Winnie’s getting into the holiday spirit!

Nayra Guzmán is among the growing number of pregnant & postpartum immigrants who are being detained despite having no criminal record as the Trump admin expands its mass deportation campaign, report Mel Leonor Barclay & @shefali.bsky.social in a story originally published by @19thnews.org.

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe. “No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.

So pissed at Gmail right now. Turning off smart features makes it totally unusable—no more auto-sorting emails so that promotions/junk go into separate inboxes. Turning on smart features gives them permission to train AI on all your communications. Total bullshit.

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” By @natlash.bsky.social

Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit. Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular. So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.

The Howell Township board will consider a six-month data center moratorium Thursday in the face of a $1 billion data center proposal that has met with pushback from residents. planetdetroit.org/2025/11/howe...

I’ve recently discovered the British series Taskmaster, and I am OBSESSED. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard. If you’re looking for a little more joy in your life, check it out.

Support striking Starbucks workers today by NOT going into Starbucks! If you're feeling extra supportive, you can maybe set aside what you would've spent at Starbucks today and send it to a strike fund or drop it in your local barista's tip jar when they're back on the job ☕️

🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category. That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement. A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠 aspph.org/department-o...

ALERT: Baby Formula 13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more. Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

There are a million moral reasons not to use AI — theft, environmental cost, human job loss — but even from a selfish perspective, it messes with your brain? Why risk that??

This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits - www.nypl.org/education/te...

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

First and foremost - DO NOT DEFUND FEMA! Our country needs them more and more. Second, it’s Indigenous Peoples Day. I bet a lot of those affected in Alaska are indigenous.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Trump told U.S. military leaders to prepare to engage in domestic missions, saying the military would likely be targeting the “enemy from within” — a phrase Trump has used in the past to refer to progressives and left-leaning groups.

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Got a crossword clue today because @jamieloftus.bsky.social mentions Remy the rat from Ratatouille so often on the Bechdel Cast. I saw the movie only once when it first came out, but by God, I know that rat’s name is Remy. Thanks, Jamie.

live a life in such a way that your death makes everyone pause for a moment of lust

i respect how every tribute to robert redford is at least a little bit horny

A report, commissioned by Congress in 2023, offers evidence-based recommendations to increase breastfeeding rates. Among its suggestions: A federal paid parental leave program.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

🚨🚨 Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation. When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure. #SaveHHS #DemandRFKJrResign #USAnotRFK

Not doing the perfect thing immediately is not an excuse to then do nothing permanently. Every day is a great day for a Dem politician to get up, grab a coffee, and take aim at a Cabinet scumbag. Better late; let's fucking go

This shit sucks man. Medically proven and effective treatment that would save trans youth a lifetime of pain and discomfort in their own bodies thrown in the trash because our country enables the most evil people imaginable.

Medical evacuations are one of the few areas where governments are able to have leverage or influence with the Israeli government. Advocates say the U.S.' decision to halt visas for Palestinian medical evacuees will threaten the lives of Palestinians needing urgent medical care, Neha Madhira writes.

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If you’re at all able to get the COVID vaccine anywhere right now, do it.

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people. (Published May)

How many must die before Gaza’s famine is called a crime? More than 260 people—nearly half of them children—have recently died of severe hunger in Gaza, with each day bringing more deaths due to starvation & Israel’s attacks on aid sites, Nour Abo Aisha reports from Gaza.

18 million children will lose free school meals because of the Republican cuts to food assistance. time.com/7308619/trum...

Some doctors worry that massive cuts to Medicaid will leave pregnant people needing to drive hundreds of miles for prenatal care and delivery services.

Idk if you've heard ... but there's a primary election coming up on Aug. 5! Outlier Media has a nonpartisan voter guide to help you with all your election questions. outliermedia.org/democracy/ Something not answered? Text REPORTER to 67485, and we'll try to answer it for you.*

“In Gaza, where war is constant, the internet is lifeblood.” Israel’s digital siege of Gaza erases our presence & voice—the proof of our existence, writes Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi. This is not just missing updates. It is being buried alive in silence. prismreports.org/2025/07/24/i...

The Gilded Age is so up my alley, it’s honestly astonishing I’ve never seen an episode. Maybe because it’s the era I studied, and I don’t want to nitpick its factuality? Feels like it’s time to finally dip my toe in.

A guide to direct ways that people can help mutual aid groups on the ground–both by donating to them and spreading the word about the work they are doing. #FreePalestine

Thousands of workers tried a 4-day week, and their mental and physical health improved. A study tracked 2,896 workers across 141 organizations for six months. Reducing the work week by 8 hours led to better physical and mental health, with no loss of productivity. www.newsweek.com/four-day-wor...

any person whatsoever: [is friendly to me; shows interest in my life and thoughts; texts back reliably; behaves for all the world as if they greatly enjoy my company] me: uh huh i’ve seen this one before. what’s your game friendo

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz is set to fly out for a visit to the U.S. this week to meet with top-level Trump administration officials — a week after the official announced a plan to build a concentration camp in Gaza to confine Palestinians.

My snuggle bugs

20+ years of shaving my legs, and I swear I still miss the same spot on my knees every time.

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Paywalls are the bane of my existence. And I GET IT—journalists deserve to be paid. But I just cant do any more subscriptions right now. Fucking everything is a subscription. Can’t you just let me buy a discreet thing that I want??