Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

2025: I ran a marathon. I celebrated my sister’s wedding, which was postponed when an accident in 2024 left her partner on a ventilator and rescheduled after she made a miraculous, unexpected recovery. At 3am, on a plane to Japan, my kid told me to look out the window; it was the Northern Lights.

It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months. It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

gonna say something that probably only a handful of you will interact with but the root of a lot of anti asian racism--apart from the piece where some people just want us dead--is that at the core a lot of non-asian people who encounter the term don't actually believe anti asian racism exists.

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...

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

*stares in antibiotic-resistant mastitis*

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year. We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar. We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.

Only tangentially related, but FUN FACT, gang: At least 9 Japanese medical schools, including the illustrious Tokyo Medical University, have been caught CHANGING THE SCORES on admission exams to exclude female applicants for the last 20 YEARS. This is real! It happened! www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

It’s me, the person who goes home for Thanksgiving and plans her entire date night around proximity to the bookstore I want to visit.

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

happening across media

This seems to be a common misconception. *There is nowhere to go* for most faculty & staff. The academic labor market is incredibly inflexible even in good times, we haven't been in good times for decades, and we're now in a *contracting* phase, not expanding. For most people, there's nowhere to go.

"Tuesday’s results only bolster an already-clear truth: transgender people’s inclusion in the Democratic tent is not the cause of the party’s woes. Nor will throwing us overboard alleviate them." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

He should call it And Another Thing

6-yr-old is ecstatic about Zohran's win because she hopes it means that the Zohran Mamdani Skate Park, a stop she recently added to her toy train route, will become a reality. I just caught her staring into space whispering "Zohran Mamdani Skate Park. Zohran Mamdani Skate Park" over and over again.

For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Oh my stars

Welcome folks! We say "folks" a lot here in the trans capital. Have you picked up your free trans? It's trans for everybody

Congrats to NYC, the capital of Real America

2 MILLION VOTES: NYC! All before 9 p.m. More of our election coverage can be found here at thecity.nyc

An entire city of unsupervised theatre kids.

It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with my pumpkin this year.

that’s across from the crosswalks. extremely cool. way to immediately step up in small but meaningful way

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“It is like shouting louder and louder that a portrait shows a uniquely important person, while the portrait itself is fading from a sharp photograph into a blurry, generic sketch.”

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

*returns from a week in Montreal and opens up Bluesky* I wonder what is going on in my home country toda— oh.

A good step—but as pointed out in @karaswisher.bsky.social’s devastating interview with Adam Raine’s parents last week, do you want your 18-year-old coaxed away from social engagement and advised on a successful suicide either? The problems with this tech are deeper than an age problem

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

Realized an important dream: Being quoted in local media as a "Sunset Park mom" with some mildly cranky commentary about how unnecessarily frustrating it has been to try to get my kid vaccinated this year.

This is what is happening when the cameras are running

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Before COVID After COVID

So to clarify because I think there are some edge cases, I was able to get my 5 y.o. vaccinated at a minute clinic in NJ today (not Hoboken). The website says they’ll book appts for younger kids, but Pfizer is only FDA approved for 5+ now. If a location only does Pfizer they can’t do younger kiddos

Our local CVS isn’t offering it, but some Minute Clinics are. We went to the one on Park Ave. South by Union Sq.

If you live in NYC and have successfully managed to obtain a 2025 COVID vaccine for your under-12 child, I'd love to know where.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining