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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

Among the greatest mistake societies across the world have made is believing that because someone is talented in one thing enough to make them outrageously wealthy, they absorb all the wisdom of the universe by osmosis and must be considered the Wise Old Sages of our time

Career
Rowan joined the mergers and acquisitions department of Drexel Burnham Lambert where he worked in New York City and Los Angeles.[9][4] The firm collapsed in 1990.[4] In 1990, Rowan co-founded the asset management firm Apollo Global Management with former Drexel colleagues Leon Black and Josh Harris.[8][10]

In July 2020 Rowan took a "semi-sabbatical" from Apollo, but remained involved in strategy and on boards, until taking over as CEO in March 2021.[11][12][13] He intended to focus in areas including strategy and culture.[14]

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 6h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6h

The clip of Joe Biden laughing condescendingly at Elizabeth Warren, decades ago when she warned them they were about to cause a student loan crisis was one of the most prescient moments in politics in the last century. They were and are completely financially corrupt.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 6h

My ability to imagine what point is the "breaking point" is clearly very limited.

I genuinely thought when the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal happened, a scandal that implicated the entire political class, there would be campaign finance reform.

Instead everything got multiple times worse.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

Well they didn’t specify, so could be

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

You absolutely know this is a White woman, because women of color don’t have the luxury of smelling like onion, goat, ozone or salt.
For eg, brown women often get told they (and their privates) smell like curry, at whatever age.
and there is a whole sensory politics and history of racism here

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 8h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

I too wondered about this but I didn’t say anything since I’m not a physician

💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 8h

I’ve been reading EKGs since 2003

Never been able to tell the age of someone just by looking at it

#justsaying #thathesfullofshit

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 8h

I’ve been reading EKGs since 2003

Never been able to tell the age of someone just by looking at it

#justsaying #thathesfullofshit

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

And the fawning. Witness Modi.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 7h

So, for all those who love the Finger Lakes: a b*tcoin miner plans to turn the old retired coal plant on Cayuga Lake (just north of Ithaca) into a hyperscale data center.

A bunch of us worked for years to shut down that coal plant—and won in 2019.

sustainablefingerlakes.org/2025/10/08/c...

Coal plant in the far bank across a lake

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🔞 val halla🧚✨️ (AVs linked) @theythemprincess.bsky.social · 7h

sry for the infodump my mom took tylenol

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah bro

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

reut.rs

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

Also one note: when I say "harassers' desk" read "desk" as "team"

Desk just means team. So like I worked on the climate desk, that means I worked on the climate team etc.

I don't mean they literally sat like in the harassers old physical desk.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

When I say I've only told a fraction of the fucked-up shit I mean it. Because telling the whole truth means roping in people whom the institution has harmed. And I was a "keep my head down and work no drama" person.

That place needs to go out of business.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

Everyone related to the case got the message. If you complain we will make it difficult for you.

Out of respect for the person harassed I'm not going to get too specific on the timeline but it was in my first year.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

And mind you the person who lodged the complaint lived in a different city.

They made them move cities to sit with the harasser's old team.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

The person who lodged the complaint?

They moved them to the harasser's old desk. Everyone there knew why the harasser had been fired (newsrooms leak like a sieve) and that this person was the reason why.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 6h

To be clear, this was a kidnapping and the agents should be charged.
www.fox26houston.com/news/missing...

Houston: Missing teen with autism reportedly in ICE custody

The family of a Houston teen who went missing tells FOX 26 that he had been in ICE custody for days.

www.fox26houston.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

Every single year.
Every single year, scientists discover that dogs are better for us than we ever knew before and and I don’t think we’re ever going to stop discovering how awesome dogs are for human beings

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6h

Research suggests that dogs might have a deeper and more biologically complex effect on humans than scientists previously believed

The health benefits of owning a dog, according to science

www.independent.co.uk

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6h

You know he absolutely did say it in his head though and then cried into his burger crusted pillow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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