This is incredible! #HistPubHealth
"As one public health official lamented, public health staff were frequently treated as the 'disquiet step-children' of local government, consigned to makeshift quarters that neither reflected nor supported their expanding mission."
Really freaking interesting!!
It’s March 1st—rent is due and Olson Middle School in North Minneapolis is $25k short of their goal. All funds raised will be used to directly support students and keep their families safe, together, and housed. Please chip in or share if you can 🖤
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
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It’s the company my eye dr contracts with for billing, I guess. I’m supposed to hear back in 1-3 business days, which is also what I was told over web chat two weeks ago and heard nothing.
Had my first experience today verbally speaking with an ai bot. Yep, to pay a medical bill. It was terrible, e.g., couldn’t properly say letters when it was reading my email addy back to me. After “speak to a rep”, it informed me I called (MO area code) after business hours (3p ct). 🤦🏻♀️
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
They will be warehousing people.
And treating them as objects.
These are concentration camps.
A line plot with the numbers of NSF awards for fiscal years 2021-2026. The curve for fiscal year 2026 is quite a bit lower than those for 2021-2025 while the curve for fiscal year 2026 (in red) is much lower than all through the same date.
But, as they say, there is no time like the present
[OK, maybe the 1930s if you want to nitpick]
But, with some data wrangling, my first NSF Funding Curves!
2/3
this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Yes! The practical metadiscourse of public health! This is my whole thing!!!!!!
ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Strength. Power. Resistance.
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Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon.
Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
My god
DHS version
White House version
The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
Top of the charts at my house today
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
WHY WAS THIS EVEN AN OPTION
