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Just screaming into the void that a computer error caused me to spend just over 5hrs on hold to get someone to fix acct so specialty infusion med can be filled at the same pharmacy. It locked out “CVS Caremark” as paperwork said I had to use “CVS Specialty” (they are the same). I am blaming AI. 🤬

🧨Indiana Woke Up And Chose Violence

The Indiana legislature is considering some new, truly heinous proposals. Buckle up. One bill would redefine abortion as based on vibes, expose abortion patient info, and open up anyone to a lawsuit who mails abortion pills into the state.

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The Canadian got in his feelings about it but yeah
We basically have. A bunch of white men recycling piecemeal MLK Nobel Prize Speech

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On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky

Earrings by Crystal Galindo
Pillows by Shanequa Gay

List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.

I guess this post escaped containment, so here's the local media with the partial, constantly updated list of closures.

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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

An ominous precedent:

"Richard Hughes IV, who teaches vaccine law at George Washington University Law School, said he cannot recall a previous time when an HHS secretary overruled the advisory committee and the CDC."

What will he change next?

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

+ ignores substantial evidence regarding the benefits of vaccination for older adults & immunocompromised people who live in multi-generational households, &/or have family members who work in the service industry or attend school

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

Notes on Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams (How the Facebook sausage is made is WILD!)

Some notes on Careless People (all the free copies have been taken) audacity.substack.com/p/notes-on-c...

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I.” [theatlantic.com]

Abortion pill prescriptions are now being tracked in parts of the US — with help from a little-known tech company Louisiana has started monitoring abortion pills. Some other states are likely to follow suit. It could have disastrous consequences for patients.

If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...

Not to downplay this hideous shit, but this is what's being done to families all the time -- that's why there are "migrant releases," where they fly or drive dozens of people with nothing but literally the clothes on their back thousands of miles from their hearings and dump them on the sidewalk

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I am back with the next installment of the Voices of Gaza.

I am trying to post more often this Ramadan, as Israel is violating the terms of its ceasefire, and to keep people's lives and stories top of mind.

Today I am sharing the story of Samah, a single mother of four. 1/

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99 dedicated editorial staff members at MSNBC are being laid off.WE STRONGLY URGE MSNBC TO REHIRE THESE HIGHLY SKILLED WGAE MEMBERS. Send a letter to MSNBC mgmt. in solidarity!

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Take action to support the nearly 100 dedicated WGAE members at MSNBC who were recently laid off. These highly skilled professionals are now being forced to endure the humiliating process of reapplying for their own jobs.

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if anyone did this to a kid of mine they would be passing teeth every time they exhaled for the rest of their life

Breonna Taylor’s mother remembers Tamika Palmer talks about mourning her daughter, Breonna Taylor, five years after she was killed by police.

Tamika Palmer spoke to The 19th ahead of the fifth anniversary of Taylor’s death about her fight to seek answers and her continued fight to seek justice.

To be fair, most Americans viewed Trump as ridiculous as a presidential candidate before his first run. Even Trump supporters viewed Project 2025 as beyond ridiculous. My point is, most Americans not taking it seriously doesn't mean it's not serious. See Covid.

Because most of these bills are about a very wealthy and abusive group of people ( OF ALL GENDERS)

trying to control their kids

and the only way to control their kids is tomato any avenue of separation from them painful .

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

I’ve been thinking about how they should be eating Chinese food on the couch, under a cozy blanket, half-watching Severance while folding tiny clothes, waiting for their baby to arrive. But instead, their family was ripped apart.

Q&A: Why These Women Oppose Death by Firing Squad I interviewed two women in my Virginia prison about our country's death penalty and state-sanctioned methods of execution.

"I don’t agree with the death penalty, period — no matter the crime. I feel that there is no difference in what they are doing. It might as well be a chain reaction of nonstop killing."

It is so incredibly frustrating as a patient that my eye doctor & dentist both have better airborn pathogen mitigation than my hematologist 😷

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This and the white reporter who decided she didn’t know why Serena was there, the need for “subversiveness” and Hannah Arendt are all the same problem

Certain figures but especially Black women are entirely utilitarian to folks , so they believe they are seen by others as the same tools

You know who's actually meeting this moment well?

McSweeney's. They've been on absolute fire.

The difficult part is how disability and chronic illness are used as justification for Ai. The community wants and needs it for medical applications, accessibility and early detection.

We don’t want generative Ai. Disabled people need imagination to survive, why would we need it to create?

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️