mandy

avid red velvet enthusiast | she/her/hers

[herman milly rock @Eyoyism]

in the great country of chicago a man comes in with the best tamales you’ve ever had in your life

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[c 🍒 @cynthiajpeg]

Chicago Marie Illinois, ima need you to make up your mind on this weather girl

[MikeClarkPreps @mikeclarkpreps]

You know you’re from Chicago when you go outside, it’s 15 degrees, sunny and not windy, and you think, “This isn’t so bad.”

[Leah (Prime) 🦊 @leahprime]

you are allowed to say, at any point, ‘I can't support this.’

even if you did. even if you were unsure.

you can say ‘this has gone too far.’ and while the best time to say that was earlier, the second best time is now.

[degenerate cesspool whore @grumpygremmy]

watching the entire world rapid-fire disintegrate before your very eyes while the majority of people around you are acting like nothing is happening is the most terrifying and infuriating thing i've ever experienced

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

If you can get beaten over your 1st amendment right, and murdered over your 2nd amendment right, you have no rights.

[caroline 🪴 @hrryingreen]

harry said get to the club, girl

[reb @rebmasel]

I don’t care what happens tattoo this on my forehead

[shaggy-haired musicians stan 🦋 @caffeinette]

Fangirl All The Time, Work Occasionally.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The ‘doesn’t stop transmission’ argument only makes sense if you believe the sole purpose of vaccination is herd immunity. This is a goalpost shift designed to disqualify most vaccines.

DTaP protects against three diseases that can kill or seriously harm children. Tetanus doesn’t even transmit person-to-person, so the ‘doesn’t stop transmission’ framing is incoherent from the start. Transmission interruption is one benefit of some vaccines, not the threshold for recommendation.

And the ‘insurance still covers them’ dismissal ignores how vaccination actually works in practice. Coverage isn’t access. When vaccines move from routine to shared decision-making, they disappear from the electronic health record prompts that remind providers to vaccinate. We have a decade of data: MenACWY, routinely recommended, has 89% uptake. MenB, shared decision-making, has 30% uptake. Same disease, same age group. The difference is the recommendation category.

Siri knows this. The framing is designed to sound reasonable while smuggling in a premise that would dismantle the entire schedule if accepted. By this logic, we shouldn’t recommend seatbelts because they don’t prevent car accidents.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

YEAR ONE MAHA:
1. Measles returns to America
2. Pertussis returns to America
3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns
4. Pandemic preparedness gone
5. Swung & missed on autism
6. CDC disassembled
7. Biotech industry shutting down
8. Brain drain underway

[maria ౨ৎ @scardofmyguitar]

i fear a lot of people in my life rn haven’t known me at a time in history when harry styles has been active and they’re about to meet an entirely different side of me

[novalis @FOMO_sacer]

Weirdest week since early COVID

[erika @yeeeerika]

heading into winter with cautious optimism and a cute sweater

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

The most infuriating part of all this is how the press crucified @JoeBiden and his team over every word, every pause, every damn policy detail — but now they’re giving Trump and his unhinged crew a free pass on nearly everything.

It’s pathetic. The double standard couldn’t be more obvious.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump is admitting that he’s going to use the US military, on US soil, against US citizens — calling those who protest him and stand up against his attacks on our communities and democracy the “enemy from within.”

Whether you agree with the term is irrelevant.

This is fascism.