Meanwhile this petty bit of dishonesty/other case of non-disclosure absolutely defines Brooks for all time and should have been his professional tombstone.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

For decades, RFK Jr has refused to learn ONE basic chemistry principle.

Instead, he doubles down on the lie that all “mercury” is the same, solely to drive fear and personally profit.

If you ban thimerosal, you don’t eliminate mercury, you eliminate vaccines.

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shit's pretty bleak but at least I have lived long enough to see the Buddhists dunking on Ezra Klein:

"Coates is describing lynching, and Klein responds with a meditation about his own mortality. That’s not wisdom. That’s avoidance with a spiritual veneer."

lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Rubella causes severe defects in developing fetuses.
Won’t it be great to have it come back? I mean, it’s not like kids ever share germs, and they definitely are never near anyone pregnant. www.cdc.gov/rubella/preg...

truly "free" would mean not doing our jobs, and debate is (at least for me) a much lower priority than interpretation, contextualization, synthesis, collaboration, empathizing, and other skills that I believe cultivate a historical consciousness and informed citizen.

Debate can be useful but only/

Phenomenal.