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(Notably, we were a mostly non-professional org! But I think the point stands about people whose orientation is to understanding and fixing this disaster vs raging at it)

This is extremely true (it was a big aspect of the community vax initiative I linked above, at times) &, like, if people also can’t make the connection to how many people are treated *during pregnancy & especially labor* specifically, they are probably not well equipped to be medically persuasive

Lessons From An Immigrant-Focused Community COVID-19 Vaccination Organization | Health Affairs Forefront The Seward Vaccine Equity Project, a small, all-volunteer organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has found success organizing vaccination events using community organizing and word-of-mouth technique...

This was one of the very best things I’ve ever been part of and we could never, ever have done it if any of us had thought that (for example) parents who’d waited to vaccinate their kids, for any number of reasons, were bad parents or bad people

you just can’t do public health that way

Not gonna quote someone who‘s drowning in angry replies, but

I think it’s notable that, in my experience, people who actually work on public health are much more likely to feel empathetic & curious abt vaccine hesitancy (not anti-vax grifting) than non-professionals who just (rightly) love vaccines

This was his actual response to the question “Why hasn’t Target taken a stronger stand against ICE?” (Source: AP; link in quoted post)

I wrote a helpful organizing-the-next-steps message to a team in which I'm the only woman and have been very clearly warned not to let myself become the implicit administrative assistant, and then, at the suggestion of a smart woman I know, deleted some of it to make it more passive and less helpful

Paging @drdemography.bsky.social

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

I Broke Up With My Therapist. It All Started With an Absolutely Deranged Email. "I met a mesmerizing little boy," the email began.

Lots of fun short articles in Slate's Breakup Week series, but this one in particular is batshit.

I've had very good and very bad therapists (and some in between), but the most baffling part of this story is that an apparently otherwise very good therapist did... this.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Blood levels of lead? Something else?

I don‘t see a path that isn’t choosing to value the dogs or the people. I would choose people and would not involve the state (even this limited part of it) in any kind of enforcement against an immigrant family in this context.

But I’d be heartsick about it and I’m so so sorry this is happening.

That‘s really tough!! Are there other neighbors who have a better relationship with them?

I really appreciate that you have tried talking with them.

If there’s no relational approach at this point, then short of a non-state actor doing an unofficial rescue (kidnapping) of the dogs,

Have you talked with them? About this or anything else? What’s your relationship like?

That's so sweet ❤️

I’ve been to three concerts so far in 2026 (all in NYC) and so far I’m 3/3 on the band using the show to make some kind of anti-ICE statement.

My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.

Fuck yes

Jason’s a real one

It was a phase of the pandemic when I was going totally stir-crazy and this was, not gonna lie, quite diverting.

I especially enjoyed making all of them eat shit apologizing to me. I enjoyed it VERY MUCH.

One of those automated texts from my city councilperson urging me to vote for his reelection resulted in an argument that escalated to his campaign staffer, claiming to be him, sending me a dick pic.

When you look at literally any planned freeway that *did not* get built, it becomes clear what a disaster it would have been, and we can see what we would now be missing.

Looking at the freeways that did get built, it's much harder to know what we lost.

Claudia Goldin is in the Q&A after this talk advocating an idea for Make America Manly Again (MAMA), & it has something to do w forcing men's greater commitment to their families but I don't totally get it, but the deep chuckle let out by the woman whose question she was answering was a real delight

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I am just really skeptical of suicide prevention strategies that are about teaching individual young people to avoid situations that might provoke suicide... almost as though we agree it's a warranted response. I don't agree!

(I don't feel the same about systemic policies & you can push me on that)

Something I think we should teach every single teenager and preteen, at home and in schools:

We have a lot of research and a lot of personal testimony from people who attempted suicide and failed, and the one thing they *overwhelmingly* have in common is *deep gratitude that they failed*

Can you please be the cold-water guy in *my* office?

3rd precinct on fire with the text: give us the Nobel peace prize

If you’re in your 30s and your friend group isn’t talking about:
-where to put their nobel peace prize
-who to buy groceries or pay rent for
-when your patrol shift starts
-license plate numbers

You need a new friend group. Your network is your net worth

Ofc we'll teach our kids the best things we know about how to stay safe from sexual exploitation--online & in person

But if our lessons reinforce a message that, "& if you DO do this (that statistically many, many of your friends will do) & suffer for it, THAT'S YOUR FAULT"

Did we make them safer?

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I appreciate Chip Scoggins's reporting & this interview on teen suicide after sextortion, but take issue w this:

"The first thing I did... is to remind my [adult] kids never to send nude photos."

The more important lesson is, if someone ever takes advantage of you, *you can survive it*