The Close, Prolonged Contact Myth www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The principles are the same regardless of virus. 1. Precautionary principle 2. Droplet/ close contact are incorrect and indicate close range, higher concentration aerosol transmission 3. A/pre-symptomatic transmission is more common than thought (see also 1. And Intl Hanta Soc stmt 🤷‍♀️)

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

Buffy’s Nicholas Brendon’s death is the sixth of The WB stars since 2024 Brendon tragically joins a growing list of The WB stars dying young. But why is this happening post-pandemic? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

It's also strange to say we "have" this planet, when we actually are this planet. We are not just in or on the Earth, we are it. It's not an amusement park ride. Same with the solar system. We're not just flying around or rotating within it. We are the solar system. We're the fabric of the cosmos.

Must-read thread:

Trans Day of Visibility. Trans people are our neighbors. Trans people are not dangerous. Today, and every day, we see you. You are loved, you belong 💛

Like… we never got back to “normal” after his first presidency. Biden just rolled with it while everyone occasionally poked him with a stick to see if he was still cognizant

lowkey love her being like EYE have a passport bc I'm rich but what about the rest of y'all broke asses? I still know an unconstitutional poll tax when I see one!

If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

Once again, it’s important to remember that the stock market long ago ceased to be linked to a rational valuation of the companies listed and is just a mood ring for rich people.

it is the postal SERVICE not the postal BUSINESS thank you for your time

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

The only TV show I want resurrected is Star Trek: Lower Decks.

This week marked the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve summarized our thoughts a bit below, but tl;dr: Unfortunately, COVID-19 is still with us, & although we may be tired of hearing about it, it’s extremely important to continue to take steps to protect ourselves & others.

If you want 70/30 and multiparty democracy, then we need proportional multi-member districts:

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

if not war then why war shaped

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

I just learned that Northside Mutual Aid (supporting North Minneapolis families impacted by ICE) is still trying to meet $80,000 in rent needs from FEBRUARY. Can we move some funds in their direction? 🌻

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

"Lucille Clifton was a person of strong psychic intuitions..she developed a practice of spiritual communication with the dead, including her own mother, Thelma..Clifton began channeling in the summer of 1976 because “something told” her to get out the Ouija board" lareviewofbooks.org/article/keep...

please please please keep donating, it would be amazing to get to $20,000 by tomorrow for these three great organizations! even if you aren't able to donate, please boost and share - the livestream is here and so is the donation information! postersmadness.wordpress.com

The implication here is straightforward: that people with platforms, including Democratic politicians and media, need to keep highlighting the threat to democracy specifically — centering democracy as an issue in both word and deed. To save democracy, you have to actually talk about democracy.

Related content via @juliusgoat.bsky.social (seriously, read it. It's great) www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

why are they called the US Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team and not the Mighty Milkshake Ducks

A remarkably disheartening thing is you get the sense there are a handful of genuine historic fork in the road moments of what kind of country we want in our lifetime, and I still can’t shake how much during the height of Covid we had a decision of what lessons we’d all take from it and what…

The chief of police of quakertown Pennsylvania choked a teen girl on camera and the footage is on the Pennsylvania subreddit.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

That aspirational tradition isn’t any less authentically American than the idea of a white Christian “homeland” defined by hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth. There simply has never been a consensual answer to the question of “who we are.”

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

when pop culture no longer caters to your specific demographic you can accept that the world constantly changes or you can, I dunno, enact a fascist takeover of a country in the futile hope of forcing everyone to like the things you like

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

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now let’s get all the kids out of detention. the adults too

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée