Big shout out to anyone suffering anything where it is hard to provide empirical evidence of the truth, whether that is complex health conditions, microaggressions, or invisible disabilities or whatever.
You don’t need empirical evidence to support someone living in their truth.
The opposite of this is also true, especially for loved ones.
You don’t have to insist on empirical evidence for something a loved one is experiencing as true. You can even just support them without accepting anything as true.
I should probably do that again on here. I’ve been saving only “serious and important” things but I literally never go back and look at them.
Was not me, but on Twitter I used to save any post that made me laugh/smile. Only positive posts. So then if I was having a rough time I would go scroll through my saved posts and feel better.
So maybe someone doing something similar? but idk
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.
Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.
No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
She is the best Justice on the Court right now and imo it isn’t close.
I am afraid to go to the hospital because I don't want to get SICKER.
It shouldn't have to be this way! Properly fitted n95 respirators are virtually perfect at blocking the transmission of Covid (and many other diseases).
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BUT NO ONE WEARS THEM.
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Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Let's call this policy what this is.
It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.
It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.
It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.
First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.
Housing is one of my issues and this was one of the dumbest possible proposals, imo. All it would do is enrich existing homeowners (largely, boomers) by another $20K when they sell. It is neutral at best for young families who are locked out of affordable housing.
We need supply-side solutions.
Never hit the like button so fast.
Trump's evisceration of the federal workforce has taken an enormous toll on Black women, who have disproportionately suffered job losses, and is threatening their hold on the middle class capitalandmain.com/federal-job-...
$3.6 billion for LAPD plus hundreds of millions in settlements for police violence and misconduct every single year for the next decade plus.
This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.
The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."
My story:
i spend more time than most discussing the ongoing realities of the pandemic &how to mitigate the harms—i can guarantee you people are traumatized. what the trauma is from varies, but there’s so much. & most ppl, perhaps even you readin this, fall into the ease of denial, letting masks collect dust.
There. Must. Be. Consequences. Up and down and sideways. For all of them.
This isn’t over until someone is seriously running on that issue specifically, and can win over whatever roadblocks are going to increasingly be thrown in their way.
It won’t be the midterms. No one is running on this.
Women’s health research was already 100 years behind research for men.
I don’t think America will be the scientific leader in 10 years. We’re going to lose a lot in the transition. And already have.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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Learning the material conditions that brought about our current moment is dangerous, because it threatens the stability of power: things weren't always like this and there have always been people who fought against oppressive regimes.
None of this was inevitable and the future need not be as bleak.
That “feeling guilty” is a sign of work yet to be done, yes? Individually and as a society. Internally and action.
It was good legislation but BBB was nothing like a modern New Deal.
People are delusional.
Did BBB:
-build childcare infrastructure?
-address affordable housing?
-provide universal healthcare?
-significantly raise the minimum wage?
-address affordable housing?
-fund public works, such as for the HVAC upgrades all our buildings need to reduce airborne pathogens?
The next person who tells me that BBB was as good as the New Deal, I’ll scream. The New Deal specifically addressed the big issues weighing on ordinary people at the time.
Even the BBB, before being watered down didn’t touch many of the issues of our time.
An arrangement of medical items includes an "Antifungal Medication" box labeled "100 mg", a blister pack of pills, and a stethoscope on a medical document. The text reads "nature medicine", "Closing the gap on antifungal resistance", and "nature portfolio". Adobe stock image
Drug-resistant fungal disease must be addressed in the 2026 update to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, write the authors in a Comment article in Nature Medicine. go.nature.com/3OSMQr0 🧪
Going to keep sharing this, because something I heard from sources is many felt like, after SNAP paused for the first time ever over the fall when the Trump admin refused to fund benefits, lots of people were talking about it. Now, people are still struggling but it feels like attention moved on.
“I have no reason to believe Chuck Schumer wouldn’t support shutting down Fox News if a candidate who said that won.”
We live in different realities.
