The flu is tremendously bad this year. Lots of hospitals are requiring masking of staff because so many staff are getting sick for extended periods.

I have a bad feeling it’s Willmar Mn

Infuriating, how obtuse

I’d like to go on the record as saying I regret every bad thing I’ve liked with regard to Will Stancil. Really went to bat for Minnesota and the Twin Cities.

100% D

Hell, were it real, is too good for these people

What a mystery, gangs of roving masked men targeting people who are brown, and prices of vegetables picked by immigrants, often here under questionable circumstances go up? Call a team of scientists.

My lord

Who could have expected the body needs more than meat, salt, and hate to survive?

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."

whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

The communist government in Kerala state actually teamed up with a bunch of academics, including one of my colleagues, to try and get their poorer citizens access to disaster insurance with this sort of worry in mind. There's a write up of some of the ideas involved here:

philpapers.org/rec/BRACID

God how is this real

My god the best he can claim was that he was drunk on the job which is humiliating in itself

We are so doomed

I’d be heartened if more universities weren’t seemingly falling over themselves to capitulate.

Me: "So which country should @aoc.bsky.social go back to?"
Mick Mulvaney: "She's an American citizen."
Me: "So why did Trump tell her to go back to her country?"

I asked former Trump WH chief of staff Mulvaney if he ever challenged his then boss on his racist tweets.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolq...

I wish more interviewers didn’t let interviewees get away with dishonest bullshit. Good on you, Mehdi.

Change in OB/GYN Physicians Practicing Obstetrics After the Dobbs Decision This cohort study evaluates changes in the number of obstetrics and gynecology physicians practicing in Idaho after the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.

NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics."

Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.

Okay you’ve sold me on the book

I for one love medical bills, as does every American I know

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Most of the people in the audience clapped for him, what the fuck

Wow a literal self proclaimed fascist and people clapped for him, Christ.

So tiring.

Brittany Commisso settles with NY over Cuomo harassment complaint Former gubernatorial aide Brittany Commisso settled her lawsuit related to what was seen by many as the most serious sexual harassment allegation against former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Cuomo relaunch week ends with $450K settlement reached by state with Brittany Commisso, the former gubernatorial aide who in 2021 leveled what were arguably the most serious sexual harassment allegations against the former governor. Brendan Lyons reports.

The gestapo is picking people up out of immigration courts, wearing masks, by the way

Rich parasites

You’ve got to be kidding me with this.