im reading the book "the poison squad" by deborah blum and like, late 19th century american food was terrifying! milk, coffee, candies etc had salycylic acid, lead, and arsenic plus sawdust and bone fragments and literal dust sold as pepper.
November 9, 2024 at 9:14 PM
im reading the book "the poison squad" by deborah blum and like, late 19th century american food was terrifying! milk, coffee, candies etc had salycylic acid, lead, and arsenic plus sawdust and bone fragments and literal dust sold as pepper.
Chest aches, deep breathing hurts, it's also a metaphor for the external chaos coexisting within everyone's already stretched ability. Breathe deeply, even with the pain. The release into peace and clarity is worth the initial pain of breathing within the ache.
April 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Chest aches, deep breathing hurts, it's also a metaphor for the external chaos coexisting within everyone's already stretched ability. Breathe deeply, even with the pain. The release into peace and clarity is worth the initial pain of breathing within the ache.
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.” #CesarChavez
March 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.” #CesarChavez
This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.
It's a dictatorship. Anyone who can be “othered”, by race, ethnicity, identity, sexuality, gender, proximity to academia, disability… anyone who doesn't fit the desired narrative are vanishing or bearing consequences that many thought unlikely or unheard of. It isn't coming. It's here.
March 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's a dictatorship. Anyone who can be “othered”, by race, ethnicity, identity, sexuality, gender, proximity to academia, disability… anyone who doesn't fit the desired narrative are vanishing or bearing consequences that many thought unlikely or unheard of. It isn't coming. It's here.
Dusty haze this morning. Thick blankets over everything. Remnants of yesterday's winds and of the flames 🔥 from miles around. Reality and metaphor collide.
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dusty haze this morning. Thick blankets over everything. Remnants of yesterday's winds and of the flames 🔥 from miles around. Reality and metaphor collide.
I feel this underlying current of consistent, quiet rage. It lays just beneath the day to day tasks, beneath the worn and exhausted surface. A flame is lit, waiting for oxygen to start a blaze of resistance.
March 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I feel this underlying current of consistent, quiet rage. It lays just beneath the day to day tasks, beneath the worn and exhausted surface. A flame is lit, waiting for oxygen to start a blaze of resistance.
My great grandmother spent years of her life in a sanitarium for tuberculosis. It's sobering to note that infectious disease prevention is receding instead of progressing.
March 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
My great grandmother spent years of her life in a sanitarium for tuberculosis. It's sobering to note that infectious disease prevention is receding instead of progressing.