BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Raising your child right!
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
They’re openly talking about revoking citizenship from an opponent on account of how they don’t like how many people voted for him.
It has been six months.
CNN showed the NYPD last night - LIVE - threatening to arrest protesters if they didn’t disperse.
Now the Mayor says - again on CNN - that they only arrest ppl (86 last night) who are violent and destructive.
They don’t even bother to keep the story straight. Disgusting if not surprising.
Double.
You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.
@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020
once again I must tap my own sign
Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”
You can pretend bisexuality isn't real but even the algorithms have clocked that I want both men and women's rugby clips.
direct link is up! I got to be a guest on OPB Radio’s “Think Out Loud” this afternoon and I’m sooooo pleased with my efforts at delivering a believably soothing NPR Lady Voice - a tall order for someone whose normal cadence is A) loud, B) fast, and C) laced with swears
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Maternal death rates are falling for every group – except Black women. Why? The answer isn’t solely healthcare. My take at the link. Please share!
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
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NEW: TCE, a chemical used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies.
Republicans in Congress want to reverse a ban on it.
By @fastlerner.bsky.social and @lisalsong.bsky.social
holy shit
“These moments where people learned how to be together without the scaffolding of the state, when they learned to solve problems without succumbing to the impulse of calling the police, that should serve as a true inspiration for the work that we will do in the future." — Angela Davis
some ideas:
—call reps every Monday
—small weekly donation to a different Gaza family or other mutual aid
—EXTREME social media limits to avoid doomscrolling
—block on sight instead of arguing with trolls
—make sure all your vaccines are up to date
—book club or discussion group at your church
Born on Feb.29th: BHM Edition (Bonus)
Augusta Savage (1892-1962) Sculptor
During the Harlem Renaissance she was well known as a sculptor, art teacher & community art program director. Artistic style: realistic, expressive & sensitive. Works were primarily made out of red clay.
Journalists at mainstream US publications are absolutely allowed to engage in activism as long as it is aimed at reinforcing existing hierarchies and undermining progressive change. NYT news reporters recently engaged in a startlingly effective campaign against trans rights, for example.
This week I have been sad because everyone has a really bad strain of the flu, but at the pharmacy, health center, hair dresser, and lab, I was the only one wearing a mask.
My writing practice can be so frustrating to me at times because I consider words and concepts, sometimes tangents, that make me slow AF AND are harder to do in front of a blinking screen.
My dog died 2 weeks ago and the grief was intense. I could barely do anything. Today I took a 15 minute core class on Peloton, so I know I am feeling better. I also know movement will have to be a key strategy to reduce the anxiety caused my *all this.*
I read Rafe and Xeni more than I’d care to admit 🫣
Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project.
Again, the gateway is racism.
I have already had COVID twice. My cholesterol is through the roof. So, I’m lifting and stretching and trying to eat more nourishing foods than I used to. That’s all I got outside of prayer, rage, community building.
