Kirby
@kirbytheawsum.bsky.social
Vermiculture worm mom. Public Healther. International politics & law follower. Art & music appreciator. Community cheerleader. Baggage mostly religious but not angry, just disappointed. Opinions my own.
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NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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Ending soon!
Don't miss our Cyber Monday flash sale—20% off all in stock books online using the code CYBER at checkout. Today only! Load up on books while supporting radical space in Baltimore: redemmas.org/books
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Ending soon!
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Thank you for this.
Here's the ICE "Arrests" data charted by month and "criminality" status.
Here's the ICE "Arrests" data charted by month and "criminality" status.
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thank you for this.
Here's the ICE "Arrests" data charted by month and "criminality" status.
Here's the ICE "Arrests" data charted by month and "criminality" status.
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We launched a PAC!
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We launched a PAC!
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds.
The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful.
THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die.
1/n
I love that @pbsnews.org often ends their segments with a relevant fact or data to support what was covered (with citations!)
November 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I love that @pbsnews.org often ends their segments with a relevant fact or data to support what was covered (with citations!)
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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Why should I give a shit what this creepy con man "wants"? What *I* want is for everyone like him to be driven out of polite society, powerless and penniless. But I'm not going to get it because far too many gullible nitwits think they're harmless.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Why should I give a shit what this creepy con man "wants"? What *I* want is for everyone like him to be driven out of polite society, powerless and penniless. But I'm not going to get it because far too many gullible nitwits think they're harmless.
Australia is on its way to eliminating HPV cancers thanks to ~2 decades of childhood HPV vaccination through school immunization programs. Meanwhile the US is undermining vaccines. Every cost, disability, & death from HPV cancers in the next century is on this HHS admin's head.
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Australia is on its way to eliminating HPV cancers thanks to ~2 decades of childhood HPV vaccination through school immunization programs. Meanwhile the US is undermining vaccines. Every cost, disability, & death from HPV cancers in the next century is on this HHS admin's head.
In my top 5 books that I read this year. And important.
US sheriffs are a topic I think may of us are under-informed about even as they are relevant to our communities & on our ballots. I promise once you read this book you'll never think about them the same way.
US sheriffs are a topic I think may of us are under-informed about even as they are relevant to our communities & on our ballots. I promise once you read this book you'll never think about them the same way.
Thank you @vermontgmg.bsky.social for reading and recommending The Highest Law in the Land! It's available on Bookshop.org!
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I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In my top 5 books that I read this year. And important.
US sheriffs are a topic I think may of us are under-informed about even as they are relevant to our communities & on our ballots. I promise once you read this book you'll never think about them the same way.
US sheriffs are a topic I think may of us are under-informed about even as they are relevant to our communities & on our ballots. I promise once you read this book you'll never think about them the same way.
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Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Happening tonight: I'll be on PBS NewsHour Weekend talking about There Is No Place for Us and the roughly four million people—many of them powering, through their labor, the very companies raking in profits this weekend—who are experiencing homelessness in America right now.
I'm concerned this HHS admin is going to gut care for elder individuals & extract their wealth through wellness hacks, private industry guardianship, & institutionalization.
Goes along with the ambivalence towards elder deaths we heard in 2020 & the language of eugenics we hear now.
Goes along with the ambivalence towards elder deaths we heard in 2020 & the language of eugenics we hear now.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm concerned this HHS admin is going to gut care for elder individuals & extract their wealth through wellness hacks, private industry guardianship, & institutionalization.
Goes along with the ambivalence towards elder deaths we heard in 2020 & the language of eugenics we hear now.
Goes along with the ambivalence towards elder deaths we heard in 2020 & the language of eugenics we hear now.
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We seem to be able to identify scab technology when we see it
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We seem to be able to identify scab technology when we see it
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Amazon who? @bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend!
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Amazon who? @bookshop.org has free shipping all weekend!
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An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
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The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
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US anti-abortion groups are stepping up efforts to influence UK reproductive rights. In a new blog, Louise Knights-McCudden, Head of External Affairs, breaks down what’s happening - and why we can't be complacent.
Read more: https://ow.ly/fv8w50Xy16N
Read more: https://ow.ly/fv8w50Xy16N
US anti-choice movement: how does it impact us in the UK? - MSI Reproductive Choices UK
US-based anti-choice groups are attempting to influence reproductive rights in the UK. How can we stand together to protect them?
ow.ly
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
US anti-abortion groups are stepping up efforts to influence UK reproductive rights. In a new blog, Louise Knights-McCudden, Head of External Affairs, breaks down what’s happening - and why we can't be complacent.
Read more: https://ow.ly/fv8w50Xy16N
Read more: https://ow.ly/fv8w50Xy16N
I really appreciated this nuanced look cannabis use.
The benefits, the risks. A listen for everyone and to inform how we talk to people, and especially, adolescents about it.
open.spotify.com/episode/67pg...
The benefits, the risks. A listen for everyone and to inform how we talk to people, and especially, adolescents about it.
open.spotify.com/episode/67pg...
Cannabis and Cannabinoids for Therapeutic Purposes
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I really appreciated this nuanced look cannabis use.
The benefits, the risks. A listen for everyone and to inform how we talk to people, and especially, adolescents about it.
open.spotify.com/episode/67pg...
The benefits, the risks. A listen for everyone and to inform how we talk to people, and especially, adolescents about it.
open.spotify.com/episode/67pg...
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Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
Number of women incarcerated around the world rising at nearly three times the rate of men, with female prisoners often subjected to sexual violence and forced labour
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
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"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
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November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"a debilitated CDC unable to protect the health of the American people."
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www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.com
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u