Elizabeth Godfrey

It’s a fake book literally made to be decor and I want off this timeline

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Just got back from Europe, where gorgeous third spaces and generous public services abound. Americans are so terrified that The Undeserving might get something that they'd rather have nothing for anyone. Why THAT is the case is another question.

But probably racism.

“Another officer says, ‘They’re starting to resist more now,’ to which an officer replies: ‘We’re going to end up shooting some of them.’”

Witnessing starvation on the streets of Gaza Doctors are receiving dozens of children suffering from malnutrition everyday, but with a lack of medicine and food, many are being sent back home

"It is a real famine.... This is now normal in the streets of Gaza. Pale faces, sunken eyes, and thin bodies searching for something to eat. Many don’t know if they will find food today or not."

The latest from my dear friend and colleague Hasan Jaber, who is living through what he's reporting on.

I’ve been wondering the same — there’s no reason this water can’t be cycled as far as I’m aware.

I’m actually a bit shocked at how much the MAGA backlash *hasn’t* died down yet

Zoomed in screenshot of the Epstein camera video at 11:58 with a highlight of a shadowed area that disappears after the video cut

Zoomed in screenshot of the Epstein camera video at 12, showing a clear space that was shadowed in the 11:58 image

Thank you for adding the perspective of people walking in the shot; it adds some context to this change when it cuts

shoutout to the lady on nextdoor who clearly meant to say that her 97 year old mother was "alive and kicking" but instead described her as "still kicking and screaming."

A photograph of the Cave of Hands

Another photograph of the Cave of Hands, featuring warm terra cotta and cream and brown stenciled hand prints on a rock wall

Thinking about the Cave of Hands, some of the art dating back to 7,300BC, where 25% of the hand prints are thought to be that of children. Imagining those people gently holding their child up to the cave walls, and using their tiny little hands as a stencil. Art = love = the human soul

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A puffed up cat with its back arched looking with intensity at a paper cut out of a cat

People freaking out when chat gpt says it’s alive

It really can’t be emphasized enough: reposts help a LOT. They are genuine, REAL support. This isn’t Twitter, where links out, images, and self-promo get buried. Word-of-mouth matters here, it makes a genuine difference.

Ah, yes, New York — most notable for its distinct lack of historic unchecked migration

There are plantations in existence that teach history worth learning, but the one whose only info under “history” is the list of lynching trees named after their kids definitely isn’t one of them.

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t pay to stand up to any corrupt despot, and yet

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Call me a tankie or whatever, but I did not expect that I’d ever see a Canadian PM commit to properly funding our military with an actual plan to follow through.

"It's like Kendrick Lamar and Drake but with two Drakes" is my favorite summary so far.

To put it more succinctly, punishment takes precedence over care.

It’s the difference between being okay with someone “undeserving” getting benefits so all in need are cared for, and preferring to have people in need do without to prevent that single person from taking advantage of the system. A world view I cannot wrap my head around.

*whether you want it to be or not

I know it feels shitty to give anyone a pass for allowing it to get this far, but would you rather be right or have a functioning democracy?

Jim Stanford: Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them During the so-called decade of federal 'attacks on oil,' Alberta oil giants set records for production and profits, writes Jim Stanford. So why is the average Albertan not getting their

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

I dream of a world where low tolerance for hate is equally plausible on both sides of the political spectrum

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

Effect of single-entry referral models and team-based care on wait times for hip and knee joint replacement in Ontario: a simulation study Background: Long wait times for scheduled surgery are a major problem in Canadian health systems. We sought to determine the extent to which single-entry referral models (next available consultation),...

What works to reduce surgical wait times? New study from CMAJ reinforces that its *publicly funded*
✅ single-entry referral models and
✅ team-based care
at a regional level.
🎁 BONUS - this approach also improves equitable access www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
via @cmaj.ca @ritamc.bsky.social

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

Yes! There’s zero personality? humanity? in the writing and I instantly get uncanny valley vibes.