Updating slides/notes on loss of chance and listening to Hootie & The Blowfish. Not sure my condition is in the DSM-5.

The Onion bridging my love of gymnastics and snowboarding. ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics.

As I continue to scream into the void, "YES!!"

At Paris 2024, 300,000 condoms were handed out. "By contrast, the allocation for these Winter Olympics was dramatically smaller. . . . , fewer than 10,000."

Sex work *IS* work!

Six homeless people died of hypothermia on the streets of Milan in the past month. "Some of them were found close to Olympic venues where spectators are paying as much as $1,650 a ticket to watch athletes compete for medals at the Winter Games." We live in hell.

This hits hard. open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

Professional question: Why didn't anyone tell me about this show?!

I'll say it again: Snowboard racing is f&$#ing cool. Get it, gurl.

I have my race board sitting in my closet (I seriously need to get out there again), and I agree: Snowboard parallel giant slalom is f&$#ing cool. #keepPGSolympic

A reminder that this is happening this afternoon! Time for some musical protest!

I've really enjoyed Post Reports over the last 7 years. The hosts, @martinepowers.bsky.social and Elahe Izadi, and their audio crew and journalists did great work. What a pointless loss.

New shirt from @theonion.com:

A two-part announcement! First, a friend has organized a concert this weekend (Saturday, February 7th, 4 P.M. – 6 P.M.) to benefit victims of ICE. Donations will go to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Here is a link to the event: thegatedcommunityband.com/live-stream

"On Tuesday night, fans applauded as a video tribute to Ms. O’Hara played on the Jumbotron at Madison Square Garden. It showed Cookie Fleck flirting her way through a mixer for dog handlers and covering her eyes, sick with nerves, as her terrier, Winky, competed for best in show."

I know that one of the world's richest, most ruthless men is destroying a once shining beacon of freedom, but at least his wife is being styled by THE stylist.

Chickens of February

Moment of blatant self promotion: @jalaynearias.bsky.social and her awesome colleagues at GSU's School of Public Health have kindly invited me to talk about toilets at Grand Rounds, and I couldn't possibly say no. Please join us! publichealth.gsu.edu/grandrounds/

Wanting to be thin isn’t a fringe perspective, nor is it edgy. It is the dominant narrative in a profoundly anti-fat culture. And in this particular moment, making media about how it’s okay to want to be thin also acts as de facto advertising for some of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

On this day in 2026, Senate Republicans are pushing for the SAVE Act, which the House already passed. The Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans, including millions of American women who changed their name after marrying. #WeTheMen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

honestly the world is giving up. RIP queen.

Nowhere in this . . . whatever . . . of Rahm Emanuel does it mention his administration's closure of 50 schools in poor minority neighborhoods, its myopic focus on business interests, or the cover up of the murder of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old shot 16 times in the back.

One of the most unknowable questions in the universe: Why does anyone anywhere care what David Brooks thinks?

The end of days is here.

yeah, the audiobook of Heated Rivalry does not make sidewalks passable gothamist.com/news/nyc-ask...

Today, we share an open letter from seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty addressing the federal government’s ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.

Incredible!

Same!!

Proud UMN Law alum here, I stand with you all 💕

The CDC has paused more than 100 grants to states and organizations to update infrastructure for public health projects. www.statnews.com/2026/01/24/p...

Happy birthday to my good friend [REDACTED], who lives in South Minneapolis, and--despite all the horror--refuses to let Donald Trump and ICE suffocate all the joy from life.

“We’ve broken every rule that we’ve learned on disease control. The first and most important rule is to know the truth. You have to set up a surveillance system to know the truth, otherwise you’re responding blindly. The truth changes every day in the [Trump] White House.”

"What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly 'normal nature' of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty." @adamgopnik.bsky.social What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of "Les Mis", New Yorker (Apr. 13, 2025).

Stand With The Sinister Minnesotans Against ICE https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt?variant=44569654984773

Boy do I love Minnesota!

Ooof.

It's always refreshing to get @sbg1.bsky.social's cut-to-the-chase perspective. "How many polite ways are there to ask whether the President of the United States is losing it?"

Based on my public health expertise, I can say that Senator Cassidy is a dipshit.

"On Thursday, the administration said that all U.S. government funding to the organization had been terminated, and that all assigned federal employees and contractors had been recalled from its Geneva headquarters and its offices worldwide."

My partner spent the day volunteering with his coworkers at a basketball tournament for the Special Olympics.* It's nice to hear about people doing kind things. *How one Kennedy (Eunice) created the Special Olympics while another (RFK, Jr.) cares nothing about the vulnerable is mind boggling.

Mayor Mamdani continues to make toilet headlines.

This headline nearly killed me.

We've ruined the planet, but at least we get cute pictures of monkeys eating popsicles.

I also believe the true cause of this backlash is the public's realization that Scott Bessent and Peter Thiel are gay. "OMG! All gays must be monsters!"

Hard to believe the man who floated injecting bleach as a COVID cure would go to war with Greenland because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Damn. Just when I thought civil rights and acceptance were on the upswing.

"[D]octors are essentially ignoring the [new] approach and relying on recommendations made by the AAP, which mirror the CDC’s guidance from early 2025. They are spending more time explaining the importance of immunizations — a task that has become more common with the ascent of HHS Sec. RFK, Jr."

When you have no values, but only ambition, you end up like Newsom, Buttigieg, Emmanuel, Booker: indulging man’s worst instincts. It allows you to throw trans people under the bus and defend ICE’s continued existence. And everyone sees right through you.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession