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If I were in Boston the next couple of days, I would be hearing four-time Grammy winning choir The Crossing sing Revolución diamantina www.bso.org/events/ortiz...

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Did my neighbors install a squirrel obstacle course

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I spent 25 minutes waiting in line at my neighborhood post office today.    That is WAY longer than I wanted to be there, but while I was there I witnessed such nice examples of total strangers talking to & helping each other, including:   1/3

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Again I ask, why is there no official @septaphilly.bsky.social LGBT shirt

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1/ For over 100 years, we've relied on the same TB vaccine, which only partially protects children and doesn't work in adults. That could finally change with MTBVAC, a new vaccine candidate whose first Phase II b trial doses were administered last week in South Africa. 🧵

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Between 2/18 and 2/26 Secretary Rubio "made a final decision with respect to each award, on an individualized basis," to terminate 8,644 State and USAID awards. That's about one award every minute and 20 seconds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Also, if you want to support the Inquirer but the subscription price of $5.49 per week after the intro period is beyond your means, you can also make a one time or recurring donation: philadelphiainquirer.fundjournalism.org?int_promo=do...

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The Philadelphia School District indicated it will ignore a rule directing schools to ban transgender athletes from participating in sports that match their gender identities. The move comes after the state’s interscholastic athletics governing body changed a key policy around transgender athletes.

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New shirt day! Love that it arrived via bike courier. @bikeaction.org

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Dril's son is into challenge studies?

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first as tragedy, then as a new thing i’m calling “tragedy II”

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Interesting new NBER working paper: Most people worry about outdoor air pollution, but, in many homes, indoor air is worse. A field experiment in London tested whether showing people their indoor pollution levels in real time might change behavior and finds a 17% reduction. 🧵

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Shoutout to the LBTGDM community

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You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

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🎉 Happy SEPTA Wayfinding launch day to those who celebrate!

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Well kids, we're losing the information war, huh? Wanna spread your message in the public space, but don't know where to start? C'mere, I'll teach you. Join me online March 3rd at 8pm Eastern for a intro to street art. We'll cover stickering & wheatpasting! RSVP here for the link: lu.ma/53ks8h33

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I ordered the “bowl of fucks”and this is what I was handed. I ordered a French revolution to go and I was immediately pelted with at least 15 pieces of plastic fruit while they both yelled “death to the bourgeoisie” it’s hard to tell if I was more proud or more amused at their blatant creativity

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Cool new reporting from @aylinwoodward.bsky.social on the ancient history of lead pollution - Roman silver smelting produced enough lead to lower population IQ by 3 points, potentially contributing to its decline. Hopefully we can eradicate the problem of lead exposure this century!

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Oh my god there's a SEPTA x Amberella collection shop.septa.org/collections/...

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me_irl

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Our 2025 #FlowerShow murals are in progress! And this one, by artists Jaime Kahng Wiesner, is our first ever tufted rug mural! #StreetsDeptWalls #MuralArts

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Incredible Philly-centric sign at today’s huge protest of the Musk-Trump GOP’s effort to cede America’s greatness to enrich the world’s worst billionaires

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Survey of PEPFAR contractors Jan 24-28 suggested 36% of organizations had already shut down by that point. As of February 9, most services remained paused. Of 65 PEPFAR partners surveyed, less than 10% had restarted providing any services. www.amfar.org/wp-content/u...

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Queer Arm Wrestling at Vox Populi

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At the stonewall monument rn

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The SUV one is sending me www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Another straightforward, targeted way to push back and make your voice heard. Took me 10 minutes and only because I wanted to be extremely specific and intentional with my word choice.

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My feed needs more cats so I assume yours does too.

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Good people of Boston! Join me in 2 weeks on 2/26 at the Harvard Science Center for a talk about my book Air-Borne. I'll be talking about Boston as a birthplace of aerobiology and our understanding of how diseases can travel through the air. Details here: www.harvard.com/event/carl-z...

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Yesterday a small group of us bundled up and ventured out into the snow to survey the second section of Boston’s next urban trail, from Millennium Park to Castle Island. We snaked through woods and wetlands, climbed and descended staircases, and experienced the magic of the winter cityscape.

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Landed back in Philly. The airport and the airport regional rail line appears intact.

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I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

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the weekend, but at what cost

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Are you feeling like screaming into a pillow for 1000 years? If you have the means, the Trans Youth Emergency Project is giving direct grants to families of trans kids. southernequality.org/tyep/

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Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

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New op ed from Tom Wein, @garrisonlovely.bsky.social and I on PEPFAR and giving up the legacy of US power in Africa: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/p...

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seen in Philadelphia: FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP + MUSK GO BIRDS

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Slate [Feb 2] -- Purpose of Trump multiple Executive Orders is to "create Jim Crow for trans people" by "fully disenfranchising them from society on a scale not seen since Jim Crow" (e.g., the legal racial caste system mostly in South from Civil War to 1960s). [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

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