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The longer I work with kids, the more I come to understand that the most critical factors in a child's learning/success are a full belly, a safe home, a good night's rest, and a home that values education. Everything else is tinkering.

$35 MEDICATIONS RN URGENT! Disabled chronically ill parents. They're in Disability application process. Only their brother *can* work so he's job hunting RN. 4 ppl $10 each does meds. 20 more ppl $10 each keeps food in the house. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

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Martha Lillard was that last known person living in an iron lung. Guess what killed her? Long COVID. Unprevented contagious disease screwed Martha Lillard over at pretty much BOTH ends of her life (she caught polio when she was like 4 or 5).

We have to get real about this and reinforce to young women and girls that this kind of transformation isn't something to aspire to. I am telling you, this trend is going to kill people, and it requires actual cultural resistance.

I miss the trending topics on Twitter where you could parachute into some other subculture's low-stakes but insanely juicy drama. I just got super bad news and wanted to cheer myself up, but on bluesky my options are childhood vaccination or more Trump "news".

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.

I'm not sure I like this hidradenitis suppurativa rep...

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. So just the normal introduction then?

I'm seeing a lot of people invoke the figure of the intersex person in current discourse on sex and gender, especially in relation to the UK government's anti-trans segregation regime. But the actual voices of actual people are getting lost. This buried report offers vital evidence to counter that.

Anne Frank died of typhus in a camp much like the ones Trump & co are running today.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

A transparent public examination of the true failures of the pandemic is critical. Not the anti-vax silliness, but hard science: the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand essential basic concepts of airborne transmission highlighted by the UK COVID Inquiry. It happened here too. 🧵:

Breaking: @markey.senate.gov continues to lift up the significant concerns with KOSA raised by LGBTQ+ youth and human rights groups. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-08...

One important detail: Gerika said that she is questioned in bathrooms regularly (a common experience for many queer women). But in most cases, she tells the person she's a girl and they leave her alone. In this case, she felt she had to prove it. www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

my sons' school started using AI this year and both of them had to go to each of their teachers with a presentation about blatantly obvious falsehoods in the curriculum. not even counting my youngest's math teacher using it for grading. he had to get EVERY assignment regraded because it was so bad

We're in an air quality crisis in Oregon right now. I am constructing air filters for those who need them. Cost for a whole- house filter is about $80. If you can afford it, please reach out to fund more air filters for others.

You can basically line up a map of immigrant detention centers with the covid outbreak map. To be clear, this is because the conditions and health care are so poor in these prisons it fules outbreaks, not because immigrants are dirty or however the Rs would frame it.

Every single Republican and gender critical person, including JK Rowling, supports this happening to you. They brag about building a future in which this type of humilating incident is common.

These guys won’t stand up for the daughter of a Republican US Senator and they’ll never stand up for your daughter. But they will send some goon to inspect her crotch.

I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.

Fellow southerner here, and this is only like 10% exaggerated

One of the striking things about studying sexual violence is realizing how many people became abolitionists *because* they were victims of crime.

"what can I do?" Call your reps and tell them to vote no on the Online Safety bill package because things will get worse the more censorship laws are allowed to pass. Tell your reps that payment processors must allow legal content. Go yell at youtube for their shitty TOS.

I have grown tired of the workwear guy. He is paying the world’s richest Nazi for the privilege of a blue check in order to provide sassy engagement in the replies of a notorious sex trafficking serial rapist. These are the actions of a dunderheaded fool

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Charts for dinner is the left wing I identify as an attack helicopter now, apparently.

This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.

There are a lot of well-meaning guidelines on suicide prevention that frankly should not apply when the government is intentionally causing a suicide epidemic in a specific minority population.

ICYMI: Research shows abortion is safe for all body sizes, but arbitrary BMI limits at clinics push some patients into different care and higher costs. This story was originally reported by @19thnews.org, and republished through RNG‘s partnership with The 19th News Network.

if a democrat used a racial slur, would we still need to get behind that democrat because "the republicans are worse"? i can tell you that as a black person, i would not. there are things more important than party identity. why are we asking transgender people to do any different?

Flock's platform is far more powerful and invasive than they and police pretend when they are at town halls talking to the public. You just need to look at what it's actually used for and how they teach cops to use it to see that: www.404media.co/how-cops-use...

For a lot of folks who "poop weird after Taco Bell," it's bc Taco Bell is their main source of fiber. 💀 Some people also like to pair Taco Bell with lots of ethanol. But "I drank so much I pooped crazy" sounds like YOU have a problem, & "Haha Taco Bell gross" sounds like *Taco Bell* has a problem