There is a memorial in Glasgow too, the first and only I’ve ever seen.

What would it be like to actually be able to collectively acknowledge the horrors of the pandemic?

Saeed keeps being forced to deal with more and more burdens. Please give what you can.

I would like to once again recommend that if you're looking to support a news outlet that covers Israel & Palestine, +972 Magazine is "an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by a group of Palestinian & Israeli journalists."

Powerful, indispensable work, founded in 2010.

www.972mag.com

And maybe most people work by comparison rather than dreams of what’s possible. So compared to Trump, Biden looks pretty good (to some). Compared to 2020 the current pandemic seems better (to some). But that’s how we’ve normalized 1500 people a week dying.

Your annual reminder that just because people make a lot of money telling you to hate your body in this, Hate Your Body Season, you are not required to believe them.

“This is what disability advocates have said all along, not that it usually sinks in: The able and the disabled aren’t two different kinds of people but the same people at different times.” - @tomscocca.bsky.social

So, when folks started holding in-person unmasked events I attempted the tiniest bit of activism asking ppl to think about de facto excluding anyone high risk and the most common response was that high risk people don't come. 🤪

bsky.app/profile/knil...

Sending holiday cards to Congress & the White House to remind them people with Long Covid are having very #UnhappyHolidays. We need research funding, clean air standards, respirators in healthcare, public & medical education, worker protections, financial & social supports.

I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist.

This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care.

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

This is unethical. Bosses are forcing employees to come into work sick with active COVID. This is why labor organizers need to incorporate public health into their demands.

Brain injury implant so successful that patients refuse to turn it off after trial- Participants in the Stanford study were able to concentrate, read, remember and drive better after they had the device fitted www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12...

Doubling down on multiplicity, long conversations with no resolution, the wisdom of the diaspora, the endlessness of midrash, and being generally disagreeable to those who insist on a single definition of a people, especially when most of them are not those people.

Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot in Vermont, is paralyzed from the waist down his mother says in a statement to CNN.

I have verified with GoFund Me that this fundraiser has been setup by his family.

Donate Here www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Periodic reminder (based on my mentions):

Be that person who calls your elected's office. I can't tell you how often people DON'T call, especially if you're a Dem, and your elected is a Dem.

This sometimes turns into a situation where a few calls, especially in local gov, can move the needle.

don't care how trite it sounds, it's well-worn for a reason: life is so often awful to those who care the most. please go easy on yourselves; we need you, we need you, we need you.

If you’ve got writing or art, etc., that’s been published online, and you don’t want it to disappear forever, it’s probably a good idea to keep it in your own files and not count on anyone to save it for you. So, download webpages as PDFs, etc. At least that’s what I’m going to do.

"Nobody's masking anymore" is a lie & a right-wing talking point. Don't repeat this lie. Maybe you were the only masked person at the store, and it does feel bad when that happens. But millions of people around the world are still masking. People *are* wearing masks. We are being hidden & erased.

First post on Bluesky! This is exciting. Here’s a Mori Point bloom from a couple months back 💛💜💛