Jessica Rose Sanford 🏳️⚧️
@jess6k.bsky.social
Writer, nursing student, Corgi stan. Obsessed with the intersection of public health and wealth inequality.
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NEW: 342 nurses in SF are unionizing with @nationalnurses.bsky.social @calnurses.bsky.social.
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
NEW: 342 nurses in SF are unionizing with @nationalnurses.bsky.social @calnurses.bsky.social.
I don't believe in any higher power, but if I'm wrong it clearly has a sense of humor.
A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
COP30 Is on Fire
Flames have erupted in the “Blue Zone” at the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I don't believe in any higher power, but if I'm wrong it clearly has a sense of humor.
All scifi writers should just resign now, our fiction is never going to be weirder than reality.
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
All scifi writers should just resign now, our fiction is never going to be weirder than reality.
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J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Not to compare the scale of them, but I'm certain we will one day look back on our collective failure of trans youth and their subsequent trauma and suicides in the same way we remember the AIDS crisis.
Cw: suicide
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
This article is devastating.
Earlier this month, a 15-year-old died by suicide the day after posting about a substitute teacher insisting on misgendering him.
Suicide can have many contributing factors. His family is speaking out about bullying and misgendering as two.
November 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Not to compare the scale of them, but I'm certain we will one day look back on our collective failure of trans youth and their subsequent trauma and suicides in the same way we remember the AIDS crisis.
On my third day of soup and sourdough bread as I somehow survive the frigid, bleak winter in California. 🥶
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
On my third day of soup and sourdough bread as I somehow survive the frigid, bleak winter in California. 🥶
In a large field, this might be one of the most disgusting and nationally embarrassing things Trump has ever said.
Khashoggi was a brave journalist who wrote for a US newspaper and was murdered and his body butchered on the orders of the man Trump is sitting with and praising.
Abhorrent.
Khashoggi was a brave journalist who wrote for a US newspaper and was murdered and his body butchered on the orders of the man Trump is sitting with and praising.
Abhorrent.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In a large field, this might be one of the most disgusting and nationally embarrassing things Trump has ever said.
Khashoggi was a brave journalist who wrote for a US newspaper and was murdered and his body butchered on the orders of the man Trump is sitting with and praising.
Abhorrent.
Khashoggi was a brave journalist who wrote for a US newspaper and was murdered and his body butchered on the orders of the man Trump is sitting with and praising.
Abhorrent.
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Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Remember Jamal Khashoggi.
This is -wild-
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is -wild-
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For every Nuzzi or Bari Weiss there’s 50 journalists without a steady journalism job struggling to make ends meet. You can sustain a team of investigative journalists with Ezra Klein’s pay.
November 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For every Nuzzi or Bari Weiss there’s 50 journalists without a steady journalism job struggling to make ends meet. You can sustain a team of investigative journalists with Ezra Klein’s pay.
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
Finally got a copy of Ash Sarkar's book and was surprised with a signed copy, hell yeah.
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Finally got a copy of Ash Sarkar's book and was surprised with a signed copy, hell yeah.
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Want labor reporting? A dose of hope with some cool community organizing stories? Wanna see me scream loudly into the void about the state of my industry? The prose is only terrible sometimes ;)
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Want labor reporting? A dose of hope with some cool community organizing stories? Wanna see me scream loudly into the void about the state of my industry? The prose is only terrible sometimes ;)
We're really not beating the Idiocracy allegations huh
Nicki Minaj is set to speak at the United Nations on behalf of the Trump administration.
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We're really not beating the Idiocracy allegations huh
I've spent time in very rural appalachia and public media really is a lifeline in lots of places most of America is happy to forget about.
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I've spent time in very rural appalachia and public media really is a lifeline in lots of places most of America is happy to forget about.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
Had a periodic review at work and was told I could be 'aloof' 🫡
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Had a periodic review at work and was told I could be 'aloof' 🫡
Both parties talk about reviving manufacturing because it plays well in several swing states but it's a skeletal industry on it's last brittle legs in the US, and we're not serving anyone by pretending it isn't.
Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Both parties talk about reviving manufacturing because it plays well in several swing states but it's a skeletal industry on it's last brittle legs in the US, and we're not serving anyone by pretending it isn't.
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“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
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Trump’s new “affordability” push is basically reversing the tariffs he said would never cause un-affordability.
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Trump’s new “affordability” push is basically reversing the tariffs he said would never cause un-affordability.
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
Welp, I did the thing. Starting an RN program in the spring. ☺️
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Welp, I did the thing. Starting an RN program in the spring. ☺️
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transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
transness is a gift. i need every trans woman to understand that by nature of their existence they have been blessed with the ability to pluck the strands of fate with their hands if they choose to. it is not always easy and it is not without hardship but every trans woman is capable of greatness.
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
The cruelty is always the point, but it's also massively beneficial for MAGA for big blue cities to have escalating problems w/r/t the unhoused.
These cities are not the hellholes they claim they are, so if they can turn them into hellholes, it's all gravy.
These cities are not the hellholes they claim they are, so if they can turn them into hellholes, it's all gravy.
I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is.
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The cruelty is always the point, but it's also massively beneficial for MAGA for big blue cities to have escalating problems w/r/t the unhoused.
These cities are not the hellholes they claim they are, so if they can turn them into hellholes, it's all gravy.
These cities are not the hellholes they claim they are, so if they can turn them into hellholes, it's all gravy.
This has been building for decades for obvious reasons.
Whether cops ever need or use the same gear as Seal Team Six doesn't really matter; authoritarians understand the inimidation factor is supremely important.
When people feel fighting back is impossible, they simply won't.
Whether cops ever need or use the same gear as Seal Team Six doesn't really matter; authoritarians understand the inimidation factor is supremely important.
When people feel fighting back is impossible, they simply won't.
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This has been building for decades for obvious reasons.
Whether cops ever need or use the same gear as Seal Team Six doesn't really matter; authoritarians understand the inimidation factor is supremely important.
When people feel fighting back is impossible, they simply won't.
Whether cops ever need or use the same gear as Seal Team Six doesn't really matter; authoritarians understand the inimidation factor is supremely important.
When people feel fighting back is impossible, they simply won't.