E. Jiji

New Yorker. Mostly lurking.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

The state where science is something you scrape off your boot before entering the legislature..

Well… praise be. Miracles do happen.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Speaker Gingrich was too busy cheating on his dying wife to speak out when Rudy Giuliani asked New Yorkers to do this in the 1990s.

[chris cross big apple sauce 🍎🗽🍕🥯 @notchrisvolpe]

Hey @CitiBikeNYC if you’re wondering why you have a bunch of bikes with bent frames at the southeast corner of 63rd and 3rd, as if they got hit with a truck, it’s cause they did get hit by a truck that parked literally on top of them

[Dave Stein @DaveSteinSays]

This article is nearly ten years old. It describes how the @bkdems ran the party. I joined county committee about ten years ago and this was my first meeting. Last night, reformers finally took the majority of 22 out of 42 district leader seats. Winning against power takes patience and determination. Thank you @newkingsdems @BKYoungDems @LIDbrooklyn @BklynCantWait

https://t.co/P4zzq7iDRQ

[Michael Magazine @that_mmagazine]

@yuhline has been one of the most important voices and presences we have as a movement.

She laid the groundwork to take down Goldman and Cuomo, and I'm confident that in the shadow of our victories you can find her smile, laugh, and leadership.

Wish she won, but proud she tried

[NYC Board of Elections @BOENYC]

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[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.”

A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group.

Following along for receipts.

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[Leela Gray @LeelaJGray]

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure.

Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years.

Gone.

This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway.

For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't.

Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled.

#LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray

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[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

Well New York, after Jared Polis grotesquely vetoed the Colorado bill banning surveillance pricing, its up to you to pass the first in the nation ban.

Support @EmeritaTorresNY critical effort!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Ok, so, three artists have already dropped out and I’m going to explain WHY this continues to happen and how this all works. When these people try to hire you for an event, they go through an LLC or a promoter. That promoter isn’t told what the whole event is or the LLC is an innocuous shell
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[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Fun fact for the $10 billion lawsuit crowd.

The IRS leak that exposed Donald Trump’s tax returns happened between August 2019 and November 2020.

405,427 other taxpayer returns were also leaked.

Trump was president. His own pick, Charles Rettig, ran the IRS. The contractor who did it, Charles Littlejohn, worked on a Trump-era IRS contract and is now serving five years in federal prison.

On January 29, 2026, Trump sued the IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over a breach that happened on his watch, under his commissioner, by a contractor his administration paid.

He is suing the federal government he ran, for failing to stop a leak that occurred while he was running it.

The taxpayer foots the bill either way.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump didn’t sue the IRS, and the DOJ didn’t agree to anything as part of the settlement.

Trump controls both.

He’s using the presidency to steal $1.8 billion from taxpayers to launder to his friends to ensure their loyalty.

This isn’t complicated.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The IDs you need to:
- buy alcohol
- withdraw money at the bank
- fly domestically
- check into a hotel
- rent a car

... are not accepted forms of ID under the SAVE America Act.

Republicans are lying about their bill because you'd never support it if they were honest about it.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Part of the reason many clinicians hesitate to engage with the possibility that Long Covid is highly prevalent is because medicine is still heavily anchored to what can be objectively measured, standardized, coded, and reimbursed. If there isn’t a definitive biomarker panel, a universally accepted diagnostic algorithm, or a clean clinical test result, many providers become reluctant to fully acknowledge the scale of the problem.

I understand that instinct. Science requires rigor. I’m a scientist too. But science is also supposed to investigate signals before they become impossible to ignore.

Right now, we have converging evidence across immunology, neurology, vascular biology, exercise physiology, imaging, and epidemiology suggesting that post-viral dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 is real, heterogeneous, and likely far more common than many institutions are comfortable admitting. We also have millions of patient narratives describing remarkably similar patterns of impairment following infection. Dismissing all of that simply because we lack a single gold-standard blood test is not skepticism. At some point, it becomes avoidance.

Medicine has historically struggled with conditions that were initially difficult to quantify or mechanistically explain: ME/CFS, dysautonomia, concussion syndromes, autoimmune disorders, chronic pain conditions, even ulcers before Helicobacter pylori was accepted. Patients often suffer for years in the gap between “something is wrong” and “the system has decided it counts.”

What makes this especially disturbing is that many patients aren’t just dealing with symptoms. They’re dealing with dismissal, minimization, gaslighting, loss of employment, fractured relationships, and physicians who implicitly treat the absence of a biomarker as evidence that nothing is happening.

I have no answers but I’ve never seen so much enduring illness in my life. When students are sick, they’re now sick for months. The theme song for the era is an REM cover, “Everybody [Coughs]” and you’re just immune to the sound.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

You don’t have to show ID to eat at a restaurant.

The ID you show to drink at a restaurant isn’t an approved ID under the SAVE America Act.

If the SAVE America Act was a voter ID bill, it would provide voter IDs, but instead, it restricts eligible voters from voting.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

And of course it’s the fifth circuit that decides for women everywhere in the country, Mifepristone no longer available unless you can pick it up in person. Reminder: in Dobbs, the court said this should be up to each state. That’s not what this does. https://t.co/8P1y7h8YKm

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If we had a bigger newsroom, an investigation into this lawyer Tim Parlatore would be something we’d have done by now. He found a loophole to work for the Pentagon under Hegseth without having to leave private practice by becoming a Naval reserve officer.

It’s insane. He represents people suing the Pentagon while working at the Pentagon, takes money from officers who want promotions from Hegseth, and works for god-knows-who-else. Good line of questioning here

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

The state employee who drew up @GovRonDeSantis' redistricting map just said that he used party affiliation to do it.

The map, in theory, gives 4 more seats to Republicans, giving them 85% of congressional seats.

Republicans make up 39% of Florida voters.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I’m leaving the Capitol at 4am after Republicans rammed through a vote paving a path for $70B to fund ICE for years without any reforms/accountability. They rejected all Dem proposals to lower your healthcare costs, housing, and gas prices. Spread the word. We need to stop this.