We recently launched ProPublica Narrated, a podcast feed where you can listen to our best long-form investigations, read out loud.
First up: “Sick in a Hospital Town,” produced w/ Theater Of War Productions, tells the story of U.S. health care: https://bit.ly/4pO8lXd
NEW: RFK Jr.’s HHS made moves this week to restrict youth access to gender-affirming care.
HHS said the policy changes were based on a peer-reviewed report.
We looked at the peer reviews. They’re devastating.
One called the report “a dangerous incursion of politics into science and medicine.”
I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
About halfway sold out, whew! Giving this a little bump.
I've never been a sports person but I now support the Buffalo Bills enthusiastically because of their social media. My husband now frequently ask me Bills trivia questions only to be amused when I don't actually know anything about the team.
Science is confusing.
People deserve clarity.
We’re here for that.
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Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.”
By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
If you don’t know how you are going to feed your family this month, this post from @emkayhey.bsky.social has a list of resources you can look into today.
thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/do-you-kno...
I wrote about celebrities and worms, but more importantly, how worms are a major global health problem.
Aaron and Claire have some incredible stew recipes! aaronandclaire.com/category/sou...
I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter.
Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.
Just me again, writing about all the health videos on TikTok
If this scheme unleashes mass roundups and forced incarceration, decree would take us further down the road of cruel authoritarianism that other anti-democratic leaders have pursued. Forget anodyne terms such as “civil commitment,” which disguise a brutal and inhumane approach to homelessness.
Heavy metals, like lead, can build up in the body and cause poisoning or toxicity. For most people, this is unlikely to happen from everyday exposures.
Read the full post from Rebecca Raskin-Wish here: thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
APHA Joins Leading Medical Professional Societies, Patients Sue HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for Unlawful, Unilateral Vaccine Changes AAP, ACP, APHA, IDSA, MPHA, and SMFM Join Together to Stop Assault on Public Health Today, the American Public Health Association (APHA) joins the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Physicians (ACP), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Massachusetts Public Health Alliance (MPHA), Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), and a pregnant physician, filed suit in American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to defend vaccine policy, and to put an end to the Secretary’s assault on science, public health and evidence-based medicine.
NEW: The country's top medical and public health professional societies are suing RFK Jr for unlawful anti-science changes to government vaccine guidelines.
Folks did you know you can just buy "Bad Jews" by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social? It's true! Maybe get a copy
for yourself and another for the Fox-addled in your life. www.harpercollins.com/products/bad...
This is not the "Republican Party." It is the Fourth Estate carrying water for a Narrative™️ it is desperate to tell.
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed.
Getting big money out of politics.
Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages.
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare...
This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
For most healthy people, full-body #MRIs aren’t necessary. It’s much more important to work with your provider and discuss your own risks and #health goals.
Read the full post by @rjraskin.bsky.social here:
thosenerdygirls.substack.com/p/i-keep-hea...
So many ✨incredible✨ professionals have signed up to attend Take Your Kid to Publishing Day! Like… Ivan Taurisano @amynielsen.bsky.social
@naomikirsten.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social & more! Please keep sharing about this FREE #kidlit event so more kids can join the fun! #writingcommunity
A couple years ago the people banning books were like "we're not banning books we're just removing them from schools, you can still get them elsewhere" and now here we are
“Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.” The Lancet calls for Kennedy’s resignation. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
No exaggeration, deep sea mining could cause the massive collapse of the entire deep sea ecosystem and food chain.
This is an existential risk to every person on this planet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/c...
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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