Make Lung Disease Great Again This should be the Trump Administration's new slogan. The Mine Safety & Health Administration has stopped enforcing the silica exposure standard and is dismantling NIOSH, which does lung disease research and certifies respirators. Thanks Margie Mason & @apnews.com

ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst. This morning, they took a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district. #ice #chicago

Further proof that AI stands for Actually Indians

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either: a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

Re: the replies scolding me for buying from WalMart: I'm not a "virtue capitalist" I am an anti-capitalist. Giving money is fine but misses the point about building solidarity (1st step get out the house!). And if you have not set foot inside WalMart in years lol enjoy your latte at Target sis 😏

From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

Please find your nearest Diaper Bank and donate diapers, wipes, rash cream, and especially period care products for the moms and don't forget the teen sizes 🫶🏽 If there's no DB nearby, please start one with your union/church/club/PTA/neighborhood buddies! #solidarity #nokings #mutualaid #community

If you can at all afford to, head to WalMart ASAP for some shelf-stabile staples for your local food bank. My daughter threw snacks & goodies (not on the list) in the cart "I KNOW what kids LIKE mom!" 🫶🏽 Solidarity is a muscle - it requires regular training and you need to start the kids young 👊🏽

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses. In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

It’s always funny to me that a set of political bros (not Jamelle here, just a type of dude) thinks politics is some rational decision making process. Politics is a soap opera and many people engage it as such. Something silly will end up being the downfall of this, and almost any, administration.

Members of the faithful lock arms as clergy, including a Chicago Auxiliary Bishop ask for entrance into Broadview ICE detention facility; they are denied entrance again; Fr. Dan Harnett is now leading a prayer of Spiritual Communion with detained immigrants.

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social (It’s also our kid’s birthday)

Spread the word. The Trump Administration can use emergency funds to pay for SNAP benefits during a shutdown. The President and little Mike Johnson are lying to you. How do we know? 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives. All on the taxpayer’s dime. trib.al/TBvPo7A

More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden. The Trump administration is rolling them back By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Today's the 70th anniversary of the first issue of the Village Voice, which revolutionized journalism and reported on Trump's corruption as early as 1979. The paperback of a book on the Voice, The Freaks Came Out to Write, by @tromano.bsky.social comes out 11/04 theliteratelizard.com/book/9781541...

They tortured him to death.

NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

The benefit of Ozempic (semaglutide) for protection from major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) is independent of weight loss magnitude and baseline adiposity, likely related to the GLP-1 anti-inflammatory effect thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is about to cross 20 hours of continuously holding the Senate floor and speaking to "ring the alarm bells" about authoritarianism.

A mere 19 months ago, Trump’s net worth was $2.6B, and he owed hundreds of millions in civil penalties. Today, Trump is worth $7.1B, and most of the civil penalties have been tossed out. Presidential politics is by far the most lucrative business venture of Trump’s career. trib.al/XjAdogE

Add your favorite #nokings photos from so-called #redstates !!

The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. @nicolefoy.bsky.social @propublica.org found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Bruh www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

“When Luke Mosiman, chair of AZ Young Republicans, asked if New Yorkers in the chat were watching an NBA playoff game, Giunta responded, ‘I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.’ Giunta elsewhere refers to Black people as ‘the watermelon people.’” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I don't think folks understand how incessantly biomedical research institutions are propagandizing the use of LLMs. The propaganda language is a heady mix of pseudo-technical buzz-terms and alluring productivity promises. The structural (non-remediable) limitations and dangers are never articulated.

I've just been introduced to my university's new "Faculty Misconduct Sanction Ladder Matrix," and let me tell you, things are going GREAT in higher education right now.

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis. fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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FRIDAY NIGHT MASSACRE: Late Friday, the Trump admin laid off dozens of CDC staff — from outbreak “disease detectives” to chronic disease scientists — even shuttering the team behind the famed MMWR. Public health just took a major hit. #BlueSky #MedSky #EMSky #NurseSky #PedsSky #SciSky #IDSky

Attacks on Black women leaders are happening at all levels of government - story from the Eastern shore of Maryland Maryland’s messiest school district gets its dirty laundry aired - Baltimore Banner

Deeply disturbing - pay attention 🙏🏽 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

I find this so interesting given the demographics of male circumcision in this country. There are basically 2 unconnected groups of men who are most likely to be uncircumcised in 2025. RFK is in one of them 😏

Give a listen #medsky #episky #publichealth www.facebook.com/share/v/1ac7...

First Trump deployed the National Guard in DC. Then he turned his sights to Portland and Memphis. Now it's Chicago. Using the military against its own people is not normal. We're not teetering into authoritarianism. We're living in it right now.

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.” WHEW.

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dear god please let me live long enough to see that smug blonde bitch behind bars 🙏🏽

Why am I always stuck on amazing? 😭

Most fragility fractures occur in patients without osteoporosis. Should we rethink who gets treated? On the latest episode of Beyond Journal Club from @coreimpodcast.bsky.social and NEJM Group, the hosts address this question and more. Listen now: nej.md/4q7hOK3 #MedSky #OrthoSky