Meredith Farkas

You're like "hey why don't you listen to voters, find out what voters want to vote for?"

And Dem leadership is like "NO fuck you, this Thiel-funded thinktank is my friend. That's my emotional support Ezra Klein"

Headline should read: Antivax-led FDA attributes 10 child deaths to COVID shots, offers no proof

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Same (and solidarity!). As someone with an autoimmune connective tissue disease and now suspected urticarial vasculitis, doctors just keep throwing more and more (and more) meds at me that make me even sicker and suppress my immune system. This research gives me hope!

The Antisemitism Post (tm) Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…

Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

That was such a fun conference!

Ah Tilt! It closed years ago, but I do remember it well.

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

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Brand-new activists are discovering political movements – and each other: ‘You feel the camaraderie’ Organizers are breaking down barriers and creating clever campaigns to welcome people new to protesting

More of this kind of reporting. Thank you.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Today I discovered a winery that has a pie wine bar and while I can't really drink anymore, even I have to say that this is a genius idea (and the pie was freaking amazing).

The Artist Who Reminds Us that Another Way Is Possible The late artist Abigail McGrath cultivated a creative life for herself filled with freedom, joy, and a commitment to beauty. In an age of authoritarianism and algorithms, it’s a kind of life worth pro...

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.”

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

I’ve had a very similar question bouncing in my head: who’s inviting me to think critically, and who’s inviting me to outsource my questions to a theft-slop-plagiarism-machine? I appreciate the former and am deeply suspicious of the latter

Oh great. Whooping cough again at my son's high school and I'm immunocompromised. Can't imagine why I'm not at his packed jazz concert tonight even thought I'd like to be (lucky for me, I got to see the band play all the same songs yesterday in a mostly empty auditorium).

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Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I  was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…

Beautiful tribute to Alice 💔

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. "When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving."

Respect Alice Wong’s call here:
“When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Meet the NJ Librarian Who’s Taking on the Culture Wars Hoboken Public Library director Jennie Pu has helped libraries across New Jersey remain safe spaces amid censorship and book bans.

I’m proud to call Jennie Pu a friend. She helped get the NJ Freedom to Read Act across the finish line. We sat side by side when we testified before the NJ Assembly Education Committee, which you can see in @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social. Jennie’s the REAL joyful warrior!

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.

probably the best description anyone could write. She made so much room for beauty, pleasure, and joy in her life. That wasn't a break from fighting; it was WHY she fought.

Buttigieg polled an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero. Percent.

Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there!

It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.

Rest in power, Alice Wong. She was such a fierce force in the disability justice movement that I don't think her impact could possibly be overstated. So grateful for all the wisdom she shared with us.

The mayor-elect of Seattle fucking Washington standing in a picket line for Starbucks workers hours after her victory speech. This rules so hard

Maligning basic, safe OTC medications that most people have to resort to, like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, is part of a larger scam to blame people for their health problems (or their children's health needs or problems), so that the administration can claim people don't deserve care or support.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

Katie Wilson elected Seattle’s next mayor Wilson took a 1,976-vote lead over Bruce Harrell. With a maximum of 1,320 ballots remaining, it is mathematically impossible for Harrell to catch up.

Katie Wilson has been elected Seattle's next mayor
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