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The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code.
They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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i didn’t think karoline leavitt could be more despicable, but finding out she says the shit she says about immigrants and knowing her nephew’s mother was part of DACA is a new level of sick.
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
i didn’t think karoline leavitt could be more despicable, but finding out she says the shit she says about immigrants and knowing her nephew’s mother was part of DACA is a new level of sick.
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The sumo wrestling scene from Taro the Dragon Boy (1979), dir. Kirio Urayama, Toei Doga
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The sumo wrestling scene from Taro the Dragon Boy (1979), dir. Kirio Urayama, Toei Doga
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She's a nurse & grandmother who had been here for 30 years
She had a work permit
She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in
She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.
She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*
She had a work permit
She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in
She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.
She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*
Ms. Kuyateh was one of 19 third-country nationals sent to Ghana on Nov. 6. At least 61 TCNs have been removed there since September.
Others report similar treatment. Nigerians were forced to cross into Togo w/o documents, rendering them essentially stateless
www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Others report similar treatment. Nigerians were forced to cross into Togo w/o documents, rendering them essentially stateless
www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcwashington.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
She's a nurse & grandmother who had been here for 30 years
She had a work permit
She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in
She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.
She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*
She had a work permit
She was taken when she went to her annual ICE check-in
She was shipped to Ghana, where she was dragged on the floor.
She was then shipped to Sierra Leone, from which she had fled, and *despite a court order.*
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BATTLE AWAITS. TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
BATTLE AWAITS. TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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“We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized.”
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized.”
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Sales guys ran credit checks on their girlfriends. They did this shit because nobody would stop them, and nobody stopped them because they made it rain, and pissing them off had zero upside.
Make it hurt, and companies will actually start protecting your data.
Make it hurt, and companies will actually start protecting your data.
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Sales guys ran credit checks on their girlfriends. They did this shit because nobody would stop them, and nobody stopped them because they made it rain, and pissing them off had zero upside.
Make it hurt, and companies will actually start protecting your data.
Make it hurt, and companies will actually start protecting your data.
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Oh look. More journalists being hit by “less lethal” rounds. This time in St. Paul.
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
For the second time in a week, a federal law enforcement operation drew protesters in St. Paul on Tuesday. The latest operation happened on the 600 block of Rose Street East — a residential area in the city’s Payne-Phalen neighborhood.
Another federal agent operation in St. Paul draws large crowds of protesters
There was no immediate confirmation about the nature of the operation, but an MPR News photographer captured images of federal agents on the scene, including at least three from Homeland Security Inve...
www.mprnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh look. More journalists being hit by “less lethal” rounds. This time in St. Paul.
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
“Yücel, the MPR News photojournalist, was among those hit by the less-lethal munitions. He was taken from the scene by ambulance and released shortly after.”
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Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
My piece has been published in PNAS today!!! "The importance of local racial demographic changes in democratic erosion in the mass American public" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
A few takeaways...
A few takeaways...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Interesting: this study suggests that white support for anti-democratic policies targeting immigrants increases in places with increased Black pops but not increased Latine pops. Meaning at core what is activated in anti-democratic ideology is anti-Black racism even when the targets are not Black.
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it's great that convergent evolution made sure we have the "evil muppet lurking in the swamp" niche covered on multiple continents
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
it's great that convergent evolution made sure we have the "evil muppet lurking in the swamp" niche covered on multiple continents
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The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The German holidaye pastryes disappeared mysteriouslye --
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
Authorityes are prettye sure thei were
stollen
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OK, we're leaving the asbestos *in* the stuff women put on their faces? And, the powder we put on kids' bums? Check!
Huh, some chick scientist says, “It only takes a single asbestos fiber lodged in the lungs to cause mesothelioma decades later.”
What me, worry?
Huh, some chick scientist says, “It only takes a single asbestos fiber lodged in the lungs to cause mesothelioma decades later.”
What me, worry?
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
OK, we're leaving the asbestos *in* the stuff women put on their faces? And, the powder we put on kids' bums? Check!
Huh, some chick scientist says, “It only takes a single asbestos fiber lodged in the lungs to cause mesothelioma decades later.”
What me, worry?
Huh, some chick scientist says, “It only takes a single asbestos fiber lodged in the lungs to cause mesothelioma decades later.”
What me, worry?
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Benjamin: All most people want is their own apartment and a spouse that loves them back.
Quark: I also want a plasma cannon.
Quark: I also want a plasma cannon.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Benjamin: All most people want is their own apartment and a spouse that loves them back.
Quark: I also want a plasma cannon.
Quark: I also want a plasma cannon.
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Japan's best stop-motion studio isn't loud about it. But the quiet charm of its work speaks for itself.
We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Japan's best stop-motion studio isn't loud about it. But the quiet charm of its work speaks for itself.
We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...
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Ezri: I am looking disrespectfully
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Ezri: I am looking disrespectfully
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1. A court ordered the federal government to return the search-and-rescue helicopter to Newport.
2. We hosted a public safety roundtable with statewide law enforcement to improve community safety.
3. We sent a letter demanding federal officers stop using excessive force against Oregonians.
2. We hosted a public safety roundtable with statewide law enforcement to improve community safety.
3. We sent a letter demanding federal officers stop using excessive force against Oregonians.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
1. A court ordered the federal government to return the search-and-rescue helicopter to Newport.
2. We hosted a public safety roundtable with statewide law enforcement to improve community safety.
3. We sent a letter demanding federal officers stop using excessive force against Oregonians.
2. We hosted a public safety roundtable with statewide law enforcement to improve community safety.
3. We sent a letter demanding federal officers stop using excessive force against Oregonians.
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A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
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Why did the red crab cross the road?
The answer is sex.
You're seeing an island-wide booty call.
This is a MATING MIGRATION. These red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) are meeting up on the beach to make lots of little crabs.
It's Crab Spring Break (literally).
The answer is sex.
You're seeing an island-wide booty call.
This is a MATING MIGRATION. These red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) are meeting up on the beach to make lots of little crabs.
It's Crab Spring Break (literally).
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Why did the red crab cross the road?
The answer is sex.
You're seeing an island-wide booty call.
This is a MATING MIGRATION. These red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) are meeting up on the beach to make lots of little crabs.
It's Crab Spring Break (literally).
The answer is sex.
You're seeing an island-wide booty call.
This is a MATING MIGRATION. These red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) are meeting up on the beach to make lots of little crabs.
It's Crab Spring Break (literally).
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New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
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I cannot link to it b/c it was on the other site and I don’t use it anymore but I absolutely remember Nicole Cliffe and Danny Lavery saying that the reason they were able to make “The Toast” was “trust fund money from a man” (paraphrased)
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I cannot link to it b/c it was on the other site and I don’t use it anymore but I absolutely remember Nicole Cliffe and Danny Lavery saying that the reason they were able to make “The Toast” was “trust fund money from a man” (paraphrased)
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The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary.
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
Oregon Contemporary’s Le Guin Exhibition: Earthsea Maps, Cat Drawings, and a Full-Scale Reproduction of Her Writing Room
A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin isn’t a typical exhibition. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wasn’t a typical artist. Curated by her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, the new show installed at Oregon Contemporary i...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary.
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!
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A federal defense contractor is inquiring about reserving hundreds of hotel rooms on the Oregon coast for a year, the city of Newport said Tuesday. It’s the latest sign that a suspected effort to build an immigrant detention center on the coast has not gone away.
A federal defense contractor seeks hundreds of coastal Oregon hotel rooms, city of Newport says
It’s just one recent sign that interest over an immigrant detention facility on the coast hasn’t faded.
www.opb.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
A federal defense contractor is inquiring about reserving hundreds of hotel rooms on the Oregon coast for a year, the city of Newport said Tuesday. It’s the latest sign that a suspected effort to build an immigrant detention center on the coast has not gone away.