It's not like we were born with an innate understanding of N95 masks and airborne transmission. Many of us put in the intellectual effort to understand it, starting in 2020. You don't need a medical degree to understand this stuff. It has been explained, and explained, and explained.

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. 🪶

“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!” --Megyn R. Kelly “Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!” --Also Megyn R. Kelly

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Why has Sarah Kendzior been suspended, @safety.bsky.app?

The children, they yearn for the trains.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

To understand Mamdani’s appeal we asked some folks who make their money by taking a cut of political TV ad spend what they thought of his primarily social media outreach. go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM *That’s* the headline. (Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Salute to the accessible, unapologetic voice that came out of the Teen Vogue political writers. It looks like that moment is over. You will be missed. :(

🧵Lemons My dad owned a lemon It wouldn’t go far It was old, it was rusty A piece of shit car He’d worked hard to buy it He drove it with pride As a kid it was always My favorite ride (1/6)

As a child I ate government cheese and free school lunches. I then went on to uni thanks largely to Pell grants. I now (HAPPILY) pay taxes on an income that would not have been possible without that support. Taking care of your citizens is good actually.

Here’s the thing. Let’s say we have elections next year and Dems run the table. And then they do the same in 2028. They. Will. Never. Undo. The. Damage. They will mewl like a tiny kitten that what we must focus on now is unity. They will beseech the GOP on how to better serve them. Simple as.

All of the contractors who are going to bid on this job realize they will never be paid, right? Right?

listen. you can have ‘we need to do something about men’s feelings of isolation!’ or you can have ‘men are biologically required to do friendship by calling each other racial slurs and joking about raping women.’ you can’t have both. at some point the call can only be coming from inside the house

I think jamelle’s “rational assessment” is no more rigorous than: Biden made a joke about “don’t tell them I wasn’t wearing it” on national TV, so now it’s all over.

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She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

@npr.org read the room. This was an irresponsible headline. And I'm sure some doofus on your staff is chortling to themselves, "well, you're talking about it, aren't you?" Yes, we are talking about how bad you are doing your job.

@cnn.com is an absolute joke. Trash. Not worth the electrons used to serve this image.

The invisible hand of the market is furiously stroking.

Can you imagine how wretched and depraved they might have acted if they didn’t have the unfailing moral guidance of the Almighty? #NeverTrustTheClergy #AbsolutePowerCorruptsAbsolutely #Durham

Thunberg's message to doctor's of gaza

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation? I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

I said what I said.

Cosigned. Attn: @cityofdurhamnc.bsky.social

Can you imagine how wretched and depraved they might have acted if they didn’t have the unfailing moral guidance of the Almighty?

It's more like, one of my buddies in the grocery industry wants this contract. Let's make that happen.

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.

“We must stop fighting for the oppressed, so that we may break bread with the wealthy.” -Ancient Liberal Proverb

David Cross folks.

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

By Keith @keetmuise Media saying avoiding Covid is “health anxiety” is like saying… Seatbelt = Crash Anxiety Life Jacket = Drowning Anxiety Helmet = Brain Injury Anxiety Winter Boots = Frostbite Anxiety Keep it going in the comments Source: x.com/keetmuise/st...

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other. op: chronicallyjenni (via IG)

🧵A few notes for all the haters bitching about Violet Affleck’s speech to the U.N.: She’s not a kid. She’s a 19-year old woman. She’s not unqualified. She’s currently a student at Yale University, which has a 4.5% acceptance rate, and is pursuing a public health degree. (1/4)

This is a magnificent explanation of why I mask and use other mitigations to protect myself from COVID and the rest of the airborne diseases. #covid #stillmasking #yallmasking

This is the way.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

@jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team What is this bullshit alert at the bottom? All @panaccindex.bsky.social is doing is calling out the lies of those who undermine public health. This alert is a ham-fisted political attack. Boo. Pathetic. The weakest sauce. Take it down immediately!

I teach 9th grade English in Houston. Our district frequently puts out curriculum materials with A.I. images. The kids instantly recognize it and HATE it. Two weeks ago we had them examine a photo essay. Real photos taken by real people. It was the best student engagement I’ve had all year.

Longcovid has surpassed asthma as the leading chronic disease in children. And still nothing is being done to prevent it.

Congrats @theatlantic.com, you've just framed & published an article that the corrupt Trump Administration will use as an excuse to crack down on all their critics. This is literally as they spent 2 weeks, w/o evidence, blaming Kirk's murder on "the left." (They still blame "the left")

Watch this space!

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Galvanized Root

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

So what do you call this act? *jazz hands* “The Consultants”

Trans rights are human rights.