Even Serena Williams had to fight to get the care she needed. If one of the greatest athletes of all time is dismissed by healthcare workers, you can imagine how other Black women get treated. I’m glad this video is getting traction. And I’m left wondering what it will take to make real change.

I have had the pleasure of chatting with Alice Wong on twitter. She helped many people. She will be missed.

Alice’s impact was massive.

“stories about young men have become hard to find” does not feel like a phrase grounded in reality

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

‘Mr. Epstein also emailed with Ms. Siegal, trying to get her to lean on Arianna Huffington to publish some pro-Jeffrey content in The Huffington Post. “If you rewrite your last email in better grammar,” Ms. Siegal wrote, “I can cut and paste and send it to Arianna Huffington from me.”’

I think their acute awareness of this is exactly why they stay so loyal to him. If anything, what he’s doing to her seems likely to reinforce for others the need to stay loyal.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says almost 4000 Palestinian children in Gaza still await evacuation to receive urgent medical care abroad, and his agency is working inside the enclave to rebuild health services amid the ceasefire. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/int6w9

Alice Wong was one of the few who actually left the world better than when she entered it. A lot of the obituaries are leaving out her work on Covid, her advocacy around masking, and her work on eSims for Gaza. I tried to capture some of that in a post on IG. www.instagram.com/p/DRIN0Fnkuz...

This man has an endowed professorship at Harvard

Shakira law is set to make New York City even more fun than before! The Present Illness is available wherever you get your podcasts

So apparently Joel Webbon’s latest trash take is that women are “non-playing characters” in the game of life. Can someone please explain to me how we have ruined the workplace when we are apparently pre-programmed and have no autonomy?

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

Episode 7 is live! This week we discuss the Epstein emails, Larry Summers, etc and how that relates to women ruining the workplace. @alyssaburgart.com ruined the workplace a few times in just the last week, even!

My favorite article to post when people say ‘it’s just my opinion’ or think their ignorant viewpoints carry any weight: www.houstonpress.com/news/no-its-...

Oh, man. So saddening 💔 Alice was a wonderful disability activist and writer. I was always moved that deliberately included those of us w/ post-infectious illnesses. As we say in Greek, may her memory be eternal 💙🕯️

One last hurrah for the summer vegetables from the garden!

A huge district court victory for the University of California. District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California. News story here—

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

If he’s not guilty why is he acting so very very very very very very very guilty.

One ~182km x ~211km solar thermal plant could provide all of America’s electricity, including a fully-electrified land transport sector. 100% clean power from just 0.39% of U.S land. That’s why renewables are constantly under attack from the fossil fuel industry and their paid mouthpieces.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

This is so devastating to hear. Alice was a legend—an incredible writer and a fierce advocate. Here is some of the work she did for the Disability Visibility Project. As @helenrottier.bsky.social said, she will be missed by many

“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Last one! I wasn’t going to post this one bc I don’t think it’s flattering but I’m trying to get over it

And this is how I find out Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein were a thing

Christ he's a moron.

Epstein said he was the only one who could take down Tr*mp and then he…died by suicide? I don’t know what happened, but the investigation after his death was so shoddy it doesn’t really give us much insight. They didn’t even talk to the correctional officers on duty that night for TWO YEARS.

JD Vance thinks science is about opinions, and that’s exactly why he shouldn’t be commenting on it. Expertise matters. Debate in science isn’t about opinions—it’s about evidence. We don’t get to just disagree bc we falsely believe, eg, vaccines cause autism, despite all evidence to the contrary.

A friend is watching my dog, and he’s living the Life of Riley

Trump just said he'll be ordering an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's involvement with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase and other people and institutions. Not on that list: Donald Trump. Steve Bannon.

JD Vance thinks science is about opinions, and that’s exactly why he shouldn’t be commenting on it. Expertise matters. Debate in science isn’t about opinions—it’s about evidence. We don’t get to just disagree bc we falsely believe, eg, vaccines cause autism, despite all evidence to the contrary.

This is how to contact the board of trustees at Indiana University. An instructor there has been removed from teaching because she taught about white supremacy in a class on diversity and social justice.

Epstein said he was the only one who could take down Tr*mp and then he…died by suicide? I don’t know what happened, but the investigation after his death was so shoddy it doesn’t really give us much insight. They didn’t even talk to the correctional officers on duty that night for TWO YEARS.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president. You deserve that promotion!

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I was not at all surprised to see references to Tr*mp with young girls in those emails. I was surprised, however, at how much Epstein seemed to despise him. Imagine how morally bankrupt you have to be for a serial child sex trafficker to think you’re “evil beyond belief.”

Larry Summers was getting dating advice from a pedophile. I don’t know how much lower one can go without being a pedophile oneself.

How about the part where Epstein references reciting “an old tale. :) or tail?” 🤢

I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

How terrible do you have to be for one of the worst people who ever existed to say you’re the most “bad” person he’s ever met?

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Continuing on with our exposure therapy—I posted a preview of this one before, but this is the official shot I ended up choosing

An instructor was removed from teaching at Indiana University bc she taught about white supremacy as part of a course on diversity, human rights, and social justice. So much for academic freedom. Soon enough we won’t be able to teach about evolution.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

And I will bet my life the report says none of the things she says it does