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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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Safe air in our schools is key. Whether it’s due to temperature, smoke or disease, we need to engineer the air in public schools, daycares and medical facilities.
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Safe air in our schools is key. Whether it’s due to temperature, smoke or disease, we need to engineer the air in public schools, daycares and medical facilities.
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We barely read (well) now and it’s a problem. I don’t think A.I. will end reading but even mid market penetration for this mid-tech will diminish negative feedback for poor readers. So I hope I die before it all comes to a head.
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We barely read (well) now and it’s a problem. I don’t think A.I. will end reading but even mid market penetration for this mid-tech will diminish negative feedback for poor readers. So I hope I die before it all comes to a head.
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BREAKING: ICE agents are run off the property at Dodgers stadium.
Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate.
More of this! Resist.
(🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)
Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate.
More of this! Resist.
(🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)
June 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
BREAKING: ICE agents are run off the property at Dodgers stadium.
Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate.
More of this! Resist.
(🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)
Fans, protestors and the LA Dodgers themselves have refused ICE agents access to Dodgers stadium. Here is LAPD escorting them off the estate.
More of this! Resist.
(🎥 Kevin Takumi, Fox L.A.)
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Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
June 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.
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New article! On the lost opportunities of the Biden years and why it's necessary to discuss them now: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-v...
The Lost Vortex
2022 was the last best chance to turn things around.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New article! On the lost opportunities of the Biden years and why it's necessary to discuss them now: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-lost-v...
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Remote work was an accommodation that disabled people requested for years before the Covid pandemic
It can allow someone to remain in the workforce longer
When non disabled people needed it, it was arranged seemingly overnight
Now it’s being ripped away from people who desperately need it. Why?
It can allow someone to remain in the workforce longer
When non disabled people needed it, it was arranged seemingly overnight
Now it’s being ripped away from people who desperately need it. Why?
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
farmingdale-observer.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Remote work was an accommodation that disabled people requested for years before the Covid pandemic
It can allow someone to remain in the workforce longer
When non disabled people needed it, it was arranged seemingly overnight
Now it’s being ripped away from people who desperately need it. Why?
It can allow someone to remain in the workforce longer
When non disabled people needed it, it was arranged seemingly overnight
Now it’s being ripped away from people who desperately need it. Why?
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Remote work facilitates the labor participation of so many people: parents, caregivers, disabled people. And how easily bosses, companies, universities and states have convinced themselves that there is nothing more harmful than remote work, partly because they want to pretend COVID isn't a thing.
At GSA, we surveyed employees in 2021–22 asking about job satisfaction and remote work. A small minority hated it, most liked it, and women liked it the most. IIRC, we didn’t ask about race or parenthood, but anecdotally, mothers of color found remote work life-changing.
Read my latest:
May 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Remote work facilitates the labor participation of so many people: parents, caregivers, disabled people. And how easily bosses, companies, universities and states have convinced themselves that there is nothing more harmful than remote work, partly because they want to pretend COVID isn't a thing.
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The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
May 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
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Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
May 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Sesame Street had him pegged back in 1988.
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Covid is a worker’s rights issue. Workplaces need to implement clean air standards, paid time off and provide free respirators.
We’re in a mass disabling event, and the powers that be are doing nothing about it.
#MayDay
We’re in a mass disabling event, and the powers that be are doing nothing about it.
#MayDay
May 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Covid is a worker’s rights issue. Workplaces need to implement clean air standards, paid time off and provide free respirators.
We’re in a mass disabling event, and the powers that be are doing nothing about it.
#MayDay
We’re in a mass disabling event, and the powers that be are doing nothing about it.
#MayDay
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i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
May 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
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This beautiful picture is from Toronto. This week. Not 2022, not 2021. 2025.
Covid is still ongoing. It never ended. If your event doesn't have a mask requirement it isn't accessible or inclusive & puts others at risk.
Covid is still ongoing. It never ended. If your event doesn't have a mask requirement it isn't accessible or inclusive & puts others at risk.
April 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This beautiful picture is from Toronto. This week. Not 2022, not 2021. 2025.
Covid is still ongoing. It never ended. If your event doesn't have a mask requirement it isn't accessible or inclusive & puts others at risk.
Covid is still ongoing. It never ended. If your event doesn't have a mask requirement it isn't accessible or inclusive & puts others at risk.
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Good morning Bluesky !
April 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Good morning Bluesky !
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
April 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration”
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant
My NEH grant has been terminated
Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars
You can’t say history isn’t relevant