb to do that.

A Storied Newspaper Prepares to Print Its Own Obituary The Star-Ledger, New Jersey’s longtime paper of record, will publish its final edition on Sunday and become an online-only news outlet.

“The Ledger would write something on a Sunday and all the newspapers would follow for the rest of the week,” said Peter J. McDonough Jr., a close aide to former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. “They called out the B.S.”
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Yikes!😱

UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Killed Updates But at the hotel, by necessity, life paused, then went on. A hotel is meant to be calm - this one in particular perhaps, serving if not as an oasis, then a carpeted pocket of quiet against the volume of Midtown, with its coffee carts and taxi cabs, its sidewalks jammed with tourists and men and women walking, head down, in suits. The hotel staff, in its heavily trafficked lobby, projects an aura of having seen it all, and having looked away. Though yellow police tape closed off a section of West 54th Street just outside a side entrance, hotel guests continued traipsing in and out of the main entrance on Wednesday morning. Natasha Reyes, a cashier at the gift shop, said that she had arrived about an hour before the shooting, and never heard anything at all.

This is probably how it was when other major events were happening around the hotel. When, for example, Mr. Presley, in a baby-blue suit, was giving an interview in a ballroom. Or when Neil Sheehan and his colleagues from The New York Times, booked several rooms to compile the story on the leaked government report that would roil the nation with its revelations about the Vietnam War. Hotels are meant to absorb whatever happens. If there is conflict or even tragedy, they are just the backdrop.

shout out to the nyt live blogger who’s really just going for it today. have you ever thought about hotels?
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:

Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Hello, new followers and connections and friends from the other app! I’ve been taking social media breaks on the weekend and am still deciding how much I want to use this app, as nice as it appears. Have a good weekend and remember to take care of yourselves. 😊

This explains the smoke smell…

Thank you for posting this! I’ve had my windows closed and haven’t been out yet. I also love that Bluesky showed this to me now, not 3 days later! 🤓

Firefighters have responded to more than 200 brush fires in the past two weeks, including nearly two dozen in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx.

If a fire breaks out near your home, here's what you can to keep your indoor air clean:

Read more here: https://buff.ly/4fKtbl4

Was anyone in the NY/NJ tristate affected by the bad air quality from the fires last week and interested in telling your story to an advocacy group that works on human impacts of extreme weather? DM me if so!

I love birds! Moving over from the other place and just getting started. Here are my budgies!

Thank you. I’ve had this account for a while, but have not been using it. This is a good start for avoiding toxic crap.