Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

If antifa were an actual thing, just imagine the reply-alls.

Enrollment in Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program has remained stubbornly low. Despite a quarter-million low-income Georgians being eligible, only about 9,000 residents were actively enrolled as of Aug. 31.

From a former Palantir worker: “Using software I worked on to send U.S. citizens to a foreign gulag without due process is surely not a situation where ‘if you don’t like it, your remedy is to go vote’ is a reasonable response…”

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

Something that I learned while teaching adults is that they absolutely CANNOT abide by losing face. If you are teaching someone & they feel like they are losing face, you will lose them immediately. This is what happens re: politics too. Rather than lose face, folks will triple down on wrongness.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

checking with walgreens and ughhh

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

Maine’s highest court affirmed the legality and constitutionality of the rules for the state’s budding paid family and medical leave program. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/maine...

Highly recommend "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America", by Prof. Sarah Lewis, Harvard art & cultural historian. She focuses on historical view. I wish people like original poster, or folks with large platforms boost Black scholars who are in archives, producing scholarship on this.

3/ How do you reconcile teaching brain health while ignoring the virus that harms the brain? By lecturing unmasked in an unfiltered room during a surge? You don’t. You just sweep the evidence under the rug.

2/ Even so-called “mild” infections leave measurable brain damage: shrinkage, inflammation, disrupted connectivity. This isn’t fringe science—it’s published in the very journals we assign to students. And still… silence.

COVID-19 rates continue to take off across the U.S. as our summer surge hits every region. All metrics report substantial increases in SARS-CoV-2 spread in recent weeks — and the latest data are from early August, meaning levels may be much higher now than our reported numbers. bit.ly/4mgGDAP

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

Remember how starting in 2022 i said that if LLM based chatbots were intgrated into health and benefits portals *Before* said bots were built in a way that equipped them with mechanisms to bracket their biases, then we would see some just stunningly bad perpetuations of human prejudical bias? Yeah.

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

thinking about the limitations of AI therapybots: AI cannot adequately respond to any client who is showing more than telling.

Crucial to the pronatalist worldview is the reality that children are only considered desirable so far as those children and their care needs can be used to constrain women’s dignity and prospects.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

“The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with an increase in cancer-related deaths… [The researchers] estimated a nearly doubled risk of cancer death among those people who had tested positive for the virus.”

My friend who works at a safety-net clinic in LA says that no-shows have increased more than two-fold. It breaks my heart that this administration is out to harm the most vulnerable.

i use Istanbul Convention frameworks frequently and am so relieved to see this.

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

"The Trump administration quietly ordered the transfer of Medicaid data belonging to undocumented individuals to deportation officials this week..." www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

😷 "It’s time we abandon the paradigm of symptomatic spread that leaves us trapped in endless waves of infection, and embrace a proactive, holistic view of airborne disease control that begins with clean indoor air and encourages people to adopt measures like masking and testing." 😷 #COVID

NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers. By @maxblau.bsky.social

Again, cannot stress enough how much people should have fought the proliferation of automatic license plate readers when they had the chance.

gender-affirming care has regret rates significantly below completely uncontroversial interventions like knee replacement surgery no study will ever tell you differently let trans people get the care they need

These ultra-sensitive diagnostic imaging methods showed widespread inflammation of the blood vessels of the lungs and of the heart in long COVID sufferers. COVID damages blood vessels in your lungs and heart and other organs. Don’t get COVID. Get vaccinated. Wear an N95. Clean the air we breathe.

Tying healthcare to employment is so fucking evil.

would obtaining a hot glue gun reduce despair?

This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

Spoiler alert: if any health organization or, say, member of the Kennedy family tells you they’re here to stop chronic health issues and does not mention masking, covid vaccination, or avoiding illnesses that cause chronic conditions, they are entirely full of shit.

“Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them.” Stuart Hall

my 83 year old mother tells me she is so grateful her parents aren’t alive to see this

watched visually lush film ‘Flow’ this morning & cried myself into a headache. this is a hearty recommendation.