In a sane society, this would be a deal killer. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

FOLKS! share this big story with your friends and family off bluesky too! can’t assume they’ll see it otherwise

I miss how jiu jitsu made my body feel. It’s hard to describe but with my hypermobility, BJJ really made my core feel strong, supported, and limber. Unfortunately, even if I tapped early, it was often too late for my lax joints. I haven’t found the balance of how to do grappling safely for me.

Re pregnant people and Covid vaccines discussion at ACIP, I can't help but think about this story. www.propublica.org/article/covi...

I will as well.

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

From Feb 4th 1939

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

If you don’t stand up and speak out for our right to free speech now, you may never have another chance.

I’m a healthcare worker, and I support this message.

A Surge in the Purge

Excellent yes

Please stop making rural hospitals political pawns. Treating rural hospitals as political currency sends a message that rural communities do not matter, hardens already large divides, and punishes populations that are far more diverse than most on social media would like to acknowledge.

Remember that the legacy media took the right’s ridiculous nonsense about Biden weaponizing the government as serious claims.

When leading medical and public health societies, frontline professionals, Nobel laureates—and even your own family—are calling for your resignation, it might be time for some serious self-reflection

When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.

To my friends in Estonia, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Romania please call your MEPs. Ireland has been a lost cause, giving into the lies around Chat Control not being a privacy-invading nightmare. But other governments are still debating and they need to be given accurate info.

Tomorrow you can watch the livestream of the Oseberg viking ship being moved to its new home in Oslo's Vikingtidsmuseet!

The book is meant to be accessible to undergraduate students and a general audience. This project is truly a dream come true and I hope you pick up a copy! Thank you for your support and for indulging me in this thread this morning!

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

they usually put these warnings on packs of cigarettes, so that should tell you something about how deadly serious this is

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Sen. Raphael Warnock: "For the first time, we're seeing deaths of children from measles. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people. I think you ought to resign and if you don't resign the president...should fire you."

“The Yukon River has a right to feed its own animals & its land.” Alaska Natives are fighting for the right to manage the Yukon River & save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the salmon, Alyssa Choiniere reports.

Wanna learn some wild "tea" about wealthy Baltimore institutions, think seriously about historical reckoning, AND help me pay rent?? Come on the new "Baltimore's Confederate Shadows" tour soon:

Former infectious-diseases chief Jeanne Marrazzo and international-research chief Kathleen Neuzil allege in a whistleblower complaint they were removed from their posts after objecting to Trump administration efforts to undermine vaccines, flout court orders, withhold research money, NYT reports.

I was supposed to go to bed early. I could have wallowed in sleep. Instead, I’ve been engrossed in a novel, and now will get about six hours. Darn it.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

This is correct. Rejoice then act quickly.

💚💚 We stand with & support our brave EPA colleagues who took the courageous step to sign a public Declaration of Dissent to their administrator. They do this BECAUSE of their commitment to protecting the environment and American people. Tonight, the EPA illegally fired many of the public signers.

The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc

More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.

This is really helpful and I particularly like the way pathways of organising are clearly explained (and drawn) with a focus on spotting who may be vulnerable and ensuring they're included.

It’s gutting to think of the parents who fought to get their kids into these trials as last resorts who are now getting that chance to save their kid ripped away from them for no reason

A friend I’ve had for 35+ years committed suicide, my sister is severely down, I’m behind on commissions and housework and need more surgery, and then, just… the world… so the hurricane talk may just be landing extra heavy this year.

Huh. I am realizing that I may need to filter some words for a few days. I have been through a lot of hurricanes and am generally fine with discussing them in detail, but all of the 20th anniversary of Katrina and mentions of Harvey are getting to me this year.

Holy crap! An actual vaccine, not pre-exposure prophylaxis!!

Heroes in our public service are making sharp sacrifices to stand against extremist attacks on our institutions. What a contrast to what others are doing.

"American fascism looks like the president using armed military units from governors loyal to his regime to seize cities run by opposition political figures and it looks like the president using federal law enforcement to target regime opponents."

The director of CDC has not quit and is saying that RFKJr will have to fire her. In the background: RFKJr incited a gunman to shoot up the CDC. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

THEY DIDN'T EVEN HIDE IT THOSE FUCKERS.

The last sentence should be terrifying for everyone (L'État, c'est moi) & this is well beyond Nixon-level impeachment/resignation stuff. Unprecedented levels of unpunished authoritarianism.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Multiple postal services around Europe say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social