I just want to point out that Alex Pretti became a registered nurse in early 2021 -- the height of death from Covid. And he chose the ICU, the sickest patients, in Veterans Affairs.

If you want an econ perspective, I worked on a book, which is likely at your library: openlibrary.org/books/OL2822...

Kim Clausing wrote a more left-wing/progressive angle: openlibrary.org/books/OL2733...

Also, you don’t need to share gore! You don’t need to watch gore! Bearing witness means bearing witness to INFORMATION not trauma porn! You do not need to traumatize yourself and send yourself into a panic spiral! You need to get organized and focused!

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

writing about ambient music is like laying down about land art

ironically, fixating on identity at the cost of action is the most american thing of all

Every Eric Adams headline reads like a 30 Rock B-plot for Tracy Jordan