Calling her ICE Barbie is an insult to Barbie

Me as a manager

There are a handful of experiences that reveal a person’s truest character, for better or worse Caring for an elderly parent is turning out to be one of the most heartbreaking & enraging ones on that list

An unknown relative of mine started a scrapbook in 1940. It contains articles from a Boston newspaper by a single columnist who was writing about travel in Europe. Flipping through is an eerie trip from interesting notes on Scandinavian diets to increasingly distressed columns about Hitler

National park staff were banned from participating in our local Women’s Leadership Breakfast (because DEI) Who would’ve thought that the party that won on the bogeyman of trans people erasing women would be the very same leopards to eat terfs’ faces?

These public humiliation kinks are getting out of hand

Information isn’t the antidote to misinformation. Patience isn’t the antidote to violence. And decorum is not the antidote to fascists

Democrats obsession with decorum is going to get us all killed

Hysterical Trump Can’t Control His Emotions During Embarassing Outburst; Vance Also There for Some Reason

The moms from my son’s birth group (“October 2011 Mamas”) have left FaceBook in favor of Discord so we can message more securely about political organizing You know shits getting real when the BabyCenter message boards are generating resistance groups

There are many extemely experienced fed employees now out of work I know you are all used to working at the Big Scale fed level- But there are so many amazing community level orgs & agencies & NPOs doing work aligned with your expertise- I hope we all find each other. There’s good work to do 💙

And no, it’s nor poverty. Research has shown over and over and over that wealth does not protect Black women & infants from inequities BUT even if it DID, we should never accept a system that accepts excess death of mothers & babies as a matter of course for capitalism

Elon must’ve defunded whoever was supposed to cut the refs a check

Sharing this lesson from 2021: If you’re overwhelmed, look local. Connect local We learned during Covid: decades of investing local paid off. Neighborhoods were activated. There was no single solution; there were dozens of different ones Find your local www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...

One of the students helping with our Community Health Needs Assessment (which identifies loca health inequities & needs) asked me if it would be a good idea to not list her name in the acknowledgments “just in case” 💔 So that’s how the students are doing these days

Over-responding or complying in advance to threats & directives that are not directed at you will not protect you - but it will harm the people & communities you are trying to serve.

💙 Boston

For the last year, we’ve been working with a group of Cambodian elders who’ve help us design & implement community programming Listening to their perspectives on the current US political landscape, as survivors of genocide themselves, is … indescribably horrifying

The demographic most likely to roofie you now has access to your grandmas social security information.

Anyone who has ever looked at the data knows that each of these young men is a perfect fit for the profile of someone likely to commit mass violence And so, here they are, doing just that

They’re not stupid; they’re terrorists

Remember them

For anyone needing a CDC dataset: it may be in one of the nearly 3000 csv files archived here: archive.org/details/2025...

When you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Reminding all data folks: check your download history, too. I was able to saving 5 now-erased datasets because I had previously downloaded them for older projects. Now saved

I seriously underestimated the number of eggs the typical household consumes honestly

This week I scheduled all my meetings for projects I really enjoy to my earliest time slot. It’s working. The joy I felt coming out of a meeting on a project to help local multilingual community members become doulas kept me out of existential dread til nearly 3pm

Access primary & preventative care is already on the edge of a cliff The chaos invoked around Medicaid payments is already rippling thru providers who were already hesitant Rescinded, not rescinded, locked out, not locked out: doesn’t matter The damage is spidering like a crack in a windshield

“Don’t believe what you see & experience firsthand” Local hospitals & federally qualified health centers here are *already reporting* missed payments & launching contingency plans The WH is L Y I N G

“Calm down, alarmists, it doesn’t affect Medicaid” Meanwhile, in Massachusetts:

Desperately trying to create a shitpost feed here to interrupt my doomscrolling and failing It’s like my anxiety decided to host an expert panel and voluntarily handcuffed myself to a chair

reporting rumbles right along the areola part of this earthquake map

A small hope: Thru Covid, food insecurity was one of a dozen concerns communities had, especially for people already experiencing it. Locally, that meant homebound elders, especially those who arrived as refugees & don’t speak English But- the food disaster never came (1/x)

Today an elderly patient asked her doctor for a note explaining her shoulder pain in hopes that agents would cuff her in the front rather than the back if “they come to take [her] away” I don’t even have words

In a great twist to the classic high school lit class debate, it turns out it’s not “Orwell or Huxley.” It’s actually the uniquely American blend of Orwell AND Huxley that’s will topple us!

As we march full speed to a single Orwellian State Media, I gotta say: Fellow zine & lit rag crafters from the 70s- early 2000s: our time to shine again ✨

Diabolical that March, undisputed worst month, has 31 entire days

Whenever someone says this, everyone assumes it’s the animation. Babe. The PLOT. The *plot* is weird

I miss three weeks ago when my BlueSky feed was not an endlessly refreshing existential dread machine

Counterpoint: Do

I’m just a girl, standing in front of data set, begging them to disaggregate for me 🥹🥰

Big Health Data: Our inequity expert team is so excited to share this dataset specifically collected so we can tackle inequities because inequities are the most important problem in this inequitable world Me: Did you disaggregate race? Them:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6 #BookSky #BookChallenge #📖

So much criticism of BlueSky being an “echo chamber” I love it here because my feed is scientists sharing research, authors recommending books, pretty data visualizations- all shared without anyone being called a slur or sexually harassed Yea I’ll just stay here ₕₑᵣₑ ₕₑᵣₑ (Get it? It’s an echo…

my 2 moods 😇🔪

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5 #BookSky #BookChallenge #📖

ok I’m just gonna say it: there’s too many Friendsgiving’s pls my single casserole dish is looking at me like

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3 #BookSky #BookChallenge

Very good and thoughtful take on the language of clinical care. Remember that patients using an interpreter, or with certain types or neurodivergence, may need different approaches to language to ensure meaning is clearly conveyed