Removing the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose recommendation because cases are low is like canceling your car insurance because you haven’t crashed today.

Blog Tour Review & Giveaways: Holidays and Homicides - A Short Story Collection beasbooknook.blogspot.com/2025/12/blog...

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

My cat is so silly. He enjoys the laser toy, chasing the red dot. Like my previous cat, he knows that my hand controls the dot. So, when he "loses" the dot, he stops chasing and looking, comes over to me, and stares at my hand. Of course, the red dot isn't there but he hasn't caught onto that yet.

(spotted on Facebook…) #Klingon #Santa

Nothing says racism, cruelty, hatred and weakness combined in one quite like the orange felon removing all free access to National Parks on federal holidays that honor black people whilst giving free access on his own birthday. He should’ve been sent to jail forever.

Movie you've watched more than 6 times, with a gif. No Star Wars Trek, Marvel or LOTR.

Gift link. This looks the White House is trying to disappear an unwanted mother in a custody grab. Disgusting. wapo.st/48qWW9C

Here’s the thing, emerging scientists aren’t going to flee to do science elsewhere…they just won’t do the science. We will lose at least one, if not two generations of knowledge if we don’t get this shit sorted out immediately.

Before I go on Etsy, are there any laid-off game artists in my follower/repost pool who would be available for a custom DnD party art commission? Four characters, a few special requests, preferably by Christmas? DM me! I have money!

Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law and individual rights.

ICYMI: Sign-ups for the 2026 #TBRChallenge have begun. All the details and a list of dynamite optional month themes are over at my blog wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2025/12/all-... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

Turn up to your local Democratic party meeting, they will have you running for 3 different offices if you show willing.

If Republicans can show up to ban books, Democrats and independents could show up to keep democracy.

A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS is now available in audiobook! 🎅🏾🤎🤶🏾 rbmediaglobal.com/au...

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

Birthright citizenship is the explicit text of the Constitution. It's not open to interpretation. Anyone willing to eliminate it is willing to eliminate anything and everything else the Constitution explicitly provides.

In line to become U.S. citizens, they were asked what country they’re from. If they were from certain countries, they were pulled out of line. Just horrible. The very antithesis of what America is. Every Republican should lose in 2026 bcuz of this. Every single one.👇 www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

My mini review of Star Trek: Leonard McCoy - Frontier Doctor by John Byrne - www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Did you we are not born with all of our sinuses? There are 4 and they don't develop completely until late adolescence. I had no clue! #Reading #AllAboutAllergiesByDoctorZacharyRubin

National parks add Trump's birthday to list of fee-free days and remove MLK Day, Juneteenth (How is this reality?) www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

My newly published near future post SMALL scale apocalypse comic vampire football novella (YEP ALL THE THINGS) is now available at Amazon, Smash, B&N, Kobo! Link to my page with all the links and the blurb: www.jodywallace.com/books/the-go...

Looks like I've got at least one more newsletter in me before 2025 closes out! This one's inspired by the gay hockey show and the Discourse and has me rambling about how characters of color are hamstrung by the white default. romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/why-is-a-f...

Hear, hear!

Random but if anyone comes across this ornament I would love it and would pay you to send it to me. It has sold out online because I waited too long.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Bryan Reisberg spends one day a week taking shelter dogs out of their kennels, slipping them in a “adopt me” backpack and carrying them around New York. His goal is to help people see shelter dogs the way he does: curious, sweet and full of potential.

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

I purchased my copy! Go get yours!

Let's be very clear that one of the major effects of the CDC no longer recommending various vaccinations is that it becomes much harder for folks who still want to be—or want their children to be—vaccinated to get their insurance providers to cover those vaccinations.

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

#karaoke tonight! Raise money for the SPLC and HAVE FUN!

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

I was maybe 47 when I first read this article, and it cracked my head wide open. I was a "gifted" kid, and here was this article explaining in black and white EXACTLY why my adult years were a wreckage of failed jobs and relationships, when I had held SO MUCH PROMISE AND POTENTIAL It's been a ride!

2 things: 1. the classic authors are coming for me again today. and 2. I had to do a double take, and then a triple take, when I saw a retail ebook for $25.50. I'm here for indie bookstores, but GOT DAMN! No. #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97814...

In her dissent, Judge Pan says the emerging view of executive power by Trump and his backers in the courts "concentrates excessive power in the President and thus paves the way to autocracy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"I told the nurse I jog three days a week, play soccer, lift weights, and take spin classes. She just giggled. Honestly, I’m used to it. It was kind of annoying when she took my blood pressure four times, though." buff.ly/bcx3OS1

Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

Honestly, I don't even care about those footprints, I just want the kitty to go inside! #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97988...

The Shop on Hidden Lane was good. And it's a stand-alone so you can jump in!

If you're on NetGalley it's Read Now! www.netgalley.com/catalog/?tex...

So.... yeah... I dealt with broken car stuff all morning and that's a good $900 spent. Please buy more books! books2read.com/christmas-me...

Hey if you’re reading for #Nebula (and other) nominations this year, check out my secret twist-y summertime gothic novelette, When He Calls Your Name, at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and consider it maybe! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...

I am not ready for below freezing temps. Also, my lungs hate below freezing temps. *pulls out scarves and masks*

Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format. The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books! science.nasa.gov/multimedia/s...

Hegseth stonewalled IG, refusing 1) to provide his phone for IG to probe other uses of Signal; 2) to sit for interview w/ IG. We only know about Yemeni Signal chat b/ Waltz added Goldberg to it by mistake. The scale and scope of Hegseth's security breaches still remain unknown even after IG report.

It's not a fucking loss. The USPS is a SERVICE. That's what the service COST. That there was ever a time when it was self-sustaining is the anomaly. Fuck this stupid framing.

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