“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19” SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies go.nature.com/3Lspwi0

A study with data from ~14 million children shows that COVID19 infection is significantly more harmful to kids’ hearts than the vaccine. Marty Makary falsely alleged that “children died” because from COVID19 vaccine. Whomever told him that failed to account for SARS-CoV-2 infections. Link below.

Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life: www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...

I feel like people roll their eyes at me when I try to bring this up IRL, but it’s alarming to see all the connections between Project 2025, Christian Nationalism and Opus Dei. In some ways I don’t blame people. I don’t really want to know this stuff either!

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

autumn galaxies

November report

In England, researchers studied 13.9 million children and found that COVID-19 infection raised the risk of rare heart and blood conditions for at least 12 months, while vaccination raised a smaller short-term risk of heart inflammation. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Not me googling how to change party affiliation in New York State

David Guinn’s “Schuylkill Falls” is located on JFK a half block west from 30th Street. David created the project with Justin Geller, 10th Floor Productions, Sid, and Le Josh for Brandywine Realty at Schuylkill Yards.

This looks awfully intentional.

Schumer voting no to try to save personal face, but letting his caucus vote yes, is such a cowardly weaselly move. Echoes of his obvious cowardice on Tuesday, refusing to say who he voted for in NYC mayoral election. If Schumer wanted to stop this he could have stopped it. Obviously! HE MUST GO.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p... “I think we’re suckers to believe that a party that is opposed to extending the subsidies now is all of a sudden going to be supportive of that a month from now,” Sen. Chris Murphy”

No clear evidence to support any link between maternal acetaminophen (Tylenol) intake and autism or ADHD in offspring, a new umbrella, systematic review @bmj.com

There is nothing I would rather read less (!) than Project 2025, but it’s all in there. Getting rid of SNAP benefits, undermining the ACA & Medicaid, decimating public health & education, targeting & terrorizing immigrants… “It feels like we work for Russell Vought.”

Chuck Schumer and the Buffalo Bills both letting me down today

Week 42 poetry collection for 2025: (I messed up the week count somehow and skipped 42 a few weeks ago)

You really don't want shingles. If you're eligible, get vaccinated. 🔹️Study was a records review of > million people, 2007-2023 🔹️400 variables were controlled for (impressive!) 🔹️Dementia risk 27-33%⬇️ over 3 yrs after vax 🔹️More shingles = more risk... 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Heads up! We're back to rolling terms for everything, so send us what you've got for Gone Lawn: fiction (no length limit), prose poetry, novel excerpts (≤200 words), cover art, other media! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just donated $26 for #26! (The Dahlin foundation benefits children in need in the city of Buffalo.) 🦬 💙💛 @sabres.com #letsgobuffalo www.rasmusdahlinfoundation.com

Writers, don’t miss mid-month deadlines at indie presses and lit mags! Browse our Calls for Submissions page for submission periods closing between November 9 and November 24: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

“You’re going to be disappointing other people or you’re going to be disappointing yourself. You have to choose.” — my partner to me today. Thought I’d mess yall up too. Thanks!

I know most of my followers probably know this, but just in context: A billion is a thousand million. A trillion is a thousand billion.

I can’t over emphasize how Ross Douthat’s piece makes all women less safe. It incites more harassment and abuse of women in the workplace and beyond. It’s incredibly irresponsible and frankly dangerous. And it was run by one of the most influential publications in the country.

White men make up a minority of the US workforce, but you wouldn't know it based on these images from the US Labor Department. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's still extremely difficult to get secular journalists to connect the dots right in front of their faces. They REFUSE to connect our current political mess w the theological ideology undergirding it. Project 2025 is a CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL DOCUMENT. It's rare a journalist will even mention it.

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

The clear takeaway from Energy Analyst Mike Jacobs' study of data center transmission costs from earlier this fall is that data centers should pay for their grid connections—but instead, they’re passing them onto you. Total costs shifted to consumers in '24 was at least $4.3B in just 7 states.

Buried in the article: “Over a period of six months, researchers estimate that COVID-19 infections led to 2.24 extra cases of myocarditis or pericarditis per 100,000 children, while vaccinations led to 0.85 extra cases per 100,000.” The scare tactic of the headline is what’s wrong with media today

I made the otter a sibling

Quite a headline.

A study of nearly 14 million kids in England found COVID infection—not the vaccine—carries the bigger danger: long-lasting risks of clots, heart inflammation, & immune flare-ups. Vaccine-linked issues were rare & short-term. Facts matter. 💉📊 #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #IDSky #PedsSky

despite the onions despite the smell of mustard sandwich guy is free #poetry #haiku

Here’s the history of Philly‘s Front Street Walls project, which is now curated by me (#StreetsDeptWalls) with Mural Arts and CookNSolo!

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

Editorial cartoon: Don't bread on me. Enjoy :)

I don’t know how he wrote this when he was only 25. “How long have I been sleeping…” Oof. #jacksonbrowne

The man accused of “assaulting” a federal agent by throwing his Subway sandwich walks free on Thursday after countless attempts from the Trump administration to prosecute him both federally and criminally. trib.al/Q4E4cHe

despite the onions despite the smell of mustard sandwich guy is free #poetry #haiku

Polka dot dress lady was out here fighting ICE in Commes des Garçons. And now she’s donated her dress to raise funds for immigrants @thenyic.bsky.social. Bidding closes Nov 10.

Hey y’all I would be remiss if I didn’t mention I’ll be doing my first signing at a Con ever(!) tomorrow at Rhode Island Comic Con!!! and all my proceeds will be going to @trevorproject.bsky.social for LGBTQ+ youth Love to see you there!

In 2021, Zohran Mamdani went on a 15-day hunger strike aimed at pushing politicians to provide debt relief for New York City cab drivers. This act of resistance would show us exactly the kind of mayoral campaign he'd run years later.

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

Thanks to @autostraddle.bsky.social for including TERRY DACTYL in the Most Anticipated Queer Books for November!🌺"Listen, I am thrilled to read anything Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore writes, and this novel is no exception."🌟🌟🌟🌟Out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, get ready!⚡⚡⚡