Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Breaking news at Bounces:
Serena Williams is going to gain reinstatement to tennis before the end of this month, when she will have completed her six months back in the tennis testing pool.
The Serena comeback is now officially official.
www.benrothenberg.com/p/serena-wil...
Please don’t let the racist meme of the Obamas from last week slide. There has been A LOT in the news cycle since then, but that should be the final low.
@murray.senate.gov @repricklarsen.bsky.social @cantwell.senate.gov
Everyone should watch this incredibly powerful ad, released on Super Bowl Sunday, from Epstein survivors. The DOJ must release all the files NOW.
#StandWithSurvivors
halftime show
what a shot
"My advice to Democrats would start with this: Politics in the age of Trump isn’t like curling. Don’t spend all your time sweeping and maneuvering. Speak out and fight. Be like Bad Bunny."
Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
At the end of a very physical performance, Benito recited all those countries. His haters can't even recite their ABCs
“If he doesn’t apologize, he should resign.”
Grateful to have my essay “Fledge” in the Bellingham Review.
Grateful to have my essay “Fledge” in the Bellingham Review.
New article in Edible Seattle:
Well, some crazy coincidences with FLOOD PATTERNS being re-released and this 100-yr flood. There is still more rain to come, but farm and family are safe. Thanks to all the great friends and neighbors that helped out. #skagitstrong #wafloods
#poetry @wapress.bsky.social
Thank you!
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press 2025 Pushcart Nominations Barret Baumgart: "The Refusal to Be Useful" L. Annette Binder: "The Residents of the Second Floor" Majda Gama: "Ode to One Thousand" Jessica Gigot: "Territory" Amanda Hawkins: "Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands" Daniel Meltz: "Intrinsic Marimbas"
Our Pushcart Noms!
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
Pope Leo XIV on Monday urged countries at UN climate talks to take “concrete actions” to stop climate change that is threatening the planet, telling them humans are failing in their response to global warming and that God’s creation “is crying out in floods, droughts, storms and relentless heat.”
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A haunted house but an open mic where every poet reads past their time.
A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
picture of the front entrance to an Independent Bookshop with books in the window and in the background
What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop?
If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around!
#SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.
This is beyond awful. WORDS MATTER!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Many thanks to @wapress.bsky.social for all their support!
