Fmr. CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Secretary Kennedy demanded two things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation, regardless of the scientific evidence.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"

Unashamed to say this made me cry.

these posts really blow up the theory that he was antifa and the theory that he was groyper AND the theory that he was an irony-poisoned nihilist. there's still a lot we don't know but based on this, he may well have been the last thing anyone expected: Just A Guy.

A list of ways to donate to Sanctuary Supply Depot: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...

…which one is Charlie Kirk again?

Seriously, this administration can beat me, censor me, even kill me, but they can’t make me tell all these angry white influencer dudes apart. Did he do anything significantly awful or was he just a yeller?

How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

workers, have you considered that it is problematic to "have" a "job"

If you are 45 and under, go and get that vaccine now while it's still free, folks.

I come from a law enforcement family, and they seem to be accepting it when I encourage them to reject this premise because the military is not even trained to deal with crime and there is no universe in which this makes sense—unless you want the military here for other reasons

Powerpoint slides from a presentation entitled “Unleashing the Silent Majority to Beat Bikelash”, which feature photographs of urban transformation from cities around the world.

The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵

If you use Firefox:

Go into Settings, in the search bar type "Sidebar" and select "Show Sidebar." At the bottom of the sidebar, click "Customize Sidebar" (the little gear icon) and un-check the "AI Chatbot" box.

@irianamistifi.bsky.social happy birthday!

Streets.mn has moved their picnic into an indoor location due to the smoke. If you love transportation and land use journalism - this is one not to miss!

AQI map showing most of the Midwest in red/orange and yellow (poor air quality).

Air quality alert now extended through Monday at noon for most of Minnesota due to ongoing wildlife smoke from Canada.

That’s 6 days of toxic air (alert started this past Tuesday night).

😭

Erasing and rewriting history is a key tenet of fascism and actions like this need to be reported with that context

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

One of the credited writers of Tom Lehrer's NYT obituary died two years ago

'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

something I kind of suspect is that Elon Musk pushed the Twitter algo to promote extreme views about Israel into people's feeds and so the many reporters who are still addicted to the site wound up grossly overestimating the salience this foreign policy issue had in fucking municipal elections.

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

Democrat Billie Butler has won a special election for the NH House by a 55-45 margin, very close to Harris' 55-44 margin in 2024.

Butler, a trans woman, was the target of vicious anti-trans attacks by Republicans.

Background on the race: www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/p...

Looks fixed, thank you so much! (and coding mistakes happen to us all)

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06 Dailymotion video by L3arnTV

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

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Sophie is a piano-teacher and composer, Maddie is a silk-weaver who is trying to pull off a grand heist to fund the weaver's union.
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More on data privacy and ownership and the surveillance state.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

I just watched K-pop Demon Hunters on Netflix, it was extremely fun and seems to be getting a decent amount of buzz already. Different audience than Elio but I do wonder how much of it is just Disney/Pixar burnout.

Holy shit.
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Sure! We've tried: 'Clover', 'Morrighan', 'Cassandra', plus the prev/next on c3e36, www.kryogenix.org/crsearch/htm..., as well as a couple more

Hey, sorry to tell you this but I think something might be up with this refactoring - episodes are showing up out of order in search, and clicking on 'next episode' leads to a random one in the same campaign. LMK if you would like more info, search terms, ect and thank you so much for all your work

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.