If scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
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If scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
This guy gets it. This is the way.
I am organizing multiple workshops this week for Chicago activists and organizers as we prepare for a possible military occupation of our city. I am tired but moving fast.
Tune in tomorrow when Toad confronts Frog on telling lies.
Rahm Emmanuel is a toxic pustule on the Democratic party.
Thanks @ryanhisner.bsky.social for the super considered thread on the Kwissa et al preprint - making a case for a viral reservoir in the lung as a potential driver of long COVID. Some earlier thoughts from us on viral persistence in the piece below. theconversation.com/long-covid-a...
That is one wacky fever dream of a movie... hard to believe DeMille had it in him.
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
There's that story about the planning of Casablanca, Jack Warner wasn't sold on Bogart...and in a meeting with Ingrid Bergman he said, "What woman would want to kiss Humphrey Bogart?" She replied, "I would."
By Dr Nancy Malek Even in 2025, doctors have accepted too many myths about COVID. My presentation explains why - and gives you the science you're missing. Full list of references available at covidfordoctors.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPUT...
Thank you on this labor day!!
I read them every day...and reflect. Thank you.
Managed to see him twice...I consider myself very lucky to have done so.
If you can’t get to the Museum, watch John Sayles’ “Matewan” instead, a remarkable film with incredible mountain scenery, and a message that’s even more relevant now. Fraternity. Sorority. Eternity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSa...
I'm ready.
Born in '50, grew up on a farm outside a small Indiana town, we had a slightly more modern version of that phone until I was 6 or 7. Party line, our ring was 2 Longs and 1 Short. Elderly lady down the road spent her days listening to neighbor's phone calls.
Absolutely. At the start, it seems to be Jeff Bridges film, but Karen Allen owns the screen with her performance.
For the full report, go here. davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/the-multis...
My favorite send up of small town hypocritical social conventions.
Critically important on several levels
Newsom is serving a necessary purpose and a role. Aggressive media shit posting combatant. That role is available to any prominent Dem that wants it. So much room in that space. The question is will someone with less baggage take up their version of the club and wield it.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
My governor, thankfullly.
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Wow. That's a photograph.
This consensus is correct. But I don't think enough people have actually internalized the implications. That is, they're perfectly happy to point out that too many Dem officials don't understand this, but they haven't updated their own understanding of what this means for taking the country back.
Reposting Ida Lupino
One of a handful in films that I would describe as perfect down to the smallest detail.
Aline brought magic to every performance.
Another on the nearly infinite list of films in the queue
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
A triple feature with Altman’s The Long Goodbye and Benton’s The Late Show would bracket LA life really well. .
Bluesky has a scold issue, people bursting into hobby posts to scream that the OP should be DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT. I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
💖 Ida Lupino (1918 – 1995) British actress, director, writer, and producer 💫
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Butt-Snorkelers 😂
More than this is that they have been actively antagonistic.
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Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
A sensitive, well reasoned response to a hate campaign.
I remember the Vietnam protests, and Catholic Worker nuns training folks in non violent resistance.
“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”
Ethical viewing, ethical grocery shopping, ethical shopping for anything...
Have a Roku TV so i agree, wasn’t sure it was available outside the Roku universe. Hard to find a guilt free choice for any service anywhere anymore. Each of us must choose our own commercial sins that we can rationalize. Stocking up on dvd’s and tapping the library stacks.
Sling Free has some surprising movie channels. Tubi has a huge free library of TV and movies (crappy UI, but free). Pluto & FreeVee can be surprisingly good for free.
Have similar issues re sending $ to asshats. Apple+ News sub includes some of the bad media players, without directly supporting them. Mostly current articles, no internal search of history, and Apple is another issue, but it is a compromise I can choke down for the moment.
Most intelligent post on Dem’s political media issues I’ve read in a long long time.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thanks again to Rahm Immanuel for shutting down the 50 state strategy. What a political genius.
HS graduate in '67. In those days you didn't need to be on drugs to feel like you were on drugs.
Mavis always inspires, much needed this morning
They're running so many ads for the phone game Royal Kingdom, you'd think it was an AI.
I recently moved to Illinois. It’s a reassuring feeling
It is a puzzlement how long the D's can ignore reasonably simple solutions to their decline. Too many consultants getting rich recommending the opposite.
This is precisely why the platform must be institutional reform. We must brake the trolley & break the trolley. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I guess that Google Don't Be Evil thing has been superseded by some new incomprehensible AI slogan.
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
"[Dobson] mainstreamed authoritarian parenting, then helped translate it into politics. What started as family 'discipline' became the foundation for an entire culture of obedience — one that extended into pulpits, voting booths, and national policy."
Tells more truth about humans than the other 99% of cinema
The decision metric for gardening can be complex at times.
Have had good results from neem oil, myself.
It’s a bit difficult to believe Democrats when they accuse Trump of tearing down the foundations of democracy and then say “Welcome home” when he returns to the White House.
Laurel and Hardy. The physical comedy is instantly understandable without words.
#CovidIsNotOver www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/us-...
MAHA wasn’t a response to COVID and any journalist who doesn’t understand that it *exploited COVID* intentionally, deliberately from day one should pack it in bc they’re a dupe. Cover people who want to improve nutrition if that’s what you want to talk about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Wow. That was a moment.
Fans of The Wire will recognize this
More of this, much more
Saw this episode when it first aired. I wad 14. I still remember the twist at the end like it was yesterday
Inquiring minds want to know. What kind of dispshits try to hide bribe money in red envelopes?
Ida Lupino portrait for Warner Bros., ca. 1946. Not an outfit she wore in any of her pictures.
Semi retired marketing guy. Had my own research firm for 20+ years. Couple of things never discussed. 1) F/G facilitators can (and often do) shape group discussion toward preferred conclusions. 2) Focus Groups are designed to be step 1 in a longer research process, not a tool for a final answer.
Good resource list.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
In honor of Count Basie's birthday (1904), let me share what are easily some of the best 43.5 minutes of music in the 20th century. I can't tell you how many times I've had this playing in our house and I always pinch myself at the extraordinary caliber of musicians and musicianship.
Pronounced how? MizzzNow? Miss-Now? Or Em Es Now? Or dare to try Em Snow? Mizzen-Ow? Still trying to find something that rolls trippingly off the tongue...
I couldn't love 2 actors more, and everything in the production of the film is wonderful...but the double amnesia stretches my willing suspension of disbelief beyond all my ability to avoid eventually saying "WTF?" and turning it off.
H.L. Mencken's prediction finally came true.
Here in the summer of my 75th year, I am considering the purchase of a new guitar. Have been without one for a while, after a "minor" roof leak and a divorce driven storage unit rendered my last guitar unplayable.
How can you not love this 40+ years body of work?
The best sports comedy ever put on film.
👏 THANK YOU, Sen. McMorrow. I've been shouting from the rooftops about this for years. (and thank you, @adambonica.bsky.social, for your deep dive which brought the problem into public view) The scourge of "SCAM PACS" is one of the main reasons I started my Blue26.org fundraising project.
Rahm Emmanuel’s shutdown of the 50 state strategy was a gift to Republicans that keeps on giving.
Done.
The Train.
She was luminous in that role. Dieterle painted scenes around her.
It is illuminating to realize that the commonly used film of Nazis burning books in 1933 is from the Institute of Sex Science, the world's first clinic to provide care to transsexual patients. "First they came..." leaves that part out.
Thanks. Heading to Powells.
Name of the book, please.
Damn, that's funny. That song stalked me on various car radios for years and years...now do Brandy.
The entire post-WWII international order - the one we built to ensure WWIII didn't happen - is predicated on not accepting unprovoked territorial conquest of other states This is why, again, Trump threatening the territory of 🇨🇦 & 🇩🇰 needed to immediately end his presidency (bsky.app/profile/mcop...)
Hard to say which I loved more, the UCLA win or the Georgetown loss...Georgetown, I think.
Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
The best of the classic Carols by far, even better than the Barrymore radio versions...though in the modern day we all must give homage to Henson's Muppet version.
It was a thing of beauty.