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A screenshot of a Google AI overview with the following text: "Alexandra Petri has written humorous Thanksgiving songs, including "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For," "Jingle Bells," and "Over the River and Through the Woods," which are featured in her work and other content. She uses these songs to create comedic and critical takes on holiday traditions. Other popular Thanksgiving songs include "We Gather Together," "Thanksgiving," and "Turkey Trot". Thanksgiving songs by Alexandra Petri "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For": This song was written by Bing Crosby and is included in Petri's work. "Jingle Bells": Originally written as a Thanksgiving song by James Lord Pierpont, this song is often associated with both Thanksgiving and Christmas. "Over the River and Through the Woods": Originally written as a Thanksgiving poem titled "A Boy's Thanksgiving Day" by Lydia Maria Child, this song is a common part of holiday traditions and is often used in Petri's work. Other Thanksgiving songs "We Gather Together": A traditional hymn that is considered a Thanksgiving classic. "Thanksgiving": A popular song by Mary Chapin Carpenter that celebrates the holiday. "Turkey Trot": A fun and festive song that is great for dancing and celebrating the holiday. "

Thank you again for the magnum opus, enjoyed listening again while cooking! (There may have been a dance break to twirl around the kitchen with a paper towel roll involved.)

In other news, apparently Google's AI thinks you wrote Jingle Bells as a Thanksgiving song...

I heard a story third-hand toward the beginning of the current regime about ICE agents being in tears about what they were ordered to be doing.

I wonder if those agents are still working for ICE, or if they quit because their conscience couldn't take it anymore.

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There are other supports available too! Climate action and caring for our emotions are *both* important. ❤️

Very different from the (inaccurate and unhelpful!) cultural COVID narrative that the only way to deal with our emotions is to pretend there's no problem.

www.climatementalhealth.net

"long covid" - Search Results - PubMed "long covid" - Search Results - PubMed

Some official government sources on Long COVID: it's been extensively studied as a condition and quite clear that it's a phenomenon.

www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a...
www.nyc.gov/site/doh/cov...

You can review the extensive body of research on Long COVID here
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No second "all" in the quote - it's "at all times in public spaces", which makes it genuinely unclear both what @jamellebouie.net feels is unreasonable and why!

Nuance is hard b/c length limit - just offering opportunity for clarity b/c I appreciate and respect his work

Sure thing! I assumed @jamellebouie.net was aware of the context but quoted below for anyone who needs it

One thing it helps to clarify is *which* public spaces are referred to; it's a different convo e.g. wrt Matt McGorry's request for masking in essential public spaces (linked) vs. all spaces

(I'm not even at high risk myself! I mask in public spaces both since research indicates that recent waves have still generated long COVID cases, and because the request from the disability community to mask in public spaces strikes me as eminently reasonable, so I'm happy to do it.)

May I ask for clarification on the reasons you said this?

I'm genuinely confused as there are many public spaces where people at high risk can't choose not to be, and masking in these spaces is something that the majority of Americans demonstrated the ability to do earlier in the pandemic.

Screenshot of a listing from EBSCOhost's online Database, reading Periodical In Retrospect, You Should Have Known That Was Not Marco Rubio By: Petri, Alexandra In: Atlantic.com, 09/07/2025, page N.PAG Academic Search Premier Eleven signs to help distinguish between him and an AI impostor Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Fraud; Media literacy education; Signage; Individuality; Outdoor Advertising; All Other Specialty Trade Contractors; Sign Manufacturing; Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers ..Less More Information

I would guess that EBSCOhost's subject tags for this article are also AI-generated, but perhaps they were written by a confused human!

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

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Helpful talking points, also

"Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"

CAC Message Guidance and Toolkit: The Endangerment Finding CAC TOOLKIT: Trump’s Climate Chaos Plan Attacking the Endangerment Finding (Updated July 28, 2025) Toolkit in Spanish here. If you say one thing… Trump and Zeldin’s Climate Chaos Plan will make clima...

Messaging toolkit from Climate Action Campaign for opposing the repeal of the EPA endangerment finding docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Use and adapt our drafted comment below or write your own! I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. The science is clear: greenhouse gases unequivocally harm our health and our environment. Weakening or repealing the Endangerment Finding will make it harder, and costlier to protect our communities from pollution and from the effects of climate change. Optional: I care about this issue because [insert your personal reasoning here -e.g. "my father has COPD," "I recently lost my home to a devastating hurricane"] I urge you to keep the Endangerment Finding in place and to apply science to protect our health and our environment for generations to come. ****Remember, if you want to cite research to upload the paper as a file.****

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New date, same call to action. Join us on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11am as we call on state leadership to convene a special session and protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. We’ll be in Foley Square in NYC & East Capitol Park in Albany.

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From Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon about dealing with hackers on the fantastic myNoise.net - feels like it applies to so much right now.

"Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal

"CEOs should now, this summer, this month, next week, sign a pledge not to use labor from concentration camps. It could be as simple as that: "On behalf of my firm I promise not to use labor from concentration camps nor to cooperate with any firm that does.""

snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

Masking is a good idea everywhere! Both to protect vulnerable folks everywhere, and since COVID and other airborne illnesses are still a risk for everyone.

However, since our culture has normalized not masking, the spaces that most center community care tend to be countercultural in some way.

Organizing is not about convincing strangers to join your cause. It's about creating the conditions where strangers become people, seeing your lives and liberation bound up together. #UUAGA

Sometimes, we progressives, we religious liberals, we forget that people don't join a cause. People join people. Not ideas, not institutions. People join people. #UUAGA

Right, I was at a protest in late May where I was one of two people with a mask (out of ~100) and I noticed afterwards in the photos I had been a couple people over from someone holding a “why hide your faces cowards?!” sign…

I don’t know how much regional variation there is in the protest culture - very possible different places have different experiences. I also suspect ICE covering their faces is decreasing masking propensity here - seeing fewer masks recently than I did in April.

I do also think the culture of masking at protests is more common among people who are marginalized on other axes (relatively privileged protests do not have masking culture) so this is intersectional in complex ways.

I think the request to mask at protests originally came from the disability/CC community, and there are regularly requests from disabled folks to those protesting to mask more in solidarity, though it’s clearly taken a life of its own independent of that.

(Much of the backlash has been towards the pro-Palestinian movement, I think, which I haven't really been involved with. There's more culture of masking there - both because of how they're treated specifically, but also overlap between the SC community and the pro-Palestinian movement.)

Right, I live in New York and am very aware of this!

Not sure there are any great answers here. I wouldn't want any of us to lose the right to mask in general, especially people at higher risk :( but also not comfortable telling others to not mask, esp with addit'l public health threats