Mirriam
@mirr-i-am.bsky.social
If I gotta avoid covid
And fight isr*eli gen*cide
And read all the books
Imma make it look sexy
15 years in public health preventing viral infections & promoting indoor air quality
Only to find that in 2025 my peers don’t care
Almost broke me
Almost!
And fight isr*eli gen*cide
And read all the books
Imma make it look sexy
15 years in public health preventing viral infections & promoting indoor air quality
Only to find that in 2025 my peers don’t care
Almost broke me
Almost!
mood
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
mood
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It's actually wild how these people will insult people's intelligence.
Here is their link. Sweden is the one in pink. It had MUCH higher pandemic mortality than every other Nordic state AND it had much higher cumulative mortality normalized to the population.
Here is their link. Sweden is the one in pink. It had MUCH higher pandemic mortality than every other Nordic state AND it had much higher cumulative mortality normalized to the population.
November 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
It's actually wild how these people will insult people's intelligence.
Here is their link. Sweden is the one in pink. It had MUCH higher pandemic mortality than every other Nordic state AND it had much higher cumulative mortality normalized to the population.
Here is their link. Sweden is the one in pink. It had MUCH higher pandemic mortality than every other Nordic state AND it had much higher cumulative mortality normalized to the population.
Nobody gets seconds until everybody gets firsts
"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.
'Give your money away,' Billie Eilish tells billionaires
The singer called on the mega wealthy to donate more to charity, during a speech at the WSJ Awards attended by the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Lucas.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Nobody gets seconds until everybody gets firsts
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Horrifying article.
Everyone who defended these guys owns this.
Everyone who defended these guys owns this.
A must-read @politico.com piece about the man behind the Great Barrington Declaration & the Brownstone Institute, two groups that were foundational and central to RFK Jr’s rise and to his MAHA agenda (I was interviewed for the piece; there’s a quote from me)
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Meet the man who built RFK Jr.’s kitchen cabinet
Jeffrey Tucker, who elevated Covid contrarians now working for the health secretary, is building support for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.
www.politico.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Horrifying article.
Everyone who defended these guys owns this.
Everyone who defended these guys owns this.
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Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
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A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A lot of attention has been paid to overseas aid cut by the Trump administration, but this brilliant piece of visual data journalism illustrates the devastating cuts to food banks here at home: 94 million pounds of food that were never delivered projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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We have the opportunity to make a similarly historic gain with clean indoor air.
To take 2023 as a benchmark, respiratory viruses (especially flu and Covid) are killing in the vicinity of 100k a year in the U.S.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
To take 2023 as a benchmark, respiratory viruses (especially flu and Covid) are killing in the vicinity of 100k a year in the U.S.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.
Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.
Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.
Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.
Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
October 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We have the opportunity to make a similarly historic gain with clean indoor air.
To take 2023 as a benchmark, respiratory viruses (especially flu and Covid) are killing in the vicinity of 100k a year in the U.S.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
To take 2023 as a benchmark, respiratory viruses (especially flu and Covid) are killing in the vicinity of 100k a year in the U.S.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
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The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
September 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.
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Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through @aidaccess.bsky.social. Mifepristone has a shelf life of 5 years.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the anti-abortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.
RFK Jr. Opens Investigation Into the Safety of the Abortion Pill
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the antiabortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.
bloom.bg
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just a reminder that mifepristone is incredibly safe and has been approved by the FDA for a quarter of a century. You can purchase medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) online and have it shipped to your home through @aidaccess.bsky.social. Mifepristone has a shelf life of 5 years.
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Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
September 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial
100%
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The administration is trying to blame recent violence on Democratic and left-wing rhetoric, as though that’s what’s radicalizing people.
But the Right has been stoking anger, fear, and mistrust toward the COVID vaccines and public health authorities for years now.
What did they think would happen?
But the Right has been stoking anger, fear, and mistrust toward the COVID vaccines and public health authorities for years now.
What did they think would happen?
September 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The administration is trying to blame recent violence on Democratic and left-wing rhetoric, as though that’s what’s radicalizing people.
But the Right has been stoking anger, fear, and mistrust toward the COVID vaccines and public health authorities for years now.
What did they think would happen?
But the Right has been stoking anger, fear, and mistrust toward the COVID vaccines and public health authorities for years now.
What did they think would happen?
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Public spaces? Masks on faces 😷🦠😷
September 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Public spaces? Masks on faces 😷🦠😷
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White House Deputy Press Secretary posts a graph showing 30 years of right-wing violence dramatically outpacing left-wing violence while trying to prove the Left is uniquely violent
September 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
White House Deputy Press Secretary posts a graph showing 30 years of right-wing violence dramatically outpacing left-wing violence while trying to prove the Left is uniquely violent
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Nature finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for 67% of global warming.
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Nature finds that the world's wealthiest 10% are responsible for 67% of global warming.
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Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just got rejected from the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was pretty illuminating in terms of how far society has fallen.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
✨⚡️May all the stars in the universe protect Gaza⚡️✨
September 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
✨⚡️May all the stars in the universe protect Gaza⚡️✨
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
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got my COVID/flu shots this morning and the very nice NP did ask me what my pre-existing condition was and then when I quit smoking, just FYI
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
got my COVID/flu shots this morning and the very nice NP did ask me what my pre-existing condition was and then when I quit smoking, just FYI
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.