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Ellie likes data @ellim992 The whistleblower report from SSA's Chief Data Officer is insane, everybody should read it. Without any means of tracing access or use, "Big Balls" uploaded American's SSNS, DOB, health info, and more into an unauthorized cloud environment and every American could need a new SSN. i. Initial DOGE request On June 10, 2025, John Solley asked SSA CIO professionals to create a cloud environment 46 to which SSA's Numerical Identification System or "NUMIDENT" data could be transferred. 47 The purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data. To Mr. Borges' knowledge, such a project is not inherently dangerous, as long as proper security controls are in place. On June 11, 2025, the request appeared to have changed to a request to transfer NUMIDENT to a test environment. 48 Based on Mr. Borges' experience and expertise, this was an odd but not unheard of request, as it is atypical and strongly discouraged to move production data to a test environment. Later that morning, it became clear that DOGE's request again changed, at this point, they wanted full administrative access to the cloud environment. 49 4:00 AM Aug 27, 2025 2.9M Views

I'm just going to leave this here. The thread and/or the report should be read in full.

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Another way I'm potecting my family is voting.
We need elected officials who prioritize people over profits at the federal, state, and local level. We're turning the wrong way on dealing with a dangerous contamination in our environment. x/

TL;DR: get a water filter

Studies found up to 84% of dietary PFAS coming from seafood, but many of these are in countries with lower enviornmental pollution. The benefits of eating seafood outwiegh the risk from PFAS, but lower consumption of shellfish and tuna in favor of things like salmon helps.
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Ironically, stain resistant cotton has more PFAS than polyester. (Regular cotton has less.) I'm choosing a PU polyester rain suit for the kids over a goretex-type one. Sorry, sweaty babies.
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Avoiding clothes with PFAS: I live in the Northwest and we need a lot of waterproof clothing. While you’re not likely to get significant exposure from your hiking boots, it's still adding more to the environment. We wear Keens, and I like Nikwax for waterproofing.
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FDA has a list of 35 PFAS ingredients that companies add to cosmetics. I avoid these. Rulemaking was underway to remove them from the market, but that is now stalled. Many are present in makeup, haircare, and sunscreen.
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Regular handwashing reduces PFAS concentrations on the hands. For infants and toddlers, up to 40% of their PFAS exposure if through hand-to-mouth dust exposure. Along with vacuuming, make sure babies and toddlers are washing their hands before eating.
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All drinking and cooking water goes through the filter. I’d love a house filter, but that’s not an option at this time.
Dust and vacuum regularly, preferably with a HEPA filter. In adults, inhalation and ingestion of PFAS dust makes up 10-15% of exposure.
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I live in the Northwest, and we have substantial industrial contamination in our environment. As a public health professional, here are some steps I take for my own family to reduce our exposure to PFAS:
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The current administration makes the future of PFAS removal more concerning, as funding constraints on states and municipal budgets are delaying infrastructure projects. Testing and research funding has also been cut.
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You can also ask your local water utility what they're doing about PFAS, and ask your state representatives to address the issue. Many utilities are working on filtration systems to remove PFAS from the water, but those are often a couple years away.
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Interactive Map: PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 9,323 Sites in 50 States The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate.

PFAS contamination is worse in previously industrial areas. You can check with your local water utility about PFAS levels, you can take a look at this map here:
www.ewg.org/interactive-...
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Filter your water. Now. Please. I like ZeroWater because it's economical and effective, but anything helps. A Brita gets about 80%. A reverse osmosis system is great, but expensive. The lowest rated filters remove ~50% of PFAS, but that's still 50% less exposure from water.
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For all the "crunchy" concerns about our food, most claims about hormone disruption and immune function center around non-specific and unproven vibes, usually because they want to sell you something to "detox". But we have evidence for the toxicity of PFAS, and a solution:
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Even low-level PFAS exposure is linked to immunotoxicity in children. PFAS in pregnant women can increase blood pressure and result in low birth weight infants which leads to developmental disorders. PFAS can disrupt fertility, cause cancer, and disrupt hormone function.
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Yes, PFAS is now ubiquitous in the environment and our food supply, and it’s still used in many products.
But, dose makes the poison, and the largest dose is coming from your drinking water.
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The EPA found that most PFAS exposure was in drinking water (~50-70% of total),
followed by diet (~40%),
inhalation and ingestion of dust (~10-15%),
and dermal exposure (~2-5%).
Local contamination can significantly increase your overall exposure from drinking water.
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PFAS degrades in the environment over time and the degraded form is easier for the body to absorb. A generation of neutral PFAS in our environment has now become more persistent and toxic ionic PFAS.
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A difficulty in public health is getting people to understand how additional resources and knowledge are improving outcomes, but you never see how fully because there's always something else. It’s like new holes keep opening up in the ship hull.
Patch one, on to the next.
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PFAS is found in food, water, clothing, cookware, cosmetics. And dermal exposure and inhalation are significant, it's not just ingestion.
The message is: you're getting it from other sources, so your water contamination isn't that big of a deal. This is dangerously misleading.
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I've been involved lately in policy work regarding PFAS.
All local water sources are above state action levels, so we prioritize lower-contaminated sources and turn higher-contaminated sources off until needed.
We tell people not to worry—and we're wrong to do that.
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Mississippi: Breakout of healthcare coverage of total population

Mississippi: Net ACA benchmark premiums for various households at various income levels if IRA subsidies expire

🚨 HEY #MISSISSIPPI:

You may not have expanded Medicaid under the ACA, but 338,000 of you (11.5% of your total population!) gonna see your health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if Republicans allow IRA subsidies to expire.

(sorry for lame graphics on this one, wanted to get it out quickly and demonstrate what information those formulas take into account without throwing greek)

To be clear: We don’t have a fertility collapse happening right now. We had the first generation knowingly picking worse for their children (see Greenspan Commission), "higher taxes for everybody— after me" or insolvency.

If there’s a crisis, it’s one of selfishness, not birth rates.
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Natalism has roots in eugenics, the people pushing this conspiracy are just concerned with white births. They have pushed the idea hard enough it’s become mainstream, regular people believe we have a crisis of being below “replacement” fertility.
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There is no birth rate crisis in the U.S. right now. There is a tempo shift in births, but we’re above replacement.
I believe we *CAN* create a fertility crisis in the U.S. if we try, we know tough economic times push childbearing and that political instability does't help.
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TFR hides this generational math by flattening time, Boomers like it because it makes them feel superior and blames everybody but themselves.
Real demographers, actual experts, use cohort fertility to model population growth.
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Boomers inherited an incredible system.
Then they:
• Cut their own taxes
• Blocked immigration
• Burned down investment in families and education.
• Didn’t have enough kids!
And they have the audacity to blame the fertility of younger generations?
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Gen X women? Cohort fertility remained above replacement for each birth year.
Millennials? Also on track if trends hold— despite a pandemic in the middle of their highest fertility windows. There is no reason to believe Gen Z will buck the trend, yet.
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The only time the actual expected number of children over a life course fell below replacement? Boomers.
Women born from 1952 thru 1962 did not hit replacement fertility while they were building the system they now say is "unsustainable."
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