This is the mashup we needed.

Our new Maternal Mortality Review Panel Report shows an increase in maternal deaths from 2021–2022, as well as continued inequities and disparities. Most pregnancy-related deaths were preventable. Accidental overdose was the leading cause of death—mostly in the later postpartum period.

White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby https://theonion.com/white-house-reclassifies-nursing-as-hobby/

"One new term we’re considering is 'people who are without home.' Notice how that term starts with “people.” We believe in language that centers humanity. Actions, less so."

The health impacts of #climate change are coming and we are not ready, say panelists at #ACHJSummit. "Many physicians do not have training in dealing with extreme heat," says Grace Wickerson of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. "Do we have a health system that's ready for this? No we do not."

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

would absolutely watch, though

We can’t say you didn’t know. “Never again” is happening again. What's being described in this thread 🧵 is a concentration camp right on American soil, with all the horror and injustice that name carries.

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I don’t want the lesson Dems take from this election to be wait for Republicans to destroy the government and we’ll get them in the next election. The message remains: PEOPLE WANT YOU TO FUCKING FIGHT.

Well said. And supports why I’ve always objected to how nonprofit and public service sectors let mindless business jargon permeate our work. People mindlessly nod along to ideas when framed with terms like “value add” and “the learnings.” Seeing jargon as credibility is dangerous and exclusionary.

Amen! Climate and health strategies must address the biodiversity crisis. This insight is a key driver behind the planetaryhealthalliance.org movement. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @cwalzer.bsky.social @statnews.com @nationalacademies.org @howardfrumkin.bsky.social

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Okay this is a good headline

Study in JAMA Pediatrics estimates that vaccinating pregnant women against COVID-19 prevented 7,000 hospitalizations in infants and 3,000 in pregnant women from January 2024 to May 2025.  #Medsky www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

Next time you feel like things are tough, just remember that the winner of fat bear week came in second place twice and then won despite having a broken jaw all summer

Another value of humor as strategic resistance: jokes are memorable and repeatable—qualities our messaging often lacks. Whereas the far-right messaging machine spews memorable talking points, buys/threatens media to amplify them, and gets Democrats to repeat them. We need comedy to fight back.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Today, WA joins CA and OR in forming the West Coast Health Alliance to ensure our residents continue receiving science-based #PublicHealth recommendations. This partnership ensures our states will continue working with trusted medical orgs to protect our communities' health and safety.

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

I've been calling it Calvinball for a long time, as have others, but still striking to see Justice Jackson embrace the terminology in her dissent on the NIH case ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is an urgent issue for all states with ERASE-MM funding for Maternal Mortality Review Committees to review maternal deaths, including in WA, where the next maternal mortality review report comes out in October. And for understanding U.S. maternal mortality. www.propublica.org/article/mate...

Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”

Political scientist specializing in constitutional rights: “We are [past] a constitutional crisis… we are in failure.” Every US scientist must get comfortable with this: the system is currently failing. The US science system is breaking apart. 1/

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I guess we didn’t all go together after all. (Yet.) I’ll visit the pigeons in the park next spring in his honor. My dad, who died unexpectedly last year, introduced me to An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer when I was a little kid, and it’s brought me joy ever since.

“In a feat of legal engineering, the president stressed the Constitution’s support structures past what experts considered their maximum load.”

I hear whale profiles from the Juan de Fuca area are heteronormative only. Researchers say this is orca-Straited. And they have cetaceans.

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This is such a classic example of a Democrat fearfully sticking to an old playbook of Republican-permitted topics. It’s not job losses, it’s authoritarianism. It’s like when Democrats say, “Did you know that for every dollar we spend keeping kids from getting eaten by monsters, we save $1.07?!”

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass' Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" youtu.be/xX-AlsQcZgs?...

Key #medialiteracy practice: 1. compare how news coverage of similar topics varies; 2. apply a critical lens to why that may be; and 3. analyze how those variations impact public perception of people/issues/policy. Considering those steps, what do these NYT excerpts tell you? What do you see?

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

By running articles focusing on things like whether Trump should or could be added to Mount Rushmore—while democracy, human rights, health care, and everything else burn—the @nytimes.com feels like it’s trying to make work terrifyingly easier for @nytpitchbot.bsky.social and @theonion.com

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

I think my only illegal act of my 90s youth was swiping a few subway ads, including some Dr Zizmor classics. Unlike the tattoos of a Zizmor patient, I’ve never gotten rid of them.

I have beaten the sex pest who was in the primary and who you were probably endorsing for Mayor Forgive me he was disgusting so perverted and so old

Because the MAHA shtick feeds on an insidious hyper-individualist choice-narrative the right has sowed for years. Just “choose” certain foods and lifestyles, and pay no attention to the MAHA behind the curtain making such “choices” impossible or unaffordable. Can’t breathe? Drive elsewhere! Oh wait…

Possibly The Needling’s sharpest satire yet. And it won’t change anytime soon. Not with factors like a state law requiring state agencies to buy office furniture made with prison labor and the governor slashing state agency budgets but refusing a wealth tax and budgeting $100 million to hire police.

Doing this wouldn’t just be about greed and profit, though that’s the big driver. It’s also a way to demoralize us, to crush our spirits with massive, irreversible harm to landscapes we deeply love and species that call those places home. To knock the wind and the fight out of us via destruction.

This is what it would look like in the Cascades and Olympics in Washington State. We have to fight this.

The other layer is how far-right media twists stories. I periodically check how a Sinclair-owned station is framing a story. Their headline re the Minnesota shooter starts, “Former Tim Walz appointee…” It’s chilling. I don’t usually repeat far-right framing, but critiquing media is an exception.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

The “it’s a distraction!” trope is closely related to the false-choice “that’s not the REAL issue; the REAL issue is…” trope. It’s an ego-driven way to assert attentive superiority. To freeze, shame, and control. It paralyzes movements, fueling uncertainty from within. They’re all real issues.

Why should *everyone* be concerned that all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices were fired at the same time? Because it's a slippery slope to losing our choice to protect our children and our families 💉 are one of the best tools to prevent disease. We need them available