Philip Stewart
@5thstewart.bsky.social
Measles is not back because we forgot how to stop it. It’s back because we chose not to. Virginia’s first confirmed measles case of 2026 is not a medical mystery or a failure of science—it is a policy, trust, and systems failure playing out in real time.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/return...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/return...
The Return of Measles Was Preventable: Virginia’s First Case and the Cost of Vaccine Hesitancy
Measles is not back because we forgot how to stop it. It’s back because we chose not to.
www.linkedin.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Measles is not back because we forgot how to stop it. It’s back because we chose not to. Virginia’s first confirmed measles case of 2026 is not a medical mystery or a failure of science—it is a policy, trust, and systems failure playing out in real time.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/return...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/return...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Rest In Power, Claudette Colvin, and a really useful thread debunking popular myths about her from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, whom we used as a source to write our entries about Colvin: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/cl...
January 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Rest In Power, Claudette Colvin, and a really useful thread debunking popular myths about her from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, whom we used as a source to write our entries about Colvin: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/cl...
Artist Mike Luckovich: Torch carrying-domestic terrorist
January 12, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Artist Mike Luckovich: Torch carrying-domestic terrorist
A good piece reflecting some of the same reasons I retired from the NIH on Dec 27th. My only criticism is the same I have for everything I have heard recently: people telling us to stand together and fight back but without a strategy for fighting effectively www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 AM
A good piece reflecting some of the same reasons I retired from the NIH on Dec 27th. My only criticism is the same I have for everything I have heard recently: people telling us to stand together and fight back but without a strategy for fighting effectively www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
Rogue planets traveling through the galaxy - cool.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
Rogue Saturn Discovered Floating Through the Milky Way
Astronomers have measured the mass of a free-floating planet for the first time. Comparable to Saturn, it’s surprisingly massive for such worlds.
skyandtelescope.org
January 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Rogue planets traveling through the galaxy - cool.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
January 2nd, the 106th anniversary of the Palmer Raids. In the name of public safety government agents arrested/detained thousands, brutally assaulted innocent people, lacked sufficient warrants, and tried to deport many. Sounds familiar.
January 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM
January 2nd, the 106th anniversary of the Palmer Raids. In the name of public safety government agents arrested/detained thousands, brutally assaulted innocent people, lacked sufficient warrants, and tried to deport many. Sounds familiar.
The future now. A dead sperm whale in breaking Arctic ice, fed upon by a polar bear. From the National Geographic's 25 best photos of 2025. lnkd.in/ekuD6G-k
January 2, 2026 at 1:07 AM
The future now. A dead sperm whale in breaking Arctic ice, fed upon by a polar bear. From the National Geographic's 25 best photos of 2025. lnkd.in/ekuD6G-k
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#OtD 27 Dec 1861 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist and leading figure in the First International, landed in Liverpool, having travelled the long way around the globe (via Japan, across the Pacific, USA and Atlantic) after escaping exile in Siberia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9889...
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#OtD 27 Dec 1861 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist and leading figure in the First International, landed in Liverpool, having travelled the long way around the globe (via Japan, across the Pacific, USA and Atlantic) after escaping exile in Siberia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9889...
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In memory of Terence Edward Hall, British musician and lead singer of the 2 Tone band The Specials and later a member of several other groups and musical projects
Hall died of pancreatic cancer 3 years ago today on December 18, 2022 at the age of 63
📸 David Corio
#terryhall #thespecials #ska
Hall died of pancreatic cancer 3 years ago today on December 18, 2022 at the age of 63
📸 David Corio
#terryhall #thespecials #ska
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In memory of Terence Edward Hall, British musician and lead singer of the 2 Tone band The Specials and later a member of several other groups and musical projects
Hall died of pancreatic cancer 3 years ago today on December 18, 2022 at the age of 63
📸 David Corio
#terryhall #thespecials #ska
Hall died of pancreatic cancer 3 years ago today on December 18, 2022 at the age of 63
📸 David Corio
#terryhall #thespecials #ska
Just watched "The Great Dictator" again. The speech, tragically, just as fitting today as it was 85 years ago.
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress." - Charlie Chaplin
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress." - Charlie Chaplin
December 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Just watched "The Great Dictator" again. The speech, tragically, just as fitting today as it was 85 years ago.
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress." - Charlie Chaplin
"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress." - Charlie Chaplin
"Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! ... Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness."
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! ... Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness."
Cool find from the Badger state
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Archaeologists find ancient canoes used by Indigenous people in Wisconsin
Sixteen submerged canoes were discovered along Lake Mendota’s shore at a kind of prehistoric parking lot
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Cool find from the Badger state
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Nation
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US history.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The Nation
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney . . . As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor."
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney . . . As Trump prepares an assault on a South American field of resource extraction and deploys federal forces to terrorize American cities, Cheney can eternally look up from his well-earned spot in the afterlife at the fruits of his labor."
Satire that hits too close
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Satire that hits too close
According to Wikipedia, FDA commissioner Makary has some impressive credentials but like all the rest of this administration he should have stuck to what he knows. Here he not-so-subtly suggests that the government created Lyme disease
youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w
youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w
Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
According to Wikipedia, FDA commissioner Makary has some impressive credentials but like all the rest of this administration he should have stuck to what he knows. Here he not-so-subtly suggests that the government created Lyme disease
youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w
youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w
No Kings In Hamilton, Montana - October 18th
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
No Kings In Hamilton, Montana - October 18th
I always admired her.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I always admired her.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
I didn't know that Aberbaijan and Albania had been at war . . .
September 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I didn't know that Aberbaijan and Albania had been at war . . .
The Trump administration and corporate America have moved to silence another voice. Our nation is dying in front of our eyes. Even if you are not a Democrat or a progressive, who can continue in silence? I stand with Jimmy Kimmel and all who are being attacked by this administration and its allies.
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Trump administration and corporate America have moved to silence another voice. Our nation is dying in front of our eyes. Even if you are not a Democrat or a progressive, who can continue in silence? I stand with Jimmy Kimmel and all who are being attacked by this administration and its allies.
From Oliver Kornetzke, a genius, but am I the only one who thinks the style is reminiscent of Rod Serling and his Twilight Zone introductions?
August 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
From Oliver Kornetzke, a genius, but am I the only one who thinks the style is reminiscent of Rod Serling and his Twilight Zone introductions?