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Spending Bill stalled, woohoo! Keep calling. Separate DHS funding from the rest of the bills, and call to halt more funding to ICE! apnews.com/article/sena...

Dr. Lydia Kang's (@lydiakang.bsky.social) marvelous presentation, "Quackery: History Repeats Itself," is now available to watch online. Based on her books, Dr. Kang takes us on a fascinating historical tour of quackery and pseudoscience... (1/2)

Are you a bookish person (writer, reader?) who would like to help Minnesota folks hurting because of ICE? Please check out this great auction, Publishing for Minnesota! It goes live tomorrow, 1/29! www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Feeling frazzled and need a script to call your reps? This made it super, super easy. Do it. Call your reps. The DHS bill is now coupled with many other bills, and they are making it really difficult to defund ICE. Ask for a standalone DHS bill! Defund ICE and demand accountability!

This lecture is now online, for the public! media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_object...

For healthcare providers…what if ICE shows up? Check with your healthcare organization’s plans. They will have one. You CANNOT break HIPAA laws. Patient privacy rights rule! But you also cannot bar ICE from entering public areas of a healthcare facility. www.aclu.org/documents/im...

Update: In the evidence preservation lawsuit, the current Civil Chief at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office (who appears to be Ana Voss, based on the letter), refused to accept email service of the lawsuit last night and then refused to accept in-person service until Monday. Ridiculous behavior.

Like many of you, I’m in shock and boiling with fury but also feeling helpless. Repost the truth on social media, if that’s all the energy you have. If you have dollars so spare, help our Minnesota families and friends. www.standwithminnesota.com

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

minneapolis was my home for years. sending endless solidarity and support to my neighbors, colleagues, and loved ones there right now. we protect each other. abolish ice until nothing is left. support any way you can at standwithminnesota.org and join me in donating to pow wow grounds & mim today!

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

RFK doesn't understand or stand by germ theory and gets the out-dated miasma theory wrong. Of course. He is so entrenched in his own myths, it's mind-boggling. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Just finished watching The Beast in Me, and I think that Claire Danes's chin deserves an Emmy.

I was listening to Joe Hill on the @ukpageone.bsky.social podcast today, and the way he described simply reading as an act of rebellion really struck me. I was thinking how vital it is we fight for our art going forward (creation = rebellion) and that doing something NEW for yourself is the same.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Jake says "I hope the world won't be so terrible next year"

If you’d like to learn infinitely more than the eugenicists running our healthcare, do yourself a solid and get a copy of Patient Zero by Dr. Lydia Kang. It has everything the worm-brained asshole doesn’t know. #EducateYourself @lydiakang.bsky.social is a phenomenal author!

My turn to host bookclub next month. Hit me with your book recs!

Am now fantasizing how to sneak this into the homes of my enemies

Here’s a possum that’s been hanging out under my deck at night. (We found out what the dogs were barking at!) For your perusal. I am a big fan.

Even if the mom doesn't have Hep B doesn't mean a newborn won't pick it up somewhere else (a caregiver, a family member, another kid in daycare, via a microscopic scratch) so stop with the "newborns aren't sexually active so why does this matter?" publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/why-hep...

Facts: The universal hepatitis B birth dose has prevented more than 500,000 childhood infections, reduced infant hepatitis B cases by 95%, and prevented an estimated 90,100 childhood deaths (NFID). RJK is the opposite of "Do No Harm"

Last day of November, so let’s talk about the famous Witch of November of the Great Lakes!

Writers (and illustrators!): Take regular breaks away from the keyboard. HERE'S WHY. #WriterSky

I have always been transparent bc aspiring writers need to know. I never quit my day job as a part-time physician. Spouse works full time. Writing is gig work. Some years are great. Some years are not. There is a lot of hustle and diversifying to keep all the plates spinning.

To echo much of what's been said: Please don't pirate books. If you can't pay for a book, there is already a solution for you: use a library. Whatever you think authors, illustrators, and other book career people make, it's less than that. By a lot. Stealing from us isn't heroic, it's crushing.

This is infuriating. We are shepherds for the voiceless, including the pollinators that we need to help grow our own food. (But also--they need to exist for their own sake!) Not to mention PFAS is a very terrible thing in the human food chain. UGH. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

OMG!!! 😭 I am speechless and humbled and thrilled and delighted AND TODAY IS MY ACTUAL LITERAL BIRTHDAY so this is extra special 💚 thank you all so much for supporting my effort here and thank you doubly, triply for supporting these awesome kids ✨😭 engage.treehouseforkids.org/fundraiser/6...

Formerly with Teen Vogue. A brilliant writer/editor.

I wrote and essay on being GenX and looking back at John Hughes—whose movies we grew up with but don’t unequivocally love anymore. thenerddaily.com/lydia-kang-a...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

Wow, this post is going slightly viral on TikTok. Some folks are so triggered by seeing a person wearing a mask. 🙄 (happy to report that most people are supportive or in agreement!)

I have books to write and people to take care of. I don’t have time to get Covid or a cold!

Thank you! It was an absolute blast writing these serialized stories for SW Insider! For Light and Life!

Just finished K-Jane, I loved it. I laughed, I teared up, I cringed with second hand embarrassment, I heard my inner mom voice say "do your homework". And now I am hungry for Korean food. Definitely recommend for the teens in your life!

Found two interesting things in the woods!

I am bummed I missed the Aurora borealis but hope to see it tonight in Baltimore. Wish me luck!

Got my copy of Master of Evil and hey…is there maybe a Lydia Easter egg in here?!?

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My writing companions! (Piper is there too, hidden on a chair to my left). It makes writing less lonely. 💙

Thank you for including Pseudoscience in your review!

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want. The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

It's a beautiful blue wave, my friends.

I was interviewed for this piece...I'm at the end! Fascinating topic in the world's history of medicine and medical fads. www.history.com/articles/rad...

The crown jewel of Star Wars publishing in the Disney era: The High Republic. @cavan.bsky.social @charlessoule.bsky.social @djolder.bsky.social @justinaireland.com @zlikeinzorro.bsky.social #ClaudiaGray @tessagratton.bsky.social @crashwong.bsky.social @lydiakang.bsky.social @georgemann.bsky.social