Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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It is 11:15 on Halloween, and the Christmas commercials are airing.

That’s one of those songs that very viscerally brings back a memory of being in my best friend’s basement at, like, age 13. Songs are weird like that.

Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’ Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels

“Indigenous people are the stewards of much of the remaining standing forests and contain the hope that these precious places can be preserved.”

Not said in the best way, but it is absolutely right that honoring Indigenous land kinship is the right and necessary thing to do.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Halloween from
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I love Kangaroos
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And don’t order delivery!

Our department is hiring! Consider applying for those who have research areas in medicine, health and/or well-being. Follow the link to apply: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311234/...

Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…

Turns out Trump's "Defending Women" executive order is not, in fact, about defending women's health. It has led to the removal of of a lot of crucial information about women's health. This just out in a peer reviewed article by Patricia Homan and Susan Short. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Halloween! LEGO Karen is delighted with the trick-or-treaters who’ve come to her door.

Postdoc (m/f/x) – Population Data and Projections OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

📢 Vienna Institute of Demography @demographyvienna.bsky.social is seeking a Postdoc Researcher in Population Data and Projections RG 📈 📊

I can't recommend enough working at VID, especially with Anne!

💯 friendly, supportive environment with world-class researchers.🤓
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Your waiter should have done you a favor and asked if meant to order that type of wine! That’s on your waiter, IMHO.

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Glad you liked it! I'm always very happy when people are having a baby because it usually means this is something they very much want. So congrats to your family!

One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

More waste, fraud, and abuse

*opens the door

"If the Democratic future requires us to exchange our discomfort with casual Nazism to advance a political agenda, I am not interested. Maybe ...Platner will find a way to redeem himself. No one owes him that chance, but there is still a way forward. It’s called doing the work."

Rewriting women's health: a content analysis of the Trump administration's revisions to womenshealth.gov In 2025, the Trump administration instituted rapid changes to the data and information available on US government websites. We conducted a content ana…

New publication with @susanshort.bsky.social in @lancetrh-americ.bsky.social. We analyzed 2025 revisions to womenshealth[dot]gov under the Trump administration -documenting how credible health content was replaced with ideology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The state of the pronatalist movement The pronatalist movement, which claims to be rectifying what some of its members describe as the likely collapse of civilization due to population decline.

I spoke w/ @npr.org's Here & Now about pronatalism. The conversation about low birth rates is really about creating a moral panic. Once folks are convinced that low rates cause major problems that can *only* be addressed through raising rates, it opens to door to all sorts of regressive policies.

"If we had a contingency fund."

You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Medicaid funding shortfall shutters statewide program helping moms and babies The state's Perinatal Quality Collaborative has been credited with reducing C-section births, boosting breastfeeding, and cutting infant infection rates.

“The simple fact is, if at the end of the week we have no funding, [North Carolina is] going to be the only state in the union without a [Perinatal Quality Collaborative], which would be really sad, because we really have a lot of work to do."

Who wants to hang out? #legokaren

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

What a colossal waste of time
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

And the stupid "liberals promoting childcare is actually racist" - what even is that?

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He also has some drivel about how he doesn't really see those rare racists as real pronatalists and so the pronatalist movement isn't racist.

Wednesday on Wednesday! #legokaren

Casey Means | Center for Reproductive Rights Officially nominated, Surgeon General | Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), Department of Health and Human Services

"Means regularly spreads misinformation and uses stigmatizing language about contraception, assisted reproduction, and fertility." @reprorights.org links to some the alarming and inaccurate statements Casey Means has made. She is not Surgeon General material!
reproductiverights.org/casey-means/

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