Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
Sex and the City meme, "And I couldn't help but wonder who assigned so many things to grade?"
An image of a person holding a syringe and inserting the syringe into a COVID vaccine vial.
COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden.
A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people.
Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht
Safety for all. Dignity for all. Unions for all. That's what we’re fighting for. Pass it on.
I love how many of these show an overall deep desire to return to old tech.
Over half of Americans don’t have passports.
“The Mohegan Tribe chose to invest in women’s basketball at a time when male billionaires refused. It’s ironic, then, that the WNBA is now prioritizing NBA owners when those very owners turned their back on the league two decades ago.”
Iowa has the highest number of CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) in the country, and people who live near them are more susceptible to certain cancers, a new study finds.
"[S]everal university police departments opted to enter into agreements with ICE, granting campus police the authority to interrogate anyone who is believed to be an immigrant about their status, make arrests without a warrant, detain people ... and transport them to detention centers."
"UT scored among the lowest in each category, consistently falling behind peer institutions in creating an environment consistent with academic freedom and free expression and ensuring protections for faculty governance.... the school’s academic integrity has been compromised."
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr OregonLive
OR judge blast HHS Secy Kennedy for “wanton disregard” for the law and "cruelty" in restricting funding for kids' GAC adding “unserious leaders are unsafe.” He has prohibiting fed govt from superseding medical groups' Standards of Care.
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
oh goody this one is gendered female
and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes
These fuckin chuds
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
The suppression of free speech at OSU continued with the arrest of a student and a staff member at a protest against an event featuring IDF soldiers. New president, same tactics.
See the two articles below featuring the voices of students and faculty.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/p...
Facility in NY that housed migrant children faces allegations of physical abuse, including placing some children in isolation in a so-called “red room.”
Children were allegedly beaten by a “special” unit, akin to a security team, sometimes out of the view of cameras.
Agree with everything here and will add it perpetuates the stigmas about immigration itself. Immigration is not a crime, and the existence of armed enforcement is a choice that is based on the preferred optics of racists.
The Land Before Time made me a Saurolophus girl.
Universal basic income is not science fiction. It should exist for everyone. There's enough to make it happen.
Chronicle Exclusive: Labor unions representing faculty and staff at 125 campuses across the Northeast are pledging to work toward shared bargaining goals. Here’s what you need to know. https://chroni.cl/4cd7paI
1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity.
2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier.
3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.
As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.
Why aren't students protesting?
BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.
The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.
This is such a disturbing example of how technology can distort and amplify abusive behavior. It reminds me of how victims are often labeled hysterical and have their body language analyzed by pseudo-experts. Now these tactics are being replicated by a biased chatbot people pretend is an authority
Fluoride in drinking water has no effect on IQ or brain function, a long-term study shows.
The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.
The results contradict RFK Jr. statements.
The FCC reversed its price caps in 2025. Now prison phone calls cost more, with a 15 minute call rising from 80 cents to 1.30, and messaging offers half the characters for the same price.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, protecting nearly one million acres of sacred Indigenous land and critical wildlife habitat from extractive industries.
For far too long, nursing homes have cut corners and gotten away with it.
The Safe Staffing Saves Lives Act changes that with enforceable standards and real accountability. No more excuses. Pass it.
