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Forthcoming: The Common Online
Past LA Rev. of Books Publishing Fellow
Abortion Access Advocate
Opinions my own
In a recently published piece, S. Elizabeth Sigler (@seliz_iswriting) reviews Christine Lai’s debut novel “Landscapes,” unpacking its intricate connections between art, personal experiences, and societal reflections.
Read the full piece online now:
https://t.co/qjUeyPWi8A
Billboard trucks are circling Albany to promote a supposedly “popular” mask ban. If this policy is so popular, why spend six figures marketing it? Let’s talk about UnmaskHateNY’s misleading ads and how we can stop anti-mask legislation from passing. 🧵
https://t.co/IpkUmy0JTV
USAID's stop-work order threatens to undo decades of progress in medical research ethics and cause harm to clinical trial participants. https://t.co/yhzuHxoOQG
Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month.
Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.
TikTok being both the only mainstream platform owned by non-US actors and the only platform to be banned in the US tells you how desperate and comprehensive US propaganda is.
The US government has to control every single part of what Americans see, read and hear.
Today NYC Mayor Eric Adams said he hoped recent events would accelerate implementation of a mask ban.
Reminder: There is no evidence that mask bans stop crime. Mask bans make cities more unsafe because preventing people from wearing masks increases the spread of diseases.
MAJOR VICTORY FOR CATS IN OHIO ❗
In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that Ohio's companion animal cruelty law (R.C. 959.131) protects ALL cats and dogs as "companion animals." Alley Cat Allies filed an amicus brief which helped inform the Court’s decision.
The NHS is warning people in the UK about the ease at which this COVID variant is spreading and that they’re still contagious for at least 10 days.
Meanwhile, the CDC wants us at work and kids in school while infectious for the sake of record profits.
https://t.co/6Q2f239eW5
Universal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.
Greta stopped being a media darling when she started connecting climate to capitalism. Now that she connects climate to colonialism and genocide, she has fallen outside the acceptable bounds of corporate media altogether.
This rundown seems like a good time to remind Ohioans that nearly 80% of us live in legislative districts whose general election outcomes are already determined before a single vote is cast thanks to illegal gerrymandering.
Vote #YesOn1 to deliver us the #FairMaps we deserve.
🧵1/6: As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has declined a call from Vice President Kamala Harris offering federal assistance. The Category 5 storm is expected to cause catastrophic damage along Florida’s west coast.
https://t.co/15qNHOOdQF
BREAKING: scientists say global warming is now becoming so extreme and non-linear that combined with habitat destruction, pollution, and overkilling of species it threatens collapse in the natural world including human systems within years not decades 🧵
People facing desperate danger often find great courage to help each other. This was in the capital of Moldova 2 days ago.
We're all now facing desperate dangers from #ClimateCatastrophe but the politicians who should be taking decisive action to help are looking the other way.
After my boyfriend and I voted for @nanwhaley to be Gov. of OH, we walked home from the polling place without incident. He did not turn into a woman.
Wait... does that mean his vote wasn't accurately recorded? Is this the "voting fraud" conservatives worry about? (sarcasm ofc).
Trump: I don’t even know the people who drafted Project 2025!
Trump with his Director of White House Personnel and architect of Project 2025 John McEntee.