You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Omgggg Chan Chan 😍 Have you seen the documentary about Buena Vista social club? That's actually how I found out about them.
My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
“A rainbow appears over beachfront properties destroyed in the Palisades Fire along the Pacific Ocean on March 06, 2025, in Malibu, California.” Photo: Mario Tama
“An aerial view of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire.” Photo: Mario Tama
“Eaton Fire survivor Dr. Jacqueline Jacobs, 88, stands for a photo in front of her destroyed home with her daughter Madrid Jacobs-Brown on January 30, 2025, in Altadena, California. Jacobs said she and her husband never received an evacuation warning on the night of the fire. She said, ‘We heard someone in the street say, Get out. And we did just that with only the clothes we had on. And everything now is in ashes. Only the chimney is standing.’ A UCLA study revealed that Altadena’s Black residents were 1.3 times more likely to have suffered complete destruction or major damage to their homes in the Eaton Fire.” Photo: Mario Tama
“In an aerial view, Bishop Charles Dorsey leads a prayer rally for the Altadena community and for his church, amid the remains of Lifeline Fellowship Christian Center, which burned to the ground in the Eaton Fire, on April 12, 2025, in Altadena, California. Dr. Dorsey attended the church as a child with his family and has led the church for more than 20 years. He plans to rebuild and said, ‘It’s not just a building, but home also.’” Photo: Mario Tama
“This L.A. photographer is still capturing the ongoing devastation from January’s fires” www.fastcompany.com/91319961/thi...
Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years.
Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism.
May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.
Amazing! Was this your first time?
Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
ICYMI:
“Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website”…in order “to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.”
A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.
Private equity extracts, cuts corners and makes things worse by design. Then they leave and do the same thing elsewhere.
You’ve allowed yourself to be fooled by a campaign that is nothing but a wedge issue by bad actors.
You’re falling for a grift.
And maybe don’t call trans people locusts. You can block me now. www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/15/h...
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I mean… they’re so obvious about whose voices they value and whose they don’t. Don’t watch if you want them know we value our voices.
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away.
Covidtests.gov
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🗣️ NEW POST on the blog:
"on the way to bravery."
maxineayawrites.com/blog/2025post7
#maxineayawrites
I resonated with this post so much! I'm in a similar phase and you have articulated it so eloquently. Thank you for sharing!
Ah, the 1930s Germany frame.
But in the post-reconstruction era, America had Jim Crow, the resegregation of the federal workforce, and deadly pogroms against black people in the South.
We’ve been here before. It’s just it didn’t happen to white people.
Where do yall think Germany learned from?
This is why there’s been so much silence as Black history and Black books are being purged, and integration efforts dismantled. Many Democrats think the purges are valid and necessary. “Candidly, the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack."
We were told this was, like, the most dangerous app in the world and a national security threat like no other.
And now everyone is like "eh, it's fine"
The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
The MAGA cult will voluntarily die to own the libs. If you think this is an exaggeration just look at what happened in COVID. They refused vaccines as they were literally dying bc the saw it as some liberal conspiracy. Same thing happened initially during Obamacare.
It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
The CDC has this list. Can’t believe it’s still available! Download while you can.
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz...
Please don't forget the Black folks effected by the LA fires y'all! #crowdfunding #supportBlackppl #helpfolkslive2025 #payitforward 💸💕 🆙💰
That is adorable! I love it
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
