Alicia, nurse

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Aunt Gladys From ‘Weapons’ Doesn’t Scare These Drag Artists

This was SUCH a joy. I spoke to the drag queens who are already doing Gladys from Weapons. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/m...

A Black teen named Kalief Browder was falsely accused of stealing a backpack. He spent 3 years tortured at Rikers & died by suicide

A wealthy white man named Tom Homan was caught by FBI accepting bribes. He was promoted to a powerful law enforcement position

This is what white supremacy looks like

It would be nice to take a break from talking about the rapidly decaying state of the country and I give it a shot as often as I can, but everything else feels painfully frivolous and put-on. All of it is mentally exhausting

Approx 30% med residents in the US are internat'l graduates; approx 10,000 of 43,000 resident spots go to H-1B visa holders. Are hospitals going to pay 100K xtra per year? Rural locations will suffer (if they haven't already been defunded)
#MedSky #EpiSky #IDSky #NurseSky #publichealth #braindrain

The American people deserve real accountability—not these selective investigations. If there are questions about misconduct, we should follow the facts.

Meeeee as heck

I think it’s important to note and thank the professional CDC staff that prepared such an exhaustive litany of information for the briefings that made clear that the decisions the “ACIP” voted on were actually counter to what the scientific evidence supported and was driven by their bias and animus

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Reminder: you’re discussing whether to change a recommendation of thirty years protecting babies and public health made by people with actual expertise. If you’re going to change their recommendations you need good evidence for the change. You don’t have that.

Meanwhile, Black women commentators who have no public or private record of journalistic misconduct are struggling to find jobs or actively getting fired

When an authoritarian, thin-skinned president forbids me to criticize him, some hear that as a threat, but I hear it as a challenge.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.

These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.

They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Designating citizens as "enemies of the state" is a core tenet of fascism and other totalitarian ideologies. It serves to justify the erosion of legal rights and the violent suppression of any perceived opposition by creating an "us vs. them" mentality.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This is AMERICA. Everyone should be allowed to say a minimum 100 mean things about the President every god damn day if they want. THAT is free speech.

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Trans rights are human rights.

I love vaccines btw

Carbon emissions from oil giants directly linked to dozens of deadly heatwaves for first time Study shows how individual fossil fuel companies are making previously impossible heatwaves happen and could have to pay compensation

“ExxonMobil made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely than in an unheated world”

ExxonMobil knew they were cooking our world 50 years ago, & then CHOSE to spend decades funding doubt & denial.

People made this choice.
People who will be responsible for billions of people.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

To borrow some of Thay’s framing, if you’re going to talk about addressing violence, you must look at the seeds of that violence and lecturing people who are angry about how they’ve been harmed & threatened by systemic white supremacy and its advocates is not addressing the seeds of violence at all

like yes be kind and loving to others- but 💕kindness 💕to oppressors has historically been used to maintain shit like colonial rule and enslavement

as someone who tries to move through the world with compassion and kindness, i think the “be kind ❤️” rhetoric is void of radical empathy and is just a way to avoid nuance and uphold white supremacist structures

forgot i had this app and then remembered i am funny and Should be posting more as an act of service

To Live and Fight in LA: People’s City Council on the Growing Mobilization in the Streets Against ICE In early June, demonstrations exploded after ICE carried out militarized raids in working-class communities and workplaces in Los Angeles, CA, leading to large confrontations between ICE, the LAPD, an...

“What we're seeing in LA right now can't be understood w/o recognizing impact of how organizers responded during the fires in Jan...the student intifada, the 2020 uprising.. expansive mutual aid efforts, & tenant organizing spearheaded by LA Tenants Union”