Another day, another "book club" scam. Please know that if you & a bunch of other real people would like to read my book together & talk with me about it I would work hard to make that a fun & interesting time! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...
god bless a spreadsheet
Manages to get through a call for focusing on teaching and civic purpose without even glancing toward contingency and adjunctification of faculty as perhaps a factor in the problem. A call to change without examining the structures that control higher ed is performative B.S. at this point.
hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector
holy shit
fencing is fun to watch for like 2 minutes if you’re not a fencer. when the novelty wears off, it’s hard for untrained spectators to see what’s happening unless it’s super obvious
maybe this will help
The US is a country that has a massive federal and state system of buildings, thousands of workers around the clock in every single state, and deep supply chains. Imagine using it to heal and take care of one another, rather than jail people and separate them from their families and society.
And do not get me started about the TV Guide Fall Preview, the single most important magazine of the year.
I can see!!! 😍😍😍😭😭
I love this!!!
screenshot from edsbscharitybowl.com showing that $461,666 has been raised from 1572 donors
given that donations opened this morning we could actually get to $500k by midnight www.edsbscharitybowl.com
I don't think anyone would run this in another outlet, but if you're an editor and want it, please reach out.
🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.
🧵 The nursing research, the theoretical frameworks, and Tufts's own union all predicted exactly what happened to me. Tufts had 626 unsafe staffing reports and a published report with "Dangerous and Deteriorating" in the title. They kept doing it.
🧵 This isn't a story about a bad nurse. It's a story about a staffing model that put a new grad on a float pool because Tufts Medicine is hemorrhaging money, because 67% of its patients are on Medicaid, because OBBBA just cut a trillion dollars from the program. (Oh and the CEO took a 32% raise.)
🧵 New post: "How MAHA Fucked Up My Surgery"
I was catheterized by 2 new graduate nurses (one of whom had never done the procedure on a patient before), using incorrect technique, without adequate pain control, after a delay that doubled my volume past the hospital's own intervention threshold
Large academic medical centers have transformed themselves into entire hospital systems. often slapping their marquee name on community hospitals without any meaningful increase in quality. it's a fucking hellscape out here
We had a DEEP pool of applicants, so funded students from 4 colleges and 12 different disciplines spanning fine arts to agricultural science. I'm really stoked.
Sending out acceptances of course means I also had to send out rejections which really sucks. But earlier this year I received maybe the nicest rejection I've ever gotten, for something I really really wanted, so I tried to channel the vibes from that
I cannot wait to introduce y'all to these scholars and their cool ass work
Got to send out acceptances to the first cohort of Tracy Farmer Scholars doing environment and sustainability research at UKY today and I'll tell you what, giving people money to do good work is a hell of a swell way to round out the day
AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it
“It comes after Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general and Kristi Noem as secretary of homeland security.”
There are plenty of men who should be resigning from this administration as well.
The people who tell you to get to the airport at the last possible minute are 1. Wrong and 2. A lot more comfortable with losing serious money on missed flights than I’ll ever be tbh
JUST IN:
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who was under internal investigation, is leaving her position. She becomes the third cabinet departure of President Trump's second term.
A large German Shepherd dog who seems happy to be in her new home.
We have (very) big news!
Say hello to Poppy 😊
Poppy is a sweet 8-year-old girl who enjoys being within an inch of at least one human at all times and dislikes closed doors. She has been with us since Friday and seems to be settling in well.
POPPY POPPY POPPY
"Beyond state legislators and other Republican politicians, it’s unclear who, if anyone, is supporting these policies."
yeah this is pretty much exactly where I’m at
We're tracing U.S. fossil fascism in a quick 3-part @drilledmedia.bsky.social miniseries (ep 2 drops tomorrow), from WWI to the Red Line Agreement to now. Important context for the current moment! drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
You should see their rage when I tell them tortious intent can be proven not just by actual desire for a certain outcome but also by the defendant’s substantial certainty that a certain outcome will result from their volitional actions.