Great essay. I was in Iowa then, too and just as attentive to the gospel of Frank :)

Ocean Beach is up, that’s what’s up!

Are we ready for the next bicycle boom? The last time oil prices spiked due to war in the Middle East, bicycle sales boomed—and bike advocacy groups flourished.

open.substack.com/pub/themovem...

I’ve done this several times and have ended up with some delightful correspondence.

we actually need to band together and let the dems know we will never donate another cent or vote for the party again if a single member of the party votes to give a single cent to ice ever again

LIFE AND DEATH BEFORE PUBLIC HEALTH Emily K. Abel

This is an excellent piece with a historical perspective on the dangers of the catastrophic attacks on public health in the U.S.

Giving big A Frolic of His Own (William Gaddis) vibes.

CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr. The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.

In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Little timeline cleanse: New Orleans ❤️

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Mutual AID 101 - Allied Media Projects On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizer Mariame Kaba discussed a response to COVID-19 based in community building and resource sharing —…Read more

It’s time for Mutual Aid groups. We have to get started.

The last time we had these conversations, we were in the middle of COVID. Communities were struggling to keep going - economically, emotionally, physically.

AOC did a lot of work in this space. I'm sharing resources she created.

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🦟 Did you know the CDC was originally created in 1946 to help eradicate malaria in the U.S.?
A quick 🧵 on how they accomplished this mission & eliminated malaria by 1951

A big part of what’s behind the attack on public health, IMO, and on the collection of population data.

Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Then the Fog’

We go on.
We do not turn back.
The world becomes so small we can fit it into a handshake,
into a glance cast across the room,
a finger raised to the lips.
Everyone’s fingers are crossed behind their backs.

‘Then the Fog’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yes.

"We're shadowed. But we're fighting..."

There are lovely berries at the Farmers’ Market this week :)

But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.

What's happening tonight is anything but law and order. Don't be deceived.

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

There are five categories of climate denial:

1/ it’s not real
2/ it’s not us
3/ it’s not bad
4/ we can’t fix it
5/ it’s too late

They might sound different but do not be deceived, they all have the same goal: to delay climate action as long as possible.

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

Marin civic center.

Though, in contrast, an “inside” strategy becomes hard when all the institutions are being destroyed…

An “inside” and an “outside” strategy at the same time!

The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

Hands Off our life-saving public health system!

I have Sen. Booker's live speech going on in the background here, and I gotta say, 13 hours in, it's really good. He's mad. Good.