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Kathleen Bachynski

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Assistant Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.


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Seattle scene report 👏👏👏

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Miles Grant's avatar Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social
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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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“The authors stress, though, that this observational study does not show that the drugs cause higher rates of NAION — just that there is a potential association
 The researchers still believed it’s important to report the findings to spur further analysis and to make doctors and patients aware.”

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency

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Bruno J. Navarro's avatar Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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Laura Helmuth's avatar Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu đŸ§Ș

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Nasal vaccine: Researchers are enrolling volunteers for a Phase I clinical trial of a #Covid nasal vax. Adult volunteers are being sought for study sites nationwide. The candidate vax is expected to have enhanced protection against a range of emerging #SARSCoV2 variants www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

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“We don’t know how the diets of people on GLP-1s change,” said Dr. William Dietz
 Sites like Nestlé’s that market supplements to GLP-1 users are “an attempt to really jump into this space and try to create a business based on very little data” about how diets should be supplemented, if at all”

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“Direct-to-consumer websites like Nestlé’s “may at best be harmless and a waste of money,” said Dr. Jody Dushay, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School
 At worst, they could lead someone to try to treat potentially severe symptoms with supplements, rather than going to a doctor.”

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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“A visitor to Nestlé’s GLP-1 nutrition site might not realize right away that it’s run by NestlĂ©. The company’s name is not in the URL. On the home page, it only appears at the very bottom. The site offers “expert tips” and other information and sells an assortment of products from different brands”

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“As the use of popular weight loss and diabetes drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic skyrockets, consumer brands are scrambling to adapt. But health professionals are warning consumers not to take medical advice from the same companies trying to sell them food, supplements and other consumables.”

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“The outbreak has shone a light on how vital veterinarians are in the business of farms, the safety of our food supply, and monitoring for human health threats. But the demands on them are adding more weight to a profession that’s faced workforce shortages going back decades”

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NEW: DOJ officials plan to pursue the criminal cases against Trump past Election Day even if he wins, under the belief that department rules against charging or prosecuting a sitting president would not kick in until Inauguration Day. (gift link)

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Kathleen Bachynski 's avatar Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social
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Choosing to hope: please, please let him be sentenced to some jail time a few weeks before the election

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super interesting to me that Harris doesn’t just do better than Biden here but does better than most of the floated alternatives www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

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“So far, the agency has given eight companies licenses for its tests, Shah said. Three additional licenses are pending & another four companies are in the process of applying
The effort appears to be aimed at avoiding mistakes the federal government made in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic”

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“Moderna is set to receive $176 million in federal funding to develop a human vaccine against bird flu
 The HHS award
will go toward developing an mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine. Moderna’s candidate for the vaccine draws from mRNA technology used successfully during the COVID-19 response”

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“The local alert comes days after the CDC issued a health advisory warning of an increased risk
 The two confirmed dengue cases in the Keys were locally acquired, which means the people didn't get sick while traveling. Miami-Dade County has also reported locally acquired dengue cases this year”

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The question of whether one can get a good job in higher education seems at least as important as—and certainly worth constant discussion alongside—the question of what kind of job one can get with this or that college degree.

So many cuts in June alone. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

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Today's must-read. Everything has a history, including yesterday's judicial coup on behalf of the executive, now possessing legal immunities that would be the envy of an absolute monarch.

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Chloé Stawski 's avatar Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social
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Italy going for our jugular

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Elon Green's avatar Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social
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In a sense, this is the inverse of '16. McConnell held the SCOTUS seat open & the party responded accordingly. Now we have a situation where we can keep a lawless nazi from using these new executive powers & greenlighting Project 2025. Our side ought to be just as eager, even excited, to fight this.

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“The scientists we spoke to all said they buy organic produce. But they cited people, rather than the planet, as their No. 1 motivation: On organic farms, workers are exposed to fewer pesticides. “For me, that’s the key
 The chemical exposure that conventional agriculture brings is very, very real”

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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It's hard to process. It will probably take a generation to overturn. Possibly much much longer, if ever. But there's no way around working to overturn this. We've just been given a massive new challenge we didn't have yesterday.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.

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“As of Monday, the bedrock principle that no one is above the law has been set aside. In the very week that the nation celebrates its founding, the court undermined the reason for the American Revolution by giving presidents what one dissenting justice called a “law-free zone” in which to act”

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As a timeline cleanser
 here are some native plants starting to make an appearance in my backyard

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Melissa Johnson, PhD's avatar Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social
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I have literally no idea how to teach the Constitution this fall. "It's all vibes depending on who"s on SCOTUS"

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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction

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chatham harrison is tending a new garden's avatar chatham harrison is tending a new garden @chathamharrison.bsky.social
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These are the terms in which we need Democrats to be talking, & we need a platform that reflects it. If I am going to communicate to voters how critical this moment is, I need to be able to point to firm action Democrats intend to take to protect democracy against this nonsense.

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Now “all future presidents will enter office with the knowledge that they are protected from prosecution for even the most appalling and dangerous abuses of power
 [the framers of the Constitution] carefully limited the chief executive’s powers. And six justices just crowned him king.”

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Jamison Foser's avatar Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Also if you are 48 years old you have lived *your entire life to date* under the authority of a Supreme Court majority appointed by Republican presidents. It's a clear violation of the principle that governments derive legitimacy from the consent of the governed. Happy July 4th Week!

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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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Sonia Sotomayor: “Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency. It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law
 I dissent."

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