Yep, first thing Dems need to do is codify consequences for breaking Oaths of office,violating Constitution & rule of law. Real, hard consequences. Our democracy had been taken over from within b/c we don't have any, no guardrails, & they got away w/J6. Just got away with treason to rule of law.

9am tomorrow. Email them ask them to vote No. house.louisiana.gov/H_Cmtes/Hous...

you know how badly you have to fuck up to throw a WORLD CUP and have nobody come?

I so want to hear this.

RFK, Jr. has fired the two chairs of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The USPSTF "determines when insurance must provide free preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies, for millions of Americans." We don't know why or what it means, yet. The task... 1/2 apnews.com/article/trum...

If you’re a cis woman and you see toilet policing going on then you fucking step in to defend the woman or non-binary person being harassed. It might feel unsafe to do so but I guarantee you this: in the long term, it will be more dangerous to let them normalise attempts at genital inspection

How the Democratic Republic of the Congo's health system — now at the center of the Ebola outbreak — changed after U.S. aid was cut, according to people who worked in the country:

feeding auditory hallucinations to a person in active AI-induced psychosis

Sources say USAID cuts damaged epidemic preparedness and hampered the DRC's Ebola response, a perfect storm fueling third-largest outbreak in history. www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/u...

NEW: EPIC's latest report details how many major online platforms—from social media to data brokers to dating apps—use manipulative design patterns to make it more difficult for consumer to opt out of the collection, use, transfer, or sale of their personal data. 🧵

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

So it should be, what, 1000x higher then?

4/ ▶️ #AndesVirus "The catastrophic unanswered questions surrounding the Andes virus are not the result of innocent scientific limitations, but of a deliberate political assault on global public health": www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

3/ ▶️ #COVID There's still no cure for #LongCOVID, COVID is not over, & in some countries vaccines are being limited to only one per year (even though infections surge at least twice per annum, & the COVID vaccine is known to provide only short-lived immunity) - whn.global/covid-19-and...

just gave blood here in france and you get a two course meal (main course and dessert) with coffee at the end if you want.

more and more my job seems to be just explaining to 100% disbelieving ppl that the job of research is actually literally doing all the reading, even when it takes forever, even when it is boring, even when it requires a new skillset and the response I get is like telling people we breathe underwater

THEY PAINTED OVER A WHALING WALL WHAT THE FUCK

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron emerged in late 2021, and its descendant subvariants remain the dominant circulating strains in 2026. Over the years, we’ve often heard that newer variants were becoming less severe, but a new systematic review published yesterday suggests that may not be true. #Covid #LongCovid

Worth reading... TLDR: Omicron was NEVER mild 🤬☠️‼️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Breakfast with Barbie (1989-circa 1991): A low-sugar, "Barbie"-themed cereal, consisting of pink, yellow, and purple multigrain, fruit-flavored pieces, shaped like bows, hearts, stars, cars, and the letter "B". Available in a variety of collectible boxes, see 🧵to check 'em out!

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence,” says Michael Geoffrey Asia, a former data labeler in Kenya who is now secretary general of the Data Labelers Association. "We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

it's caturday, but i'm making an exception for Her

I got a print subscription to a newspaper and two magazines, and my screen time has plummeted. It’s crazy how being totally immersed in the horrors of the world still feels better than doomscrolling for 6-10hrs a day.

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

A few of us were on the leading, *bleeding* edge of this phenomenon.... I predict things will only get worse. It sucked dating in the 1990s, 2000s, and early 2010s. Gen X men didn't forgive you for being less than a 10 (in their eyes) and having your shit together. Some considered it an insult. 🤷🏾‍♀️

At the @mississippifreepress.org, we always credit breaking enterprise reporting by other newsrooms that we follow up with reporter's name and link. We are not threatened in any way by giving credit where due. We urge other outlets to follow suit; this helps our industry build public + local trust.

Ruby-crowned kinglet vying for cutest bird in the forest. #birds

Haha. He thinks no one will notice his misogyny if he calls the female reporter a “dumb *person*” this time. 🙄

say what you will about the 1990s being better, but you couldn't have someone deliver your family three cold hamburgers for only $68.90 back then

Statius in the Achilleid writes Achilles as an angry force-feminized youth scheming to assault a princess. Louis XIV's sibling Philippe commissioned a marble statue of femme Achilles in full Amazon warrior garb. Unusual gender modalities of Achilles have existed going on three millennia. IT WOULD BE

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Finally, for those who'd like to see a longer version of this piece, see my Substack where @jvipondmd.bsky.social joins us for the detail: trishgreenhalgh.substack.com/p/respirator...

For my newsletter, I wrote about the 22 foot tall golden statue of Trump that was dedicated by a host of conservative religious leaders and went long on how some sects of prosperity gospel worshipping in American religion are corrupting this country. www.burnsnotice.com/the-evangeli...

It’s ME awareness day and I’m ironically not well enough to post anything helpful about it because I feel too shit. Don’t get ME or Long Covid, it sucks.

Never dim your light just to make others comfortable. Being trans and unapologetically you is powerful🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Shine as brightly as you were meant to 🌈

Very dapper man with premium kitten accessories. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

This is Lily. She’s been accused of drinking her mom’s slushie. Will not be taking any questions at this time. 14/10 (IG: iceedoglilly)

ME/CFS Day and what can I say. It shrank my world down to almost nothing. Stripped away almost everything I loved to do, and very few people I loved stuck around. I’m very lucky. The fog let up for me, and I went from moderate to mild. In all honesty, we don’t really know why. Many aren’t lucky.

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May 12, 1776: Rhode Island Lt. George Cleghorn records how virtually his entire company fell ill with smallpox outside Quebec City. “The sick we left behind to share the fate of being killed or being taken prisoners.” Those who retreated are still suffering from lack of food and clothes.

The corporate media is bravely asking, “won’t anyone think of the billionaires?”

This is why all of these fucking monuments should have been melted down.

5/n: We are seeing zoonotic spillover events with increasing frequency, just among the better known ones, the list includes: SARS-1 CoV (2002) MERS CoV (2012) Ebola (2014) Ebola (2019) SARS-2 CoV (2019) MPox (2022) H5N1 (2024) ANDIV (2026)

Wait, which commandment was the one about having no idols before God? Asking because MAGA evangelicals are at Mar-a-Lago blessing a golden statue like Exodus was just bonus content. But what do I know? I’m just a Voodoo Queen watching Christians invent golden calf 2.0. 🙃🪄

What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

This guy harassed a shopper wearing a keffiyeh, calling them “terrorist.” Incident occurred in an Apple Valley, CA Albertsons grocery store on May 8th. Thanks to the person who filmed and called him out.