DB Reiff
@db4dignity.bsky.social
Helping build a better Boston for everyone with @wutrain!
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback.
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
By @natlash.bsky.social
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Disgusting doesn’t begin to describe Putin’s behavior.
Or the silent Republicans in Congress with blood on their hands.
Or the silent Republicans in Congress with blood on their hands.
Putin launched Europe’s biggest war since WWII — killing civilians, kidnapping children, and eliminating political opponents. Yet Mr. Witkoff says he’s “not a bad guy.” Diplomacy requires engaging with dictators, but that doesn't mean we have to check our values at the door.
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Disgusting doesn’t begin to describe Putin’s behavior.
Or the silent Republicans in Congress with blood on their hands.
Or the silent Republicans in Congress with blood on their hands.
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Home Depot has provided tools and materials to build this regime. HD turns profits from customers who bust their assess constructing & repairing in our communities, then aid in allowing the regime to abduct them. (Who knows, perhaps for an additional sum.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?
While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Home Depot has provided tools and materials to build this regime. HD turns profits from customers who bust their assess constructing & repairing in our communities, then aid in allowing the regime to abduct them. (Who knows, perhaps for an additional sum.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Libraries win! A judge in Rhode Island issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Libraries win! A judge in Rhode Island issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
@barbmcquade.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social Maybe attorneys should swear to, “Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” so they can be charged with perjury if they lie to the Court.
It could thin the ranks of the Justice Department.
It could thin the ranks of the Justice Department.
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@barbmcquade.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social Maybe attorneys should swear to, “Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” so they can be charged with perjury if they lie to the Court.
It could thin the ranks of the Justice Department.
It could thin the ranks of the Justice Department.
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🥰 Thank you Yo-Yo Ma and @mayorwu.boston.gov
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
🥰 Thank you Yo-Yo Ma and @mayorwu.boston.gov
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American minds were poisoned and conned by propaganda on Twitter.
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
American minds were poisoned and conned by propaganda on Twitter.
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you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
hls.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Thank you so much for posting this. I looked for coverage of it everywhere. Indeed @wutrain.bsky.social is Boston's own well tempered-clavier.
Yeah well let's see Mamdani do *this*
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thank you so much for posting this. I looked for coverage of it everywhere. Indeed @wutrain.bsky.social is Boston's own well tempered-clavier.
So disappointed in Whip Clark.
I expect she'll stop using healthcare paid for by the people.
I expect she'll stop using healthcare paid for by the people.
I'd love minority whip Katherine Clark, @whipkclark.bsky.social , to explain the "horrors of socialism" to her extremely liberal constituency.
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
So disappointed in Whip Clark.
I expect she'll stop using healthcare paid for by the people.
I expect she'll stop using healthcare paid for by the people.
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I'd love minority whip Katherine Clark, @whipkclark.bsky.social , to explain the "horrors of socialism" to her extremely liberal constituency.
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I'd love minority whip Katherine Clark, @whipkclark.bsky.social , to explain the "horrors of socialism" to her extremely liberal constituency.
@streets.boston.gov It's bad practice to assess a $90 (!) violation when the street sign is utterly illegible & there is no City notification on the street about which day it applies to.
Plus, it's discriminatory to offer only in-person appeals since many people with handicaps can't get to City Hall
Plus, it's discriminatory to offer only in-person appeals since many people with handicaps can't get to City Hall
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@streets.boston.gov It's bad practice to assess a $90 (!) violation when the street sign is utterly illegible & there is no City notification on the street about which day it applies to.
Plus, it's discriminatory to offer only in-person appeals since many people with handicaps can't get to City Hall
Plus, it's discriminatory to offer only in-person appeals since many people with handicaps can't get to City Hall
Please everyone, watch the 1961 release of Judgment at Nuremberg on the biggest screen you have.
Then think about what the US Coast Guard has done and why.
youtu.be/vr7KrPm8s_o?...
Then think about what the US Coast Guard has done and why.
youtu.be/vr7KrPm8s_o?...
November 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Please everyone, watch the 1961 release of Judgment at Nuremberg on the biggest screen you have.
Then think about what the US Coast Guard has done and why.
youtu.be/vr7KrPm8s_o?...
Then think about what the US Coast Guard has done and why.
youtu.be/vr7KrPm8s_o?...
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“I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of time by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit - all for my country. I never thought I’d see a president call for my execution.”
Sen. Mark Kelly
Sen. Mark Kelly
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“I’ve had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of time by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit - all for my country. I never thought I’d see a president call for my execution.”
Sen. Mark Kelly
Sen. Mark Kelly
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AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
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So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
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NEW: A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers
After meeting with advocates, the Trump administration confirmed it has scrapped a controversial regulation that would have cut disability benefits for older workers.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
NEW: A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Excellent thread
The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
1/5
1/5
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Excellent thread
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why did not a single male reporter who were standing next to the president and the female reporter he called "piggy" say a word to the president about this and call him out then and there? Those who keep quiet in these moments are part of the problem.
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For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.
Calling Foul: Breaking Down WNBA Pay and Why It Matters
Breaking Down WNBA Pay for Women Athletes and Why It Matters: a case study in systemic undervaluing of women’s work
msmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.