Guess what guys! I’m a homeowner (and I guess a Minnesotan?🤔) now!!!

One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive. Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”

this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional

Heading back to Minnesota already, gonna miss my beautiful Long Beach and the temperate winter weather😭

Can’t wait to be back in California (even if only for a short spell!!) my beautiful brown body was not made for these Minnesota winters🤣

Screenshot of a quote-tweet: Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC Follow Broadcast licenses are not sacred COWS. These media companies are required by law to operate in the public interest. If they don't, they are going to be held accountable, as the Communications Act requires. i Los Angeles Times # @latimes • 3d How Trump's FCC chief pick could make life more difficult for media companies latimes.com/entertainment-... 6:18 PM • 11/23/24

Trump’s pick to chair the FCC signals willingness to revoke broadcasting licenses that the Trump admin deems as not operating “in the public interest.”

By doing so, he’s also implicitly coercing outlets to engage in self-censorship.

Controlling the media is a way authoritarians consolidate power.

Had the opportunity to moderate a discussion with my team on the lessons we’ve learned educating a staff of 7000 hospital employees on race and racism, WHILE being people of color ourselves.

We left X and joined Bluesky because those against our parks said, “If you don’t like it, leave.” So we did. And now they’re saying, “No, come back so we can say mean things to you—it makes us feel important.”

EXCLUSIVE: Ethics committee told of second sexual encounter between Matt Gaetz and 17-year-old, sources say | CNN Politics The woman who says she had sex when she was a minor with then-Rep. Matt Gaetz told the House Ethics Committee she had two sexual encounters with him at a party in 2017, sources familiar with her testi...

Exclusive: Matt Gaetz allegedly had a second sexual encounter at a 2017 party with a 17-year-old girl. He withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick after CNN asked for comment.

Language development, linguistic input, and linguistic racism Given meaningful linguistic input, either spoken or signed, children become successful language users in their families and communities. However, institutionalized racism pathologizes any language va...

I introduced the term "race evaders" for those in the field of language development (or any field) who rhetorically circumvent race so that racist assumptions embedded in their arguments become more palatable.

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The image contains a tweet from Kevin Saucedo-Broach, reading: "can’t imagine there’s anything more cathartic for a white southern conservative than getting to personally segregate a restroom" The tweet quotes another post by Rep. Nancy Mace, which states: "I never thought we would need a sign for this, but women’s restrooms are for BIOLOGICAL women. Not men." The quoted post also contains a short video clip of a sign being placed that reads, "Women."

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On the way to Tampa for #AAA2024!

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the system preceding race and gender integrated education and DEI was not even facially "meritocratic" - elite higher ed served as finishing schools for rich failsons, half of admissions criteria were invented to keep out Jews. the naked cronyism is the America they wanted to return to "greatness"

A Latinx mom came up to me after a talk: “Dr. Mike, I loved your talk…[etc.].” She is holding hand of tiny, little brown boy.

Walking away, I hear a tiny, excited voice say:

“Mom, We can be doctors?”

Little boy didn’t know brown folks could be doctors. 😭 heart instantly broke.

Tell me our new spelling systems and we’ll frindle it

costar banner notification that says “your day at a glance: your heart is full of dents”

okay thanks

FYI, you can remove your post from a troll quoting you. Here’s how.

In a blue state but fear this change is coming either way.

It will be annoying af but we don’t need the term DEI in order to do the work we need to do.

presently hooked on saying “that happened to a buddy of mine,” even or especially when that’s not true

I KNOW YOU'RE KILLING IT!!!!!!!

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Mass Deportations - A Dark History Returns There have been two "Mass Deportations" of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent that have happened before in the United States. You don’t know about it because this history isn’t taught.

There have been two mass deportations of Mexicans in US history.

Both swept up hundreds of thousands of US citizens in the process - many of them children. open.substack.com/pub/greattra...

Teaching about redlining in the Twin Cities at the hospital today😤

A tiny orange capped mushroom (Mirasmoid?) with a dark fuzzy stalk grows from pine and maple leaf duff in a late autumn forest

Here is a nice mushroom

Had trouble signing into my email/teams this morning and called IT and he pondered if maybe “they hadn’t extended your term date”

Followed quickly by “oh just kidding I just fixed it for you”

The way that took me out y’all what a fucking way to start the morning. 💀

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory:

Don’t have an answer to this but I teach on this as a potential micro-aggression at the hospital I work at. Always have a good chunk who get it but also (White) colleagues who push back and say “well then how do I build rapport with people???”

Lmao not the hostel 😂 I think bottom bunk is good….

Post a pic you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Let's talk about this suit. 🧵

Echoing this sentiment. We need a #LanguageAccess

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