Mandi Spishak-Thomas

The class divide among women in the workplace is widening Women without degrees are more likely to wind up in low-paying jobs with inconsistent schedules.

73% of women (25-44) w/ college degrees are employed full-time vs 53% w/o degrees. Women with degrees often land jobs w/ paid leave & flexibility allowing them to manage paid work & parenting. The US needs nationwide paid family leave and sick leave. www.axios.com/2025/08/03/w...

Wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways to ensure you are in solidarity with those most impacted by our authoritarian present. Taking action to prevent the spread of a deadly&disabling neuroinvasive vascular virus—among other airborne pathogens—as our institutions crumble is an antifascist choice.

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban.

The media is hiding what's happening here.

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

UPDATE: The pause was scrapped Tuesday evening after intervention by top White House officials. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Outrageous. The White House is sidestepping Congress and halting up to $15 billion in NIH research funding, which would have gone to study diabetes, cancer & more.

The order was issued through a four-sentence email sent to NIH directors from Office of Management & Budget Director Russell Vought.

this shooting happened a block away from a police precinct in one of the most heavily policed metropolitan areas in the world. the shooter openly carried his gun in the street

the police don't stop crime

shoutout to joe biden for preparing me for this. if i hadn’t endured his premature sociological production of the end of the pandemic—removing data sources, testing then claiming that their absence indicated lack of need among other acts—really prepared me to continue living under hostile austerity.

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

"Glenwood was run by Steward Health Care, at the time one of the country’s largest for-profit health care operators. But its building was owned by Medical Properties Trust—a real estate company based in Birmingham, Alabama, that charged Glenwood monthly rent." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Dreaming of a more expansive and generous Medicaid for the next 60

Hisham looks so thin

Literally, thank you for this validation on NVivo!! That's great to know, I have never even heard of MaxQDA, but maybe will investigate. I do like Dedoose purely for the collaboration aspect, but it still leaves something to be desired overall. Sigh

California increased paid family leave payments. Now more parents are taking advantage Starting in January, the state offered more-generous leave benefits. Claims in the first two quarters this year were up about 16%, compared to the same time period last year.

According to new data, more Californians are using paid family leave after a new state law that increased payments for parents took effect this year. Amazing to see these benefits supporting more and more families! laist.com/news/educati...

A lot of #AcademicChatter on here about Zotero (huge fan), so now I need to know what people think about NVivo. Am I missing something or is there no way to work collaboratively on qualitative analysis using NVivo. And if you can't work collaboratively, why would anyone ever use this software 😭

Distancing yourself from disabled / chronically ill ppl is also why the majority don’t wear a mask in public spaces

They subconsciously or consciously go “they’re immunocompromised, I’m not like them”

You’re more like us than u want to admit

Each COVID reinfection increases your risk of LongCOVID

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us) It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care

In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...

J.Crew, not as budget as old navy but almost always having a sale these days! I love their suits and work pants when I can snag them on sale. Also, the gap and Abercrombie (I know) are so back and worth checking out!

Over the past decade, states have made historic gains in health coverage and access, but that progress is at risk from proposed Medicaid and marketplace cuts and added red tape.
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One million starved children and no shortage of food

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

HAHA

It’s worse in person somehow 🫠

Luisangel Acuña on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Francisco Alvarez on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Brett Baty on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Mark Vientos on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Jeff McNeil on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Pete Alonso on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Juan Soto on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit

Francisco Lindor on the Mets scoreboard in a WWE-themed outfit