Liz Tracey
@liztracey.bsky.social
NYC native. Latest: Contrib. Ed.
@jstordaily.bsky.social. I write about: Science, pop culture, classics, LGBT media coverage & crime fiction. Lost on Jeopardy (by a dollar)! Pronouns: Just don't call me "lady."
@jstordaily.bsky.social. I write about: Science, pop culture, classics, LGBT media coverage & crime fiction. Lost on Jeopardy (by a dollar)! Pronouns: Just don't call me "lady."
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.
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Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.
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🙊
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
🙊
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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In case you haven’t heard: Legit food banks in your local area get the most food for your donated dollar. You can buy one can of beans or one bag of pasta with $1. They can buy double, triple, quadruple that for the same $1. So look into food banks, and consider setting up a monthly donation.
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In case you haven’t heard: Legit food banks in your local area get the most food for your donated dollar. You can buy one can of beans or one bag of pasta with $1. They can buy double, triple, quadruple that for the same $1. So look into food banks, and consider setting up a monthly donation.
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@theradr.bsky.social explains the sin of Sodom, which sounds a lot like what is happening right now: refusing to feed and help the poor.
Sodom "had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility, yet she did not support the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
open.substack.com/pub/lifeisas...
Sodom "had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility, yet she did not support the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
open.substack.com/pub/lifeisas...
On the sin of Sodom
Hint: It's not sodomy
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
@theradr.bsky.social explains the sin of Sodom, which sounds a lot like what is happening right now: refusing to feed and help the poor.
Sodom "had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility, yet she did not support the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
open.substack.com/pub/lifeisas...
Sodom "had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility, yet she did not support the poor and needy.” (Ezekiel 16:49-50)
open.substack.com/pub/lifeisas...
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yes. by design.
The rich have shamed poor people into silence to such an extent that almost no one knows how absolutely crushing it is to be poor in this country.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
yes. by design.
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LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
Oh, this is wild.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
DOJ went to SCOTUS *before* we got the First Circuit's administrative stay denial. (We know this because DOJ just filed a letter at SCOTUS about the admin stay denial.)
So, DOJ went to SCOTUS b/c the First Circuit did not meet its less-than-seven-hour "deadline" for a ruling.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.
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People want more affordable health insurance, not a savings account.
This is just a Republican bait-and-switch to repeal Obamacare for the 70th time.
Let’s get serious — extend the health care tax credits and open the government.
This is just a Republican bait-and-switch to repeal Obamacare for the 70th time.
Let’s get serious — extend the health care tax credits and open the government.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
People want more affordable health insurance, not a savings account.
This is just a Republican bait-and-switch to repeal Obamacare for the 70th time.
Let’s get serious — extend the health care tax credits and open the government.
This is just a Republican bait-and-switch to repeal Obamacare for the 70th time.
Let’s get serious — extend the health care tax credits and open the government.
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Finally got my hands on a rare find: Sonja Buckley’s autobiography. She was instrumental in the development of tissue culture techniques for virus isolation & study, which required CONSIDERABLE skill pre-gloves, BSCs, & mechanical pipettes - & was the first person to isolate Lassa virus.
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Finally got my hands on a rare find: Sonja Buckley’s autobiography. She was instrumental in the development of tissue culture techniques for virus isolation & study, which required CONSIDERABLE skill pre-gloves, BSCs, & mechanical pipettes - & was the first person to isolate Lassa virus.
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I see James Watson has died.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I see James Watson has died.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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When DNA’s structure was in doubt & suspecting his competitor Rosalind Franklin knew more, James Watson goaded her, and Watson’s own memoir describes this in unbelievable condescension (he called her “Rosy” “Medusa” “Loathely Lady” “Wicked Witch of the West”, criticized her clothes as unattractive)
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
When DNA’s structure was in doubt & suspecting his competitor Rosalind Franklin knew more, James Watson goaded her, and Watson’s own memoir describes this in unbelievable condescension (he called her “Rosy” “Medusa” “Loathely Lady” “Wicked Witch of the West”, criticized her clothes as unattractive)
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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In 1870 Joseph H. Rainey was elected to Congress. He worked towards the suppression Klan terrorism. “I could appeal to you, members upon this floor, as husbands & fathers, to picture to yourselves the desolation of your own happy firesides should you be suddenly snatched away from your loved ones.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In 1870 Joseph H. Rainey was elected to Congress. He worked towards the suppression Klan terrorism. “I could appeal to you, members upon this floor, as husbands & fathers, to picture to yourselves the desolation of your own happy firesides should you be suddenly snatched away from your loved ones.”
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
This is what it sounded like when the Mets won in 1986. It makes me so happy to hear, and sad I'm not there to join in. But maybe soon...Congratulations, NYC. I miss you every day. XO
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is what it sounded like when the Mets won in 1986. It makes me so happy to hear, and sad I'm not there to join in. But maybe soon...Congratulations, NYC. I miss you every day. XO
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today, we will treat sewage.
we will manage the foul remnants of our past, the health of our present, the hope of our future.
days end, but the mission endures.
because there will be sewage to treat tomorrow. but this day is today.
and today, we will treat sewage.
we will manage the foul remnants of our past, the health of our present, the hope of our future.
days end, but the mission endures.
because there will be sewage to treat tomorrow. but this day is today.
and today, we will treat sewage.
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
today, we will treat sewage.
we will manage the foul remnants of our past, the health of our present, the hope of our future.
days end, but the mission endures.
because there will be sewage to treat tomorrow. but this day is today.
and today, we will treat sewage.
we will manage the foul remnants of our past, the health of our present, the hope of our future.
days end, but the mission endures.
because there will be sewage to treat tomorrow. but this day is today.
and today, we will treat sewage.
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B A N G E R ALERT
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
B A N G E R ALERT
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
Every South Asian child in New York City should do a dance to this song at the next wedding they go to
Singer is Salma Kausar and turns out I love her vibes
src: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMjwOo...
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REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.
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sharing your food at any velocity is not a crime and a sandwich is not a weapon
Hoping to hear you weigh in on the DC sandwich assault case.
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
sharing your food at any velocity is not a crime and a sandwich is not a weapon
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Everyone knows that there was a “reverse Underground Railroad” too, right? That there were gangs hunting down Black people — some self-emancipated, some born free, didn’t matter — and dragging them to a slave state? That it wasn’t just Solomon Northup, it was tens of thousands of people? Because ⬇️
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Everyone knows that there was a “reverse Underground Railroad” too, right? That there were gangs hunting down Black people — some self-emancipated, some born free, didn’t matter — and dragging them to a slave state? That it wasn’t just Solomon Northup, it was tens of thousands of people? Because ⬇️
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Thigh-high boots and universal healthcare? Sign me up.
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thigh-high boots and universal healthcare? Sign me up.