"Our results suggest that portable air purifiers that stir up the air as well as clean it could be a big help. But if you are really close and someone is coughing, the best way to stay safe is to wear a mask, especially the N95,” said Milton." Another reason for improved indoor air quality!

How can we stop the spread of flu? New research on real cases: "Being up close, face-to-face with other people indoors where the air isn’t moving much seems to be the most risky thing – and it’s something we all tend to do a lot..." @donmilton.bsky.social sph.umd.edu/news/study-h...

A good reminder that the function of ICE isn’t immigration enforcement, but a private paramilitary force being sent into blue cities under false pretext of participatory conspiracy theories confabulated by online content creators and their audiences on X and in the federal government.

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

ICE has everything to do with law enforcement. It's literally the same private prison contractors, running the same private prison facilities, implementing programs designed by the same government officials using the same tactics. Cops fire tear gas + rubber bullets directly at people's faces too.

When Scott Galloway notes that when women don’t have male partners, they put their energy into building good lives for themselves and their children, friends, family members, etc. HE IS FRAMING THAT AS A PROBLEM.

"Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised" "Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid"

the bananas from my last grocery trip haven’t finished ripening

I had better deescalation skills as a 15 year old lifeguard swatting away old men blocking the toddlers’ pool because I had boobs and my uniform was a swimsuit.

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

My #artvsartist2025 as a timeline cleanse, because I just realized I was holding my breath scrolling. Check out my website at www.reveandbloom.com if you need some art! I do licensing, commissions, and just added a blog. #sciart #illustration #art

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

Portland police, FBI and border patrol on the scene. Ongoing situation more information to come. Witnesses say it was a Spanish speaking couple, one was shot in the chest and the other multiple times but not confirmed.

Border Patrol has shot two people in Oregon close to Portland. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. The two who were shot allegedly drove to this location for further help and are now en route or at hospital. Their condition is unknown.

A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident. Being an elementary schoolchild in America is far more deadly and dangerous than being an ICE officer.

if I die, please don't let them say shit like "she sang in church choirs since the age of 10 and was an active parishioner at St. Andrew" and omit the fact that I'm a lesbian to make middle America feel bad that I'm dead when otherwise they wouldn't care

I also want to say that if you are doing "a Christian widow" or "widow of a veteran", both of which I have seen, you are showing your hand

the spectrum of queer experience is vast and complex, and none of us know what's going on inside families that are not our own but my feed is full of media outlets describing a woman with a very-much-living-and-in-the-picture wife first and foremost as though she was a man's widow, and I just

Hey y'all ACA subsidies are NOT saved, the Senate still needs to vote on the latest version of the bill; just want to note that the House vote happened at 5:13p and the Senate adjourned at 4:29p. The Senate vote I see some people referencing regards a prior bill. Please do call your senator!

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources. The shooting occurred near East Burnside and 141st Avenue. Updated 3:38pm PT January 8, 2026

Very important thread. I can’t over emphasize the importance of thinking strategically. Our communities get breaks, but the ICE agents don’t. That’s a massive advantage for our side if we leverage it effectively.

Systemic structures care about their continuation not individuals. White people who stand against white supremacy are a threat to its justification & existence

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

She was a queer woman peacefully exercising her First Amendment right. Every person with a sound conscience should be furious.

There’s so much Miller on the timeline, cleansing with Dolly Parton and a cat ✨

Covid can steal your ability to workout ever again (until we finally develop better treatments for long COVID)

To be clear you need to wear an N95 or Kn94 or other medical respirator, not a floppy surgical that doesn’t filter air and not a fabric mask that doesn’t filter and just absorbs sweat. I have covid aware friends who don’t have LC & who work out in masks.

If you get covid at the gym seems to be a 1 in 7 chance you won’t be able to workout anymore…. Mask up (personally I just worked out at home)

I think the AI angle does matter in the sense that because it’s “an AI” that supposedly means it’s something happening autonomously that no human being has control over. It’s a form of accountability-washing to get away with making illegal and immoral business decisions like this.

What do they have in common? All three were started as business by media insiders based on selling to the wealthy and powerful. They are businesses—much more so than journalism outlets. They do constant beat-sweetening. They were all founded to be sold, not produce human flourishing.

This is an important point, which is that the Post draws on a long-standing trope that equates the receipt of government resources with dependence, rather than opportunity and a measure of dignity. We have real research on this: people who access SNAP are more likely to enjoy economic benefits.

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Another thing about Maduro capture — this isn’t the work of fools, which means serious military people, and not just trumps dumb and dumber collection of idiots — went along with this. I’m so tired of seeing media frame this as just a Trump thing - this is maybe the most American thing he’s done.

and frankly draw fat people ever. like, ever. draw them, write them, please pretend you live in the real world with real people for one single second. you make a world without fat people you've created a nightmare i want no part of! do not show me! thank you!

new year means please remember to be like nice and normal about fat people, the fat person you are or could become, the fat person you could fall in love with or friends you could have. fatness is not a corrupting force, fatphobia is. the performance is unhealthy, weight loss is social is political

The presumptuous autocorrupt cannot HAVE a theory of mind! It has no agency! No judgement! No discernment! We do not attribute theory of mind to inanimate objects! Even ones with googly eyes that we have named Ralph! No, our equilibrium is fine without handing any credit to the electric sand.

My now-MAGAt family members immediately treated me worse when I got my PhD in political philosophy/law because I became the enemy. This meant I suddenly became an incompetent who couldn’t understand politics and was a danger to students(?!). Wild to watch in real time summer 2012 to December 2012.

And, more of this problem rests on “a creature with a vulnerable body who is going to age and die” than we admit. People want to find experts who will make them forever young, and actual experts worrying about real diseases, or pivotal elections, or dangerous new technologies, harsh the vibe.

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

And I am not the first person to say this, but it is actually a GOOD thing that this is not about magic ineffable charisma because field is REPLICABLE. There aren't a ton of magically charismatic progressive candidates, but there are plenty of likeable ones that could win, with good field.

this is blowing my mind “bears can squeeze into some pretty tiny spaces b/c they don’t have collarbones. All they need is an opening big enough for their heads to fit [...] we routinely receive reports of large, adult bears accessing crawlspaces through standard 8 by 16 inch foundation vents" WHAT

legal action against...who, exactly?

This makes me want to call it slop, like, at least 5x as much as I already did.