In Virginia, formerly Republican voters say they simply don't get the GOP's anti trans hysteria feed, and anyway, really don't care whether trans athletes compete in high school—all eight of them, nationwide. www.huffpost.com/entry/virgin...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

On this day in 1869, a white mob in GA attacked Abram Colby, a formerly enslaved Black state legislator, after he refused a bribe to resign. The mob kidnapped him in front of his daughter and brutally whipped him. He survived with permanent injuries.

If you are reading this piece today, you may be interested to know that I found Adam Bonica on moderate candidates compelling. Ht @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

The extent to which Google & Amazon are willing to collaborate with a genocidal apartheid state has reached "send them secret codes when they are about to get in trouble" and "contractually prohibited from terminating service over discomfort w/ illegal occupation" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

NEW: Sunrise over Hurricane Melissa. For too many Jamaicans, this will be a life-changing event. Melissa has now surpassed Hurricane Katrina in strength. It is the 8th strongest hurricane in recorded history.

Period blood could be used to track hormones, screen for cancers, monitor diseases such as diabetes & boost stem cell research. It is an underexplored sample source whose clinical potential is only now, in the year 2025, being examined with scientific care. www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

I don't appreciate how celebrity gossip is being ruined by AI. Stories that repeat entire sentences or a bunch of the same info. We deserve better celebrity gossip!

My chapter considers 3 narratives that I believe have been key to the minimization of COVID-19 in the United States: a misleading narrative casting the US body politic as “resilient,” and pejorative narratives about “vulnerable groups” and “the unvaccinated.” Details here

This book “brings to the fore the richly nuanced insights that narrative inquiry can produce for understanding COVID-19 (...) [with] contributions from scholars working in Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Europe.” A huge TY to editors Camporesi, Mulubale, and Davis

Out this month from @oxfordunipress.bsky.social—“Crisis, Inequity, and Legacy: Narrative Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Really honored to have a chapter in this wonderful edited volume

“…the construction of class and race, and racial prejudice, have created a system that keeps members of the lower classes precisely where they are.” www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

"Ministers are under pressure to U-turn on the decision to limit access to the Covid vaccine over fears it is creating a two-tier healthcare system as demand for private jabs soars." 1/ @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @profstevegriffin.bsky.social

We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?

The secret assumption of the liberal feminist bargain—that women would enter the public sphere and become full citizens & fiscally independent adults—is that men would necessarily have to compensate for women’s decreased time in the home by increasing their own share of domestic work. They didn’t.

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t." haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here

yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“The addition of these six individuals brings the total number of known people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson over his lifetime to more than 610.”

On this day in 1866, the Texas legislature passed a law restricting when Black people could testify in court, limiting their testimony to cases that involved people of color.

Every plantation is a haunting, a spectral laceration on the face of the world. I understand its importance for historians but will never respect it continuing to exist for as long as I do.

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

California hasn’t issued an emergency plea for the public to conserve energy, known as a Flex Alert, since 2022. Experts credit much of the progress to a surge in battery energy storage systems in recent years.

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

ICE is tear gassing schools

Catherine Connolly, a pro-Palestine, left-wing candidate, is on course for landslide victory as vote counting continues.

“Long COVID, which is known to speed up the aging process, adds complexity to a patient population that might already be dealing with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney dysfunction, joint pain, and symptoms of dementia.”

Long COVID Underdiagnosed in Seniors: What Doctors Need to Know

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

“It was not wounds of battle that killed most of these men… “The attrition of the army is extraordinary,” Dr. Harper said, “and underscores how much prior to the 20th century what we think of as wars are primarily medical events.” The infections, he added, “are diseases that exploit human suffering”

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

"Now not only scientists, but also politicians, are beginning to see the possibility of dual use of bogs to achieve two goals of the European Union – improving resilience and slowing climate change." We have an unlimited potential for bog restoration on the Eastern Flank. #Defence #Biodiversity

Elaine Brown, of the Black Panther Party, said, "We have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die, it’s not complicated. So, if there is a price tag to eating, then there is a price on your head, because the minute you don’t have enough money to eat, you’re slated for death.“

“The environment [was] destroyed before the war,” said El-Nahhal. “But since the war, it has been destroyed several times above imagination.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Researchers analyzed 73,000 immune cells from COVID-19 patients. They found that memory CD8+ T cells stay overactive and exhausted long after infection, keeping the immune system in a low-grade inflammatory state that may drive Long COVID. www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Many of the signs of perimenopause can also be symptoms of other conditions, and some of these get increasingly dangerous if they’re misdiagnosed

No trial by jury, just a single judge who is paid by the regime that denies that a low-level civil war even happened in the first place The way the British state washes its hands after eight-hundred years of conquest and torment is fucking repulsive

BTW, it really does appear that Tori Amos created the first known pumpkin spice latte. (Not a joke!)

Air-quality reforms in China have slashed concentrations of fine particulates by nearly half since 2013, preventing an estimated 2.2 million premature deaths annually. New analysis from the University of Chicago shows the average citizen now lives 2.9 years longer. buff.ly/EJeLqjd #ShareGoodNewsToo

#Oregon: Just months after the historic removal of four major dams on the Klamath River, scientists and tribal leaders are stunned by what they’re seeing—salmon are returning in far greater numbers, and much faster, than anyone expected. www.activenorcal.com/salmon-are-s...

Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react: "People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."

NEW: The State of Arizona sues the House of Representatives, demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson seat Adelita Grijalva or that someone else be allowed to swear her in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...