I really loved interviewing @edsbs.bsky.social about being too niche for Vox Media and casually raising $1 million and counting to support refugees, and I REALLY love this illustration. @newap-georgia.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social
Y’all this is absolutely the best, Viva Fullcast.
$1,056,067 raised for refugee charity by college football podcast community in roughly half of the annual charity event's run time
Kinda feels like this whole thing merits more coverage by the main stream media. Beyond just me posting it about it at ny times dot com. I dunno, just seems like an interesting thing. CC the media
www.edsbscharitybowl.com
A lot about the world is very heavy right now but if a college football podcast that got jettisoned by Vox during the pandemic for not having a marketable audience can raise this much money for refugees in Atlanta in two days then just think of all the stuff we can all do together
Pros know you gotta stay sharp during Charity Bowl week, and that Tillamook sharp white cheddar keeps you sharp.
Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.
Congratulations to Amir Makled on winning the Michigan Democratic Party's endorsement for the University of Michigan Board of Regents!
A LOT
Blow Out is the absolute best.
I’m quite certain that he’s no more fit to command a whale-ship than a St. Jago monkey. In fact, tell him from me he’s a baboon.
Imagining myself as the person in the Nixon Foundation office tasked with "make a video that gives Dick that rizz."
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Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
$4,049 from the average taxpayer for weapons and war.
That's...
-32x the $124 paid for school lunches and other nutrition programs.
-213x the $19 paid for the U.S. Postal Service.
-119x the $34 paid toward public transit.
-253x the $16 spent on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Almost time to fire up that Michigan Money Cannon! www.moneycannon.org
Spent so much time in this U-Haul when I was moving from STL a couple years back and had no idea. The drop ceiling was still in place, but you could tell something was different about it because the space and layout made no sense.
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
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Dorothy Day, Sr. Helen Prejean, Frs. Philip and Daniel Berrigan, Plowshares, the Catonsville 9, Catholic Worker Movement, United Farm Workers, Sanctuary, liberation theology, Right to Life. The IWW's Hagerty's Wheel was drawn by a Catholic priest!
The Catholic Church, political? Why, they'd never!
Addendum: I think it's also necessary to point out disparities in access to medical care, because in immigrant communities (and indigenous communities in Alaska, too), the level of access was variable, and quite poor well into the 20th c. Of course, no medical insurance. A lot of quackery, too.
So long story short, I haven't found much of anything akin to contemporary anti-vaxxers in the late 19th-mid 20th c US. In fact, in my sources, it's pretty much always to the contrary.
(Caveat: My work is almost exclusively on Russians/Slavs in the US, so I can't speak universally.)
Vaccines were also probably mandatory at other church schools/orphanages/seminaries, too (e.g., Minneapolis), but not 100% sure.
And in 1918, there was a positive attitude about science and public health (mostly) concerning influenza (that's in my book, and an article, too - I can send it along!).
Scott Kenworthy has some stuff in his new biography of St. Tikhon about measles and flu epidemics in Alaska and the herculean efforts to save Alaska Natives in ~1900-01. (This was in the draft version I read, I assume it's in the final book, which I unfortunately haven't read yet!)
This is interesting! I don't have much, but I know that in 19c Alaska, students at church institutions did receive required smallpox vaxxes. (I can't remember if this was something that showed up in secondary lit, but I found evidence in archival sources for sure.)
Aaaaand @raygunsite.com has shirts. www.raygunsite.com/collections/...
A rotund Eastern Gray Squirrel casually housing a section of an avocado roll on the campus of the University of Chicago. Emotionless, unfettered, satiated, smug. Where fun goes to dine.
They always say #UChicago is built different, but I didn't have "the fat campus squirrels dine on sushi" on my bingo card.
And right over there across the parking lot is Barenaked Ladies, if you didn't bring the kids along.
This gentleman apparently lives in a world without TBIs.
I think we would all be interested in finding out how we can live there, too.
What we've all learned today: Very online bike people have zero chill.
Go out and enjoy the springtime, folks. It's nice out there. And for the sake of your brain, wear a helmet when you ride.
America enters its 250th year still waiting on a captain of industry who is not a total weirdo.
Giggling. "I am not owned, do not tell them I am owned" etc.
