HELP THAT DOESN'T WAIT https://bit.ly/4oKuFkY  Living with a complex chronic illness often means becoming your own researcher, advocate, and educator. Throughout July, we'll be sharing free BHC resources designed to support people living with ME/CFS, Long COVID, fibromyalgia, & related conditions.

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

And still most of the city bike lanes are “protected” by flex posts. Folks, the cars are the problem.

Since 2009, there has been a documented shift in road safety for American pedestrians. After decades of declines, pedestrian fatalities have been steadily increasing since the Great Recession www.thedrive.com/news/75-more...

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

Americans should hang their heads in utter humiliation for having elected this cretinous scumbag. No voters— at any time, in any nation, at any point in history— have chosen more poorly. America has precisely the president they deserve— and insisted upon.

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

We have a new paper out! We asked a simple question about Long COVID “phenotypes": if you take the same patients and the same symptoms but run different clustering algorithms, do you get the same patient subgroups? Short answer: no. 🧵 #LongCovid 1/

Bottom line for clinicians & researchers: symptom clusters are useful exploratory and communication tools, not fixed diagnostic types. Don't treat single-method clusters as biologically discrete subtypes or use them to define trial eligibility without checking robustness. 11/

Consistently across methods: 🔹 Low-burden clusters → higher average age, lower proportion of women 🔹 High-burden clusters → younger, more women, and more severe physical & cognitive PEM Women were over-represented in high-burden groups throughout. 9/

Takeaways: 1) Symptoms alone are likely not the best way to define #LongCovid phenotypes. We need more phenotyping by biomarkers! 2) Studies using fewer symptoms, fewer patients, or a single clustering method are likely detecting phenotypes that aren't robust or repeatable. 7/

US COVlD Update (PMC) ◾️1 in 310 Americans estimated actively infectious ◾️9 hot spots (see Alt text) ◾️Large, lingering outbreaks in Central/SE Texas & Guam ◾️Levels are stable or slowly rising 1/3

Putting Trump back in the White House will turn out to have literally gotten people killed.

What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i don't know, y'all. seems like letting a few folks accrue all this wealth such that they can issue ultimatums to whole ass continents was a bad idea.

Blanche v. Lau is devastating for green card holders. It means that if they leave the U.S. then return, a border officer can claim they committed a crime at some point, revoke their lawful status, and confiscate their green card without meaningful evidence of wrongdoing. It's really, really bad.

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

💯% this

On the eve of the 4th anniversary of Roe falling it’s important to understand that miscarriage care is abortion care. You cannot ensure access to miscarriage care without ensuring access to abortion care *because it is the same care*

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

Republicans stripped SNAP from 770,000 children. Food insecurity rises every single summer & this year it’s worse. Sunbucks Summer EBT offers $120 per child for groceries. The free Propel app helps families figure out eligibility & manage benefits. Share this everywhere. #RepublicansStarveChildren

NEW: A majority of voters across party lines support a data center moratorium. Sixty-seven percent of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 58% of Republicans support pausing the construction of new AI data centers for at least one year.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development.

the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid. Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

When people get arrested not because they did anything wrong but because their arrest is politically useful to the regime, that means you’re living in a dictatorship.

there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

Fewer than half of Americans can afford healthcare, the lowest rate since 2021. We’re saddled with the highest healthcare costs with the worst health outcomes among other rich countries. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All? We do not have to keep living like this.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#OnThisDay - 22 June - in 168 BC the Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated the Macedonian forces of King Perseus at the Battle of Pydna. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: Denarius of 62 BC, struck by Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus RRC 415/1; ANS 1937.158.186. Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...

I never would have been able to predict that tracking every detail of every employee's activities could lead to mistakes that create enormous legal exposure.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 513 Flavia, Vibrissa et Minima in sudariis virgatis apricantur ((Flavia, Vibrissa and Minima are sunbathing on stripy towels). vestes natatorias aptas gerunt (They are wearing appropriate swimsuits)

Join the ICS! We are now recruiting a Project Conservator to work on the Ventris Papers: an archive of correspondence, papers, drawings, photographs,as well as selected offprints and newspaper cuttings relating to the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris. Full details here: shorturl.at/3uE5G

From June 2012 until October 2022, #Lesotho had 6 prime ministers (2 Thabane tenures, 2 Mosisili tenures, Majoro, Matekane). Many said Lesotho was #TerriblyUnstable. From July 2016 to (now) June 2026, the #UK is on track for 7 prime ministers. #TerribleUnstable or even worse!

happy Father’s Day, everyone even if you’re not technically a dad, take a minute today, open the hood of your car and frown intelligently at the engine it’s your day

It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

Some people are asking if there were any "AI optimists." Many students would say something about how AI can be valuable for some things. But I was asking how it effects their education. In my small sample, no, nobody really described it as *improving* their education.

Several students wrote of the moral confusion implicit in a college that promotes AI and says don't cheat but makes it really, really easy to cheat. One said they don't pay attention to AI policies because they don't think the college really wants to know what's going on. 9/

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

I wish I could tell you the responses thrummed with defiance. Instead, some read like substance abuse testimonies. A student whose use of AI grew until AI "wrote" all assignments sophomore fall. Got caught. Crushed by shame. Swore it off. But it's creeping back, & they don't know how to stop. 3/

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

they're arresting people around the reflecting pool because they're mad those people are noticing they fucked up the pool, we are not a serious place

Handful of detainments here by the reflecting pool. They are being done a variety of officers, including Monroe County Sheriff, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma State Police, US Marshals, a county in Texas I can’t make out, and a county in New York I can’t make out.

We've been doing a giant re-arrange, and we worried the kitties might get all upset and discombobulated. Nope! They are just luxuriating in the new set up. If only we could all relax so deeply, and enjoy it so much! Sadly, we humans still have to do the great bookshelf move. Eek!

At the reflecting pool, and ... guys ... this doesn't look right