🚨“The appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the riot in 2021, to a post in the DOD’s Special Operations & Low Intensity Conflict office has raised alarm among staff who question how anyone convicted in the assault on US democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role”🚨

"Could COVID Increase Your Risk for HPV-Related Cancers?" A study of 4.8 million women found contracting COVID-19 in 2020 was linked to a higher risk of HPV-driven cancers 3 years later. Across all age groups, SARS-CoV-2 was associated with elevated rates of cervical, anal, and vulvar cancers.

You don’t have to have Long Covid to be harmed by Wired’s article suggesting patients have been cured with mind body therapies Patients with chronic illness endure this gaslighting all the time The barriers to care are endless These are real, serious illnesses that need real, tangible treatment

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Ivanka and Jared Kushner are building a massive resort on Sazan Island, a private island in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Albania that used to house a Soviet military base which reportedly contains more than 3,600 nuclear bunkers. Seems like a story deserving of more investigation overall, tbh.

Anyway, if anybody knows a historian/history buff who might be able to answer some fairly basic, but annoyingly hard to search questions about life in Boston in ~1905 my DM's are open.

The meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission is probably not usually a standing-room-only event, but this Thursday may be different as activists who oppose Donald Trump's plan to build a giant arch intend to express their objections to the idea.

Then Markwank Muleface should be arrested, right?

"Philadelphia will not be the same without him. He was 53." www.out.com/obituaries/d...

Positive thinking can’t cure disability. You can’t “try harder” to be better. You aren’t “failing” because you got sick. People who believe they will never become disabled or that they will “try harder” than us are denying reality. Disability can and does come for almost everyone.

What happens when you write a letter to an ethics board about concerns over a Long COVID trial? The ethics committee sends a response to an entirely different group of people and tells you to contact them to get a response! My commentary for @thesicktimes.org thesicktimes.org/2026/06/02/r... 1/n

I worked hard on this story, it's important, & I want to share it. I'm also finding it difficult to put it out there without this context: Just as I wrapped up final edits last week, I got word that a friend vacationing in Arizona had died after overheating on a hike. www.eenews.net/articles/dea...

A food bank CEO said fuel costs went from $14,000 to $24,000 a month. That extra $10,000? It was going to feed people. Now it feeds a gas tank. This is the economy they’re bragging about. Tell me again who’s winning. #SNAP

A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

And that's before Tarrio gets whatever they're paying federal informants these days

happy pride to the gayest mineral: bismuth

Oh, how sad. [/snark]

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

A Massachusetts compound long owned by the founder of Yankee Candle has sold for less than $5 million, a fraction of the property’s $23 million list price three years ago. on.nbcboston.com/kfbQwLB

Anybody in greater Boston have measurements for the Make Way for Ducklings statues? Not just how tall they are but head width? Or what baby sized tee shirts would fit?

The biblical figure Rahab has been used as a prototype for sex workers in our culture--whether "with the heart of gold" 🙄 or the "fallen woman who finds God" 🙄🙄🙄 or worse. But a closer look at the story shows a savvy survivor playing both sides of a game that was never meant for her. Come unlearn!

I lost a friend to melanoma and I wish I had him back. I want this vaccine to help others beat melanoma.

So apparently RFK Jr has been the one holding up funding for GAVI the vaccine alliance which among other things was trying to support testing for new Ebola vaccines for the variant that is now circulating in the DRC. Why RFK Jr is entrusted with influence on this is beyond me. Kick him to the curb.

It was hit by a negligent driver, who isn’t mentioned until paragraph 5, and the possibility of criminal charges is never even mentioned

@wired.com's premise is: BRT: "This cures Long COVID" Science: "Prove it" BRT: "Can't. Researchers are too afraid of the backlash" So… you're saying you've cured cancer, but because scientists are skeptical you're NOT going to organized a bullet-proof double-blind randomized control trial? 🤔🙄

That @wired.com hit piece on Long COVID was actually a masterclass in gaslighting. Name-drop the hard science, only to dismiss it. Make it sound like all sides of this "debate" have legitimate arguments. It's the Climate Hoax all over again. "Climate skeptics are afraid of activist backlash".

Thanks, RFK Jr The nominees whom Trump muscled through have been largely abominable. And don’t forget that for RFK jr Trump turned the screws on Cassidy, then rewarded him by taking him down at recent election Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

Six years since the height of the pandemic, the scientific community remains baffled by long Covid. But there might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

Long COVID is in no way, shape, or form psychosomatic. Disappointing that Wired can't review the science around SARS-CoV-2 and long COVID. I thought Wired was science based.

Are you trying to tell me I cannot just imagine this cold away that I have right now? I was just told it's just in my head and behavioural changes can fix it. *sigh* this is so frustrating to read, especially from WIRED.

What's worse, it will only reinforce the author's false premise that Long COVID "advocates" are the reason this "cure" isn't being explored. Oh, but it is. In piece after piece after piece of unsubstantiated pop-sci drivel. Dear @wired.com Cherry-picked anecdotes do not science make. #pwME

Trump’s signature voter suppression law just got crushed on the state level. See how: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/judge-kill...

Hunter Biden has more self-awareness and self-confidence than the entire Trump regime combined.

"I've monitored the online political space for over six years, and I've rarely seen what seems like a niche topic generate so much content from such a diversity of mostly non-political accounts."

After 32 years in Boston, G2O Spa + Salon has announced it will close on August 30, 2026.

Bathroom bans mean policing EVERYONE's gender conformity. Cancer or gender-affirming top surgery? Butch or trans man? The only way to exclude trans people is to police gender conformity -- EVERYONE's.

@pippacrerar.bsky.social Our government must follow the science on covid. Please will you help.

Bummer Summer! Why won't women ignore America's collapse and just amuse us? www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/e...

NSF uses staffing cuts to strip Inspector General's office of its ability to investigate research misconduct www.science.org/content/arti...

BREAKING: we released a new poll of registered voters this morning showing record levels of concern across the political spectrum about government corruption. 92 percent said it was a big problem. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The people of Scotland have no option, as we have all of the,Trump leased, 260 uk Nuclear Warheads imposed on us by uk westminster 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 These Nuclear WMD are located 25 miles from Glasgow city centre ☢️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet ? 🇪🇺

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Financial experts were alarmed over what some have described as a financial “coup” being carried out by Elon Musk, one that could see tens of millions of Americans unknowingly prop up his unprofitable company SpaceX through their retirement accounts.

More magical thinking, if we stop testing... the problem will go away. "The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate."

I hope Vivian knows it's not really her. It would have happened anyway. It could have easily been a barista who gave him the wrong coffee, wind that blew the wrong way, an ant on the ground. Blaming her for his politics is part of the intentional harm he want to cause her. Abusers abuse. Always.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

A really powerful speech from the ever amazing Harrison Ford. 💥

Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...