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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 21m

I am not a fan of public health run by the Keystone Cops.

Unfortunately, they also have education and economy divisions too.

Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: CDC is apparently reversing many of its layoffs. Letters seen by NPR indicate that many employees working with infectious diseases have had their RIFs revoked.

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 4h

Footage of the #Rapture. I guess is was real.

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 4h

A friend texted me this from his "memories" yesterday.

Doesn't it sound just like "We’re doing the studies to make the proof."...Think about where you just heard that. #RFKjr

Screenshot of an email from Chuck Benbrook to two other people who hate glyphosate.

Bruce, Michael--

The funding I have in hand that could support some glyphosate testing is from a foundation that will expect to see some results published in the foreseeable future.

Given the difficulty my program has had raising $$, I have to sow a return on investment as soon as possible. Can this testing be done in a way that would produce a publishable paper, perhaps just presenting preliminary data in support of a hypothesis?

Chuck [Benbrook]

memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 4h

"Many liberals repulsed by Mr. Kennedy’s unscientific bias against vaccines and Tylenol share his unscientific bias against agri-chemicals, genetically modified organisms and industrial agriculture."

Yeah. It's hard to watch on many levels.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

To the tune of Eleanor Rigby:

Massive iguana
Makinge a fuss on the beach
At great scale
But then caughte --
Who woulde have thoughte?
www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...

‘He’s a big boy:’ Massive iguana arrested in Daytona Beach, video shows

A large iguana was thrown in the back of a patrol car in a strange encounter with Daytona Beach officers, according to the police department.

www.clickorlando.com

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tmel1219.bsky.social @tmel1219.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 23h

Judges order more immigrants freed from #ICE clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
www.universalhub.com/2025/judges-...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 1d

I know professional Democrats are very reluctant to attack Republicans directly, but a competent political party should be able to make the case that there’s no point in signing a deal that Republicans won’t honor. It’s time to start calling Republicans dishonest dealbreakers.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

And also not deport people to African countries who don't come from there.

memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

#IronLung view from a letter to the Boston Globe today.

#Polio #vaccinessavelives

Marin Wolf ’s front-page story about the 1950s polio epidemic hit close to home (“Vestige of the past, cautionary tale for today: ‘Iron lung,’ a medical relic, still stirs memories of life without vaccines,” oct. 6).

The girl in the photo below is my mother, Judy, as a teen in 1954. For about a year, she lived inside an iron lung at Children’s hospital in Boston and almost died. she recovered, but she sustained permanent muscle weakness.

In 1955 the first polio vaccine was developed, followed by a second type of vaccine that was approved in 1961. As recently as 1988, before global efforts around vaccination took hold, polio was paralyzing about 1,000 children daily. since then, billions of people worldwide have received the vaccine, and cases of wild poliovirus have decreased by more than 99 percent.

But the virus can reappear if we stop vaccinating widely. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, communities where polio has been eradicated are at risk from low vaccination rates, from polio in infected travelers, or from outbreaks of poliovirus that can emerge over time.

so when I read about parents refusing to vaccinate their children and health and human services secretary Robert F. kennedy Jr.’s ongoing lies about risks and benefits of vaccines, I want to show them the photograph of my mother and tell them to multiply it thousands of times, each with a different face reflected in that mirror.

JANE Hirschhorn

Newton

"The author’s mother, Judy Braverman, then a teenager, inside an iron lung in 1954."

A black and white photo of the part of the iron lung tube where the patient's head rests on a pillow. You can see her straight dark hair hanging over the edge fo the pillow. A rectangular mirror is set up over the device so you can see her face and presumably she can see the viewer.

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

I was expecting he'd be mad at Greenland for this somehow too.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 2d

This retired librarian’s monthly health care premium is going from $441 to over $1,100.

It’s outrageous. It’s immoral.

I’m going to keep fighting for Ken to have health care he can actually afford.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Wowsa! I once did a "kaleidocycle" for a lace competition. But we are restricted to 2D can't do 3D.

nelg.us/page-1857720

New England Lace Group - Lace Challenge 2024

nelg.us

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

I see this.

memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Is anyone keeping something like a "Historian Departure Index"? The number of historians leaving the country seems relevant to me right now....

See also humorists, @bagleycartoons.bsky.social . Still could be called the #HDI.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

100 years on the right side of history. Seems it wasn't always easy.

But it looks important from here.

#GiftArticle #HUAC

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100

www.nytimes.com

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 2d

Much #SomervilleMA. Yes, neighbors.

Seen on the walk home from the community media center. It's so on point.

#ResistTrump

A large community message board with all kinds of messages pinned up. Most are letter sized papers, in pretty even rows and columns (which is unusual).

The center top message printed on bright yellow paper says "RESIST TRUMP".

Other items on the board, which consists of 3 rows and about 8 columns.
Top row: "Now Kiss" lips and a Boston Comedy showcase, a scientific paper about climate change, job and resource fair in 3 languages, Resist Trump, Square dancing, bed for sale, I think some English tutoring.

Middle row: Language tutoring, SEE ICE? Call LUCE HOTLINE 617-370-5023, some kind of water and air filtering thing, Polyamory support group, How are you really doing?, youth ultimate frisbee, silent film cinema something.

Lowest row: Talk to real humans, musicians at Nave art gallery, Somerville Cine-club, washed out something I can't read, Nave musicians again--Kalliope Jonesw with Lou, Isabella, and Wes, Somerville SEPAC special education parents advisory council.

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

I found the official pumpkin when I was looking for our event about the next 250 years of #Boston.

Inspired by the talk of #Rev250, we wondered what the next 250 might be like. We have a panel, including the archivist for #SomervilleMA who is my friend.

www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/bosto...

Boston’s Next 250 Years: from Revolution to Resilience [10/14/25]

A panel discussion celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and looking forward to the next 250 years.++++++++++++++++++++What will the next 250 years of Boston’s history look lik...

www.thebostoncalendar.com

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know there was an official pumpkin of #Boston.

www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/offic...

Official Pumpkin of Boston arrives at Boston Public Market [10/14/25]

Boston’s Annual Official Pumpkins Arrive! On Tuesday, October 14 at 12:00 PM, the Boston Public Market (BPM) will launch its 10th anniversary year in grand style with the arrival of the Official Pumpk...

www.thebostoncalendar.com

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memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

Hey @311somerville.bsky.social : at the ward meeting last night it said this account was active. But I'm not seeing that.

Are you really here yet?

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