Kyla

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Primary care pediatric nurse practitioner, mommay, friend, UU, runner, singer
#VaccinesWork

Profile pic: Tiffany Aching, by Paul Kidby, for the cover of The Shepherd's Crown. https://www.paulkidby.com/paintings/

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WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR there is no daddy potus magic there is no special counsel daddy magic If someone is going to make change it is us. A sustained grassroots effort that lasts years. All of us. This is the only way out.

The response to "Can they do that?" is "Who's going to stop them?"

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Latest: An analysis of open source evidence, as well as multiple missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07...

Russian Missile Identified in Kyiv Children’s Hospital Attack - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com An analysis of open source evidence, as well as missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv.

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‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Weekwww.theonion.com The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

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This couldn't be better timed, since folks are feeling demoralized. Hard as it may be to believe, but politics can be good for mental health. Authors Emily Amick and Sami Sage explain how in their new book. Check out my interview with Emily! www.salon.com/2024/07/09/p...

"Action is the antidote to despair": Getting politically engaged is a form of self-carewww.salon.com In "Democracy in Retrograde," Emily Amick and Sami Sage argue activism can be good for mental health

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Once again: The actual POTUS doesn't do a lot. Who they (*groans* he) tap(s) for key staff jobs, however, is critical and winds up having a profound impact on policy and the running of this joint. The amount things don't fall apart matters. Project 2025 REALLY SOFA KING MATTERS, friends

I want to be clear that I'm not some huge Biden stan. He has been far better than I expected, but I don't ultimately care that much which Dem is in the White House in 2025, just so long as it's a Dem

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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can someone start a dashboard counting number of NYT stories on Biden's age and NYT reporters assigned to the topic?

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ryan cooper

"The latest estimates suggest that roughly 2% of all Russian men aged between 20 and 50 may have been either killed or severely wounded in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war." Jesus

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Last Week Tonight made the most important point about Project 2025: it does for the entire administration what the Federalist Society did for his court picks. A Matrix download connecting how MAGA freaks will be efficient enough to execute a 1000-page playbook with Trump’s undeniable harm (Dobbs).

‎How are you feeling about democracy?: “Explaining Project 2025” with Don Moynihan on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show How are you feeling about democracy?, Ep “Explaining Project 2025” with Don Moynihan - Jul 5, 2024

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Scammers are swiping billions from Americans every year. Worse, most crooks are getting away with it apnews.com/article/scam...

Scammers are swiping billions from Americans every year. Worse, most crooks are getting away with itapnews.com Sophisticated overseas criminals are stealing tens of billions of dollars from Americans every year, a crime wave projected to get worse as the U.S. population ages and technology makes it easier to s...

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I think billboards highlighting each chapter of Project 2025 placed in specific locations. For example the chapter on gutting military benefits should have billboards on highways near big military bases. Plans for destroying Social Security have billboards all over in Arizona and Florida.

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The Party of Intentionally Starving Children

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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the apocalypse is ongoing. it’s been happening since before we were born. if you’re waiting for some irrefutable tipping point to do something different; it’s not going to happen

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Read this, share this widely

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

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The story this woman tells is not uncommon. The abuser puts the child in a position of having some stability for their family as long the child submits and doesn’t tell. Everyone who knew about this should be publicly shamed and disqualified from running for office. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Jeffrey Epstein introduced me to Trump at 14, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser sayswww.nbcnews.com Testifying at Maxwell’s trial in New York City, the woman, identified by the pseudonym Jane, said she met the former president in the 1990s at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

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From this article pushing back against attacks on researchers working on mis- and disinformation: “We specifically urge academics to not be silenced by voices that push back against evidence-informed argumentation under the guise of free speech.”

Read and share this important new piece in Nature, from authors including @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and @naomioreskes.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might thinkwww.nature.com In today’s polarized political climate, researchers who combat mistruths have come under attack and been labelled as unelected arbiters of truth. But the fight against misinformation is valid, warrant...

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New from me for Wired: read the extremely mild story that caused a vice presidential candidate to lightly dox me for some reason www.wired.com/story/nicole...

Nicole Shanahan Is Just Getting Startedwww.wired.com Phenomenal wealth and a penchant for pseudoscience related to autism and vaccines have put Nicole Shanahan in position to do far more consequential things than being RFK Jr.'s running mate.

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remember when the CIA disguised spies as vaccination workers in the middle east? the resulting public distrust and violence helped set back polio eradication by *decades*

The Pentagon ran hundreds of Twitter accounts that lied about the covid vaccine to spread anti-China sentiment in Asia and the Middle East.

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

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Deliberately undermining one of the most powerful tools against the threat of global pandemics from novel emerging infectious diseases is not only evil — it’s stunningly shortsighted zero-sum thinking that puts the US population at risk as well. www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Today I found out that I am scheduling now into mid-December. I am supposed to see about half of my patient load every three mos. This is not a way to take good care of people.

The healthcare workforce shortage isn’t coming, it’s already here. There aren't enough healthcare workers in many sectors & regions, and too many of the ones who are left are sick of bad work conditions. And the consequences? As of today, 83 million Americans don't even have access to primary care.

The health care workforce crisis is already herewww.axios.com Burned-out health care providers are headed for the exits — or fighting back.

Lone Skum has bags of money and buys stuff; that's it.

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Obsessing over the polls is pointless. These people are going to pull out all the stops to steal this election. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Allies Sue to Allow Election Officials to Refuse to Certify Resultswww.rollingstone.com The America First Policy Institute is representing an election-denying election official who wants the discretion to refuse to certify results.

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New comic: How to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee. Thanks watchingbees.com for the help! Support me on Patreon for more content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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Lab leak is comforting because it's easy to have someone to blame and it's easy to say, well we won't do THAT again. The reality that this is likely going to happen again because of climate change and encroaching on ecosystems is discomforting.