"We treat those Bill of Rights as inalienable, but the further you get from a white, heterosexual, cisgender man, the more you have to fight for those rights." Roxane Gay on the 2nd Amendment's application to Black gun owners
A great SAT score is actually not that important.
In fact, institutions of higher education are aware that the SAT is MORE accurate at predicting a student’s socioeconomic status than it is at predicting intelligence, academic ability, or college readiness.
The brain and #LongCovid
https://t.co/kRS3MLXK5F a 5★ summary by @WesElyMD
Evidence/paths -> neuroinflammation
"The science makes it increasingly clear that covid-19 turns on inflammation and alters the nervous system even when the virus itself seems to be long gone."
@Aero_Gante @hilaryagro I think it'd be pretty fair to politicians to make the median income of their country. If the average Canadian makes 55k, why are the representatives of the average Canadians making >100k?
@BCDreyer My daughter-in-law is an MD working at Cleveland Clinic in infectious disease medicine and she says they are seeing more and more cases of incurable antibiotic resistant syphilis. Truly, a public health nightmare.
A Supreme Court code of ethics is an absolute no-brainer. Since the justices won’t address the problem, here’s a solution: Congress can pass my Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act. It’s clearly time.
And how I swear a vast majority of politicians get elected: on some journalist's definition of "handsome" leading up to "how my mayor/rep./senator/governor should look" (more complicated algorithm for female candidates).
“These are the casualties of the single most violent and destructive force in history—the lie that the only value life has is the wealth that can be forcefully extracted from it.”
—@lacymjohnson in @Orion_Magazine
https://t.co/HwRfrGryl0