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If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
#COVID patients have higher rates of #depression, #anxiety, #headache, and #fatigue before diagnosis, study suggests
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
The association may be explained by shared biological pathways, such as chronic inflammation and neuroinflammation.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Mystery why so many kids are struggling with mental health when we're doing the "let it rip" strategy for Covid transmission in schools
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/covi...
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy — ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/covi...
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The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher, Among Last Known Survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
Mother Fletcher's legacy will live on as the epitome of honor, courage, strength, and resilience in the face of violent terrorism, white supremacy, and cowardice
www.qasimrashid.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
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Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
BREAKING via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social: The CDC's internal email server now lists Louisiana physician Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, as the agency's principal deputy director -- "an irresponsible choice," according to one public health expert.
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...
Opinion | Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position
Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, has a questionable public health track record
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
Dear alma mater: I unsubscribed from your emails a few years ago. Sending me an email saying, "Congratulations, we signed you up for a whole bunch of new newsletters!" isn't cool. If you're ramping up for a capital campaign, I assure you, I am not your target prospect. Go pester your legacy alumni.
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Dear alma mater: I unsubscribed from your emails a few years ago. Sending me an email saying, "Congratulations, we signed you up for a whole bunch of new newsletters!" isn't cool. If you're ramping up for a capital campaign, I assure you, I am not your target prospect. Go pester your legacy alumni.
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Honestly it’s journalism like this that got us here to begin with.
The 4th estate needs some serious work, you should all go back to school. Oh and maybe do something about the corporate control of YOUR business… could that be why you’re averse to pointing out fascism? 🙊
The 4th estate needs some serious work, you should all go back to school. Oh and maybe do something about the corporate control of YOUR business… could that be why you’re averse to pointing out fascism? 🙊
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Honestly it’s journalism like this that got us here to begin with.
The 4th estate needs some serious work, you should all go back to school. Oh and maybe do something about the corporate control of YOUR business… could that be why you’re averse to pointing out fascism? 🙊
The 4th estate needs some serious work, you should all go back to school. Oh and maybe do something about the corporate control of YOUR business… could that be why you’re averse to pointing out fascism? 🙊
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in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
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Honestly, this is the best worst mistake ever for social media because it confirms what so many of us suspected (and if you have the right social listening skills, *knew) for years.
"Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Honestly, this is the best worst mistake ever for social media because it confirms what so many of us suspected (and if you have the right social listening skills, *knew) for years.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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The actions necessary to even remedy a fraction of what DOGE did will take a level of commitment and funding that rivals the Marshall Plan, and if you expect that to happen from a Congress that won’t even end the filibuster to give people healthcare, godspeed.
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The actions necessary to even remedy a fraction of what DOGE did will take a level of commitment and funding that rivals the Marshall Plan, and if you expect that to happen from a Congress that won’t even end the filibuster to give people healthcare, godspeed.
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I keep pointing this out, but I don’t think people actually fathom the catastrophic loss of expertise that occurred from DOGE’s gutting of the federal government. Imagine if every school teacher in America with more than 20 years experience all vanished tomorrow. This is irreparable damage.
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I keep pointing this out, but I don’t think people actually fathom the catastrophic loss of expertise that occurred from DOGE’s gutting of the federal government. Imagine if every school teacher in America with more than 20 years experience all vanished tomorrow. This is irreparable damage.
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After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.
How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers
After meeting with advocates, the Trump administration confirmed it has scrapped a controversial regulation that would have cut disability benefits for older workers.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.
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I have shared this in previous years, but I don't do new year resolutions.
Instead, I pick a theme word or words.
The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability.
For 2026, I am choosing "light."
In many senses.
Instead, I pick a theme word or words.
The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability.
For 2026, I am choosing "light."
In many senses.
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I have shared this in previous years, but I don't do new year resolutions.
Instead, I pick a theme word or words.
The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability.
For 2026, I am choosing "light."
In many senses.
Instead, I pick a theme word or words.
The past couple years (with an eye to the potential, then definite, looming Trump regime) have been about redundancy & adaptability.
For 2026, I am choosing "light."
In many senses.
I intended to go into journalism, but the school cut the program my freshman year. I became a nomad after that, studying history, but worked in beer and mead brewing, the music industry, and publishing in academia before becoming a digital strategist in healthcare.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I intended to go into journalism, but the school cut the program my freshman year. I became a nomad after that, studying history, but worked in beer and mead brewing, the music industry, and publishing in academia before becoming a digital strategist in healthcare.
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"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
And So It Begins: Paramount, Netflix And Comcast Formally Submit Bids For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount, Comcast and Netflix have submitted bids to acquire all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, ushering in a dramatic period of evolution for the media business.
deadline.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
you can read a 1000 word story on these mergers without the journalist EVER mentioning the fact that almost every merger like this has resulted in oodles of debt, layoffs, chaos, frustration, and shittier product
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
they just don't think that's useful context to even mention
Mopey burrito.
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Mopey burrito.
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Not at all surprised by this, they absolutely love doing meaningless dumb shit like this
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Not at all surprised by this, they absolutely love doing meaningless dumb shit like this
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Millions of Americans can no longer afford their health insurance, with some facing price hikes of more than $1500 a month.“It feels kind of like this war on everyone.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/jnnCdWg
Panic Tears Through U.S. as Health Insurance Costs Spike - The American Prospect
The end of expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act exchanges means more people will go without health insurance.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Millions of Americans can no longer afford their health insurance, with some facing price hikes of more than $1500 a month.“It feels kind of like this war on everyone.” From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/jnnCdWg