Mary Beth Campbell

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YES!!!!! Thank you for the inspiration. I am reading now at Levee Baking Co (visit there whenever you are next in NOLA), and then going to watch!

Happy Halloween! If you need a soundtrack for whatever spooky plans you are getting up to, here is last week's Musicophilia, available to stream online for the next week. 🐈‍⬛🖤🐈‍⬛ spinitron.com/WTUL/pl/2142...

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A classic image of Euterpe, the Greek Muse of Delight/Music, in shades of turquoise and hot pink, is set against a black background. Above the image, in hot pink script is the word "Musicophilia", with the hot pink sub-heading "With DJ MB" below. Toward the bottom of the image, in turquoise text, are the words "2nd and 3rd Fridays, 10 PM - 12M CST, WTUL 91.5 FM, wtulneworleans.com

Happy Friday! Tonight's Musicophilia is an early celebration Halloween! Tune into @wtul.bsky.social tonight from 10 PM-12M CST to hear an array of spooky, campy, dark, and atmospheric tunes. 🐈‍⬛🖤🐈‍⬛

I was just thinking about this movie the other day (specifically the 10/10 line "hunky boys") - truly the perfect embodiment of what makes "bad" movies so great.

Alright, fine, I shall take this wholesome rivalry

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

If growing up watching the Mariners taught me anything, it is that you should always keep your expectations low. Sigh.

God dammit

Seattle Mariners

Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...

The fight to preserve public health and science is connected to every other issue we face. All our struggles, all our systems are intertwined, and we can't overtake fascism or ensure our survival without embracing this, writes Senior Editor Mary Beth Campbell.
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A classic image of Euterpe, the Greek Muse of Delight/Music, in shades of turquoise and hot pink, is set against a black background. Above the image, in hot pink script is the word "Musicophilia", with the hot pink sub-heading "With DJ MB" below. Toward the bottom of the image, in turquoise text, are the words "2nd and 3rd Fridays, 10 PM - 12M CST, WTUL 91.5 FM, wtulneworleans.com."

Happy Musicophilia Friday, everyone! I am finally back on the @wtul.bsky.social frequency after a month off! Tune in tonight from 10 PM-12M CST for a nice little variety show (setlist in progress). 🖤

If y'all make it to New Orleans next year and want to do a radio interview on WTUL, please feel free to message me on here!

Truly! As you and other have stated in this thread, the insidious belief that children do not deserve agency is so damaging. Also, it is an honor to be given a nickname by a kid! (And, also: You can't just make up your own nickname, it has to be earned. Springsteen did not call himself "The Boss"!)

Ugh. My maternal grandfather (who was awful) tried to insist that my brother and I call him and his wife (who made a point to say to my face when I was 6 that we were not her grandchildren) "grandmother and grandfather." Nope, we called them generic "grandma and grandpa" and they HATED it.

Yeah, they are acting like a Hitler phase is just something all kids go through when, no, not typical kid behavior.

Just 30-40 year old kids

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

The VRA may get gutted today and the voting rights my people worked and died for may get overturned but like… life is still going on. And it feels kinda weird how the slide towards further fascist control of our nation is surrounded by mundane shit.

Alfred Marshall: A Voice of Experience Alfred Marshall was only 17 years old when he was arrested and sent to jail for a crime he did not commit. He was sentenced to three years and ultimately served his time while maintaining his…

Alfred Marshall was only 17 years old when he was arrested and sent to jail for a crime he did not commit. Now, he's a chapter organizer with Voice of the Experienced. He spoke to Associate Photo Editor Katie Sikora about his life and work

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Aren’t you tired of swiping in the hopes of running into a specific someone you have an existing, lingering curiosity about? Here’s your chance to be brave—to take the active route instead of the pass...

Baby chicks at Brothers III and a nap at Mick's in Mid City feature in our Close Encounters this month. antigravitymagazine.com/column/close...

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

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For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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Defend Public Health - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine Over the past few months, I’ve thought a lot about the late, great astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World...

I wrote about the urgent need to defend public health for the October issue of @antigravitymag.bsky.social : antigravitymagazine.com/feature/defe... As our public health systems continue to be attacked and dismantled, we cannot sit by idly. Our very lives depend on it.

New Orleans: Today is Election Day, you still have a few hours to vote! If you are still undecided, the @antigravitymag.bsky.social Voter Education Guide has you covered.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear.
This is causing real harm.
It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

TONIGHT! I’m tabling at the first and then popping over to the second one! You can go to one, both, or neither, but you deserve the RIGHT to CHOOSE 😤