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Hi, I’m Kaj! 👋🏻 It’s time for another transition in my life, and I’m taking the opportunity to focus on serving my community by providing grief support and writing workshops. More information coming soon, but for now I’m excited for this new season.
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Louisiana people with the complexion for protection, there is a similar state law as it pertains to items you can openly carry in public that could have the same effect here.
Border Patrol's immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, is over, local officials say. https://cnn.it/4oqPPD3
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Louisiana people with the complexion for protection, there is a similar state law as it pertains to items you can openly carry in public that could have the same effect here.
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“…if Condé can get away with this—and with President Donald Trump sabotaging the National Labor Relations Board, the company appears to be betting that it can—it will send a message to unions and employers across our industry that the foundations of labor law are collapsing.”
If Condé Nast Can Illegally Fire Me, No Union Worker Is Safe
The Trump administration is making employers think they can ignore their legal obligations and trample on the rights of workers.
www.thenation.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“…if Condé can get away with this—and with President Donald Trump sabotaging the National Labor Relations Board, the company appears to be betting that it can—it will send a message to unions and employers across our industry that the foundations of labor law are collapsing.”
This is absurd & wrong
I switched employers and thus healthcare payors so now my MH meds aren’t covered and I’m involuntarily “off my meds”.
Thanks, UnitedHealth Care.
Thanks, UnitedHealth Care.
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is absurd & wrong
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I promise I will always cause an uproar when it comes to Social Security and healthcare in general. NEVER GIVE UP!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I promise I will always cause an uproar when it comes to Social Security and healthcare in general. NEVER GIVE UP!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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#MEAction has been working hard this year to be a lantern in the darkness. We have had some wins, moments that stood out, and times where this community made a difference. See our list: www.meaction.net/post/meactio...
We need your support. Your gift will be matched up to $50k!
#pwME #pwLC #MECFS
We need your support. Your gift will be matched up to $50k!
#pwME #pwLC #MECFS
#MEAction's Top 10 Accomplishments of 2025
This year has been hard- we know because we have been on the ground fighting for ME and Long COVID every single day. In 2025, #MEAction has accomplished a lot. Just take a look below.1. Advocating for...
www.meaction.net
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#MEAction has been working hard this year to be a lantern in the darkness. We have had some wins, moments that stood out, and times where this community made a difference. See our list: www.meaction.net/post/meactio...
We need your support. Your gift will be matched up to $50k!
#pwME #pwLC #MECFS
We need your support. Your gift will be matched up to $50k!
#pwME #pwLC #MECFS
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Interesting.
I definitely agree with too late, but as for too little… the “lockdowns” did work to bring case numbers down. UK got so close to elimination.
Using airborne precautions would have saved lives and reduced the length of the more harsh measures…
I definitely agree with too late, but as for too little… the “lockdowns” did work to bring case numbers down. UK got so close to elimination.
Using airborne precautions would have saved lives and reduced the length of the more harsh measures…
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Interesting.
I definitely agree with too late, but as for too little… the “lockdowns” did work to bring case numbers down. UK got so close to elimination.
Using airborne precautions would have saved lives and reduced the length of the more harsh measures…
I definitely agree with too late, but as for too little… the “lockdowns” did work to bring case numbers down. UK got so close to elimination.
Using airborne precautions would have saved lives and reduced the length of the more harsh measures…
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National Guard member Dylan Blaha refused to be deployed against the American people. He reminds those in the military that they have the right to disobey illegal orders.
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
National Guard member Dylan Blaha refused to be deployed against the American people. He reminds those in the military that they have the right to disobey illegal orders.
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1/ Hey, epidemiologist here 👋
I've been seeing a lot of concern as we enter flu season, so I want to do a quick breakdown of what's going on with #H3N2, the flu strain everyone's been talking about, how it’s mutating, and the best ways you can protect yourself. 🧵
I've been seeing a lot of concern as we enter flu season, so I want to do a quick breakdown of what's going on with #H3N2, the flu strain everyone's been talking about, how it’s mutating, and the best ways you can protect yourself. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
1/ Hey, epidemiologist here 👋
I've been seeing a lot of concern as we enter flu season, so I want to do a quick breakdown of what's going on with #H3N2, the flu strain everyone's been talking about, how it’s mutating, and the best ways you can protect yourself. 🧵
I've been seeing a lot of concern as we enter flu season, so I want to do a quick breakdown of what's going on with #H3N2, the flu strain everyone's been talking about, how it’s mutating, and the best ways you can protect yourself. 🧵
Free legal services outside the Portland ICE facility provided by the Justice Bus!
Justice Bus puts justice on wheels throughout Oregon
YouTube video by KOIN 6
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Free legal services outside the Portland ICE facility provided by the Justice Bus!
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The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
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I mention sometimes how investigating local governments turned me into an anarchist. This is a major example.
Black community tries to get a pool fixed? "Change is slow," multi-year process then never happens.
Chamber of commerce wants something evil and costly? Happens within months, even weeks.
Black community tries to get a pool fixed? "Change is slow," multi-year process then never happens.
Chamber of commerce wants something evil and costly? Happens within months, even weeks.
Yes. I think it's also a sign of how status quo propaganda around "good change is inherently painfully slow" has seeped into the wider culture, even among radicals (you are not immune to propaganda, etc).
But it was never true! That was just an excuse used to deny basic demands and shut people up.
But it was never true! That was just an excuse used to deny basic demands and shut people up.
maybe i’m naive but i think it’s kinda doomerism to always be saying this is gonna take decades to undo or you’ll be old or dead when it ends. first it doesn’t matter, plant trees you won’t live to sit in the shade of. second great change is capable of happening very quickly
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I mention sometimes how investigating local governments turned me into an anarchist. This is a major example.
Black community tries to get a pool fixed? "Change is slow," multi-year process then never happens.
Chamber of commerce wants something evil and costly? Happens within months, even weeks.
Black community tries to get a pool fixed? "Change is slow," multi-year process then never happens.
Chamber of commerce wants something evil and costly? Happens within months, even weeks.
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I wish to be both myself and not-myself, a state of paradoxical longing that I think every person with chronic pain occupies at some point or another.
I wish for time to split and allow two paths for my life and that I could move back and forth between them at will.”
- Alice Wong
I wish for time to split and allow two paths for my life and that I could move back and forth between them at will.”
- Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wish to be both myself and not-myself, a state of paradoxical longing that I think every person with chronic pain occupies at some point or another.
I wish for time to split and allow two paths for my life and that I could move back and forth between them at will.”
- Alice Wong
I wish for time to split and allow two paths for my life and that I could move back and forth between them at will.”
- Alice Wong
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9) Proteins were measured with the SomaScan assay, which uses DNA-based reagents.
Link to the paper:
Germain et al. 2025. Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/ CFS following exertion.
Link to the paper:
Germain et al. 2025. Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/ CFS following exertion.
Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/CFS following exertion
The overarching symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is post-exertional malaise (PEM), an exacerbation of symptoms f…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
9) Proteins were measured with the SomaScan assay, which uses DNA-based reagents.
Link to the paper:
Germain et al. 2025. Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/ CFS following exertion.
Link to the paper:
Germain et al. 2025. Temporal dynamics of the plasma proteomic landscape reveals maladaptation in ME/ CFS following exertion.
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Here are some of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong’s powerful words 💜
Taken from Death Panel podcast with host Beatrice @deathpanel.bsky.social m.soundcloud.com/deathpanel/n...
To the high risk, immunocompromised and disabled people who’ve been ignored, dismissed and thrown under the bus for years, activist Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has this to say to you:
To the high risk, immunocompromised and disabled people who’ve been ignored, dismissed and thrown under the bus for years, activist Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social has this to say to you:
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Here are some of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Alice Wong’s powerful words 💜
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There's also racial dynamics that's often ignored. It's white figureheads that are often the loudest about remote learning being bad, meanwhile Indigenous and Black kids lost caregivers from Covid at higher rates. And the horrors they faced are almost never mentioned in opinion pieces.
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
There's also racial dynamics that's often ignored. It's white figureheads that are often the loudest about remote learning being bad, meanwhile Indigenous and Black kids lost caregivers from Covid at higher rates. And the horrors they faced are almost never mentioned in opinion pieces.
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it was disability visibility that really solidified for me an understanding of who i am and how my body interacts with this society. i truly don’t know where i’d be without her work, without her love and dedication to the disabled community
Can’t stop thinking about Alice Wong today. I couldn’t do any of what I’ve done and hope to do with disability justice in libraries without the foundation she laid, and I suspect that’s true of a lot of people in a lot of different disciplines.
I hope she knew what an impact she made.
I hope she knew what an impact she made.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
it was disability visibility that really solidified for me an understanding of who i am and how my body interacts with this society. i truly don’t know where i’d be without her work, without her love and dedication to the disabled community
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in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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I almost forgot I have tactile issues that I have carefully built my wardrobe around, until I put on seamed socks for the first time in years and almost lost my shit: An Autism Story
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I almost forgot I have tactile issues that I have carefully built my wardrobe around, until I put on seamed socks for the first time in years and almost lost my shit: An Autism Story
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Moamen is engaged!
Ziyad's oldest son, Moamen, recently got engaged to a very lovely young woman named Ayat. This Friday they celebrated with friends and family.
This is such a special occasion! May this young couple (and their families!) stay happy and healthy. ❤️
tinyurl.com/salemfamily
Ziyad's oldest son, Moamen, recently got engaged to a very lovely young woman named Ayat. This Friday they celebrated with friends and family.
This is such a special occasion! May this young couple (and their families!) stay happy and healthy. ❤️
tinyurl.com/salemfamily
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Moamen is engaged!
Ziyad's oldest son, Moamen, recently got engaged to a very lovely young woman named Ayat. This Friday they celebrated with friends and family.
This is such a special occasion! May this young couple (and their families!) stay happy and healthy. ❤️
tinyurl.com/salemfamily
Ziyad's oldest son, Moamen, recently got engaged to a very lovely young woman named Ayat. This Friday they celebrated with friends and family.
This is such a special occasion! May this young couple (and their families!) stay happy and healthy. ❤️
tinyurl.com/salemfamily
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More (51%) non-Orthodox rabbinical students are queer or trans (LGBTQ) than NOT, according to a new survey.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
What the first major study of the US rabbinate reveals - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The rabbinate is older, happier and more diverse than previously known, according to the study.
www.jta.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
More (51%) non-Orthodox rabbinical students are queer or trans (LGBTQ) than NOT, according to a new survey.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
12% are nonbinary (58% women, 30% men)
16% are Jews by choice
12% ID as a race other than white.
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They built him an ENTIRE NEW OFFICE and regularly fly him from CA to Seattle on private planes.
They can afford to pay the people who make them the goddamn money a fair wage jfc
They can afford to pay the people who make them the goddamn money a fair wage jfc
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
They built him an ENTIRE NEW OFFICE and regularly fly him from CA to Seattle on private planes.
They can afford to pay the people who make them the goddamn money a fair wage jfc
They can afford to pay the people who make them the goddamn money a fair wage jfc
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It makes me angry because it doesn't have to be this way. People really don't care about each other. Maybe they do care, but they forget because they are temporarily able bodied.
There is so much that could be different if people actually believed this.
There is so much that could be different if people actually believed this.
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It makes me angry because it doesn't have to be this way. People really don't care about each other. Maybe they do care, but they forget because they are temporarily able bodied.
There is so much that could be different if people actually believed this.
There is so much that could be different if people actually believed this.
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Importantly, many of the sanctions actually further restrict access to menstrual products, leading to a dangerous cycle of violations and punishments that inhibit access to hygiene products.
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Importantly, many of the sanctions actually further restrict access to menstrual products, leading to a dangerous cycle of violations and punishments that inhibit access to hygiene products.