Barbara Jungwirth
@bjungwirth.bsky.social
New York City-based freelance medical journalist specializing in HIV and related topics. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/barbarajungwirth.
I was vaccinated against Lyme disease as a child in Austria. Since my family hiked a lot, this was the responsible thing to do. Never contracted the disease, despite multiple ticks (my parents checked us after every hike).
December 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I was vaccinated against Lyme disease as a child in Austria. Since my family hiked a lot, this was the responsible thing to do. Never contracted the disease, despite multiple ticks (my parents checked us after every hike).
The proposal requires family members' information. Holding people responsible for their family members' views was a Nazi practice (Sippenhaft). US residents: oppose this during the comment period. Potential visitors: don't come and let the US hospitality industry, including Trump's hotels, crash.
December 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The proposal requires family members' information. Holding people responsible for their family members' views was a Nazi practice (Sippenhaft). US residents: oppose this during the comment period. Potential visitors: don't come and let the US hospitality industry, including Trump's hotels, crash.
Unmarried doesn't mean there is no second (biological) parent living with the birth parent and raising the child. Some people may simply form a family (of however many adults) without seeking state sanction via marriage.
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Unmarried doesn't mean there is no second (biological) parent living with the birth parent and raising the child. Some people may simply form a family (of however many adults) without seeking state sanction via marriage.
Truck drivers all over the world safely convey goods without speaking English or having a US visa. Clearly, English language skills and US immigration status are unrelated to driving skills. Thus the justifications for these rules are simple racism.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Truck drivers all over the world safely convey goods without speaking English or having a US visa. Clearly, English language skills and US immigration status are unrelated to driving skills. Thus the justifications for these rules are simple racism.
So there is a robbery in a neighborhood fighting back against ICE thugs. One is people pushing back against armed thugs protected by the US government kidnapping people off the street, the other is private persons trying to get money from a jewelry store - why connect the two?
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So there is a robbery in a neighborhood fighting back against ICE thugs. One is people pushing back against armed thugs protected by the US government kidnapping people off the street, the other is private persons trying to get money from a jewelry store - why connect the two?
Could you get the pharmacy to transfer the prescriptions to another pharmacy outside the Kaiser system rather than getting a permission slip that may not be honored elsewhere?
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Could you get the pharmacy to transfer the prescriptions to another pharmacy outside the Kaiser system rather than getting a permission slip that may not be honored elsewhere?
Time to go to their website now and download (or screenprint, if necessary) all those test results, etc. Pain in the neck that shouldn't be necessary but ay be a useful precaution.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Time to go to their website now and download (or screenprint, if necessary) all those test results, etc. Pain in the neck that shouldn't be necessary but ay be a useful precaution.
As a New Yorker, I *do* have a choice, and that choice is Mandami, *not* the orange toddler-in-chief's preferences.
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
As a New Yorker, I *do* have a choice, and that choice is Mandami, *not* the orange toddler-in-chief's preferences.
Thanks for that suggestion! Might also want to divide some of these recipes by half for older folks who may only be feeding one or two people.
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Thanks for that suggestion! Might also want to divide some of these recipes by half for older folks who may only be feeding one or two people.
Also, fill those little free pantries that cropped up during the pandemic. Think full meals: rice and beans, spaghetti and sauce, ...
October 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Also, fill those little free pantries that cropped up during the pandemic. Think full meals: rice and beans, spaghetti and sauce, ...
The orange toddler-in-chief is not demolishing the East Wing, he is *having it demolished* by people who actually know how to operate a bulldozer. The ballroom is the least of our problems, but if people refuse the toddler's orders, his edicts won't happen.
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The orange toddler-in-chief is not demolishing the East Wing, he is *having it demolished* by people who actually know how to operate a bulldozer. The ballroom is the least of our problems, but if people refuse the toddler's orders, his edicts won't happen.
A fence simply moves the problems elsewhere. Spending that money on addressing the root causes by providing affordable housing, drug treatment and basic income would actually reduce the problems.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A fence simply moves the problems elsewhere. Spending that money on addressing the root causes by providing affordable housing, drug treatment and basic income would actually reduce the problems.
New York City subways show plenty of ads, including about social concerns. Time for a campaign to publicize locations where newborns can be left safely and anonymously - hospitals, staffed fire stations. See Abandoned Infant Protection Act ocfs.ny.gov/programs/safe/
ocfs.ny.gov
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New York City subways show plenty of ads, including about social concerns. Time for a campaign to publicize locations where newborns can be left safely and anonymously - hospitals, staffed fire stations. See Abandoned Infant Protection Act ocfs.ny.gov/programs/safe/
Das gab es schon mal, z.B., im Süden der USA: Angstmache, dass alle Männer mit dünklerer Haut nur eins wollten: hellhäutige junge Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Das war damals Scheiße, und ist es auch heute noch. Ich bin übrigens eine weiße Frau mit einer weißen Tochter.
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Das gab es schon mal, z.B., im Süden der USA: Angstmache, dass alle Männer mit dünklerer Haut nur eins wollten: hellhäutige junge Frauen zu vergewaltigen. Das war damals Scheiße, und ist es auch heute noch. Ich bin übrigens eine weiße Frau mit einer weißen Tochter.
As a white European immigrant who speaks English and *approves* of immigration from outside white countries, I very much oppose Trump's preference for white South Africans and other colonizers.
October 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
As a white European immigrant who speaks English and *approves* of immigration from outside white countries, I very much oppose Trump's preference for white South Africans and other colonizers.
One can't have it both ways: the right to vote is either determined by citizenship or by residence. In the first case, US citizens can vote wherever they live. In the second case, anyone living in the US can vote independent of citizenship. Which will it be, Republicans?
October 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
One can't have it both ways: the right to vote is either determined by citizenship or by residence. In the first case, US citizens can vote wherever they live. In the second case, anyone living in the US can vote independent of citizenship. Which will it be, Republicans?
Given Trump's anti-Antifa declaration and the Supreme Court's current composition, I am not so sure we won't see this soon in the US, too.
October 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Given Trump's anti-Antifa declaration and the Supreme Court's current composition, I am not so sure we won't see this soon in the US, too.
$584 million are a bit more than half the $1 billion the DOJ demands. It does not make any mathematical sense to pay the government ransom. Use that billion to pay for the grants and have another $416 million left to fund, e.g., student stipends.
August 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
$584 million are a bit more than half the $1 billion the DOJ demands. It does not make any mathematical sense to pay the government ransom. Use that billion to pay for the grants and have another $416 million left to fund, e.g., student stipends.
You can take photos of protests in such a way that individual protesters cannot be easily identified: zoom in on signs, photos below face level, from the back of the crowd, etc. Always get consent before taking photos that could identify a person.
June 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
You can take photos of protests in such a way that individual protesters cannot be easily identified: zoom in on signs, photos below face level, from the back of the crowd, etc. Always get consent before taking photos that could identify a person.
Sanitation trucks have been used in some cities to block streets for events. They are too big and heavy to break through with a car, and they will be needed for cleanup after the event anyway.
June 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sanitation trucks have been used in some cities to block streets for events. They are too big and heavy to break through with a car, and they will be needed for cleanup after the event anyway.
Correction: they are part of the Orange Menace's ego-trip-fuelled birthday party for himself.
June 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Correction: they are part of the Orange Menace's ego-trip-fuelled birthday party for himself.
Might be right but they could have checked their target's social media feed remotely. Anything I post is in the cloud, not on my device. Any political conversations I have with my family overseas are by phone or via encrypted apps.
April 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Might be right but they could have checked their target's social media feed remotely. Anything I post is in the cloud, not on my device. Any political conversations I have with my family overseas are by phone or via encrypted apps.
Staying can be a conscious decision to remain in order to resist the descent into authoritarianism. In that case, deciding which issues to ignore may be a matter of preserving one's ability to focus. None of us can effectively resist everything the orange menace throws at us.
April 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Staying can be a conscious decision to remain in order to resist the descent into authoritarianism. In that case, deciding which issues to ignore may be a matter of preserving one's ability to focus. None of us can effectively resist everything the orange menace throws at us.
Nobody should be treated this way, whether or not they are US citizens. Also, savings or electronic devices do not (dis)prove immigration status. ICE taking these items as "evidence" is pure chicanery.
April 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Nobody should be treated this way, whether or not they are US citizens. Also, savings or electronic devices do not (dis)prove immigration status. ICE taking these items as "evidence" is pure chicanery.