Here’s a helpful chart to understand why people are panicking The country or your state’s immunity threshold doesn’t have to get to 0%. A 20% decrease in vaccination still has PALPABLE TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES. Every seed of distrust harms ALL of us.
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Here’s a helpful chart to understand why people are panicking The country or your state’s immunity threshold doesn’t have to get to 0%. A 20% decrease in vaccination still has PALPABLE TANGIBLE CONSEQUENCES. Every seed of distrust harms ALL of us.
So the raw milk thing is basically unpasteurised mansplaining?
Boiling milk before use was just what you did. They had dedicated cookware for it. (Specially shaped to contain boil-overs, which milk is really prone to.) Household hygiene had SERIOUSLY high stakes back before hot running water & pasteurization. That's… like… why they taught home economics.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD???? They are going to kill so many people including children. What a FUCKED UP DECISION!
The number of hugely successful Russian ops against this country can be counted on both hands but each one of those is a work of art.
Florida’s governor is proudly sending kids directly to disability and death by ending childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. Their parents have been vaccinated, so they will do all right, until Florida brews up a variant that evades everyone’s vaccines. This is a tragedy.
I have been saying for months that it is critical to monitor your state’s vaccine requirements for school entry. They are the only things standing between us and massive infectious disease outbreaks. With Florida ending these requirements, other states are sure to follow.
Sending love and solidarity to all the vulnerable immunocompromised folks & their families that rely on community vaccination for protection. Newborns. Elderly folks. Kids on chemotherapy. Pregnant people. You deserve care and protection. I’m so sorry this is happening.
Woohoo! Finally got my turn on the audiobook version of The Payback from the library. 🎉 Looking forward to reading ☺️
A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated
Big news: California, Oregon and Washington State just announced a joint "West Coast Health Alliance" to counter Trump/RFK destruction of our public health system. As I argued last week (see below), this is becoming a new frontier in Dem Gov resistance to Trump.
Monarch on Joe Pye Weed 🌿
Today in what’s good: I was a devoted Highlights Magazine reader as a kid, and I’m glad that they still make exceptional children’s media. 🤩 They are having a sale, so worth sending a subscription to the kids in your life. (They didn’t pay me to say this) shop.highlights.com
Today in what’s good: I was a devoted Highlights Magazine reader as a kid, and I’m glad that they still make exceptional children’s media. 🤩 They are having a sale, so worth sending a subscription to the kids in your life. (They didn’t pay me to say this) shop.highlights.com
I love anything that points to how deeply interrelated all of Earth’s beings are. And this comment on the article (free to read): “nature acknowledges the value of diversity, inclusion, and immigration of microorganisms...” Always! shorturl.at/zDrUC #nature #trees #microbes 🌿
I just love shorebirds so much. Look at this soft adorable roundness (Sanderling) #birds 🌿
Tiny Jumping Spider (Phidippus sp.) watching a Fine Striped Sweat Bee feeding on a Coastal Gum Plant bloom this weekend at #PtReyes. 💚 #Twosday #Inverts #NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #iNat #Bloomscrolling #NativeBees 📷🌱
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
Most African Americans have been in the US longer than most white Americans of european descent. And of course there were always Native Americans here and many of the founding texts were influenced by their presence. The US has never been a white country.
Nasal sprays are an amazing opportunity for blocking respiratory viruses (especially when combined with masking). Azelastine could be helpful. There’s also evidence for saline, xylitol, and a gelatin based mucosal barrier. And more that I can’t think of off the top of my head.
Today in what’s good: Very Good Dogs, stopping to smell the flowers, and fish flurps. bsky.app/profile/nedp...
Today in what’s good: Very Good Dogs, stopping to smell the flowers, and fish flurps. bsky.app/profile/nedp...
Truth.
A literal fact
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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.
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Well put.
So much of this goes back to how we treat children and how we were treated as children. Early childhood science now tells us that punishment does not work. It’s traumatizing, not helpful. And yet… so many folks are stuck in a punishment mindset.
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any
It's funny I remembered where I put it at 10PM AFTER Labor Day is mostly over, but after having lost if for several years, I finally found the diverse fish graphic I made in 2018. It always bothering me that the school of fish was the same type. That erases the modern, diverse labor movement.
Uuuuuggggh so many people have COVID and I just want a vaccine please soon
This is a great idea. Print your 'zines here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Oh my lord look at the BABY
unfortunately there’s no way RFKjr is gonna resign until he gets rid of vaccines, he needs to be impeached
How many congressional Democrats have called for Kennedy to be removed?
Sister Mary Catherine who told me when I was working at a domestic violence org in NYC that I would truly feel free once I was no longer afraid of getting fired. She was 100% correct.
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Action items: call your congressional reps and demand: 1) Kennedy needs to resign 2) Congress needs to investigate what’s happening at C.D.C. 3) ACIP (vaccinated advisory committee) cannot meet until expertise restored. Please reply with other important action items that you know about.
5 alarm fire at the C.D.C. 🔥 As a physician, a parent, and a citizen, I am very worried about the long term consequences of what’s happening at C.D.C. right now. Destroying public health infrastructure is incredibly dangerous for all of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Bee fully committed to foraging 🌿 ##Inverts
The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!
It’s bananas how Helen Mirren is still serving.
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
“Gaza Riviera” is such a uniquely horrifying phrase, contemplating it is like looking at a death mask for the world.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
WNBA + Angela Davis?!! No wonder the authoritarians are afraid of women playing sports.
Omg guys!! That dang fox posed for me tonight!!!! #wildlife #fox
Assorted other wonders seen today 🌿 #nativeplants
Beach tidbits. 🌿
This excellent young osprey is learning to fish for itself. Getting its beak dirty in the process. Go for it young bird friend, you’ve got this! #birds 🌿
A lovely walk this morning before the heat of the day arrives. Late summer sliding toward fall 🌿 #prairie #Saskatchewan
It's been a lot cooler at night this week, so mothing hasn't been very good. Still, I did get some cool visitors #InverteFest 🌿
“Hey, look out over the water - that’s an interesting looking b—“ 😲 #birds #mammals 🌿
Have a smile. Baby face. Sea otter pup on top of mama otter. 🦦 🌿
A Great Egret making lovely shapes and reflections. Wishing you a beautiful weekend #birds 🌿
After a week without success, this morning I finally spotted one of the pairs of Mississippi kites confirmed to be nesting right now on the NH Seacoast!!!!! We got 2 hrs of gorgeous flyovers, lots of successful prey captures, and vocalizations galore. I am on cloud nine!!!!!!! 🌿🪶
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
Yes! Cvd was a wild card & in no way displaces the risk of the nightmare bird flu pandemic with very high death rates that keeps scientists up at night
I bought all the hazelnut shrubs at the gardeners today and I am so excited to plant them! 🤩 Then I can go back and get more plants 😍
Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
I'd also like to reiterate that I'm not a skilled gardener, I legit don't know shit about plants, I only know about marine biology and surface level stuff about bugs. All that to say- if I can do it you can do it. It isn't hard as long as you water it. Worst case you kill some plants & try again.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Great Blue Heron coming in for a landing #birds #birding #heron #blueheron #greatblueheron #wildlifephotography #photography
Important thread about state violence enacted through bureaucracy to criminalize trans people's bodies and relationships.
Today in what’s good: public transit, loving your city, and doing politics together. bsky.app/profile/zohr...
Today in what’s good: public transit, loving your city, and doing politics together. bsky.app/profile/zohr...
Other people who are clearly interested in running: — Pritzker — Beshear — Walz — AOC — Whitmer
A handful of late summer #nativeplants garden moments from yesterday. 🌱🦋🐛
How much of a prick do you have to be to stop pediatric brain cancer research for kids in the most dire and least survivable circumstances without giving clear rationale for doing so.
Watching the sun start to rise with a cute girl will fix you Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Love this quote from @meganranney.bsky.social inside: “Collect the data. Share the data. Write the stories. Share the stories. Do the analyses. Share the analyses. Call your reps. Mentor the kids. Create the partnerships. Join the groups. Build the parks. Don’t give up.”
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
on RFKjr’s antiscience dismantling of the CDC with @drdemetre.bsky.social @annezinkmd.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Once more: fuck OpenAI and fuck Sam Altman. The fact that this company has slithered its way into schools and universities across the world and might well be repeating this pattern with vulnerable students all over the world never fails to shock.
I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
This is the way.
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
Behold:
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
This map makes me feel angry, but also makes me feel a little proud that Minnesota continues to be a safe place for trans youth. 🏳️⚧️
Oooph. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Smart! Enjoy it ☺️
The present moment is dangerous & overwhelming. But we still get wildflowers.
This is why I call COVID an airborne heart attack virus. After my 2nd COVID infection, I started having heart pain while pushing my toddler in their stroller. Before I turned 40. I’m an ER doctor. I know what “heart pain” sounds like. It was terrifying to experience it so young.
My hope is that, once we’ve decidedly gotten rid of the fascists, we’ll have set the foundations for an actual welfare state
“Letting avian flu burn through” the population is evil. PAHO reports that since 2003 to now, avian influenza H5N1 has a 48% case fatality rate. That means 1 out of every 2 people infected dies.
Happy birthday, Mary Shelley, born 228 years ago today! The gothiest, most science-fictional, rebellious teen…started writing Frankenstein, one of the most influential books ever written, 110 years ago.
Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame? It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma. It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.
The moon is super cute tonight. 🌒
I was blessed with a gorgeous cool day and a lovely hike in the woods! Touching grass does work.
Ugh do I have to drive to Canada to get my family COVID vaccines this year? 🤨
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.