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disability, housing, aRtHoUsE cInEmA, cognition…
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show.

Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would.

From me for @prospect.org:

prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane

www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hey everyone, I'm excited to share that AirFanta Wear is now live on air-fanta.com/products/air...
You'll find a thorough product breakdown and a detailed video I made explaining a lot of things about it. (1/3)
AirFanta Personal Wearable Laminar Air Purifier
The AirFanta Wear is a personal wearable air purifier. Worn around the neck, it delivers a stream of HEPA-filtered air directly to your breathing zone, creating a personal bubble of clean air. Third-p...
air-fanta.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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GAR WEEK 2025 is HERE!!!

Join @garlab.bsky.social as we celebrate these awesome living fossil fishes and freshwater biodiversity for #GarWeek!

We look forward to hearing from YOU with any gar pics, puns, stories, GARtwork and questions this week!
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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None of you are prepared for how hungry your friends and neighbors and coworkers will be next month
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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COVID-19 cases are still high, so be sure to know the facts and avoid the myths in order to protect yourself and others.
September 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Good 🧵
Since folks often ask for examples of how I politely push back when doctors don't understand the clinical significance of "shit that should be taken more seriously in people with a specific condition", I'll share the reply I wrote:
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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On our unilateral disarmament: America is reorienting its foreign policy to help governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.
www.theatlantic.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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It’s her for me
June 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Beautifully written, heartbreaking, important article
Harriette Mackenzie is such a rare athlete: she’s a BC college basketball star, and she is trans. This is the story of her season: an in-game attack, anti-trans hatred, outing herself, a lifetime of trauma, and how she kept going, despite it all. www.thestar.com/sports/baske...
Bullying, basketball and an online firestorm: How B.C. college star Harriette MacKenzie stood up to anti-trans hate — and won
Trans athlete Harriette Mackenzie has been ostracized most of her life. One violent play during a Pac West basketball game pushed her to fight back.
www.thestar.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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People should actually be panicked about the fact that social media algorithms mean that we functionally can live in completely different realities or you can just write snarky comments about how dumb people are

I know I can’t make you choose the correct response
May 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Fantastic thread
You & 1 other person are blindfolded, kidnapped & taken to a party in a roomful of people & told: “Choose 1 song. The person who makes MORE PEOPLE dance gets to live.”

You’re blindfolded, so you have no idea of the partygoers’ race, ages etc. but you know they WILL dance

Which song do you choose?
May 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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years ago, when I was about 3 weeks sober, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social taught me a secret that genuinely changed my life on countless occasions, including today: you’re allowed to decide you’re starting your day over at any point in the 24 hour cycle
April 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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At Law Dork, I wrote about that Oval Office visit — and what it means:
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to send Americans to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.
www.lawdork.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
March 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The macro workshop @mhedin.bsky.social and I taught yesterday in Anza-Borrego was great fun. After class time in the morning we wandered the desert for subjects. Among those were these amazing 3 mm. planthopper nymphs which I am calling Shaving Brush Bugs. We found them under rocks. 🐙🌿📷 #insects
March 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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It’s Sunday. Enjoy this beautiful slime mold. It’s probably Hemitrichia calyculata. Each little lollipop is just under 2mm tall. 🌱🌿

#slimemoldSunday #macro #photography #nature
March 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
let’s have some more #bloomscrolling
March 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
just a little #bloomscrolling
March 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
magical
These bits of lichen appeared on my stairs this afternoon
March 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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From 1951-1976, the NLRB exempted most nonprofit organizations from union recognition. What does this trajectory tell us about changing notions of the nonprofit economy and its role in American society?

New article from me, open access @modamhist.bsky.social:
doi.org/10.1017/mah....
Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976 | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976
doi.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM