Here’s a recap of some of what we did at the Boston City Council meeting today! And We were glad to have students in Chambers from Boston University.

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Today was a sad day in Seattle journalism. As someone who read and followed Cascade PBS's work every day (for my job), they produced unique and compelling work week in and week out. This will be a big loss...

WHO statement on autism-related issues

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy

Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

At this point, it's all a team effort to better report on our community no matter where you're working. You get that story. I'll get this one. Even together, we'll never get to it all. Not enough local reporters left!

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

💡ONLY path out of fascism:
• Win 14+ mayoral races
• Daily resistance
• 100 Progressive midterm wins
• Protect, audit, defend ’26
• Flip red states in ’28

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Wow the folks on Threads are not playing around

calling for threads and Instagram to reinstate us after banning us for no stated reason, with no warnings given, appears to be the #1 trending topic there

We appreciate this more than y’all know 🙏🏽

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

I use my librarian skills to curate a newsletter of FREE resources that are focused on helping each other and helping ourselves. There are essays behind a paywall, but the resource issues are always free.

www.theinfophile.com

To all the people upset about Luigi Mangione being made into a folk hero. Now you know how we felt when you made Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero.

New modeling study finds that if everyone in the United Kingdom had worn N95 or FFP2 masks from the start of the pandemic, the rate of COVID-19 transmission would have been 9 times lower.

Oh hi, Seema Lakdawala (flu virologist who is one of my closest collaborators)! Over the summer, we visited a milking parlor together to better understand the potential for transmission to humans. We need to work together on this. My family ❤️ dairy products.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...

If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?

#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.

People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!

Let’s spread word! ❤️✊

💯Clean air delivery rate (CADR) is more important than HEPA rating! I have been buying portable air cleaners for the lab and home that are not HEPA-level but offer a high CADR per dollar spent and low noise.

Marwa Zaatari's comparison chart from 2021 is a good way to think about this.

COVID continues to rip through residential aged care infecting & killing our most fragile citizens. 95 new outbreaks, 12 new resident deaths & 1,154 resident & staff infections in just the last 7 days. Over 200,000 infections & 7,000 resident deaths to date with many more to come