Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Israel’s top military lawyer, Brig. Gen. Yael Shavit, was arrested after admitting she leaked a video of soldiers abusing Palestinian detainees. She cited moral duty and failed internal channels. Israeli officials on the right have called the leak treason. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Bold Claims Need Strong Evidence. No, Not That Evidence.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

Amazon controls approx 30% of cloud computing; competitors Microsoft and Google have 20% and 13% respectively. If/when they fail all associated services (even if only remotely associated) will collapse. SO fragile! #AWSoutage #internetdown #connectivitycollapse #webfail

#MedSky #NurseSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #ChronicIllness #covidconscious #maskup #respirator

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle): The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

credit: Steve Cousineau

#MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #NurseSky #ChronicIllness #publichealth #covidconscious #disinformation #DunningKruger #LaptopDocs

Maybe I'm not the first to notice this but California and Texas (the National Guard units called up by Trump) invading the rest of the United States is exactly the plot of "Civil War" Probably where those dumbasses got the idea

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

rapture loyalty program paradox. if you're still here you win BUT you didn't make the cut...

sparkling neurodivergence: splendid!

Approx 30% med residents in the US are internat'l graduates; approx 10,000 of 43,000 resident spots go to H-1B visa holders. Are hospitals going to pay 100K xtra per year? Rural locations will suffer (if they haven't already been defunded) #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #NurseSky #publichealth #braindrain

You’d think free speech was a woman’s body given how badly the Right hates it and wants to control it at the same time

Here’s the report Pam Blondi scrambled to delete from the DoJ website. The internets are forever.

#MedSky #NurseSky #EpiSky #IDSky #VaccineSky #PolicySky #healthpolicy #globalhealth #covidconscious #ChronicIllness

Serious question: Do they believe their own lies and prevarications? #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #covidconscious #nursesky #ChronicIllness #vaccines #RFKjr #DunningKruger #legendinhisownmind #scienceilliterate #nobelprize @spencerhakimian.bsky.social

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

As we enter the “fuck around and find out” public health era, it’s important to remember, people will be harmed..people will die. All of this is preventable. Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Well the slope from “let the elderly and disabled die of COVID” to “let’s trash all the rest of our ethics, morals and laws” was basically a short walk on a flat path wasn’t it?

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I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

#WorkersOverBillionaires #NoKings #FreeDC #NoMoreGreatAgain (Neil Young lyric) #MiraMesa #SanDiego

interspecies attention solicitation Russell/Sheryl-style #timelinecleanse #doomscrollpause #animalsdoingthings #crows #corvids #horses #horsepeeps #equine #critters #interspecies

shamelessly gift-wrapped and handed over to Palantir in plain sight - DOGE dudebros couldn't even even bother to be sneaky #DunningKruger #arroganceofignorance #criminallyshortsighted #expertisecosplay

🚨1000 authoritarian actions. 7 months🚨 I've been tracking Trump's authoritarian actions. From dismantling democratic institutions to militarising immigration enforcement, Trump is reshaping America. In my new post I highlight key authoriarian attacks christinapagel.substack.com/p/grand-desi... 1/2

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

Collapse awareness is similar to death awareness: we learn to pretend neither of them exist. Those of us most terrified go into full denial, attacking those who have the audacity to remind us of…the truth

Nurses condemn President Trump’s inhumane order to forcibly remove, jail, or involuntarily commit unhoused people in Washington, D.C. It is a violation of their civil and human rights, and it'll only exacerbate wait times at already-struggling hospitals.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

This is how vaccines work 🙄 Science illiteracy at its finest.

There are a lot of details in yesterday's sweeping executive order, but the bottom line is that it gives political appointees immense power over scientific grants, which have until now been stewarded by career civil servants and experts. My reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In all honesty, not a bad cat impression. Happy Nat'l 🐅🐆🐈🐈‍⬛ day. #timelinecleanse #doomscrollpause #animalsdoingthings #hayrecycler #hoppypony #cat #rabbit #bunny

@adamdthompson.bsky.social - love this! #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #nursesky #ChronicIllness #environment #science #AcademicSky #covidconscious

per oinkling translator tool: Hey, the cilantro is wilted! #doomscrollpause #timelinecleanse #animalsdoingthings #critters #piggies #guineapigs

New mask hostility response: Stare blankly at the accuser and ask- What makes you so sure I'm not protecting YOU from ME? Could be the cognitive dissonance will accomplish what science-based explanations cannot. #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #nursesky #publichealth #ChronicIllness #covidconscious #airborne

Obviously there also is no such thing as drowning, since we know that we will die without enough water.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Studies were inspired by "super-smeller" Joy Milneopens, a nurse with hyperosmia who noticed that people with different diseases had different smells -- including her husband, who developed Parkinson's disease. #MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #publichealth #nursesky #ChronicIllness #animalsdoingthings