Now we have a presentation from Mark Blaxill, an anti-vaccine activist responsible for the site Age of Autism, which is profoundly ableistic. He describes himself as a critic of the CDC. He will present on the safety of the HBV vaccine. VICP claims are not how you evaluate safety.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

“Orwellian shit going on in Tennessee — Republican voters are being threatened to vote, Democratic voters are being told to vote a day late.” 👋🏽 We are here. These mailers are real. And secretary of voter suppression Tre Hargett seems unconcerned🤔

Every day that goes by, the people who abused those children are going without consequence. Children were raped. People knew & did nothing. Hold them accountable regardless of party or wealth. @democrats.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

The wealthy are only wealthy from taking money from others. Stop spending on all but necessities. We need to stop the “consumer spending” and demand the wealthy pay taxes rather than live off the rest of us.

I nuked the sorting ability in gmail by turning off the “smart text” option. I don’t want AI in my emails. Having one giant inbox is helping me unsubscribe from all those marketing emails. Push AI = I’ve created an “unsubscribe from everything unnecessary” protocol. AI should be opt-in only.

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The guardians at the gate

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@fridaytea.com in Seattle, which may be the official tea purveyor of Bluesky. They're doing a different discount each day. Today is "Small Farm Saturday" & gets you 20% off all pure teas w/code "smallfarms". This includes my personal fave, Nepali Breakfast. www.fridaytea.com

It’s that simple. This is why we were shouting form the rooftops about the dangers of RFK Jr. being in charge of HHS. He will never, ever, admit he was wrong, nor will any of these other people. Policy-based evidence making.

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

This is not normal. This is not OK. @wyden.senate.gov @repbonamici.bsky.social What are you all allowing?

The Afghan refugee settlement became a reality after Donald Trump withdrew from Afghanistan after negotiating with the Taliban. youtu.be/7Erl700U7Q4

GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…” Wanting to address this isn’t radical. NOT wanting to is. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No. Hard pass. I stopped using my Oura ring when they opened their data to Palantir. No thanks.

I don't see how Tesla's Model 3 can survive if Benz can offer an alternative EV this cheap, with this kind of performance, on top of the 15% tariff that it's charged in the US. Imagine what this model does to Tesla in Europe, where Benz pays no tariffs.

Cats. Do you suppose she thinks her name is “Why?!” Waiting for my turn in the shower, it’s a bit busy right now.

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.

I am happy to have a place to retreat from the world and the all too brief ability to do so. Projects and cleaning and laundry and baking and making soups today and it’s glorious. Part 1:

Cassidy is a physician who prides himself on vaccinating people and as chair of the senate health committee could’ve stopped a man who spent his adult life mounting antiscience attacks on vaccines from being in charge of federal vaccine science & programs

Doubt I’ve ever promoted a politician before. But I’ll make an exception for @drpanmd.bsky.social who has been promoting vaccines and fighting Kennedy, successfully, for years. I also chipped in some $ and hope others do so too. 💪

This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist. “Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on. Thread [1/9]

Most days I push through with the promise “this will make things easier for future me” All out of push today. Thanks past me, this day is well earned. Plus a snuggly cat & my favorite anime playing again for mindless joy. Sporting my favorite @effinbirds.com sweatshirt and my softest sweats.

The Washington Post, everyone!

“But I have to enable Holocaust denialism because my favorite sports reporters are there”

@schumer.senate.gov — Everyone said, hold the line on the Govt funding for the subsidies, and you whipped 8 Dem votes from reps who weren’t up for reelection anyway— The failure is yours - we need new leadership

The GOP is broken. Has been for years and they are grooming the young to carry the torch.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

"By the time you express a need, this person is already opening their hands to you. Anything of theirs is yours without expectation of reciprocation, without keeping of score. This archetype believes that resources are most enjoyed when shared!"⁠

We need to stop protecting predators.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Left without comment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Learning about menopause and perimenopause @umich.edu and love to see @drjengunter.bsky.social getting a shout out on being a great source of information. Speaker also recommended the podcast “Ovaryactive” And highlighted the issues with COI when the people educating are also profiting.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Pretty gross reporting (as increasingly usual) by @nytimes.com. Summers wasn't seeking "romantic advice." He was turning to a child sex trafficker for advice on how to sexual harass a student. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.” I could cry.

Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...

Now that the National Guard units have left Portland it's time to award their troops with a battle ribbon. It was a tough deployment, rampant with dreadful assailants. Hence, I give you...