There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data. See Alt text for details. PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I consistently remind myself that we know and understand less than 5% of the total matter and energy in the universe. This counters the seduction of despair.

ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES, my book about grief; who is allowed to mourn and how; and why people want to pathologize the experiences that make us human, is available now in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, wherever fine books are sold (or loaned, shoutout to libraries).

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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They have a nice site with instructions in multiple languages, and for multiple countries. corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.

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I also really like this list for mask info and purchases: linktr.ee/buymasks

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for speaking out against integrating the US and Israeli militaries in the upcoming Pentagon bill - a measure that would reward Israel at a time when they are wrongfully detaining Palestinian American student Sama Safi under abusive conditions.

Holy shit. Buried in that DHS document about its desired “deportation airline” is a request for contractors to procure and maintain 1,000-bed “detention facilities” in foreign countries. Huge scoop from @charliearchy.bsky.social. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.

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There's still time to submit a comment. I just did so, sharing a family member's health situation that very much needs for research to continue based on science, not the whim of political appointees. Please take 5 minutes to submit your own.

Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 4w ago

Here’s a great resource to help write a comment this weekend before the deadline, by @colesci.bsky.social and @cdelawalla.bsky.social: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Don't let anyone dictate how you react to this soulless ghoul's death

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Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

I’ve been getting questions about how to organize locally or regionally. I want to clarify to folks that there is no boss here. There is no admission process. There’s nobody that needs to approve your participation. Have land? You can offer it for community gardening. 🧵

Went for a bike ride passed a Parks & Rec(?) summer camp(?) bike ride on the River Rd path. Kid sticks out his hand, “High Five!!” I reach over and we connect, the cheer that went up among the 20 kids will keep me going all week.

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

youtube.com/shorts/yH8Db... Please listen to Jeremy Scahill as he reflects on Palestinian survival, dignity, and collective endurance in the face of settler-colonial violence.

Survival Against Settler Colonialism | World Decolonization Forum

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EXCUSE ME SIR YOU ARE NOT PANTS

Lmao haleyfacts.com

Did a sketch but couldn't be bothered to flesh it out. Happy world firefly day/weekend, regardless. May your butts be the light in these dark times.

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

It's all "ooooh we need a meritocracy" until the wrong people have merit and then it's like "oooh we need to protect us." Trans kids deserve a chance play in sports because EVERYONE deserves a chance to play in sports and nobody should lose that chance because they're disfavored by bigots.

Remember these draconian Prairieland sentences when people talk about the importance of using the criminal system for "justice." A system is what it does; nothing more.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

The Prairieland demonstrators got maximum sentences from two Texas federal judges this morning – they're ordered to serve them consecutively. The lowest sentence was 30 years, for a man not at the protest, but who was convicted of concealing documents talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges

Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...

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I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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Happy Juneteenth! It costs 0$ to repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more! Store: Bibipins.com