I am once again asking you to knock on doors to win a city we can afford. zohranfornyc.com/events

ugh one of the worst people I know got the beautiful wood-bowled forest-green KitchenAid mixer for themselves and I hate them for it

Mamdani is running how I envisioned a hypothetical @dieworkwear.bsky.social political campaign. Straightforward and devastating to haters.

ICYMI: Lina Khan wrote at @nytopinion.nytimes.com about our campaign's connection to small businesses and why we need to fight the concentrated economic power that too often suffocates them. It's not just good for a thriving local economy — it's good politics too.

In honor of #SevereMEDay, we’re launching #UnitedForME, a shared hashtag to amplify voices, art, and education from the Severe ME community. Join @openmedf.bsky.social, @solveme.bsky.social, @meactnet.bsky.social & @batemanhornecenter.bsky.social in uplifting voices that need to be heard. 💙

#SevereMEDay Ignored, blamed, and sometimes left to die – a leading expert in ME explains the origins of a modern medical scandal By Prof. Chris Ponting, University of Edinburgh @cgatist.bsky.social @theconversation.com #ME/CFS #pwME #GreatestMedicalScandal

Science magazine’s coverage of the DecodeME initial results : www.science.org/content/arti...

Clip: Professor Chris Ponting tells BBC Scotland the world’s largest genetic study of #MECFS has identified eight genome regions linked to the disease. He says the field is finally being kickstarted after years of stigma and neglect.

August 8 is Severe ME Day. It recognizes the 25% of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) whom this neuroimmune disease has left so severely ill, we're home- or bedbound. 1/

Today, on Severe ME Awareness Day, @thesicktimes.org is proud to publish this piece by @naomiwhitt.bsky.social sharing the story of singer Kara Jane and her new album, released posthumously by her family. thesicktimes.org/2025/08/08/p...

To honor #SevereMEDay, each year, #MEAction asks for art submission; this year, over 100 submitted photos, videos, music and other art to #MEAction! A compilation can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-F_...

Just a reminder Vaccines work

NEW: The FDA may yank Pfizer's under-5 Covid vaccine this fall. Pfizer has the only pediatric vaccines for all kids over six months, not just those with health conditions. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I dreamed last night that they were filming a tv show set in the 30s and things from that era were so popular suddenly that they were being made again. Hat styles, bygone soap brands, anything. And I'm just like. The 30s. Really. Starvation chic. My brain warning of repeating history, probly.

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Dear leftists with big platforms on here, please stop berating people who wear masks and framing them as extremists. Just stop. You're part of the problem

Missed part one? It's right here!

Really interesting and important new effort to get the emissions that are induced by climate change, and which subsequently exacerbate climate change (wildfires, melting permafrost, warming wetlands) into climate models, few of which currently account for them.

idk, my governor trying to unlawfully unseat my lawfully elected Texas House Rep because she lawfully broke quorum feels pretty fashy to me

Conditions in ICE concentration camps are already horrific. But with Trump/Miller trying to lock up hundreds of thousands more people, it's going to get much worse: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

On Wednesday, about 55,000 people, including representatives from a record 120 countries and regions, attended a memorial service to mark the 80th anniversary of the WWII U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima. wapo.st/4owgrUn

Those searching are driven by a desire to account for and honor the victims and bring relief to survivors who are tormented by memories of missing loved ones. “Until that happens, the war is not over for these people,” said Rebun Kayo, a researcher. wapo.st/3JntMOo

When the first atomic bomb detonated, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the island of Ninoshima. They were buried in various locations in chaotic and rushed operations. Decades later, people in the area are still looking for the remains of the missing.

Hiroshima's mayor is urging younger generations to recognize that such “misguided policies,” like the growing acceptance of nuclear weapons for national security, could cause “utterly inhumane” consequences. wapo.st/4owgrUn

Wednesday’s anniversary comes at a time when possession of nuclear weapons for deterrence is increasingly supported by the international community, including Japan. But survivors want nuclear abolishment, not deterrence.

The number of Hiroshima survivors is rapidly declining. “There will be nobody left to pass on this sad and painful experience in 10 years or 20 years,” said Minoru Suzuto, a 94-year-old survivor. “That’s why I want to share [my story] as much as I can.” wapo.st/4owgrUn

When the U.S. dropped a uranium bomb on Hiroshima, Kunihiko Iida was 900 meters away from the hypocenter. Despite many health issues, the 83-year-old survivor volunteers as a guide at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park as a way to raise awareness. wapo.st/4okSO0Z

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place. As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Folks, I assure you the GOP has more than redistricting up their sleeves to control the 2026 election, if they even allow us to have one. It’s time for Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker to launch investigations into the 2024 election, and get us forensic data on what really happened.

If COVID is over, why are there hundreds of Long COVID treatment trials & next-gen COVID vaccine trials still happening worldwide?

Im epileptic. Im a historian of disability and medicine. Ive taught eugenics histories for over a decade. This ad is the perfect example of how certain kinds of eugenicist discourse about genes have been normalized, and I will be using it in lectures. It is not a made up controversy.

I’m not engaging with art on an output level. I don’t care how fast the machine does a thing or how many paintings or books the machine can produce. I’m looking at art as the creative evidence of human creativity and depth. If a machine does it instead, it says nothing to me. It means nothing.

Fascists love LLM-style AI because it's an easy way for them to manufacture reality, to manipulate numbers, to force their agenda on others. And users of AI, the botlicking technosloppers of the world, will not only say "these are interesting ideas the AI is telling me" but "these are my ideas."

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

It just keeps coming… CBS uncovered a mystery third person caught on jailhouse cameras the night Epstein died. Not named. Not mentioned in the DOJ report. Spotted near his cell just after 4 a.m., two hours before he was found dead. Why now? Somebody wants this out.

Across the Board

1/ “It is a calamity that was foreseeable, and foreseen.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

Change in Headline

Adjustments can help disabled people manage. They do not remove the disability. And for many conditions, they don’t do anything to help the inherent disabling aspects

Had a bunch of chores to do but Francie was having emotions and needed me to lay down with her so obviously that’s what I’m doing instead.