🤷🏻♀️ They've already done much more than I would have imagined they could. I keep thinking that the Republicans in Congress will do their constitutional jobs and not abdicate their power to the executive branch. 🤦🏻♀️🙄
Retired health and science teacher, Los Angeles Unified School District. Former teacher-advisor for Health Education Programs, LAUSD. MPH in health promotion and education. BA in biology. Church choir and voracious reader.
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🤷🏻♀️ They've already done much more than I would have imagined they could. I keep thinking that the Republicans in Congress will do their constitutional jobs and not abdicate their power to the executive branch. 🤦🏻♀️🙄
The dose makes the poison?
Yes, I think that is what's happening, ramming through all the P2025 oligarchy/dictatorship executive orders now, so that they have firm control when Trump obviously can't function at all or passes away.
I wonder if Rx is needed in every pharmacy, or are they CYA-ing.
So his own measles vaccine would replace the established one.
I'm hoping the new COVID vaccines are available by mid October, so my husband and I are at fullest strengthening before flying cross-country to visit my mother. Yeah, we'll have no problem meeting the at-risk qualification.
I also joined Twitter when it was the only place to find up-to-date information on the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerging in China. When other sources were available, I didn't do much on Twitter. When Musk purchased Twitter, I deleted my account. Glad Bluesky is available now.
Yep, and it's best to include the aside as you post sarcasm. Tone of voice and facial expressions do a lot of communication when you express sarcasm in person or on video.
The powers-that-be were obviously on a hair-trigger alert for any sign of civic dispute with their actions. That this homeless man's impulsive protest is the best prosecution they can come up with demonstrates they had no reason to occupy the city. It really doesn't even warrant a misdemeanor.
RFK Jr, et al😡 Everyone else 😭
I got that same reaction while working on my bachelor's in biology. I got my MPH in health promotion and education from Loma Linda University, a Christian school. It was less expensive than USC or UCLA, latter because of distance. I really liked the UCLA practical curriculum w/harm reduction. 🤷🏻♀️
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I believe he interviewed with ghost writers, not actually writing anything himself.
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Democracy doesn't work without the common good. What we didn't have in place were guardrails against the creep towards oligarchy or authoritarianism and extreme economic inequality. We don't have adequate legal mechanisms to fight those who have now achieved power and want to destroy our democracy.
Very much inching towards the corruption, of both religion and government, and oppression that every meld of religion and government exhibits.
I've been out of the classroom for 20 years, but I knew a few teachers who would have taken phones away if they saw them, regardless of what the student said. They were the same teachers who accused me of faking my disability because they saw me stand from my 👩🏻🦽 to get stuff out of my office cubby.
a student who's mother was in active labor. She had her phone on vibrate in her pocket. She did get one text update and promptly put her phone away again. I think I was probably more flexible than most teachers about many things as a disabled health and science teacher.
Sadly, there are teachers who don't think there should be any kind of ADA accommodation within their classroom. In a case like this, I'd ask that the phone be silent and in a pocket or backpack. Closest thing I can think of before going out on disability 20 years ago was
Yes, a bit harsh for those who did want to give you food but felt had to follow the rules. Alas, there always seems to be one or two who are truly judgmental. 🫂 for that old pain.
I always thought this should be evident, too.
🥺 Sadly true for some of my former students.
For my HS students who didn't want their peers at lunch to know they didn't have money that day, I kept instant foods like raman and cup-a-soup (and even instant coffee) in my classroom. They could pay me back later...but all my students knew I didn't write anything down nor try to remember.
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If you have trouble holding your phone or device, try this! a.co/d/2cpqtGU
I have both carpal and cubital tunnel in both arms. I use a device stand with a pillow base to hold my phone or Kindle Paperwhite so I can comfortably read. a.co/d/2cpqtGU
My siblings and I were also deeply impacted by this ministries. We were allowed to stay up past our bedtime to watch it, and discussed it at the dinner table.
Thanks for sharing this article. I decided to post this article, too. It's important.
The essential lesson from these studies is, "The effectiveness of a face mask does depend not only on what kind of face mask you are wearing and how you wear it but also how many people around you are wearing face masks. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
Do the corporate execs *want* to have this progressive news wing of NBC fail? It seems clear that they want distance, at least.
(I unsubbed 2-3 years ago.)
When did WaPo take "Democracy Dies in Darkness" out of their masthead? It's not there anymore. I did see one post with "An Independent Publication" but most posts have nothing under their name.
It's so fun when it happens! Congrats!
I'd explore this for use with my students, as well as spend more time on media literacy, if I were still teaching high school health and science.
In 2016, when I didn't understand the Republican party support for Trump and their lust for power at any cost, I also scoffed at the idea that our democracy was at grave risk. It only took a short time for me to learn that I was wrong.
I'm guessing they amended the lock in to include her office because she has facilities and the ability to get food there, as well as a place to lie down. Are the other democrats who signed being followed everywhere they go by police, too?
Very common and, yes, one of the times he's gotten COVID.
Except it's not getting taken over completely by the government. [Yet?]
My 51 yo son-in-law has gotten COVID 2-3 times every year despite following the set vaccine schedule and masking in public, and with no apparent immune dysfunction. 🤷🏻♀️
Agree that more people than just 65+ need to be getting COVID vaccines every six months.
I'm not sure that most Democrats are focused on public service. I'm thinking especially of how several progressives and progressive candidates are systemically sidelined.
Oh, yeah! It's maddening. I hadn't used Word for something like 15 years when I came back to find frustration. And back then when all teachers had to attend computer training, I was placed into the Word expert tips and tricks class. Thanks for the validation that it's not just me.
He was singing the beginning of the old Star Trek (OS) theme song. 😉
They totally and studiously ignore the fact that anyone can become disabled at any moment from an accident or illness. And that many disabled people could contribute a lot (more?) to society if structural and systemic barriers were removed.
It contributed...
Yes, the biggest drawback to successful public health programs: when they're most effective "nothing happens." So people think they're not needed anymore and funding is cut until the next crisis—but then people ask why we weren't better prepared. 🤷🏻♀️
As a female health educator, I am also deeply disturbed and very sad. I don't think every health teacher in HS teaches about refusal and prevention/awareness skills, sexual harassment and rape like I did in my classroom.
Either nothing has changed or salaries have backslidden. When I started at LAUSD in the mid 90s, mine was the sole income as my husband had just been put on disability. Our kids qualified for reduced lunch at school, even though I had teaching experience elsewhere in CA, and we were relieved.
That's about when I unsubbed.
And I don't think acting illegally because the Republican party is acting illegally is the way back to more democratic norms, either. I do support the more progressive and younger Democrats in actions like the Texas Democrats are doing in denying quorum for a vote suppressing state bill.
And Democratic party gerrymandering is no better than Republican party gerrymandering. I don't trust Democrats to remove their advantage if Republicans stop their gerrymandering. I don't like the wait-it-out approach that senior Democratic party leaders appear to have.
I noticed recently that The Washington Post masthead no longer reads, "Democracy Dies in Darkness." It's either blank or reads, "An independent publication." Very telling.
Agree that a very effective nasal vaccine would be better both biologically and psychosocially. Hope research will continue on them.
Any chance of an mRNA nasal vaccine?
They're going to develop a vaccine against "the entire *phylum* of viruses"?!! Ummm, good luck with that...
It was quite eye-opening to get a airline ticket price one day, leaving the site to discuss with my husband, and then coming back two days later to now half price tickets—which really was what we could actually afford.
I feel like I should have been able to figure this out...now that I know... Thank you for answering my question.
The last question, including what else I wanted to do with my life, directed me away from being either a lab-based scientist (disabilities precluded field work) or a physician. I loved being a health educator, which I became after realizing that I liked teaching science but health was my passion.
Such a cute kitten meow, imitating doggie family!
The chart has an abbreviation I don't understand, "HFSS".
When we campaigned for a fourth day at The Smithsonian, my mother put her foot down, "You're going to go to the beach with your cousins and pretend you're normal teenagers!!"😂
My family visited family near Washington DC when we kids were 18, 16, 14 and 13. We toured the Capital and then The Smithsonian. We all felt like we didn't see everything we wanted so we begged for another day. And then another to share with one another our favorite finds.
I joined Twitter when it was the only place to get up-to-date information about the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus in China. I deleted my account when Musk purchased Twitter.
"Unitary theory" = "might makes right"
"Eleventh Hour" did capture my family's attention when we saw it on BBC America/PBS. Only my husband had been a Dr. Who fan from the 70s. Now we're all fans. When streaming started, I watched all available episodes starting with "Rose". My favorite doctor now is David Tennant.
I've always imagined that the chart showing fascism on the upper right and communism upper left (socialism lower left and libertarianism lower right) actually curve around in a cylinder and meld together, because the end results of any extremes look an awful lot alike.
I'm infuriated with how this administration is treating people who are doing all the things we asked them to do to stay in our country. To go after people who will very likely be killed for helping the US if they return to their country is a despicable new immoral low. 😡😡😡
As long as a paid holiday and paid time off work to vote are included (or generous absentee ballot provisions), as well as provisions like showing up to sign your name on the ballot if you wish to vote for no one.
I was on Twitter for a short time when it was the only way to get up-to-date public health/medical news on the emerging SARS-COV-2 virus. When Musk bought Twitter, I deleted my account.
Thank you for articulating my AI hesitancy so concisely and clearly. I'm a retired health & science teacher, and was a technology mentor for my teaching colleagues.
Oh! The trepidation on my daughter's faces when one of my grandchildren ask a health question! 😂 --retired health teacher
I know that exhilaration of a wheelchair giving freedom of movement and speed.🥰
I think it has to do with both hiding disabled people from public view *and* with testing the power to incarcerate.
Boo! I was asked to give my email for a "free account"to be able to read this.
I was going to reply I'd like this one! My now 41 yo daughter introduced me to this genre.
I wonder how I would have gotten to school while I'm traction for a femur fracture in seventh grade and in a body cast for another femur fracture in eighth grade. My school did provide visiting teacher supervision. Will today's schools provide that? I have never, ever used less than 15 sick days.
"SSDD", as the group short-handed in Dreamcatcher by Stephen King.
Loudermilk? Wasn't he one of the villains in The Stand by Stephen King?
Oh! The disappointment when the crinkly zip-top bag turns out to be human food or soap tablets!
I'm guessing all beloved pets do this for their owners. I know my 🐈 does.
My girls' favorite summer activity was the free musical theater program, subsidized by our city. We wouldn't have had the funds to pay for three kids to participate.
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It's as individual as a cat loving the pool, like this one. Some pets love getting dressed up (maybe at first just loving their owner's reaction at first?). My daughter's dog convinced me that some pets do love dressing up, the first time I babysat her and she excitedly led me to her clothes stash.
When I took my baby into the shower with me (my disability precluded a tub bath), my cat decided to join us—and discovered the joy of warm water sprays. She joined me or my daughter often. Thankfully, she left the shower and bathroom before us, as I didn't want her fur on my newly washed skin.
My father was so excited that we were all engaged. I think that it was the quietest we four kids ever had been. (Ages 9, 7, 5 and 4)
My family wasn't able to watch the love TV broadcast as we were on the road going to his next Air Force duty station. We listened to the live radio transmission, while in the Blue Ridge mountains, then watched later that night at our motel.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-19-20...
And that 3-4 hours has to include the energy to get ready and, unless working from home, get to the job site. I currently work about 8 hours a month on my church newsletter and during the school year 2 hours a week tutoring an elementary student n reading—both at home. It's my limit.
Your DL analogy works really well.
I do strongly recommend getting vaccines, using last year's schedule. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
I was dismayed by Kennedy's remarks. Here's an unlocked link to a NYT article explaining why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...
“You can do everything right... anddddd you can still get sick. That doesn’t mean lifestyle doesn’t matter. It does. Immensely. But it also doesn’t mean you’re to blame when things go wrong. Health is not a merit badge. And illness is not a personal failure.” @drplantel.bsky.social
It really interested me that my math and English percentiles were within one percentile in both tests. But the ACT showcased my strengths in social studies and science at 98 and 99.5 percentiles. (Versus 87-88 math and 93-94 English) Why do I remember these numbers past retirement? 🤷🏻♀️
I don't remember my scores but I do remember my percentiles. I took the SAT because that's what schools in NY wanted. But my parents' residency was in OH, where there was no income tax for military. I was informed I had to go to college in OH, where ACT was used.
This! "These weren’t just administrative cuts — they were moral betrayals."
It's certainly concerning. Studying history like the European Crusades and the Troubles in Ireland, it seems like human nature—when we aren't actively mindful about falling out of Jesus' way, truth and life.