So did they up the incentive/pressure for these people to quit?

🧵🪡 on why the L will never succeed in making change, based on local observations on my local subreddit… Someone makes thread asking about tomorrow’s potential protest. Unsure about details/organizers/etc. Someone recommends forming local protest instead. OP then asks what they should protest. 1/

Whoa. Long covid just brought up at HHS hearing and senator admits covid isn’t over.

RFK won’t affirm that healthcare is a human right. That’s all you need to know.

What to do with a kid who is 5 but reading at a 3rd grade level? I’m trying to work on comprehension with him and more depth (like parts of speech)… but I don’t think he’s enjoying that. Do I just let him read anything and everything he wants without worrying about the rest?

When your kid’s therapist describes his current progress as a “u-turn” it’s quite confronting and hard not to feel like you’ve failed as a parent.

And cue the NYE fireworks that will inevitably drive my dogs nuts and keep my kids awake. Why people, why?

"Life with autism isn't all sunshine and rainbows. But don't use my children as your reason not to vaccinate." A mother demands respect for her sons. www.voicesforvaccines.org/stop-using-m...

The fact that norovirus cases are higher than they’ve been in a decade is giving me great anxiety. But did you know you can now buy barf bags with pretty designs? Stocking up over here bc, kids…

Celebrated the first night of Hanukkah last night. A good reminder that we can all brighten the world, even if just a little bit.

Rainbow rave cookies (recipe from NYT cooking with slight modifications bc I can’t do anything as written 🫣)

Husband and I are both sick- upper respiratory crud. Kids have no symptoms of anything. Multiple - RATs btwn husband and myself and a - metrix 5 days into symptoms so confident it’s not Covid. But what other illness do little kids tend to not show symptoms of? No way they didn’t get our germs.

Well here’s a first for me. Didn’t get to drink my coffee because my kid put his foot in it. He said it was an “accident”.

It’s shit that United would cut (more benefits), but ABA is a highly problematic and controversial therapy. And now for all the comments about how ABA isn’t “what it used to be”… well then change the name?

Husband: “Take the morning for yourself. I’ll take the kids.” 8:30 AM: (5) completely dysregulated and needs me. I help with all his morning tasks. (3.5) sitting on me on couch 9:00 AM: laundry started; last load folded. 9:25 AM: realization that my morning to “myself” is, in fact, not to myself. 🫤

It’s 8:30 AM and 5 has already insisted on educating me about bioluminescent fish and black holes. I, of course, contributed nothing to the conversation.

The weather here has been unseasonably warm (until this week) and my daffodils are confused. #flowerfriday #flowerfridayfamily

Breakfast of champions.

Well Thanksgiving cooking is off to a great start 😂😂

I used to love Thanksgiving. In 2020 I was disappointed that we couldn’t gather. Each subsequent year I’ve grown to dread the holiday. My little family was pretty much abandoned by those who refused to take c-19 precautions starting in 2021. I’m thankful for my family, but it’s now lonely holiday.

The irony of the ADHD person having to find a pharmacy in network with insurance that can source their ADHD meds and then have to make multiple phone calls to prescriber to send new rx bc old one is at a pharmacy that can’t get meds and blahblahblah. My brain hurts.

Hey @drawstickpeople.bsky.social are we doing #flowerfriday over here?! No flowers from me this week, but some fall foliage from a nature walk yesterday!

Was wondering why parenting felt extra hard today. Then saw my kid’s ADHD meds from this morning sitting next to his water bottle.

There’s a hand hygiene thread in a toddler subreddit I’m still subscribed too. And all I can say is ew. People really don’t wash their/their kids’ hands?

When you’re overstimulated bc you’re solo parenting while your significant other is traveling for “work” and your kid picks literally the world’s crunchiest and loudest snack.

Oh FFS. I can’t. This is just abhorrent.

It’s the weirdest thing — it’s almost as if Trump lied about Project 2025. But, but, he said… Of course he fucking lied. Anyone who told you otherwise, was full of shit too.

So glad someone is at least asking the question. Not so happy Walters continues to spout his BS, making a mockery of the state. I wonder if he knows that our education system was ranked much higher under D leadership?

The problem with the you-do-you version of public health is that one person's "personal choice," can endanger others. We've seen measles outbreaks happen this way. This logic socializes the harms of personal decisions: an outbreak cost a community quite a bit in real personal and economic terms. 2/

When I was in Congress the GOP went ape over Michelle Obama trying to have healthy school lunches. Now they’re RFKing America. The old GOP is dead fyi. Trump wants big govt

Mmm nothing like your kid’s eyes being crusted shut with thick yellow goop to prompt a Sunday morning urgent care visit.

www.safecommunitiescoalition.org/rfk I’ll just leave this here. Makes it easy to write your senators to oppose RFK’s appointment.

I’m laughing because otherwise I’d cry. Cannot believe this is our reality.

So which DME companies make iron lungs? Should I invest in them?

Real talk… is there anything that we, average citizens, can do to oppose RFK’s appointment? I plan to write/call my Congress people, but I have doubts they’ll get enough calls (where I am) to act on the feedback.

www.kgou.org/education/20... Get me out of this dystopian hell.

Even Ashish Jha says RFK is an awful pick.

We’re about to enter the FAFO era. Those who have chosen not to vaccinate their kids bc “why would I overwhelm my kids’ immune systems with vaccines that are full of who knows what?” (BS, by the way!) are in for a rude awakening. It’s going to be sad.

Well said.

Casually heading back to… the 1800’s…?

Husband just got a lead for a job in Denmark. Usually I say “no” extremely quickly when he mentions overseas opportunities but I have to say this time I’m at least thinking about it.

My latest for The Nation on public health under Trump, whether or not RFK Jr. takes a formal post or remains as an unofficial advisor. Reckless. Conspiracy-addled. Know-nothing. We need to get ready. www.thenation.com/article/arch...