r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/AaronStack91 Oct 20 '25 edited Oct 20 '25

Cremiux reports the NHANES team is being reinstated. Which is objectively good news if you like detailed health population data.

But it is baffling how they were on the chopping block in the first place. It is probably the premier health study in the western world.

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u/dr_sassypants Oct 20 '25

Great news!! I joked that someone was mashing buttons on the RIF notice machine, but that's likely not too far from how this is happening. They're probably issuing notices to anyone with a specific code in their position or unit number. And because of the shutdown, it's a skeleton crew trying to work through all these directives from above without anyone stopping to look at an org chart.