@atsinha.bsky.social
📍philly + nj, sometimes dc, midwest always // good fights, tech, & creative // interdisciplinary artist + hobby ceramics // occasional writer, birder, citizen science enthusiast, clean air advocate // climate, cameras, bikes, and hikes 🥾
It's always a bit jarring when I'm birdwatching and I spot a bird with tiny binoculars staring right at me crossing "big nerd" off his list.
Shocking for people who haven't been paying attention to disability as a main target of this administration, I suppose, but evil either way.
both co-founders have a record of tweeting support of rfk jr.
if you poke around the pots/dysautonomia communities on reddit, you'll find a lot of discussion from ~8ish months ago.
A health care crisis is coming, triggered by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Analysts expect employer health insurance premiums to rise by 9% next year, while premiums in the individual market will rise by 18%. From @damonsilvers.bsky.social:
This is class solidarity.
In case you’re at all confused.
US health insurers are raising insurance premiums by the most in 15 years.
Recall that Trump recently threatened 250% tariffs on pharmaceuticals. GOP lawmakers also chose not to extend the expanded premium tax credits that expire at the end of this year
"Acknowledging ongoing risk introduces the possibility of legal liability, brand erosion, and even long-term performance limitations, as seen with the rising number of performers managing long COVID, and why a celebrity’s public platforms are often managed through the machinery of public relations."
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
imo, especially if you look at the menu, trump has actually perfectly recreated something I'm closely familiar with: a non-profit awards dinner at an airport marriott ballroom
Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states.
AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE.
Freedom is not to be hoarded.
old enough to remember when Balto and Togo were national heroes 🥲
Ezra Klein has been pretending Republicans are normal his whole career, steadfastly ignoring everyone to his left telling him exactly what was going to happen, and now it is here
I'm not sorry to hear anyone in the NYT halfway making sense but this is pure Hot Dog Guy
The point I want to make is that almost all of the major respiratory viruses have seasonality, with one notable exception:
SAR-CoV-2 (COVID)
7/
No one ever seems to remember that Trump is a product of New York City, born/raised/lived almost his entire life, as New York as it gets, and proudly so. It just somehow never comes up, the same way we never talk about where Fox News is located.
Fired version of the commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest! ✨
Extremely troubling news...that they acknowledge in the eighth paragraph was reported first by @missouriindependent.com yesterday: missouriindependent.com/2025/09/02/t...
Folks should care *way* more about FL ending childhood vax mandates than they apparently do. This is *huge.* Other red states are going to follow suit, & national herd immunity will be lost. W/o it, *everyone* will be increasingly exposed to diseases we haven't been for years.
That's important...
NEW analysis on the GOP megabill's core policy choice: each millionaire's tax cut is paid for by taking away health insurance from 4 people while reducing health care benefits from many others.
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
Under Trump, conditions for meatpacking workers could soon return to those chronicled in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle".
You know your neighbors. How many see the same doctor as you?
I hope you understand that the rollbacks on making industries pay for poisoning drinking water mean that not only will you foot the bill to clean it, you will also struggle to prove it made you sick in the first place.
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Harrisburg can't find $$$ to run your bus yet the state is giving up to $1.6 billion (!) to Shell's polluting, climate-crushing plastics plant that's a jobs bust and may even be for sale after less than 3 years
Inside Pa.'s biggest boondoggle, ever. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/shel...
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
long weekend at bernie's