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Alice Miranda Ollstein

@alicemiranda.bsky.social

health care reporter for POLITICO
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Being overweight can be protective, some people who are obese are also metabolically healthy, and not all fat is bad. This is a fun & insightful story about a complex, contested & important area of research 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop... by @cragcrest.bsky.social on Scientific American
People Who Are Fat and Healthy May Hold Keys to Understanding Obesitywww.scientificamerican.com “Heavy and healthy” can be a rare or common condition. But either way it may signal that some excess weight is just fine
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NEW: On the 2 year anniversary of the fall of Roe v. Wade, a new coalition is going on offense to win back federal protections for abortion. More on the $100 million, multi-year plan --> www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
Inside the $100-million plan to restore abortion rights in Americawww.politico.com Leaders of the coalition say they want to make the procedure more accessible and affordable than ever before.
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Beautifully written and fascinating piece about bike theft. "Behind each lost bike was a phantom-limb ache. For many cyclists, a bike isn’t just an ingenious concatenation of gears and carefully chosen components. It’s the sum of everything the owner has experienced while in the saddle."
The West Coast’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexicowww.wired.com “We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale.
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Anti-abortion groups *appeared* to lose big at the Supreme Court today. Yet tucked in the pages of the unanimous ruling against them were breadcrumbs laying out a path for similar challenges to abortion pills in the future. www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
The anti-abortion wins buried in the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling against themwww.politico.com Four ways the Supreme Court decision could serve the anti-abortion movement.
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Hochul "paused congestion pricing because it doesn’t poll well. It didn’t poll well before it was instituted in London or Stockholm, either, where it has been solving gridlock, increasing bus ridership and reducing asthma rates. Opinion shifted in those cities after residents saw the benefits."
What Made New York Great? Leadership. Where Is It Now?www.nytimes.com The city was built on bold ideas. Suddenly Gov. Kathy Hochul paused a game-changing plan to fight congestion. Can we still do big things in a polarized moment?
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Trump insists he won’t ban contraception in a potential 2nd term. But policies in his 1st term made birth control harder to access for a lot of poor and working class people, and his allies are drafting plans for him to go further if elected in Nov. My convo with KCRW: www.kcrw.com/news/shows/p...
Would Trump restrict access to contraception in his second term?www.kcrw.com Donald Trump insists he won’t ban contraception in a potential second presidential term. But he and his allies are drafting policies that would come close.
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Nearly all Republicans voted against the Right to Contraception Act today, with many arguing that it was a partisan stunt pitching a solution to a nonexistent problem. But there are real threats to birth control access at both the state and federal levels.
‘Calling their bluff’: Contraception bill fails in Senatewww.politico.com Democrats hope Republicans who voted against the legislation pay a political price in November.
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Texas' abortion ban prevented doctors from providing an abortion to a woman with a failing pregnancy—forcing her to instead pass the pregnancy on her own. She spent days in agony, vomiting and bleeding, until she passed out from blood loss and nearly died. www.dallasnews.com/news/public-...
How a couple found themselves tangled in Texas’ strict abortion laws after miscarriagewww.dallasnews.com A Texas woman needed help passing her incomplete miscarriage and wanted a surgical abortion. Her husband said that two medical centers denied or delayed a...
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"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution."
What does a city that has spurned cars look like? Olympics visitors to Paris will get a lookwww.nbcnews.com Changes designed to encourage people to take other forms of transportation have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution, according to city officials.
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World Central Kitchen is back up in Gaza, having named its new meal distribution center after one of the aid workers killed in airstrikes last month. They're also on the ground in flood-affected areas of Rio Grande do Sul. So if you're looking for places to put your money: wck.org
World Central Kitchenwck.org Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick ac...
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Thrilled to chat with @gregsargent.bsky.social about our reporting on the chasm between Trump's pledge not to restrict birth control, his first term record of doing just that, and the plans his allies have made for him to go even further if elected in November.
Inside the Secretive Trump-MAGA Plot to Take Away Your Birth Controlnewrepublic.com Donald Trump’s allies are quietly laying the groundwork to get him to restrict access to contraception if he wins. A top health care reporter explains why it just might work.
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In a private group chat, police in Mississippi made racist jokes, urged each other to tase suspects and encouraged violence against people they were meant to protect. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/u...
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Trump has vowed not to "ban" birth control. But as president, he enacted several policies that made it harder for the working class & poor to access it. And his allies want to reimpose those policies and go further if he wins in November. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
Trump says he won’t ‘ban’ birth control. Here’s what he may do instead.www.politico.com The “Project 2025” blueprint includes proposals to remove requirements that insurance cover male condoms and emergency contraception.
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Radical Israeli settlers have expanded their attacks on aid trucks passing through the West Bank this month, blocking food from reaching Gaza as humanitarian groups warn that the enclave is sinking deeper into famine.
Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gazawww.washingtonpost.com The settler groups use a web of publicly accessible WhatsApp groups to track the trucks and coordinate attacks, providing a window into their activities.
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Stefanik's Elevate PAC was founded to elect more GOP women to congress, but their website is dead + Open Secrets shows them giving lots of their money to men this cycle 🤷‍♀️ I wrote about how we got here for the 538/ABC liveblog where we are following today's primaries: abcnews.go.com/538/live-upd...
Republican women's groups are investing in fewer races this cycleabcnews.go.com Follow 538 for live updates on the Maryland, West Virginia and Nebraska Democratic and Republican primary elections for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor.
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NEW: State and national leaders sound the alarm that Democrats’ efforts to ride the coattails of abortion ballot measures could put their passage at risk. Some ballot campaigns are avoiding events with Democrats — concerned they would politicize the measures and turn off GOP/independent voters.
National Dem strategy worries state abortion-rights leaderswww.politico.com Democrats’ efforts to ride the coattails of abortion ballot measures put passage at risk.
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Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups have one thing in common. They’re worried third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sway the 2024 election.  “I am absolutely concerned. We have to be. He could siphon folks away from the president.” "This should not be dismissed.”
‘This should not be dismissed’: Kennedy scares both sides of abortion debatewww.politico.com Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups fear the Kennedy scion will peel off voters disillusioned with Trump and Biden.
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Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups have one thing in common. They’re worried third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could sway the 2024 election.  “I am absolutely concerned. We have to be. He could siphon folks away from the president.” "This should not be dismissed.”
‘This should not be dismissed’: Kennedy scares both sides of abortion debatewww.politico.com Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups fear the Kennedy scion will peel off voters disillusioned with Trump and Biden.
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Two years ago the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Today the justices were confronted with the consequences of that decision -- story after story of pregnant people being denied treatment in a medical emergency, rushed across state lines or forced to wait until their condition became dire.
Supreme Court wrestles with the fallout of Dobbs in arguments on emergency abortionswww.politico.com Slippery slopes, tension on the bench and other takeaways from Wednesday's arguments.
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The justices who overturned Roe said it's not appropriate for “unelected members of this Court” to “override the democratic process” & set national abortion law. But they are poised to do just that, deciding if hospitals must treat pregnant patients in an emergency. www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
Patients are being denied emergency abortions. Courts can only do so much.www.politico.com Doctors say they fear that following their medical judgment could cost them their license or land them in jail.
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What Trump/Republicans are saying: Abortion should be up to "the will of the people" in each state What Republicans are doing: Pushing bills, lawsuits, bureaucratic maneuvers and street-level confrontations to keep abortion off the ballot in Arizona, Missouri and beyond.
Conservatives clash with Trump on leaving abortion up to voterswww.politico.com The gulf between what Trump said and what anti-abortion groups want underscores divisions that have dogged conservatives for two years.
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NEW: Republicans around the country are working to thwart abortion referendums even as Trump says access should be left to "the will of the people." Their array of tactics includes bills, lawsuits, bureaucratic maneuvers and street-level confrontations to keep the issue off the ballot.
Conservatives clash with Trump on leaving abortion up to voterswww.politico.com The gulf between what Trump said and what anti-abortion groups want underscores divisions that have dogged conservatives for two years.
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BREAKING: Indiana Appeals Court sides with Jewish plaintiffs who challenged the abortion ban Mike Pence signed into law as a violation of the religious freedom law he *also* signed into law. public.courts.in.gov/Decisions/ap... Similar lawsuits in several states are moving forward -->
The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion banswww.politico.com Jews, Episcopalians, Unitarians, Satanists and other people of faith say the laws infringe on their religious rights.
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NEW: Anti-abortion activists/elected officials have a backup plan should the Supreme Court reject their arguments for nationwide restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. In fact, they have several. “We’re not putting all our chips on this one case.” www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
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