Katie B.

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Artist, old, wired like an engineer, aut+ADHD, like to cook, mobility impaired. The first song I remember dancing to in public was Shotgun, by Junior Walker and the Allstars. (https://open.spotify.com/track/2Zk0eoq7d6Vw0fRVRXPWnc)

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Rest in power : www.koin.com/news/ap-dr-r...

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96www.koin.com NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was…

Grifter health insurance companies be grifting. www.wonkette.com/p/nations-be...

Nation's Beloved Health Insurance Companies Might Be Scamming Medicare? That Can't Be Right!www.wonkette.com And therefore scamming us.

Theme for a new day: open.spotify.com/track/5UMy7M...

Theme For A New Dayopen.spotify.com Listen to Theme For A New Day on Spotify. Azar Lawrence · Song · 2023.

Remembering the good old days when I used to so look forward to reading the NYT. Just right wing trash, anymore. www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

'Wildly irresponsible': NY Times blasted over debunked Parkinson’s doctor 'innuendo'www.alternet.org The New York Times is under fire after publishing a report Monday critics call “wildly irresponsible” and “not journalism,” which – at least in its headlines – implies President Biden has Parkinson’s,...

Lancet publishes an estimate of Gaza genocide. www.reddit.com/r/LateStageC...

Hoping for this, and soon. www.thedailybeast.com/its-time-to-...

It’s Time to Get Used to the Idea of President Kamala Harriswww.thedailybeast.com If Kamala Harris runs, she has a very good chance of winning, given Donald Trump’s grotesque defects—and her strengths.

Polluters subsidized by depression. A public health injustice. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Environmental Toxicant Exposure and Depressive Symptomsjamanetwork.com This cross-sectional study examines the association between environmental toxicant exposure and depressive symptoms in a population of US adults using an

Another case of responsibles looking the other way on CTE. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/u...

Pattern of Brain Damage Is Pervasive in Navy SEALs Who Died by Suicidewww.nytimes.com A military lab found distinctive damage from repeated blast exposure in every brain it tested, but Navy SEAL leaders were kept in the dark about the pattern.

From the "things that make enormous sense but aren't happening because capitalism" department. www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11...

'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years | Common Dreamswww.commondreams.org "Medicare for All promises a system that is fairer, more efficient, and vastly less expensive than America's bloated, monopolized, over-priced and under-performing private health insurance system."

More Portland music history. www.opb.org/article/2024...

Influential Portland band Pleasure headlines Oregon Juneteenth Festivalwww.opb.org Portland band Pleasure helped to shape the sound for the 1970s by combining jazz, R&B, funk and soul. Pleasure will be headlining the 52nd Annual Oregon Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 15, 2024,...

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Well played, Netflix. Well played.

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I'm also on Cara have you tried it yet?

Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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I’ve got my kid on lock to scream “I AM TWELVE YOU CREEP” at any man right now

Teach your daughters not to be nice. Fuck it. NOT NICE. Loud. “Get the fuck away from me/Don’t fucking touch me like that” loud. I’d rather cut out my larynx than ever politely laugh my way through the things I’ve had to politely laugh my way through again. I wanna smash the word demure w a hammer.

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Established in 1878 as a reformatory confining women for the crime of having children out of wedlock, by the 1970s much of the prison’s population were being held on counts of shoplifting and sex work, or as accomplices to crimes of male companions.

Vintage polaroids of female prisoners paint an intimate picture of womanhood and identity | CNNwww.cnn.com Snapshots taken in the 1970s show women wearing their own clothes and posing in cells embellished with personal effects, much like a college dorm room.

Yes: Frothy, fun and hard to resist: is Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso the song of the summer?

Another injustice waiting for remedy. www.wonkette.com/p/it-is-long...

It Is Long Past Time To Free Leonard Peltierwww.wonkette.com We should be humiliated, as a nation, that we have allowed this injustice to go on for so long.

Confess to my shame that I didn't know of this important scholar of non-violent mass resistance. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US civil rights hero James Lawson dies at 95www.bbc.com Dr Martin Luther King praised Lawson as chief strategist of racial equality protests in the 1960s.

What getting it right would look like, and only greed prevents. phys.org/news/2024-06...

Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions, analysis suggestsphys.org Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis published June 7 in the journal Cell...

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151 days until the 2024 General Elections, November 5, 2024. #CripTheVote

Students need clean air.

Cleaning the air in classrooms increases test scores. (Plus it protects against Covid). Medsky

Reducing Indoor Particulate Air Pollution Improves Student Test Scores: A Randomized Double-Blind Crossover Studypubs.acs.org Short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with a decline in cognitive function. Standardized test scores have been employed to evaluate the effects of air pollution exposure on cognitive perf...

I'm one.

19 million, and that’s probably still hugely underreported

Solidarity! www.france24.com/en/asia-paci...

Samsung workers in South Korea stage first-ever strike over paywww.france24.com Workers at tech giant Samsung Electronics in South Korea staged the first strike at the company on Friday, the head of a major union representing tens of thousands of people told AFP.

Not acceptable.

"Two UN organisations said more than 1 million people were “expected to face death and starvation” by mid-July." One million people. I just can't even. One million people.

Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies saywww.theguardian.com Extreme hunger taking huge toll, say food security reports, regardless of delays to possible declaration of famine

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Here's another important thread from (again) an actual expert in the virology of coronaviruses addressing Monday's shockingly irresponsible opinion piece in the @nytimes.com This was the same day that MTG told Dr. Fauci he belonged in prison in a congressional hearing -- coincidence?

When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis. In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin. It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in. 🧵

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US and 16 other countries whose citizens were taken hostage urge Hamas and Israel to ‘close this deal’ #CNN https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/06/politics/hamas-israel-hostages-ceasefire-countries-statement

Fiat lux. www.hrw.org/news/2024/06...

Leading Scholars Call for Global Treaty on Free Educationwww.hrw.org Seventy eminent scholars, experts, and researchers from 30 countries have called for a new international treaty to recognize children’s rights to free early childhood education and free secondary educ...

UN body calls for treaty on elder rights. www.hrw.org/news/2024/05...

UN Body Recommends New Treaty on Older People’s Rightswww.hrw.org In a historic decision last week, a longstanding United Nations body recognized that the international human rights system doesn’t fully protect older people’s rights, and it recommended a new human r...

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@Reuters: A Pennsylvania judge slashed a $2.25 billion US verdict against Bayer to $400 million for a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company's Roundup weedkiller https://t.co/3bHNbsJV37

Shame. f24.my/ANhB

UN expresses deep concern over new US asylum limitsf24.my The United Nations said it was "profoundly concerned" by the new asylum restrictions on the US-Mexico border unveiled Tuesday by US President Joe Biden and urged Washington to think again.

Sweet memorial to Bill Walton from the ever-elequent Kareem. kareem.substack.com/p/bill-walto...

Bill Walton was My Rival, My Brother, and My Close Friendkareem.substack.com He had wanted to be more like me on the court‌ and I wanted to be more like him off the court.