Rebecca

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Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

a lot of health data collection is decentralized in this country, so while there are some limits on what RFK Jr. can do, the damage from the destruction of NCHS & its independence is difficult to overstate.

think BLS. these are basic data our country runs on. & these experts do not grow on trees

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

MAGA's conscious performance of propaganda is very structured and goofy protests really undermine their image.

Did not know this about Old Bay

The Assault on Children MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

He cited her warning that "the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

Saw a job ad that listed paying half of the SS & Medicare tax as a benefit…like that thing employers are legally obligated to do?!

Maybe they’re trying to attract people who have been self employed?? But still seems disingenuous to list that as a benefit…

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

With the largest and loudest media outlets so thoroughly captured by the interests of billionaires, it feels like we’re screaming for help from behind glass walls. It’s incredibly uncanny, to know we’re in terrible danger yet see that danger nowhere reflected or reported on.

The talking point “whatever you think of AI it’s here to stay” is a political position and a radical one, not a statement of fact.

This. My earliest memories of the National Guard are of them setting up camp on the property of my Mom’s work after hurricane Andrew - there to help, rebuilding schools, passing out supplies…they shouldn’t be asked to invade their own country.

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: maggie.astor@nytimes.com.

Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

The deportation delirium leaves its damaging marks of trauma, injury, worry, and fear. Details of one case of a human taken then returned to their neighbors — below

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Put it in a museum (probably a Holocaust museum)

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Have they never read Their Eyes Were Watching God?! 😭

Guys, US per capita carbon emissions are down 30% from peak! 30%! We’re doing it! All the little steps (and big) are paying off!
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This turned into a rant about hormonal IUDs in general but specifically Bayer pharmaceuticals and their product Mirena, as well as malpractice by gynecologists.

I‘m translating info from a German investigative journalistic piece by Bayern 2.

New research reveals women outperform men on intelligence, competitiveness and literacy For decades, studies and societal narratives have suggested that women score lower on standardized intelligence tests, are less competitive, and are less financially literate than men. But are these p...

"When confidence was explicitly measured and incentivized, women consistently outperformed men."

(phys.org/news/2025-09...)

Yay!! That’s great!! Thank you, I hope so too!

That IS extra frustrating!! It does seem bananas it’s easier to get in Alabama than Florida!!

Oh wow, that’s so scary! I keep saying we might end up needing to go on a vaccine vacation to get the kid one but I’m hoping not!

Around here it’s seems pretty easy to get so far except Novavax isn’t available yet and our doctors office seems to be having trouble getting the under 12 doses which the pharmacies don’t carry.

That’s so frustrating that it’s so hard to get AND weird that one pharmacy is requiring a prescription when that’s not the norm!

Oh my gosh!! Can’t it just be any brand?! That’s ridiculous!

I just want to live my life in a way where Jasmine Crockett never reads me to filth on C-Span

Feels extremely doable

Oh that is disappointing!! That scent sounds like it would be so good!

You might try looking at research on how the Dillingham Commission Report shapes immigration policy as a way to get to some of that research sideways…it was a very data heavy report and shaped a lot of immigration policy.