Anna Rogers
@jollyette.bsky.social
editor @wired.com | previously @motherjones.com | former NIH employee | she/they | Oakland, CA | signal: @arogers.40
if your brain has space for some fascinating non-election news
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoA new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it’s still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide.
NEW: voters hate data centers, it turns out! some really expert analysis from @telliotter.bsky.social and @mollytaft.com about what happened here, and all of the elections data center advocates lost across the country:
The Results Are In: Voters Hate Data Centers
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
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Progressives can win anywhere. That’s a key takeaway. There’s no argument anymore. The debate is over.
I was at a conference full of health professionals and federal workers during the 2024 election. in setting it looked just like this but was so different
APHA@apha.org · 2w agoAPHA 2026’s election night watch party was the place to be! Annual Meeting-goers celebrated wins for public health 🎉
Democrats win power to push back on Trump’s health care moves www.statnews.com/2026/11/03/m... via @statnews.com
Democrats win power to push back on Trump’s health care moves
Democrats win Senate control, and with it the power to push back on Trump’s health care moves.
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I profiled Dr. Pan earlier this year. he was both in such a strange race after prop 50, but also it’s hard to imagine anyone with more experience dealing with what became MAHA
Dr. Richard Pan@drpanmd.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you to all our volunteers and supporters who put in the work to help make this possible. I couldn’t have done it without you. I’m ready to fight for California’s 6th District in Congress!
Dr. Pan spearheaded the California law removing the philosophical and religious exemptions for vaccines. RFK Jr., who vehemently opposed the change, later had to apologize for calling vaccines a "Holocaust"
Dr. Richard Pan@drpanmd.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you to all our volunteers and supporters who put in the work to help make this possible. I couldn’t have done it without you. I’m ready to fight for California’s 6th District in Congress!
Don't forget all the state & local wins tonight too!!!!!!!! ❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
Christopher Wiggins@cwnewser.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s no longer just an empty state slogan. Virginia is for ALL lovers! www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
The knives are already out in the White House, and no one’s going to put them away in the wake of a historic repudiation of Donald Trump. @hugolowell.bsky.social reports:
Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters
With massive upsets in deep red states and stunning wins in Texas, Democrats have redrawn the political map—and decisively taken the House and Senate.
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Texas, it turned out, was not for sale. Not even for $212 million.
James Talarico defeated Ken Paxton—and the world's richest man—to make history in Texas
Elon Musk poured more than $200 million into the race. The Texas Democrat won a crushing victory anyway.
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A TRANS WOMAN WON ALABAMA HOUSE DISTRICT 25! (West side of Madison County / Huntsville)
Yesterday, in a hostile 60 Minutes interview with a Bari Weiss acolyte who once called trans kids a “social contagion,” El-Sayed refused to budge on trans rights. “A failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own.” Subscribe to support our journalism.
El-Sayed Refused To Hedge On Trans People Again In Hostile 60-Minutes Interview
Understand that a failure to show up and fight for that right is a failure to show up and fight for your own
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"“I asked, ‘If I didn’t have the money, would you have just let me die?’” Rowell said. “And they said, sorry, that is their policy.” kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
She Needed an EpiPen. But First, an Urgent Care Asked Her To Pay. - KFF Health News
An uninsured woman sought help at a Virginia urgent care center after being stung by a wasp. She said she was stunned when the center asked her to pay before giving her a shot to reverse her allergic ...
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The legendary actor Patrick Stewart, who played Star Trek’s Captain Picard, died on Wednesday at age 86. Back in 2023, WIRED published an interview with Stewart to discuss his memoir, “Making It So.” Read the conversation here. 👇️ buff.ly/LWhBKFy
Patrick Stewart Boldly Explores His Own Final Frontier
Everyone’s favorite starship captain is back in the hot seat—this time as the author of a revealing, open-hearted memoir, Making It So.
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The starkest thing about TNG compared to most space opera today is how much it presents the eruption of violence as a total catastrophe, rather than something awesome bsky.app/profile/norm...
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2w agoSame. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.
The man was a lifelong campaigner against domestic violence because of what he saw his mother go through. A king, a champ, a feminist icon, he deserved all the love he got and more. www.theguardian.com/society/2009...
Aaron@kleinman.bsky.social · 2w agoNOOOOOOOO www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
One of the lies that Google has told themselves for literally decades is that they are not, first and foremost, a web ads company. Fuck around by killing the web and find out I guess.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoBreaking news: Alphabet shares tumbled 13% on Thursday after the Google owner revealed that 'AI mode' searches were threatening profits at its core advertising business. ft.trib.al/g8Q9IPx
PSA from your friendly neighborhood eco-nerd: Fake Halloween spiderwebs are horrifically bad for wildlife. Insects, small animals, and birds get caught in them and die. Wildlife rehab centers see spikes in birds caught in the webs around Halloween. If you MUST use them, use them indoors ONLY.
People who think embracing GOP hatred of trans people is the only way for Democrats to win in that part of the country should remember that in 2025, John Ewing became the first Black mayor of Omaha NE by running this ad. He beat Republican incumbent Jean Stothert by 12 points.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w agoJosh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
In case you’re curious, as this critter is one of a few with a street name of “purple sea urchin” (though the only one you’ll find along the Calif. coast, I think). Collecting it like this is even encoded in state law: nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler....
Strongylocentrotus purpuratus - Wikipedia
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you're in Monterey, CA today you can visit the delightful-sounding California Seaweed Festival and pledge a sea urchin dye kit in person: www.kickstarter.com/projects/see...
The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.
Inside the Supermassive Debate Over the James Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’
The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside.
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I think the controversy after the recent mathematics AI “discoveries” really gets at that these aren’t actually discoveries at all. They might be solutions to hard problems, but the change and evolution in human understanding that tends to come from discovery seems to be missing entirely.
Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Vultures Chicken $30,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
Caitlin Rivers@cmyeaton.bsky.social · 4w agogood morning patch.com/maryland/col...
Older people who want to pay lower property taxes should be able to downsize into an age-appropriate home that requires less upkeep without having to leave the communities where they raised their families; but they oppose that because they feel entitled to a fixed, unchanging neighborhood character.
@crowbegone.bsky.social · 4w agoIf you're 79, living in a mansion, presumably kids have left, and think your taxes are too high, you should probably downsize. I just don't look at an octogenarian standing in front of a 5 bedroom and think "poor him"
