For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.
People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
a horrifying story of an actual measles death (not a made up composite posing as nonfiction as the Atlantic did) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
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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(sorry, for some reason the thread didn't show up for me until I saw this)
so where did they get that fake number & what is it really? that did seem extraordinarily high...
the sad thing is that this is literally true in the drug treatment industry, where urine testing is an enormous source of income with very few benefits
(I was just curious because if real, it's useful for collecting, but I don't think it is ;-)
where is that from? I've never heard that he said anything like that and I know quit a bit of antidrug propaganda, maybe AI?
I've been in training full time for the past 12 years.
I need one of these grants to start my academic career.
The current administration could support my research for the next millennium with a small fraction of what they have stolen from the American people.
Never mind the evidence: San Francisco, after several decades, is moving to abandon harm reduction as a principle in its substance use policy.
Supes push measure to require supportive housing to ban the use of illegal drugs.
I'm going to write about this somewhere, it's driving me nuts....
me too! and these are the same jerks who are arguing that we can't have safer supply/harm reduction for people using illegal drugs we don't like... but we should give safer supply to people using illegal drugs we do like...
by artist JB Cornish
if you’ve ever made a little mistake on a piece of paperwork … this kind of thing could happen to you. @rainesford.bsky.social on the mental toll that the broken SNAP system is taking on families / anyone who relies on it slate.com/business/202...
Orange tabby cat with a sign over his head. If cats could text you back, they would not.
Truth. #Caturday
Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland
I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city
And the way I think they rationalize this is that they *only* publish work from writers who are working for research universities. Which… sigh
Do you live near a data center?
Do you know anyone who lives near a data center?
I want to talk to you!
jael@heatmp.news
LOS ANGELES: Please help these kitties Kit & Caboodle. Their owner passed away last week, and I've taken it upon myself to find them a loving forever home. They are GOOD BABIES. Can anyone *LA area only* adopt them? I just don't want them to end up in a kill shelter. Share, RT, ask around... thanks!
It's funky axons time 🔬 🧪
Grandparents remember what diseases like measles are really like—and want the rest of America to know before it’s too late
@gparents4vaccines.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-h...
My latest with Lynn Parramore for @newrepublic.com and @economichardship.bsky.social on the AI "robot gaze" and how AI stands for "apocalyptic insecurity," manipulating workers by creating dread @maiasz.bsky.social @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social @epi.org @ineteconomics.bsky.social link in comments
Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme
“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
I’ll make everyone a deal: if Jay Bhattacharya sits down *with me* for a fireside chat, with a live audience and live-streamed, I will stop “responding with vitriol”.
That would indicate to me that he is willing to meet opposition.
