Jack of Bears [🐻-J-🐻]

~ Social Justice Cleric & Pagan Papa Bear Extraordinaire. ~ - he/him/they/y’all - Hermes | Heimdall

[Jack of Bears [🐻-J-🐻] @jackofbears]

Even more than leakers, we need brave, sharp, & reliable public figures. Folks to center us in coherent community power & lead forthrightly.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I wish people understood intelligence with the same nuance that they understand athletics. Every baseball fan knows that pitchers don't make great batters because that's not what they train for, but they have a hard time understanding that a computer wiz can't run the government.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

I genuinely don’t get why we haven’t put air filters in every classroom in America

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

Love when people say "the data speaks for itself" as if we didn't spend centuries specifically developing statistical methods because data absolutely does not speak for itself.

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

Ever wonder why we call Christmas “Yuletide”?

This ancient word comes from a time when winter nights belonged to ghosts, sacred drinking, and all-night goddess worship.

And yet traces of the old Yule remain in modern Christmas.

Here's the story the carols don't tell you...

[Josh Ellis @jzellis]

One of the most interesting things that happened during the pandemic that we all conveniently forgot was how absolutely terrified governments and industry were when we stopped spending all our money buying consumer goods from them, so much so that they gave us money to spend.

[Noha Aboelata, MD @NohaAboelataMD]

First US case of H5N1 in a child has been confirmed in Alameda County. Good news: child reportedly doing well and no apparent human-human spread (even in household and daycare). Bad news: no identified source, and H5N1 continues to progress unchecked.
https://t.co/Hf7GYyTPlk

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

A thread on #BlackPlastic. Black plastic refers to products made of plastic coloured black due to the addition of carbon black. The latter is produced by the partial combustion of petroleum products. It’s to make the plastic stiffer and less likely to degrade. 1/n

[revival.care @RevivalCare]

Kids have been back in school for years. The “lockdown” learning loss was estimated well under 1 year.

Stop looking for excuses. It’s brain damage.

Letting kids be continuously infected with a neuroinvasive virus is bad for cognition.

https://t.co/RPhu1lHEoa

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

George Lucas in 1999 centering the Phantom Menace around space tariffs:

[Michael Caley @MC_of_A]

a lot of media executives thought a second trump term would be another gravy train

but the lib reaction this time has been very very different and the desire to watch this fucking bullshit happen happen again is just not there

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

Reminder: any hint of a line is a positive result (like a pregnancy test) and that a false positive on a rapid antigen test is far less likely than a false negative.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

That’s right. I just introduced legislation requiring Director of National intelligence and other national security positions to disclose any finance transactions with foreign governments. We wrote this bill well before Nov 5. This is not about politics, it’s about our security.

[Arturo Portnoy @portna]

Unless you have been masking and distancing religiously since the pandemic began, you've had COVID.

Even among those who have been protecting themselves zealously, many have had at least one bout with COVID.

Zombies proclaiming they've never had COVID are LYING.

[chantzy @chantz_y]

Get your Covid & flu shots - they might keep you out of the hospital. But don't pretend they will prevent you from getting Covid or the flu at a holiday gathering

[danita @danitasteinberg]

a person wearing a mask came up to my friend and I wearing our masks and said “hello fellow smart people” and I just think us maskers should all start doing that more

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

FEMA's on the brink of running out of funds—but instead of coming up with solutions to help pass emergency disaster relief for Americans hurt by Helene and Milton, @OversightGOP spent a hearing spreading conspiracy theories and playing politics.

We're sick of it. Fund @fema now.

[Jamie 📖🩸 @followingmybody]

I wish OBs actually kept up with the damn research…. My Google doc is 4 pages long so far