BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

Silly "AI" hype headline: "My favorite actor is not human..." Me: Not gonna hold you. My generation had Wishbone and Air Bud.

If you haven’t followed solar panel tech, there have been dual sided panels for a while now. Even in the “flat” orientation they pick up a lot of ambient reflected light. In the vertical orientation they can function as a wind breaks and dual-peak output with minimal impediment to the ground.

This must be a vulture version of a Stately Home...

Among all the lawlessness we're seeing, it's worth noting that those upset over FDA's approval of a third generic version of mifepristone are literally calling on FDA to violate the law. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Fragile N.C. Residents Lose #Medicaid Support for Food and Housing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/h...

Always glad @thetriibe.com exists, but especially now

It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby. "I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother. “I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Last week, people from every corner of the community from state senators to mouthy not-quite-licensed student midwives set goals at the Illinois Birth Justice Summit for Strategic Planning. As things devolve we will need folks to CONTINUE standing in the gap. Thank you for helping me be one of them.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

remembering when Obama ordered the extrajudicial murder via drone strike of an American citizen & his 16yo American citizen son in Yemen. the imperial boomerang has & will continue to swing back & the exceptionalism that has us crowing that we are too civilized for all that will not protect anyone.

How many tears—how much blood— must Black America shed, all while you demand we do your moral housekeeping?

Posting obliquely, but: ... is it "terrorism" if it's state-sanctioned? This is classic imperial boomerang.

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Starvation, scholasticide, genocide--these are not intellectual debates.

I have several of their dresses. They can be dressed up or down, and they have pockets. Can't recommend enough.

Transformative work of the day, watch 'til the end edition:

An updated look at state-by-state rules for Medigap access when a Medicare beneficiary is under age 65: www.medicareresources.org/medicare-eli...

It’s your friendly neighborhood lawyer again with a Friday (fr this time) fun fact: Law enforcement *don’t* have to read Miranda rights when they arrest you (that’s a law & order TV myth) - only *before* they question you *after* detaining you. Then you *have* to say you are asserting them & STFU

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

And they dragged children naked out of building www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

Mississippi’s Health Department fired employees working on preventive health and health equity issues, people familiar with the personnel decision told Mississippi Today. via @mississippitoday.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/miss...

North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene homebuilding program will proceed as normal during the government shutdown. But the state is set to face further delays. via @ncnewsline.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ncs-...

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

I have never liked snarky & flippant responses to serious issues, and they are especially grating in times like these.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

The kids are fighting for their lives out here.

One city decided it didn’t want a data center and the community had about three weeks to organize. We talked with Dr. Mike Bogan from the University of Arizona about what went into Tucson’s efforts, including his role as a scientist, and learned A LOT www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

Dwayne Dixon reinstated! Excellent work on direct action @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social (us!). Power to the people✊.

Lots of inaccuracies floating around re: the new generic mifepristone. It's not the first generic, it's the second, and it's not a "new abortion pill." It's the same thing that's already on the market, there are just a total of three companies making the drug now (brand name and two generics).

Most Americans (86%) would be concerned if millions of their fellow Americans lost health insurance.

job TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POSITION IN HEALTH AND THE LIFE COURSE OR WORK AND THE ECONOMY Department of Sociology, Western University csn-rec.ca/job-postings... @westernu.ca #cdnsoci

"Medical professionals are also raising questions about whether families of the dead have any idea that their loved ones might be used to train soldiers. USC says it operates the programs in accordance with regulations."

Disinformation thrives without data No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling! No food insecurity data = people are fed! No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids! No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

Also, the health issues you have now may only be exacerbated if you don't take measures to address them now. Now is the time to address that persistent joint pain or lower back pain. It might involve PT and strength training. Now is the time to build muscle mass/tone & habitually maintain them.

Talk to people who are 5, 10, and 15 years older than you. You'll get very useful perspectives. If you have a uterus, be sure to ask about perimenopause.

The sunlight of your life has just found you. What a joy to live your way into the warmth of your next decade.

Before I landed in academic public health, I wanted to start a long-term project on medical schools' complicity in the trafficking of cadavers. Harrowing stuff.

I spoke w/ over 2 dozen birth mothers for this story. Though I could only include a fraction of their stories here, all they shared about their experiences since placement, their love & their grief, & their hopes for their children helped inform this piece & deepen my understanding of open adoption.

My nightmare: “Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this week… The first reports of illness were made on Sept. 28, with four crew members and 94 guests falling ill”

Consider the added cruelty of Medicaid work requirements (to be implemented in all US states starting in January 2027; previously implemented in AR & GA, resulting in coverage losses)-- on top of the possibility of having your wages garnished for bills that should have been paid by Medicaid.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

5 years on “Why good ventilation is key to stopping the spread of Covid-19 Clean air far more important than clean hands” We had all of the scientific knowledge & tools to stop the pandemic in 2020 without lockdowns.. & they weren’t used www.irishtimes.com/opinion/why-...

The majority of people with Medicaid who can work are already working. However, in 2027, #Medicaid will add national work requirements for the first time. When Arkansas added work requirements in 2018, more than 18,000 people lost coverage. See our explainer to learn more about work requirements.