Eva Roca

See how your neighborhood voted and what kinds of New Yorkers voted for each mayoral candidate, thanks to @haidee.bsky.social !

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/e...

‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown In Washington, D.C., where close to 40 percent of child care workers are immigrants, fear has taken hold amid a crime crackdown that has raised ICE presence. Many are missing work, deepening a staffin...

This is what she lives with every day now: “The fear of leaving your family and letting them know, ‘If I don’t return, it’s not because I am abandoning you.’”

Powerful story by @chabeli.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

Very much so. :)

Many things in the world are bad, but Jonathan Richman is still very good and I am grateful you turned my attention to this album existing.

Instead of the usual deficit lens, can we reframe Black health narratives by embracing Black Joy within a Vitality Framework?

Read this brilliant essay by Drs Ijeoma Opara and Yasmine Elmi!

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

The ship sounds from Star Trek: The Next Generation

Yes to teachers who go off-book for what's right! I went to Alabama public school too and had a teacher in high school who ran a weekly night school for us so we could learn about the civil rights movement. Everyone in the class came.

Take the Quiz: Meet Your Mayor 2025 Candidates for NYC mayor told us where they stand on issues. Which is the top match for you? Find out before heading to the polls.

Love this interactive Meet Your Mayor quiz from @thecity.nyc and @gothamist.com. A fun way to see where the candidates stand on a range of issues and who to rank. #DREAM projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

Hail to the Thief

This might get you what you need:https://www.usaspending.gov/search?hash=be10ddb9cd910b2d958b5118a9c7b5c9&section=map

Hallelujah sister

I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.

Another Year

This is one of the few upsides of having been laid off. At least I don't have to try to function as normal during zoom calls and such.

That's why it's such a shame youth sports are so expensive and out of reach for many.

An ode to the Demographic and Health Survey Program Caren Grown reflects on the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program and its 40-plus years of impact.

More on the DHS program. Someone like Gates or Bloomberg should seriously find some money to make this come back along with FEWSNET. www.brookings.edu/articles/an-...

So happy to hear The Book Thing is still around! I spent many happy hours getting interesting books there when I was a poor student in Baltimore 20 years ago.

The US has treaty obligations & trust responsibilities to Native American sovereign nations.

Massive cuts at BIA, BIE and Bureau of Trust Funds Administration violate more than a century of treaty law and federal trust obligations.

Project2025 would eliminate agency support to Tribes.
#resist

Tempted to listen in the traditional manner, using Winamp and watching some Mandelbrot fractals, but vinyl was good too.

Jason Isbell Has a New Album and a New Girlfriend The singer-songwriter shocked fans when he divorced his wife and muse, Amanda Shires. Now he’s moving on.

After 17 years at the WSJ, this is my last story as a staff reporter.

For the next bit, I'll be finishing my book about how hip-hop became the No. 1 genre in America (Doubleday, 2026). Please now reach me at neilshahwrites@gmail.com.

Thanks for reading!

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I love how one of the flu strains for 25-25 is called "Fuck It" 10/10 no notes

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year.

“'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'"

Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Excellent thread by @jeffedm.bsky.social on why the loss of the DHS program matters so much, not just to demographers, but to the world.

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Each institutional and data loss is a shock but I really can't imagine a world without the DHS. I've used it for my whole career and for most of the indicators there isn't a comparable source for that data.

We've been talking about the same thing!

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

>90% of unvaccinated individuals who come into contact with a measles-infected person will contract measles.

The recommended 2-dose MMR vaccine is 99% effective in preventing measles infection.