Denial is a troublesome problem. Fascism isn't really a surprise; it's helped shape what US society is today. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about how refusing to accept the reality of how we got here aids fascist growth. We have to confront many contradictions. prismreports.org/2025/10/20/a...

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

There was always fear. Pregant women (rightfully so) ask a lot of questions and deliberate carefully over the advice/recommendations they are being given. Never had one scenario where that was not the case. This business erodes trust and further *heightens* the fear unneccesarily.

All of this is so deeply upsetting because children will have preventable febrile seizures, mothers may miscarry due to untreated fever, and some pregnancies will be more challenging due to unmanaged pain. There are no upsides to this reckless misinformation from the top just harm and pain.

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.

This was called “incidental contact” by the on air crew. That’s like if I called a blizzard “a little snow”

- September 27, 1994.

(that is my steady state. permanent shift worker disorder plus age)

Did we all sleep poorly and woke up earlier than we wanted?

The joy I felt at a new Tayari Jones book coming.

I do hope and think she will be okay

I am wondering if I understsnd physics differently than the people saying the contact was Napheesa’s fault. I admittedly cannot stand AT but what was Phee supposed to do…ascend in to the air????

So today I learned that Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the white social scientist who pontificated on the "crisis of the negro family", denigrated black mothers as matriarchs and decried 'absentee' black fathers was himself raised by a single mom after his alcoholic father abandoned their family.

Was just having this same thought. A lot of the worry about ourselves only posts on here are demoralizing and counter to our history. We have a rich legacy of internationalism.

Read the third quote folks!

Chilling. Maybe the best example yet of how smartphones are the primary weapon that global authoritarians are using to take over the world.

Very sad news.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

"The house is also calling for the merging of CDC’s division of [TB] elimination, and STI prevention, and opioid related infectious diseases with a combined cut of $34 million with the funding altogether being $300 million. These proposals are cruel, and will cost lives."[email protected]

For context: "House Labor, Health and Human Services proposed $2 billion in federal cuts to domestic HIV programs, including plans that would dismantle the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention and slash $535 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program...."

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult. But it’s what "global health” shld be about. In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations! gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...

For those who care about TB—and humanity—this is a terrific and well-referenced article about the death and destruction sown by the current U.S. administration. www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis... thank you @cidrap, for this comprehensive reporting. @tbfighters.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

Also Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

one of the things that separates black gen x and geriatric millennials from other groups is that we HAD to listen to other genres of music. we had minimal options to see music videos and you had to get through the grunge before you got to hip hop or r&b. also, our parents listened to a lot.

This article has a long list of different emergency numbers across the parishes to use in place of 911 and alternate numbers to call for an ambulance. #nolasky

*fear of any medicine, c/f baby

Join us for class later today with Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black & Native Children and the Construction of American Racism." Can't make it to class? Order the book. Beautifully written & a vital history of U.S. education. www.zinnedproject.org/news/origina...

the patients either

I have only seen three episodes of the pitt so far ( life is a lot) but that hospital admin figure played by the amazing Michael Hyatt… 10x worse in real life. They don’t consider the people working in the ER to be human beings.

Shocked. SHOCKED, I say! #Medsky www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is the official communication from the FDA to physicians on acetaminophen use in pregnancy. - They acknowledge the lack of a causal link with autism - Essentially tell physicians to keep doing what we've been doing anyway It's very different from the press conference. Pass it on.

Telling a super vulnerable population of people with limited options to tough it out when they are already doing that is ..so very stupid and myopic. Have had 100s of fraught encounters with pregnant women over the years willing/wanting to put their care/comfort 2nd 2/2 to fear

A news tidbit: This week the D.C. Council will vote on an emergency bill from @cmchenderson.bsky.social that will allow pharmacies to administer the COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription. Because of changes at the federal level, local pharmacies have been requiring a prescription.

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Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

Conned is not the right c word

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

UPDATE: At least 19 states have issued orders to protect COVID vaccine access including AZ, CO, CT, DE, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NV, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, VA, WA. Almost all orders allow pharmacies to give vaccines without a prescription, some states have taken steps to ensure insurance coverage.

So do I and I have to tell you the danger was always there. Black student groups spent the last two years shifting back to online events because of anti DEI rhetoric.

Critics of newborn hepatitis B shots overlook why the CDC adopted the policy, and how cases dropped 99% after universal vaccination began www.statnews.com/2025/09/11/n...

Precisely. More that than the other but both. The prominent black voices….it’s not unexpected of them

Asked if racial and sexual attitudes will improve in the 21st century, Octavia E. Butler replied: “The only way the two issues could disappear is under a regime so totalitarian that we are not permitted to talk about it.”

This is really important to remember. The people who are loudly saying that “public health got things wrong” early in the pandemic are the same people who were orders of magnitude more wrong about literally everything. Jay Bhattacharya pushed a fraudulent claim there was herd immunity in April 2020!

Reinforcing the idea that you governed over a hellscape in need of military occupation and targeted assaults on Black and Brown people was not the best option, actually, and it’s myopic to believe so.

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline? From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.