USA: Epidemic trend summary: Jan 5, 2026 COVID-19 As of December 30, 2025: 🔹37 states have COVID-19 infections growing or likely growing 🔹1 state has infections declining or likely declining 🔹10 states show no change Source: cdc.gov/cfa-modeling...

reminder that more kids now have long covid than asthma.

This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

"It’s difficult to overstate how absurd this state of affairs is. And it’s a bit of a mystery why this disconnect still has yet to figure more prominently in U.S. news coverage." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/venez...

"Cartel de los Soles" was a 5 year lie they are too scared to put in US legal documents. Why doesn't America care about truth at all anymore? No society can function without truth. When did Americans start expecting so little? Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

As people continue to ask Grok to explain itself, feel free to point them to this article: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w... Also this: arstechnica.com/information-...

Some people are mad about this. I think it’s great. Let kids build stuff and understand sensors as a material that can be repurposed! It seems like a foundational bit of tech literacy that could spur creativity. I’d have used the hell out of this brick. As an artist I still might!

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

CDT’s @kateruane.bsky.social in @austinchronicle.bsky.social: “There are so many social media outlets and generative AI services that people use as search engines now.”

Oh no

excellent Times piece getting at the core of the US escalation with Venezuela Marco Rubio is a deranged anticommunist bent on overthrowing the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes and everything is downstream from that www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

The events in Venezuela were fueled by Marco Rubio and his close advisors obsessed with Cuba. Do not use the term "narcoterrorism" to talk about this. More here: aulablog.net/2025/12/23/w...

It seems that Curbed has now been disappeared, too. It's of course great that the Wayback Machine exists — but we shouldn't have a media ecosystem in which we depend on a nonprofit to preserve "content" monetized by commercial outlets with zero obligation to preservation and access

What fucking safeguards.

Join us for a brand new year of Literary Thursdays virtual author talks! Learn More about our January guests: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Robert J. Coplan, the anonymous author of “Diary of an Oxygen Thief," and @danielwhiteson.bsky.social! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

Students go back to school starting this week. Exciting times!

This list showcases just some of the shows that were made available at least in part thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the years. jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

BREAKING: CDC announces an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule, a significant shift that recommends fewer shots for all kids.

This is exactly what long covid feels like

I don't normally ask, but if you are concerned about #COVID19, please share my latest post with others. I'd like it to reach folks who AREN'T already COVID-aware. I’ve Read 3,000 Studies About COVID: Here’s What You’re Ignoring That Could (Still) Harm You or a Loved One medium.com/@augieray_66...

Weekly update: COVID and Flu Accelerating as 2026 Begins: Update for January 2, 2026 - No new wastewater data from the CDC due to the holiday - WastewaterSCAN has COVID, flu, and RSV concentrations at high and rising - Walgreens' virus map is solid red in most of the US medium.com/@augieray_66...

One of the most disappointing parts of Jon Stewart’s recent “joke” on masks is that ME and Long COVID advocates been calling on him to expose “the greatest medical scandal of the 21st century” on his show. Instead he chose to ignore the topic and punch down.

US Weekly COVID update: Dec 29, 2025 🔸1 in 51 Actively Infectious 🔸958,000 New Daily Infections 🔸6,320,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸239,000,000 Infections in 2025 🔸316,000 to 1,260,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸1,900 to 3,200 Weekly Deaths Source: pmc19.com/data/

I think we already figured that out if we have any common sense along with trust in medical science. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

You *can* get special immigration treatment in this administration...as long as you launder Russian propaganda. ICYMI @willsommer.bsky.social:

‼️How incredibly dangerous These are kids covered by Medicaid/CHIP—disadvantaged kids If we don’t have data on vaccine coverage, we can’t identify communities most at risk of harm or death from outbreaks 💀RFK Jr’s anti-vaxx MAHA movement is a death cult Great reporting by @lizszabo.bsky.social👏

The comments on this Reddit post are redeeming. Suggest reading them if anyone is struggling with this too. How many women are being bullied daily for masking & taking Covid precautions?

“From now on, every other country faces a global threat dedicated to expanding its power, one that cannot be trusted...Trump ensured that the US will no longer be admired or respected around the world as that shining beacon of liberty and law. America will now be feared and despised.”

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

In communities across the country, school and public libraries are under attack from another direction: book bans, criminalization of librarians, and efforts to erase entire groups and perspectives from public view.

no surprise here as social media platforms like facebook have been fuelling genocide, amplifying hate and racism and destroying the rule of law for user engagement, which has now made these companies too big & powerful to regulate www.wired.com/story/disinf...

U.S. Institutional Repositories Respond to AI: Perspectives on Policy and Technical Measures, Labor Impact, and Engagement Metrics: Journal of Library Administration: Vol 65, No 8 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01930826.2025.2597157

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what’s your favorite music video?

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC76… #InformationLiteracy

In a settlement agreement, the NIH and a group of Democratic attorneys general who’d challenged the new criteria for grant funding said the NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, or vaccines.

For anyone trying to keep up with the grant termination/delay litigation against NIH, the ACLU has a good page with summaries and links. www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...

I made an interactive map! This is a look at the effects Tx book-banning laws have had just *since the end of last school year*. I made it because it's easy to hear a shocking story about a book ban and then forget it and lose the larger picture. www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

Good time to repost this www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

“McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was ‘the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door’.”

This includes live updates:

The US invades a sovereign nation to force a regime change and a major news network reports it like this and it’s only January 3rd

Most-listened Tech Policy Press podcasts of 2025: In June, Justin Hendrix spoke to Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want.