The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear. This is causing real harm. It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

TONIGHT! I’m tabling at the first and then popping over to the second one! You can go to one, both, or neither, but you deserve the RIGHT to CHOOSE 😤

UPDATE: 25 states plus DC have taken actions to protect COVID-19 vaccine access. Two regional public health alliances have formed: The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance. There are several midwest and mountain states who have collaboration potential.

I've said this before, but I feel pretty strongly that the building of concentration camps - and now, the inevitable disappearance of 1,800 people from those camps - is the biggest story in American public health right now that isn't being treated like one

The normalization of the fascist anti-science, eugenicist platform is nauseating and devastating. And also, because I absolutely refuse to let this reality destroy my sense of humor, all this talk about the "cause of autism" makes me think of this classic KITH sketch: youtu.be/qN7be1ADhKI?...

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy Musicophilia Friday! Tune in tonight from 10PM-12M CST as my buddy Spencer from local band Burnt Sugar joins me for an in-studio performance, interview, AND guest DJ set. Listen to some sweet poppy sounds as well as we discuss such topics as musical influences and performative masculinity. 🖤

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

I worry very much about what will happen as we descend into economic depression and frightening totalitarianism, surrounded by a toxic and contaminated drug supply. People lean on drugs to ease pain and survive. If you’ve needed a cold beer after a bad shift, you get it.

Grocery store radio stations that still play The Wallflowers are keeping us all alive

Just walked into the grocery store and "One Headlight" was blasting over the speakers. @nikostratis.com is right, it is the perfect grocery store song (check out "The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman").

Update: WSJ basically retracted but still has a weaselly new headline that is also bad ("Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology; Some Sources Urge Caution"). This is STILL poorly-sourced, irresponsible "journalism" & ought to be retracted.

Its not funny, every journalist that uses the phrase "transgender ideology" is incredibly at risk of driving straight into a tunnel on the highway that is actually a photo-realistic painting on the side of a cliff

Happy Friday! Back on @wtul.bsky.social tonight from 10PM-12M CST with a nice little variety mix. 🖤

The September issue of @antigravitymag.bsky.social is now online, and also marks my 6th anniversary with the magazine (and 6th year of writer imposter syndrome, which probably won't go away). Check out the issue, and go to @salonofshamenola.bsky.social on October 1st. antigravitymagazine.com

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

we’re in a moment where the information environment is totally destroyed and easily manipulated by very smart politically powerful communicators who know how to use the flaws in our online ecosystem to target their enemies in an incredibly effective way if you aren’t taking that seriously, why

Pretty important context for all the "MAHA" nonsense is that chronic disease deaths are falling almost everywhere, including the United States

What if Fraggle Rock existed in The Walking Dead universe— Were they unaffected? Or did they suffer the same effects as the rest of the world? Are they still dancing their cares away, or are they aiming for the head… 1/3🧵

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NEW: Louisiana’s deadly whooping cough outbreak is now its worst in 35 years www.wwno.org/public-healt...

Always remember: pay enough attention to what's happening in the world so that you can get scared. Only the scared can be brave, and everything is better when you're brave.

COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

"But when we all slid our tired bodies into the car, all anyone could do was laugh at the shared absurdity of it all...We shared in our own triumphant failures together, we were bonded by them." 🖤

These days, I feel like I am always 10 seconds away from going Woman on the Verge (TM), which is why I have been seeking out soothing media treats such as this delightful @youaregood.bsky.social episode. Check it out, and also check out @nikostratis.com book "The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman."

Proud to be a part of @antigravitymag.bsky.social; at risk of being a broken record, independent news outlets are needed now more than ever. Join us at the Original Nite Cap for @salonofshamenola.bsky.social on 10/1. 🖤

Thank you @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social for getting my good side.

This is also a eugenicist practice. A lot of disabled people don’t have an easy “tag”, like an Rx for adderall or Ritalin in their file. So going after a disability state that IS easy to spot on Rx records is a great first step if you want to chip away at the pool of people allowed to exist.

The entire CDC—and every other HHS-governed institution—should strike until RFK Jr, who allows no dissent, is forced out. Allowing this man to continue to wield power will cost thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. He must be removed. We need to use extraordinary means to achieve that.

We should all probably just go ahead and download this.

“In a rare move for a U.S. public official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., called for a paper that found no link between aluminum in vaccines and disease to be retracted. The journal rejected the request.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

Happy Friday! Five Fridays this month means a bonus Musicophilia! Tune in from 10PM-12M CST for a setlist based around movie soundtracks*, to celebrate summer's (unofficial) end. 🖤 *Yes, this is partially an excuse to play something from the "Judgment Night" soundtrack.

Mayor Harrell Hands Reporter Bribe in Bag of Tim’s So Everyone Stops Calling Him the ‘Cuomo of Seattle’: tinyurl.com/4myuvwya

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@salonofshamenola.bsky.social , the younger sibling of Seattle's @salonofshame.bsky.social , is back after almost 6 years to benefit @antigravitymag.bsky.social ! Come to the OG Cap on October 1st to hear your favorite AG editors and writers read wonderfully cringey writings from their youth! 🦄

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👀 DC demonstrators are just out here straight up yelling at the masked agents with a megaphone: “STAY AWAY FROM HOMELESS PEOPLE YOU FASCIST PUNKS” Posted by @patriciaeguino.bsky.social to Instagram and shared here

don’t underestimate the importance of that last one btw especially as it applies to the situation in dc, a city with a fairly small permanent population who are accustomed to being forgotten about. dont just be angry AT your reps or the president, be angry FOR those people

Submit your own close encounter to [email protected] or through our ANONYMOUS Google form. All email addresses will remain confidential. Don’t be a creep. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There is still time to submit your Close Encounters for our September issue!

Okay, tonight's little variety mix is going to heavily feature DC/DMV-area bands, particularly queer/femme bands*. Much love and solidarity to DC, much love and solidarity to Palestine, much love and solidarity all over the world. 🖤 *Yes, I am still going to play Fugazi, do not worry.

Happy Friday! I am back on the @wtul.bsky.social frequency tonight from 10 PM-12M CST. Tune in to hear a nice little variety mix, whether you are getting ready for a late adventure or having a comfy night in. 🖤

the analysis in here from people living in encampments is more incisive and direct than a lot of the coverage from national media streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

It's certainly a rough ride. The idea of a critic misunderstood by many to be "this person tells you if good/bad" instead of "this person engages critically and gives texture & shape to an otherwise flattened idea" and little support from major institutions to counter the narrative

The Louisiana legislature had a special session on crime, and all the bills were draconian “tough on crime” bullshit that’s been proven to only work to increase the number of Black and brown people in jail, and it included harsher penalties for juveniles. We already had harsh penalties for them.

Angela Calonder caught a photo of this juvenile possum in July. Named June, she is being rehabbed and will be returned to the wild. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/phot...

Happy August, Happy Friday, Happy Musicophilia Day! Tune into @wtul.bsky.social from 10 PM-12M CST tonight for some musical respite (setlist still in development). 🖤

No more flu vaccines, which are updated regularly. No HIV vaccine we were on the cusp of creating as a feat of humanity in this ongoing epidemic. Rural areas will suffer most. May future generations forgive and correct the ignorance and hate of this one.