Milwaukee and Madison: stand with Chicago tomorrow.

D.) When I worked in public schools there was no budget for students to have access to a whole book. All I could offer them was access to a classroom set, photocopied excerpts, and novels I bought with Donorschoose money or paid for myself.

Looking to escape? Very silly band, good time to be had. Waukesha WI USA tomorrow night.

Thank goodness. Please, by all that is scientific and not holy, get a bipartisan group together and fire him before he harms or endangers anyone else.

Also, at the same time making pregnancy more dangerous by reducing access to care and telling pregnant people not to be vaccinated, and not to take fever-reducers/painkillers (acetaminophen). This is about causing pain and harm.

I truly crave the day when we are no longer ruled by the kinds of people who can be bought by old white billionaires.

This is a reminder that late night talk shows are not the only targets for government censorship and overreach. Book bans are censorship, too, and a book ban has never been on the right side of history.

You should not be on academia.edu . I know this because after my dissertation director had died, they kept telling me she had posted new things. They were using her work as clickbait, and it was revolting.

Hi, Bluesky! It’s God. Don’t let the bastards get you down.

Protecting Wisconsinites’ health from environmental and occupational exposures by day. Teaching literature by night. Being equitable to all human beings throughout.

I will work with any Republicans willing to put science and facts over politics and ideology to push out RFK Jr. That man is a serious threat to public health and American lives. It's never too late to do the right thing. Join me in calling for RFK Jr. to be fired immediately.

Reasons to buy immediately: 1. You can read an epub on so many platforms. 2. ‘Murderbot’ is fantastic. 3. Proceeds go to World Central Kitchen.

Fire him. Immediately.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."

I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.

On, Wisconsin!

Joined my former boss @drtomfrieden.bsky.social and @mkraju.bsky.social on @cnn.com today to discuss recent CDC changes youtube.com/watch?v=3zKG...

🗣Take Action now: secure.everyaction.com/0SHFqHvBiUOc... RFK Jr. is jeopardizing public health—firing CDC leaders and gutting vaccine science. Demand Senator Cassidy move to fire RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary and support science-backed policy! #ScienceMatters #VaccinesWork #USAnotRFK

We HAD some of the world’s foremost experts on public health. They worked at CDC. They quit in protest of a dilettante snake oil salesman cosplaying as an HHS secretary.

7 straight days of taking our house apart due to flood. No word on whether FEMA will help. Why do I pay taxes again??

I think I see the financial error of my ways. I went into public service and not crime. Perhaps I should plan a techno heist. Seems to be what everyone’s doing nowadays.

Just, you know, mucking out my house and hauling all my stuff to the curb, and hoping the white supremacist/nationalist agenda does not prevent the federal government from sending relief aid to us after the recent floods. We pay taxes, too, asshole.

STEM is not the only important set of subjects, and MAY NOT offer the answer to how we improve education for human beings in the future. Hint: humans are humanistic. They require human understanding.

This is how we were going to cure cancer, btw.

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Among the many issues that this piece highlights is how the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 origins have remained almost entirely focused on a handful of chat logs and email threads from five years ago while the science has been evolving and pointing more and more towards zoonosis.

Do you publish with Johns Hopkins? Opt out.

You got it. My opinion: books are equally enjoyable in any format: paper, e-book, or audio.

It's payback time: Miami Herald looks at the Alligator Alley concentration camp and finds that DeSantis is using it to transfer money from the Florida treasury to the pockets of his political cronies and supporters. That's what it's all about. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

Not a happy Independence Day. A pissed off one.

We’ve got trouble. Right here in River City. With a capital ‘T’ that rhymes with ‘B’ and that stands for bullshit.

Happy Juneteenth!

Unconscionable, cruel, and inhumane.

Please read before Saturday:

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

We feed you. They hunt us.

I do not endorse the use of our military against Californians, and neither should ANYONE. Where are you, congress?

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Oof

It’s not just DOGE. I can’t believe how many of these stories focus on DOGE and overlook the dismantling of our federal agencies by the incompetent or malicious secretaries in charge of them. MAHA is going to be a shadow of our former healthcare agencies, and Education? Brutal.

Right? What do they think all the talented, well-educated experts are going to do for four years? They’ll have moved on. Also, if they were to return, their institutional knowledge would be less useful because the entire landscape will have changed.

Happy Pride!!🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

Experts inside and outside the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been left stunned and puzzled by the decimation of a nearly 80-year-old agency that has been a global leader in public health. Learn how decimating the CDC will cost many lives in the US and abroad. #MedSky

This is what comes from generations of disinvestment in health care and support systems.

Happy Glorious 25th of May! This day we celebrate the revolutionaries who rise up because we all need Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg! I recommend Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books today and always.