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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, SFO — why aren’t you in this list?

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

Ok, SFO — why aren’t you in this list?

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 8h

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

Not being very familiar with said costumes — you must need some sort of air pump to inflate them? Does a bike tire pump work?

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

Well, for some of us, it’s just our neighborhood gym…

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 7h

One of the ways we know the perinatal dose of Hepatitis B vaccine makes a difference? NHANES & the people who powered it

ACIP recommended the birth dose in 1991. The prevalence of Hepatitis B among children 6–19 years old declined 68% from 1988–1994 to 1999-2006.

academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes you just need to get a couple of prominent actors to overcome their fear, then enough others come on board to make it hard to punish everyone.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Solidarity is the only way

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

This is going to be the best October ever for costume retailers…

Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2h

This is going to be the best October ever for costume retailers…

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 15h

An unusually cold and strong early season storm will affect most of California over next 2 days. As rain sweeps southward, expect mountain snow, locally gusty winds, and a progressively higher chance of thunderstorms from north to south from SF Bay Area to LA region. #CAwx

Widespread rain (and mountain snow) will fall with this early-season storm in California, as depicted in this precipitation accumulation map from the ECMWF model. Widespread totals of one half to an inch are likely, with some local spots seeing double or more that amount where heavy downpours align.

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Matthew S. Bajko @politicalnotes.bsky.social · 12h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 15h

If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah, this is how I see it too. You have to look at the realistic alternatives available to most journalists — and that’s not staff writer for The Atlantic.

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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 20h

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

hq_who_departmentofcommunications.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gwgjl-...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1d

Pity they had rain for the nude bike ride, but as Portlanders, they’re probably used to it. BTW, this wasn’t devised as an ICE protest — it’s a long-standing tradition.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1d

I was afraid someone would start shooting or bombing again & the truce wouldn’t hold, but it looks like it’s finally happening.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Live updates: Hamas releases first 7 hostages as Trump arrives in Israel

President Donald Trump is due to meet with hostage families and address Israel’s Knesset, before heading to Egypt for an international summit on Gaza.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1d

+ the first weeks of 2021

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really remarkable how many people have memory-holed the fact that Trump was president in 2020.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 1d

This is like the gay hanky code — substantial regional variation. I recall white indicating white supremacist. And at least in some UK groups, red sometimes meant socialist/communist.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 1d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 2d

Laid off by mistake?! What kind of incompetents are running this show?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

Evidently, President Trump got all the proof he needs that vaccines are safe and effective. He voted with his arm yesterday and got the highly beneficial Covid and flu shots. Amid the sea of confusion RFKJ has generated about vaccines, all Americans should know that Trump is getting vaccinated.

Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 2d

Last month Trump said he wanted proof that COVID vaccines are effective. Yesterday, during his "semiannual" physical, Trump received a COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot.

That's because vaccines — which Trump's administration have made harder to get — work.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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