MN nurses, VA employees and healthcare professionals. They killed one of us.

It’s time to trot this brilliant piece out again, as I have repeatedly since 2017.

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

13 yrs ago, during my time as Natl Dir of Mobile Health for Mental Health & Suicide Prevention @ US Dept of VA, we made this free app to guide disaster responders through psychological first aid. It’s old and not a current design but it may help all/any of you. apps.apple.com/us/app/pfa-m...

I was thinking about the draft and what would happen if it were reinstated. Privileged kids who have over a year of therapy wouldn’t be asked to serve. www.verywellmind.com/mental-illne...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Topical for this time of year , relevant always: getting/giving support isn’t sufficient for a positive relationship; it’s mediated through gratitude. www.psypost.org/study-finds-...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about HOPE.” Yes we can.

Employee of Dept of Veterans Affairs for over a decade. This is very illegal. Everyone knows this. The rules apply to everyone and there is intense onboarding for every GS level that covers exactly this. You don’t do politics in federal agencies.

I worked at the department of defense. There is not one single person I ever met from generals down who’d agree that they “kill people and break things” for a living. That is not the purpose of the DoD nor is itreflective of the oath that all members take, regardless of how you rebrand it.

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Do you know that ~24% of female soldiers and ~2% of male soldiers are raped by fellow soldiers while serving? No longer an issue. Can’t experience military sexual trauma if there’s nowhere to report it 🤯

I remember in 2013 when we at VA took our DoD partners’ work as possible while they were furloughed (VA healthcare had a continuing resolution so we could keep working). I remember loaning money to a DoD colleague. These are people with America’s work on their desks and kids and bills.

Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I wish this were true or real but unfortunately no, no matter what you call it Vitamin B9 (folate) is not going to instantly make your nonverbal kid verbal and social. At least it’s a cheap sham I guess and doesn’t require actual doctors to play along because it’s over the counter.

Among the entire population of adult citizens, the share of MAGA supporters has never risen above 20%. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Tesla’s cars are once again involved in the most accidents according to a study by LendingTree insurance. www.forbes.com/sites/steveb...

First direct evidence that trauma itself can lead to OCD, highlighting the overlap between PTSD and OCD and the need for screening in trauma-exposed populations. [TW: the population studied is from Oct 7/ Israel] karger.com/pps/article-...

When they only considered high quality studies, the effect of growth mindset interventions was ~ 0. So, the effects observed in low-quality studies are more likely caused study design problems and bias than an actual effect of the intervention. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is obscene. Children with undiagnosed mental health needs are not a population to sacrifice. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

No kidding. www.psypost.org/people-high-...

Then they came for the reasonable people, And I did not speak out, Because I was listening politely while I gave them a fair chance to make their case in the marketplace of ideas as they were kidnapping me, locking me up, and deporting me.

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

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Cancel paramount plus today.

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Now THIS is what I call doomscrolling.

Impeach by Monday.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

San Jose showed up in full force.

When the story of troops sleeping on the floor in California after Trump sent them with no plan went viral… Musk’s Grok quickly sprang into action and told people the SF Chronicle pics were actually from Afghanistan in 2021. BBC Verify: Grok lied.

Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.

Last few hours to comment.

Reminder. Over a decade of federal service here. But this is info from Day 1 (and every day thereafter).

As a mom, this headline made my skin crawl. Social media companies design predatory algorithms and prey on teens' most vulnerable moments, raking in profits at the expense of our kids’ mental health and fueling anxiety, depression, and self harm. futurism.com/facebook-bea...

@knoah.bsky.social are you originally from Stamford? If so, we were friends on the ole Rock Rimmon! Thought of you bc of random Blues Brothers references online today (bc of new pope). Hope you’re good!

I’m sure the $5000 breeding prize should cover it…

Yes, truly baffling.

Ok got it. So all we need to do to avoid economic collapse (the *only* option, per the below, which is actually pretty reasonable) is get a historically extreme, malignant narcissist to acknowledge an error & operate in good faith. No prob.

Ok so a direct AND inverse correlation … so they cancel each other out and… wait! He’s right! 0 correlation!

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.