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I grew up with post-viral illness because I had a mononucleosis infection as a child. It was a miserable experience that resulted in lifelong vulnerability and poor health. Kids deserve better than Long Covid. My parents didn’t know better, but we have the information now. Protect children.

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In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 4 days ago • 198 comments

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

This is why there’s been so much silence as Black history and Black books are being purged, and integration efforts dismantled. Many Democrats think the purges are valid and necessary. “Candidly, the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack."

submitted 9 days ago • 229 comments

Happened here with Brexit-regret. Now the majority agree it was a mistake. That's progress, and certainly down to people taking advantage of those moments

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 13 days ago • 598 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 16 days ago • 160 comments

thank you to Kendrick and the Eagles for making terrible people angry tonight

submitted 16 days ago • 646 comments

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 18 days ago • 291 comments

New study in Nature finds no such thing as natural immunity to covid after the arrival of omicron. Pre omicron, infection provided 80% protection against re-infection one year later. This falls to under 5% at one year with omicron

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

People who don’t understand that disability comes for all of us also typically believe in the worthy and virtuous disabled people myth. If they are the “good” kind of disabled person, they won’t be treated to ableism. They are always shocked when they find out that it doesn’t work that way.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I also remind myself regularly that while I "care" about many things, I cannot do all of the things. It's a big reason I am anti yelling at people who become newly engaged in something that I care about. They are probably like me in caring about a lot but only being able to act on a few things.

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 19 days ago • 164 comments

sorry i've been so testy lately. it's just because of every single thing in the entire world

submitted 19 days ago • 70 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 19 days ago • 1142 comments

CORPORATE DEI WEBINAR: If you meet someone from East Asia, you should avoid asking "So which kind are you?" JACUZZI DEALERSHIP OWNER: Well, that's it. Time to start the Fourth Reich.

submitted 20 days ago • 79 comments

Real shocker here. The 25 year old rooting around in the code of the US government's payment system likes to post things like "Normalize Indian hate." www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 19 days ago • 188 comments

It’s weird, I was told by conservatives that it was the left that let an obsession with identity politics get in the way of their actual jobs.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

Oh, look! The people who grew up eating lead paint chips want the rest of America to enjoy the yumminess of lead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 85 comments

I'm so furious about this that it's taken me a couple of hours to calm down and figure out what I want to write. It takes NASA years to change any policy. Edits to websites have to go through multiple reviews and are never done in days. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

submitted 23 days ago • 606 comments

Perfectly captured.

submitted 23 days ago • 1487 comments

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 24 days ago • 145 comments

Most anti-vaxxers don’t realize that vaccination was the equivalent of a miracle in the 20th century. To walk it back is to return to a time that is unimaginable to most people.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

submitted 25 days ago • 1063 comments

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

submitted 26 days ago • 2388 comments

"If you get tired Learn to rest Not to quit" Credit Banksy Fox Friday

submitted 25 days ago • 104 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From Clay Bennett)

submitted 25 days ago • 165 comments

THREAD 👇🏻

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It is very very VERY hard not to be bitter at the people who during the past four years literally said "the disability justice community has lost it" because they were being asked to consider wearing a mask.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This is Fudge. She may not be the sharpest pup in the world, but more importantly, she is not a quitter. 13/10

submitted 28 days ago • 599 comments

The world has changed before and, when it did, it wasn’t because a president, a prime minister, a CEO or a celebrity decided it had to. It began when ordinary people – people of no particular power, wealth, or fame – decided that the world could and should be different.

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

A Nixon-era law forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements. Federal courts have also prevented presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility. Trump seeks to upend it all. By @mtredden.bsky.social (Published Nov. 2024)

submitted 35 days ago • 52 comments

I think it’s OK to feel really overwhelmed & possibly defeated right now. But even the smallest positive hopeful thing that we do (getting up in the morning, for example) eventually scales in our own life and in the lives of people around us. I am duality right now: defeated & hopeful. 🤷‍♀️

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week

submitted 30 days ago • 47 comments

Exclusive: Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets like the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times, have mounted a legal challenge against OpenAI's improper use of copyright content reut.rs/4aG3mkH

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

In 2017, we only had 6 Democratic trifecta states. Today, we have 15 Democratic trifecta states and we control even more mayorships and city councils. There’s enormous opportunity to go on offense to protect our rights & offer a safe-haven to red state residents under threat: indivisible.org/guide

submitted 30 days ago • 50 comments

These are Emergency Times. Instead of being a snarky critic of someone busy trying to actually do work towards creating less suffering in this world, spend YOUR time doing work to create less suffering. Organize. Fundraise. A wealth of ways to help. "Reply guy" isn't a helper role, though. FYI

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

Yup, as I wrote about last week:

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

Everyone who is interested in offsetting grocery costs should follow this advice.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments