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The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won
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We did it New York!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We did it New York!!!
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
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Public health = A love story ❤️
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Public health = A love story ❤️
i just want everyone who thinks covid is spread by droplets that every hospital in my area (including the one i work at) uses airborne precautions for patients positive with covid. so like? get with the program.
August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
i just want everyone who thinks covid is spread by droplets that every hospital in my area (including the one i work at) uses airborne precautions for patients positive with covid. so like? get with the program.
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Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne
Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature
Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne
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Genocide from starvation apparently doesn't count if there was a preexisting condition according to the New York Times.
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Genocide from starvation apparently doesn't count if there was a preexisting condition according to the New York Times.
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Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
Gov. Josh Shapiro said he’s not sure SNAP will be able to exist in Pa. under President Trump’s megabill
Pennsylvania won't be able afford the cost of federal food assistance if Trump's tax and spending plan becomes reality, Shapiro said.
www.inquirer.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Huge sleeper issue is how states will (or won’t) be able to absorb huge SNAP cuts in BBB. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...
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To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner says she "100%" questions the faith of Jewish politicians who endorse Zohran Mamdani.
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
"The same way I would question Chuck Schumer, who works against the interests of his own people at times for the politics."
Emily Compagno then accuses Mamdani of Holocaust denial!
June 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
To be clear, this is what actual antisemitism looks like.
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One reason why people hate politics? About 40 percent of everyone who endorsed Andrew Cuomo called for him to resign for being a sex creep. It's the peak of cynicism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him
A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.
www.politico.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One reason why people hate politics? About 40 percent of everyone who endorsed Andrew Cuomo called for him to resign for being a sex creep. It's the peak of cynicism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
PSA Neck gaiters are not masks. Neck gaiters are not effective at stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Masks, especially well-fitting ones are effective at preventing infection. Conflating the two is bad because it can encourage politicians to ban masks for the general public.
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“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.”
This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.
This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.
"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."
RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here
Anyone who thinks he’ll stop with COVID shots is deluding themselves. The time to raise hell is now.
www.thebulwark.com
June 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“It’s why every time an incremental vaccine restriction results in a public shrug, he feels emboldened to go a bit further.”
This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.
This is important. First he takes away something people don’t care much about—Covid boosters—so that later it seems more normal when he takes away polio vaccines.
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In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.
Skulls of 19 Black Americans Return to New Orleans After 150 Years in Germany
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
In the 19th century, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black Americans to a doctor in Germany, where they were used as part of now discredited racial science. The remains were recently returned to the city, where they will be laid to rest on Saturday.
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Ms. Rachel had the same arc as Ta Nehisi Coates where learning the basic facts of the situation made her go “this is unambiguously wrong” and it freaks out the credentialists who think serious people are supposed to say it’s complicated
May 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ms. Rachel had the same arc as Ta Nehisi Coates where learning the basic facts of the situation made her go “this is unambiguously wrong” and it freaks out the credentialists who think serious people are supposed to say it’s complicated
i didn’t know pickles were pickled cucumbers til my 20s
Folks, get in here. We’re admitting all the dumb wrong shit we believed until we were way too old.
Fun fact: until I was appreciably into my 20s, I thought they were called oncologists because they were always “on call.”
May 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
i didn’t know pickles were pickled cucumbers til my 20s
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I went to hang out with old friends in the Lehigh Valley last night, and we had so much fun watching the show these kids put on in Emmaus. Local theater!
Two more performances of Seussical the Musical.
5/17 @ 7:30PM
5/18 @ 3PM
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5/17 @ 7:30PM
5/18 @ 3PM
WWW.STAROFTHEDAY.ORG
May 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I went to hang out with old friends in the Lehigh Valley last night, and we had so much fun watching the show these kids put on in Emmaus. Local theater!
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5 years of covid means 5 years of long covid. I wrote about the immense neurocognitive costs of LC, the effects that covid can have on the brain - and why it all continues to matter.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition
Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some may extend to people who quickly recovered.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
5 years of covid means 5 years of long covid. I wrote about the immense neurocognitive costs of LC, the effects that covid can have on the brain - and why it all continues to matter.
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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6 years ago today, Tati Westbrook uploaded ‘BYE SISTER.’
May 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
6 years ago today, Tati Westbrook uploaded ‘BYE SISTER.’
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ICYMI: As kids keep getting sicker, media ignores scientific papers pointing to immune dysregulation and damage after COVID. Instead, parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of RSV, flu, and more, while masks, clean air & COVID go unmentioned.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
Kids keep getting sicker as evidence for COVID immune damage builds
As the press pushes "immunity debt" past the breaking point of believability, are parents ready to wake up to the illness crisis?
www.thegauntlet.news
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
ICYMI: As kids keep getting sicker, media ignores scientific papers pointing to immune dysregulation and damage after COVID. Instead, parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of RSV, flu, and more, while masks, clean air & COVID go unmentioned.
www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...
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This happens much more often than is being reported.
Gender Ideology in action: “Someone said, 'Get him out of here,' referring to me. 'He's a creep,' also referring to me," Baker said.
Once in the lobby..the security guard asked for their IDs to check their gender. Victor said things grew heated.. the couple was ultimately told to leave the hotel”
Once in the lobby..the security guard asked for their IDs to check their gender. Victor said things grew heated.. the couple was ultimately told to leave the hotel”
I really don't have any words about this story. It's just so deeply upsetting. Fuck the women who decided to police the bathroom and fuck the guard for doing this.
May 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This happens much more often than is being reported.
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the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?
As I wrote repeatedly at the time, the Obama formula for inclusiveness was effective and morally right, and abandoning it, as Obama noted, was a mistake nymag.com/intelligence...
February 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?
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The crowd screaming "A MINORRR" so loud it peaked the audio at the Superbowl. Legendary moment in hater history.
February 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The crowd screaming "A MINORRR" so loud it peaked the audio at the Superbowl. Legendary moment in hater history.
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I would absolutely read a 5,000-word deep-dive on whatever high-powered PR agency is charging Mark Zuckerberg tens of millions of dollars to shape his public image as a bootlicking scrub
Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’
Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I would absolutely read a 5,000-word deep-dive on whatever high-powered PR agency is charging Mark Zuckerberg tens of millions of dollars to shape his public image as a bootlicking scrub
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i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.
January 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.