if you have a cough or cold, scratch throat, beginning to come down with something or getting over something, why don't you where a mask on public transportation? is the idea that if someone gets sick from your droplets that's just fate?

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

RT of the front page of the Indiana student newspaper, updating an earlier tweet. No alt text, but it's an image of the digital front page of the paper, with CENSORED in red. Below that, the subhead reads "This is not about print. This is about a breach of editorial independence."

Once again, a music magazine is doing a better job reporting on the state of public health than public health orgs

Imagine living such a sad existence that you spend all day today commenting "Columbus Day!" on social media posts that say "Indigenous People Day."

Vaccinate your children. My GOD.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work. And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023 www.lucemass.org

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

I love @marcusluther.bsky.social’s pedagogical approach to both teaching and learning. I read this post this morning and it reminded me to be intentional this coming week about being a source of uplifting energy.

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

Attempting to “live with” (aka ignore) airborne viruses circulating at high levels *is a choice*. We could do much better. #MedSky

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

Here are 4+ years worth of tools, techniques, insights, data, and action items for fighting book bans and standing up for libraries–community-focused institutions of democracy–you can dive into this week and the other 51 weeks of the year.

It’s time to post this quote again… “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” ― James Baldwin

Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.

The hero we need 😭

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

Why Massachusetts State Senate Bill S338 is Not Based on Science and Why it is Harmful to Children Who Have Had Adverse Life Experiences open.substack.com/pub/teaching...

Elam now polls as a ‘third force’ in Cyprus, while the mainstream looks on

Let me be the one to say it plain and clear. America is not intelligent or self-sufficient enough as a nation to be isolationist. American exceptionalism is a dangerous delusion. Like an Icarus level delusion. And it's so deep too many folks don't realize the wings already burned & we're plummeting.

Covid is a social justice issue, especially now that governments have abandoned us in favour of “you do you” policies that leave the vulnerable by the wayside Wearing a mask is a form of resistance It protects your health & the health of your community It says you don’t view others as expendable

This former rubella patient with lifelong immune and hearing damage agrees.

I also can’t hang with antivaxxers. We’re losing herd immunity as a country because of these people. I wont pretend Im not an epidemiologist and tasked with protecting people just to preserve friendships with the willfully ignorant spreading the virus of ignorance

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Coates doesn't miss www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

It's that time of year again where my feed is filled with people getting their Covid vaccines. Terrific! But make sure you wear a respirator mask at the pharmacy, where people with viral illnesses & those higher-risk are more likely to be

One of the saddest things is when children have cancer, immune deficiency or need bone marrow or organ transplants. And to add insult to injury, they’re unable to receive vaccines. But YOU can do your part to help protect them by immunizing yourself & your family. We are ALL in this together.

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

We catch Covid every 1.25 years. We catch flu once every 5-6 years. Covid is 4x more deadly during the acute phase. How long do you think you can survive this game? Honestly. We haven’t even touched on the cumulative risk w/ EACH infection. So you live. But what does that look like after 6?8?

EVERYONE IN THE BOSTON METRO REGION (YES THAT INCLUDES SOUTHERN NH): ALERT ALERT ALERT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...

Free walking tours unveil Nicosia’s stories

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Such a cool idea from Anniina “As I was browsing our YA shelves today, I realized how many of the bks have some version of sunglasses as the cover image. Idea: Create a “Reading is Cool” display with all the sunglasses covers!” What are your favorites? #TLSky #EduSky #Booksky #Booktok #Authorsky

I seriously just want people to view politicians as only as effective as the living standard of the least privileged, most marginalized constituent they represent. I want a politics that focuses on the most marginalized as most important.

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is going to be a must-read. Wake Now in the Fire by @jarrettdapier.bsky.social and AJ Dungo #libcomix 📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786824...

Teen Vogue doing better science comms than most public health orgs

🌱What is #fibermaxxing, and is it good for you?

Five years into this COVID thing, and frankly, if you take transit while sick, you are directly responsible for others getting sick and all of the fallout that might happen afterward. “It’s not COVID!” You sure? Like really sure? Because this strain doesn’t show positive until day 4-6.

I started the day with a journal prompt. About community. Students study the prompt and write for 5 mins. Then they get in groups and share.

"...more necessary than we are willing to invest in." If that ain't a whole mood 📚 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

So many people will say they'd do anything for their child, even kill for them, yet magically cannot accept someone who would cross a border to give their child a better life and look down upon those who do.

During the hearing for An Act Regarding Free Expression in Boston last month, I loved how @alexgino.bsky.social spoke about the impact books had on them personally, as well as how censorship affects their livelihood as an author. #MassFreedomtoRead

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

NEW: The FDA may yank Pfizer's under-5 Covid vaccine this fall. Pfizer has the only pediatric vaccines for all kids over six months, not just those with health conditions. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is truly insane. #longcovid in children has overtaken childhood Ashma. Which part of covid lung damage, arterial stiffness in students & blood pressure issues is mild? History books will be written about this huge Public health disaster.