"Roughly 1/3 of respondents – equivalent to more than 82 million Americans – cut back on at least one daily living expense to cover health care bills Sheila Nesbit...sometimes skips lunch and doesn’t always take her medicines for cholesterol, asthma and high blood pressure so she can save money."

today is the 6th anniversary of the official start of the COVID pandemic and I am concerned we have taken many wrong lessons from it

You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

“Nobody wants that product,” said Amitabh Chandra, a Harvard health economist who has studied high-deductible plans. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people. First it made them non-people. Then it killed them.

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student. "Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Saying it again: Winter lays bare all the ways our communities fail those not in cars. This is especially true if you are disabled. If accessibility disappears under a pile of snow, then a place was never really accessible to begin with.

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

The new mayor pledged to dedicate 1% of the city budget to parks and 0.5% to libraries. His preliminary spending plan delivers less. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...

From @gothamist.com : ““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN. gothamist.com/news/taking-...

Small win in my neck of the woods: residents of New Brunswick, NJ raised a big enough of a stink to successfully block the development of a data center last night

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

While a candidate, @mayor.nyc.gov pledged to commit 0.5% of the city’s budget to public libraries. Unfortunately, Mayor Mamdani has broken this promise in his preliminary FY27 budget, released yesterday, where he allocated 0.39% to libraries. This amount is well below the promised 0.5%

@nycplan.org will respond to @mayor.nyc.gov's broken promise re: NYC Public Libraries in the morning. Speaking for myself only (not NYC PLAN), I am profoundly disappointed in the preliminary budget. It will not stand.

The Queens DA is throwing the book at the young man shot and still hospitalized by police after they responded to his family's call for an ambulance.

Well why would they need to protect their health if they’re young and healthy?? It’s because everyone is vulnerable to Covid. Athletes are starting to figure this out. Time for the rest of us to do so. fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...

“The full impact of the executive order will take decades to realize, since already-tenured faculty are not affected by the new policy. But its scope is significant: Oklahoma’s regional and community colleges employed more than 900 tenured professors in 2024, according to federal data.“

We're all we've got. Best to spend time figuring out how to live into this truth.

Another way to care about #libraries is to get involved in your Friends or Foundations group and amp up its power!. For The People is starting a Network to help people do exactly this. Register for our Feb 19th Open House and learn more! www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

All prisons, jails & detention facilities generate violence & death. They serve no other purpose. "Officials Failed to Act When COVID Hit Prisons. A New Study Shows the Deadly Cost" www.themarshallproject.org/2024/04/18/c... #AbolishICE #DefundPolice #AbolishPrisons #DismantleWhiteness

Full Bad Bunny speech

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

By not condemning Britta Curl-Salemme's involvement with an anti-trans organization, and by trying to paint her as somebody who has been unfairly villified with that Athletic article, the PWHL is implicitly condoning transphobia. And that's the real tea.

Doctor AI for the poor. Truly dystopian.

We see this on our community board as well, tension between members of 15+ years and newer ones (like me!). This often plays out like weaponizing rules newer members might not yet be aware of, but there is also no training provided for recently appointed people.

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

Apathy toward Covid and the willingness to let so many people die from preventable COVID related causes, as well as pretending like Covid was over and never really happened, absolutely paved the way for this.

It's impossible to express how it feels to repeatedly live through the exact same cycles over and over and over again. The reformers just consistently fucking everyone over.

What are we watching in Medicaid this year? As some states start to implement new work requirements early, Medicaid enrollees are expected to begin losing coverage. More on work requirements and other issues to watch here: https://on.kff.org/4r4r80I

This has been an interesting development #VerticalIntegration kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Our public libraries are the gift that keep on giving 🥹

If Kathy Hochul cares so much about fare evasion, maybe she should turn her attention to the hundreds (thousands?) of cars across the state who scratch out and cover their license plates to evade bridge tolls and congestion pricing and leave subway riders alone.

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

School officials say ICE agents have detained four children in the Minneapolis area in recent weeks, including a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos, who was detained on Tuesday along with his father as he returned home from preschool.

Disgusted and horrified to discover the #NYSirens backup goalie, Callie Shanahan, is a TERF. So sick of these leagues touting inclusivity while platforming transphobic players. TERFs out of the #PWHL now.

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

Affordability means nothing if the governor doesn’t have plans to protect Medicaid enrollees from federal cuts, increased redeterminations, and work requirements

NEW: In his literal final hours in office today, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy vetoed two bills meant to protect immigrants in New Jersey from ICE. Immigrants' rights advocates in the state are now expressed anger. Here's what we know: boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...

Police have never killed more people than they have in the last year despite all of the "talk" about RE-FORM.

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

ACA signups are down by over a million with open enrollment ending and enhanced tax credits expired, but there are two things we still don't know: How many will decline to "effectuate" their coverage with higher net premiums? How many will switch to higher deductible plans?

Y'all we love a timely study! New @jama.com Authors looked at over 5,000 internal agency documents from 2011-2023, finding the FDA’s decisions about mife “has been shaped by scientific evidence and a cautious regulatory approach led by scientists at the agency” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...