so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Advice needed! Anyone know if kids covid vaccines (she’s age 8) are available in California? They were supposedly approved, and we want her to get it before RFK Jr kills vaccines completely, but I can’t find any information about how to find kids covid vaccines.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Oop.

Every Dem candidate for '26 and '28 must, bare minimum, promise the abolishing of ICE and genuine significant punishment for every member of this administration and their collaborators. This isn't a purity test. It's the compromise position.

Private school is expensive. As a product of the public school system, I HATE spending so much $$. But then I see this in my daughter’s classroom and realize that in 2025, private school might be the only safe place for young empathetic human beings. THIS is how you make kids feel safe and included

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive GLOBAL study revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths WORLDWIDE between 2020 and 2024. It reveals that vaccinations didn’t JUST protect against illness. They PRESERVED nearly 15 MILLION years of human life.

I’m REALLY hoping this becomes a Dave (1993) scenario. To the Trump impersonator helping cover up whatever is happening: this is your time to shine.

Are we all picturing small gray ships on trailers being pulled through DC streets? WWII PT Boats, maybe? They’ll be using the phrase “parade float” more literally than I could have ever imagined.

BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.

I hope our Canadian friends post when this becomes available so some of us trapped in this anti-science hell hole can try to slip across the border and get vaccinated

We all understand that it’s not the words these awful idiots have a problem with, it is the concepts themselves? It’s not like they’re suggesting better terms they like. When they tell you they want to remove the words, they mean “here is a list of things we do not care about and will not address”.

USA: For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued vaccine guidance that differs from U.S. government advice. "The AAP is “strongly recommending” COVID-19 shots for children 6 months–2 years, while shots for older kids are advised but left to parents."

This is important. We can be intentional with our fire.

We’ve driven over 3500 miles across the United States this summer, and the area outside Portland, OR has been the worst, most racist portion we saw. 30 min north of Portland we got a thumbs down for our pride flag license plate. 60 min west of Portland our pride flag magnet was torn off the truck.

“At 6 months, 33.3% of infants exhibited cognitive delays, 20% communication delays, and 40% motor delays, increasing to 35.71%, 64.29%, and 57.14% at 24 months, respectively.”

Maternal covid infection linked to neurological, motor, and communication delays in children😞 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There are no distractions everything is bad Hope that helps

"Life will never truly be convenient or comforting while we turn a blind eye to the spread of harmful and disabling disease in our communities. Denial and inaction are not solutions": Via @barryjmjones.bsky.social goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

When road tripping all the way across the country, far from interstates, it’s so important to leave time in your schedule to discover and explore random Americana. Detroit Lakes, MN, we loved you.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is as pretty as advertised. And pasties on the U.P. are delicious #roadtrip

God: “This man, Job, errr, I mean James, is exhausted & stressed to the absolute limit, to the point where he’s a walking zombie, unable to focus his eyes or lift his arms or even walk up stairs as he packs his house up.” “So give him a break?” God: “Oh I know, let’s have him bitten by a pitbull.”

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

We’re prepping for yet another month-long journey across the country, camping and seeing the sights. We’ve done this before. This is #6 for me, #4 for my wife, and #2 for the 8-year old. Still using the same 1998 Road Atlas that I bought for my very first road trip after college to plan the drive.

Publishers, please also note that at least one person avoided purchasing multiple audiobooks today because their covers were made by AI, and I don’t support that garbage.

Must read thread…

“What frequently underpins the external and internal chaos […] is a pervasive sense of deep shame and the quiet realisation that their potential in life is not being met.” For me it feels like being on the edge of a cliff. True genius is 1” further, over the edge, but something won’t let me fall in

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

I know it’s rough out there. Since Bruce Springsteen continues telling like it is about Trump, I want to quote a simple lyric from the greatest album of all time: “Man, the dope’s that there’s still hope” Keep fighting. The world’s not over yet.

If you care about public lands. Please start speaking up. I’m literally begging you. Not enough folk seem to care about this issue.

One thing that Americans truly don't understand is that other countries have exactly the same right to bomb us as we have to bomb them.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Louder for the people in the back: "It has been a public health failure that the public does not realize how much organ damage #COVID infection can cause to things that aren’t your lungs (or throat or nose or taste buds)." The image below is based on data collected from 80,071 kids and teens:

🚨 Secretary Noem basically said that her agency is now dedicated to forcible regime change…in American cities and states. There 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 a 👏🏽 name 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 this

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

There Are No 'Distractions' In A War, Only Fronts www.oliverexplains.com/p/there-are-...

my transportation politics in one picture

Everywhere you look the news is bad, so here’s a timeline cleanse: my 8-year old is at the rock gym today, rocking a black Zimi KN95 respirator as she boulders across a pride month rainbow. The kids are gonna be all right.

The U.S. military has been ordered to attack Los Angeles. That's where we are now.

relevant

"In the self-styled “advanced” nations, clean water is considered essential, but we tolerate foul air in our homes, workplaces and classrooms, despite a century of evidence that it is harming ourselves and our children."

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

MAHA: “We’re going to make America healthy again!” The people: “So we’re getting universal healthcare, UBI, abortion access, clean air, public health campaigns and paid time off?” MAHA: “Nope” Us: “what do we get?” Them: “Healthy. Or eliminated” Believe Nazis when they tell you who they are

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets