If there are folks who would like to design a couple of "FUND OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES" posters, holler at me at niapoetry@gmail.com and please tell me your rate for this. Poster size would be 11 by 17 landscape size.
I need to print some posters for a forthcoming event.
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
Right?!! I saw it recently at a place in SF and it blew my mind, because WHY?! It doesn't make any sense
one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one
Palantir's ImmigrationOS endangers democracy and the rule of law, according to a new law review paper from Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler. In this week’s podcast, they break down the risks of AI-powered surveillance in immigration enforcement.
I'll have another "lunch hour" live virtual office hour at 12 noon PT on Tue, Apr 21, to discuss continuation of an unusually active spring weather pattern in California, broader context of strange 25-26 Water Year, and links to now record-warm NE Pacific.
In our animated short we highlight the potential of #wastewater surveillance as an early warning system for infectious disease transmission.
This short explains why wastewater monitoring matters, how it works, & what we stand to lose if funding’s eliminated.
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youtu.be/gwmCvjTtX04
Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color
U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.
For example👇
1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.
🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...
Those caught my ear, too. I'm absolutely loving the transitions and how everything is flowing together
It was absolutely incredible! They opened with an acoustic version of Right Where It Belongs, just Trent on piano. There was one point that was so hushed, this huge stadium nearly silent...transcendent is right!!
I've paused at "Copy of a." These transitions are *immaculate*!
#NIN #NinchInchNoize
Right?! I got to see them play in SF recently (finally 😭) and loved the remixes they did with Boys Noize. Super stoked they released them. Are any jumping out at you in particular?
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months.
Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs.
Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food.
Placed in solitary.
Denied medical accommodations.
They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
Congress is expected to vote THIS WEEK on Section 702 of FISA, a mass surveillance law.
Use our action center to tell Congress not to reauthorize Section 702 without privacy reforms that would end warrantless spying on journalists and other Americans.
Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context.
wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...
Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
A measles outbreak in the Sacramento region, the third and largest in California so far this year, has brought the state’s year-to-date measles cases to 39 — far surpassing yearly totals for the last several years.
If you get 1 normal person out of 100 off the drip-feed of right wing noise and Sinclair-type local "news" you have done more to push the country in the right direction than all the bulk Facebook ad buys in human history combined.
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
A new anti-trans law in Kansas effectively forces trans voters to obtain new documents with inaccurate gender markers, or abstain from voting. “We either won’t be able to vote or participate in public life, or we change our documents.”
However, we also found that the program improved participants’ artistic output, including the time they could dedicate to their art and their satisfaction with the quality and the impact of their work.” ‘What art could we produce as a society if our artists could invest more time and money in their craft?’ Stephen Roll The GI program was found to reduce financial stress and debt; increase artists’ ability to invest time in their art; increase motivation and productivity; and improve mental health, while showing no reduction in other sources of income.
2,400 artists in NYC got $1,000 per month in basic income for 18 months beginning in 2022. Same as in Ireland, the results were overwhelmingly positive. Artists spent more time on their art and became more satisfied with the quality and impact of their work.
DO UBI
source.washu.edu/2026/04/guar...
Weird Auntie checking in, can confirm
Aaaand I missed the screenshot, lol.
Not my fault, it went by too fast!
But CONGRATS to @jayeatonart.bsky.social on clearing 🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️1,000 BACKERS 🏃♀️🏃🏃♂️ in under EIGHT HOURS!
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Ooo! We'll be snatchin' that NUMBER ONE MOST POPULAR KICKSTARTER PROJECT ON EARTH spot from Cyberpunk annnny second now!
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Promo image for Pop Bibliography class
The April 15 @calrbs.bsky.social application deadline looms... make sure to get yours in while scholarships are still available! I'll be teaching Pop Bibliography, the study of how old books are portrayed in pop culture and what it means for the field of book history www.calrbs.org/english-pale...
Want to be in a throuple. Not for love or anything, just need a Doordash driver and a backup Doordash driver in case I get sick when I'm elderly and the US still doesn't have universal healthcare.
Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?
❇️Applications are open today for the Stevie Wilson DIY Young Artists Residency!
🎨Artists aged 16-24 directly impacted by criminalization, policing, &/or punishment are eligible for $2,500 to work on creative projects.
🖊️Applications due May 11.
➡️Please help us spread the word!
