🧵My family stopped through NYC (less than 3 miles from ground zero) 2 months after 9/11, & we wore N95s. Strangers were derisive, but it really seemed like common sense. Come to find out: Rep. Jerrold Nadler said he tried to convince Giuliani & Bloomberg "to release www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...

After 9/11, Documents Suggest New Yorkers Were Misled About Air Quality (Gift Article)

New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks.

nytimes.com

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 7h ago

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

to place the sexual and reproductive exploitation of black women at the center of your understanding of american slavery is to see that the system was forced birth and this, in turn, should lead to a more expansive vision of what the 13th amendment actually guarantees.

This shit really pisses me off. "Leaving women out of scientific studies has largely been the result of uncertainty over how to account for potential fluctuations related to menstruation or hormonal birth control...."

The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 13h ago

A big assumption has kept women out of health and fitness studies for years. What if it’s wrong?

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026

The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d ago

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

I LOVE the creativity and heart that is on display at state fairs. I encourage all Americans to hit up a state fair if they get a chance. You will see how fantastic people can be when they get an idea and follow through.

JRho@jrho.bsky.social · yesterday

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Things that happen in a country organized around male supremacy so entrenched that no one will acknowledge it exists.

Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗@madisonkittay.bsky.social · yesterday

SHOCKING: The Indy Star newspaper thoroughly investigated family annihilations in 2023, with data from the Gun Violence Archive, and found that one family annihilation occurred every five days in the U.S. since 2020. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invi...

I’ve tried to make about 10 different posts about this quote and every single one of them was taking issue with it in a slightly different way and all 10 made me too mad to finish

The Playlist@theplaylist.bsky.social · yesterday

Paul Schrader Says He Turned To AI Because “No Black Actors Wanted To Play In A Movie Where There Are No Good Black People”

This is wild: only *one quarter* of the New Yorkers who live in the city today were there on 9/11. It's basically an entirely new city. Cities are magic: constantly changing, churning engines of human progress. This is why conservatives hate them.

A City Forgets. Maybe It’s Supposed To.

The New York of today is a different city than the New York of 9/11.

vitalcitynyc.org

I once worked on a paper where we tried to rigorously explain why job interviews persisted as a practice despite being uninformative (as has been often proven) The only explanation that survived the analysis? Interviews provide an easy, cheap, and final opportunity for discrimination before hiring

Cirice Gray @House of the Underworld out now!@ciricegray.itch.io · 2d ago

New study on transgender women hiring discrimination paints an incredibly bleak picture. If you can't stealth and don't pass your callbacks plummet 32% This is only at the resume stage, back when I was still trying I was getting callbacks all the time. I was ghosted or experienced death by panel

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the FIRST time, been shown to PREVENT COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

“They were going to die anyway.”

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d ago

2020: not died of covid, died with covid 2026: not died of measles, died with measles It's the same shit all over again.

Not The Onion.

NOTUS@notus.com · 3d ago

HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility

Trump take egg

Representative Becca Balint@balint.house.gov · 2d ago

This is what happens when we gut the agencies that are there to protect us against these things. Just because we chose to take this path before doesn’t mean we can’t choose a different one going forward. You should not have to play a game of chance every time you walk into a grocery store.

Goals.

D. Allan Drummond@dadrummond.art · 3d ago

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Mr. Mamdani is a master of new media... But as mayor, he has also been able to use taxpayer funds to create a sprawling network of hundreds of friendly influencers to boost his priorities, provide positive depictions of his administration and enhance his popularity."

G*d d*mn it. He is unrolling every success of my lifetime. Trump moves to allow ranchers and hunters to kill gray wolves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump moves to allow ranchers and hunters to kill gray wolves

The president ordered his administration to lift Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves, again wading into a fraught debate between ranchers and conservationists.

washingtonpost.com

Body my house, my horse, my hound

Achilles Micawber@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?

An exquisitely shot and composed six minutes. These mountains are stunning, the rocky landscape beyond daunting for traversing. A very small boy narrates his entire trip to a market to buy his family's food. Hearing and seeing it from the little one's P.O.V. is captivating. Brava, @ionacraig.com!

Iona Craig@ionacraig.com · 3d ago

Doing interviews today on the ongoing fighting in Taiz reminds me of one of many visits there. I shot this video several years ago in the Taiz mountains. It shows the nature of the terrain currently being fought over. More importantly, it illustrates the civilian impact. substack.com/@ionacraig/n...

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

americamagazine.org

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

The new 26-27 Moderna and Pfizer Covid boosters are available this Friday 9/4 at CVS. No word on Novavax(Nuvaxovid) release date

The Sick Times@thesicktimes.org · 6d ago

The U.S.’s summer 2026 COVID-19 wave is in full swing. All disease tracking metrics report increased spread across the country, and the school year’s start and upcoming holiday weekend will cause further outbreaks. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/01/n...

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

nytimes.com

Also, I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the student journalists at Duke Chronicle do astounding work as truly independent reporters They were the ones, for example, who broke the story about Bhattacharya saying, at a Duke talk, “I want the NIH to be the research arm of MAHA” 👀

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5d ago

Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.

Your Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)

Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government.

nytimes.com

I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

“Teams will race to navigate three of the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes — the jungle, the desert, and the Arctic — using Gemini to help them identify dangers, survive brutal weather changes, and stay one step ahead.”

Easy drive: Get on Trump Highway at America, take it past Lake America, then get off at the Trump Highway exit, go past Trump, all the way past Lake America, make a right on Trump, then a left on Trump, and take that to America. If you cross America River on the Trump Bridge, you've gone too far.