Maroon Phoenix
@maroonphoenix.bsky.social
It is all one fight. I’m on the side of the oppressed over the oppressor. Learn to tell the difference.
#LandBack #Enough #ProtectTransKids #TeamOrca #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir
#TaxWealthNotWork
#LandBack #Enough #ProtectTransKids #TeamOrca #CovidIsAirborne #CleanTheAir
#TaxWealthNotWork
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This whole conversation is propaganda to pay caregivers nothing and that grinds my gears in a very specific way.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This whole conversation is propaganda to pay caregivers nothing and that grinds my gears in a very specific way.
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Correction:
The world is not richer. A tiny number of people in it are.
The world is not richer. A tiny number of people in it are.
For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase.
Bill Gates to TIME: “It’s a tragedy that the world is richer, and yet because we have made disproportionate cuts to the money that helps the world’s poorest children, more of them are dying"
Bill Gates to TIME: “It’s a tragedy that the world is richer, and yet because we have made disproportionate cuts to the money that helps the world’s poorest children, more of them are dying"
For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise
The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.
time.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Correction:
The world is not richer. A tiny number of people in it are.
The world is not richer. A tiny number of people in it are.
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I find this exclusive focus on the Black elite odd, considering the role officials like Abigail Spanberger, Joe Biden, and Jacob Frey have had here in leading the way on pushing a return to carceral politics as well.
And yes, that is the Soviet, Stasi, Chinese Communist, and Israeli models imported into American cities by Black political elites, wrapped with "Black excellence" identitarianism
Any attempt to hold these petty tyrants accountable is conflated as an attack on "Blackness" and "equity"
Any attempt to hold these petty tyrants accountable is conflated as an attack on "Blackness" and "equity"
December 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I find this exclusive focus on the Black elite odd, considering the role officials like Abigail Spanberger, Joe Biden, and Jacob Frey have had here in leading the way on pushing a return to carceral politics as well.
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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Doing my morning reading, and want to call out @thebulwark.com, with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social (and others) for consistently smart takes that make me think.
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Doing my morning reading, and want to call out @thebulwark.com, with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social (and others) for consistently smart takes that make me think.
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Reporting showed no problem to be solved: There’s no evidence of a safety threat to women or children by allowing trans individuals to use the bathroom of their preference. Instead, There is substantive research these bills negatively impact trans individuals, including by harassment, and assault.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reporting showed no problem to be solved: There’s no evidence of a safety threat to women or children by allowing trans individuals to use the bathroom of their preference. Instead, There is substantive research these bills negatively impact trans individuals, including by harassment, and assault.
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Restricting same-sex couples was no longer politically tenable, said law professor Marie-Amelie George, but “trans rights issues were a really successful wedge issue that could bring people to the polls and lead to restrictions on not just trans rights but also gay, lesbian, bisexual rights.”
December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Restricting same-sex couples was no longer politically tenable, said law professor Marie-Amelie George, but “trans rights issues were a really successful wedge issue that could bring people to the polls and lead to restrictions on not just trans rights but also gay, lesbian, bisexual rights.”
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Many disabled people rely on these services to survive
We routinely get price gouged for accessibility
Now we’re being actively experimented upon for minmaxing profit & loss
Many of us are at mutual aid levels of poverty & they do this
Instacart & Skip aren’t luxuries for everyone
We routinely get price gouged for accessibility
Now we’re being actively experimented upon for minmaxing profit & loss
Many of us are at mutual aid levels of poverty & they do this
Instacart & Skip aren’t luxuries for everyone
In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Many disabled people rely on these services to survive
We routinely get price gouged for accessibility
Now we’re being actively experimented upon for minmaxing profit & loss
Many of us are at mutual aid levels of poverty & they do this
Instacart & Skip aren’t luxuries for everyone
We routinely get price gouged for accessibility
Now we’re being actively experimented upon for minmaxing profit & loss
Many of us are at mutual aid levels of poverty & they do this
Instacart & Skip aren’t luxuries for everyone
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The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, more children will be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some will lose their hearing. Some will die. Measles also costs hundreds of thousands dollars to treat.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
While Scientists Race To Study Spread of Measles in US, Kennedy Unravels Hard-Won Gains - KFF Health News
Scientists are conducting genetic analyses to see if the measles outbreak that started in Texas is still spreading from state to state. It’s a contentious question, because the findings may determine ...
kffhealthnews.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The United States is poised to lose its measles-free status next year. If that happens, more children will be hospitalized because of this preventable disease. Some will lose their hearing. Some will die. Measles also costs hundreds of thousands dollars to treat.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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"Endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering... And even progressive pronatalism risks ratifying the notion that women’s most important contribution to solving major social problems is to birth and raise children."
New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Endorsing a plan to increase birth rates implicitly supports anti-immigration politics and yields ground to racist fear-mongering... And even progressive pronatalism risks ratifying the notion that women’s most important contribution to solving major social problems is to birth and raise children."
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You'd think that if this was such a problem, companies would start hiring human beings for checkout again.
Weird how they don't! It's almost like they still profit immensely from cutting people out of jobs, and disregard shrink as the cost of doing so except for performative, self-serving bitching.
Weird how they don't! It's almost like they still profit immensely from cutting people out of jobs, and disregard shrink as the cost of doing so except for performative, self-serving bitching.
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You'd think that if this was such a problem, companies would start hiring human beings for checkout again.
Weird how they don't! It's almost like they still profit immensely from cutting people out of jobs, and disregard shrink as the cost of doing so except for performative, self-serving bitching.
Weird how they don't! It's almost like they still profit immensely from cutting people out of jobs, and disregard shrink as the cost of doing so except for performative, self-serving bitching.
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Every time a new app or site provides me with a "Wrapped" I think about the somewhat unsung Black woman who created it as part of an unpaid internship.
Before Spotify Wrapped Became A Cultural Phenomenon, A Howard Intern Helped Shape The Viral Tradition We Know Today | Essence
Jewel Ham’s internship-era concept helped transform Spotify’s year-end roundup into the interactive experience millions share today.
www.essence.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Every time a new app or site provides me with a "Wrapped" I think about the somewhat unsung Black woman who created it as part of an unpaid internship.
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Even if you don't get long covid in the sense of experiencing ongoing symptoms, covid is still a vascular virus
it chews up your arteries. You don't have nerve endings in your arteries, so you don't feel the damage
that doesn't mean it isn't there. and the more you catch it the worse it gets
it chews up your arteries. You don't have nerve endings in your arteries, so you don't feel the damage
that doesn't mean it isn't there. and the more you catch it the worse it gets
I know some ppl don’t wanna hear it, but a lot more young people are dropping dead because they’ve got long covid. There are heart problems that develop from it. Get vaccinated. Test regularly. Mask up, at least strategically, to protect yourself!
Black men please get checked
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
In the past two weeks I have heard stories about 1 man passing at 31 from a heart attack and another man passing at 34 from a stroke
I personally knew one man and my dad knew the other one
This is not normal ! Please do not play about your health.
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Even if you don't get long covid in the sense of experiencing ongoing symptoms, covid is still a vascular virus
it chews up your arteries. You don't have nerve endings in your arteries, so you don't feel the damage
that doesn't mean it isn't there. and the more you catch it the worse it gets
it chews up your arteries. You don't have nerve endings in your arteries, so you don't feel the damage
that doesn't mean it isn't there. and the more you catch it the worse it gets
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the male loneliness crisis would be solved if the boys would just start a care-based mutual aid
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
the male loneliness crisis would be solved if the boys would just start a care-based mutual aid
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Matt Seybold ( @mattseybold.bsky.social )
"I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms"
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
"I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms"
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Matt Seybold ( @mattseybold.bsky.social )
"I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms"
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
"I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms"
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...
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everyone who's been pushing this asshole as a serious presidential candidate please go stick your heads in the nearest toilet and flush
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
everyone who's been pushing this asshole as a serious presidential candidate please go stick your heads in the nearest toilet and flush
I wouldn’t discount how removing 1% of the most considerate and kind people from public spaces had an outsized effect on overall public behavior.
People who still mask aren’t visiting indoors spaces unless absolutely necessary. They aren’t in airports, grocery stores, etc.
People who still mask aren’t visiting indoors spaces unless absolutely necessary. They aren’t in airports, grocery stores, etc.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I wouldn’t discount how removing 1% of the most considerate and kind people from public spaces had an outsized effect on overall public behavior.
People who still mask aren’t visiting indoors spaces unless absolutely necessary. They aren’t in airports, grocery stores, etc.
People who still mask aren’t visiting indoors spaces unless absolutely necessary. They aren’t in airports, grocery stores, etc.
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They have no clue what Biden did, they have no idea how many people are still dying each week, they insist masks aren't necessary and that the pandemic is "over," and they think all we need to do is vax and relax. And when you tell them we need to mask and clean the air, they'll call you antivaxx.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
They have no clue what Biden did, they have no idea how many people are still dying each week, they insist masks aren't necessary and that the pandemic is "over," and they think all we need to do is vax and relax. And when you tell them we need to mask and clean the air, they'll call you antivaxx.
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I use Visible and I like it, but they need to create a new system for what trials they offer to patients.
There are a number of bad actors in the IACC world. Platforming one of the researchers from the PACE trial is not it.
#MECFS #LongCovir
There are a number of bad actors in the IACC world. Platforming one of the researchers from the PACE trial is not it.
#MECFS #LongCovir
3️⃣ Visible currently pulls trials automatically from clinicaltrials.gov & displays them directly in the app without contextual notes. Ethics-board approval is not a guarantee of clinical appropriateness for a vulnerable illness population
User experience (UX) design matters
User experience (UX) design matters
ClinicalTrials.gov
clinicaltrials.gov
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I use Visible and I like it, but they need to create a new system for what trials they offer to patients.
There are a number of bad actors in the IACC world. Platforming one of the researchers from the PACE trial is not it.
#MECFS #LongCovir
There are a number of bad actors in the IACC world. Platforming one of the researchers from the PACE trial is not it.
#MECFS #LongCovir
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I’ve had the great joy of working in several offices where citizenship ceremonies were held and this is America leaving people at the altar
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I’ve had the great joy of working in several offices where citizenship ceremonies were held and this is America leaving people at the altar
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All of this. Such an important voice to put out there.
“It has been heartbreaking to see legacy Jewish institutions stoke the flames of Islamophobia… motivated by perverse logic that they can only secure safety of Jewish Americans at the expense of our Muslim brothers & sisters, as if dignity were a zero-sum game.”
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
Op-ed: Establishment Jewish institutions are betraying and weaponizing my religion - The Tufts Daily
In sixth grade, my middle school scheduled its first dance for a Friday night during Sukkot. My family kept Shabbat and would spend the evening in our Sukkah, twin reasons why I couldn’t realize the q...
www.tuftsdaily.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
All of this. Such an important voice to put out there.
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So even with the trophy that looks like they got Guillermo del Toro to design as a joke - we still don't have any actual plans for this event to happen without a whole bunch of people getting disappeared for existing as nonwhite soccer fans right
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So even with the trophy that looks like they got Guillermo del Toro to design as a joke - we still don't have any actual plans for this event to happen without a whole bunch of people getting disappeared for existing as nonwhite soccer fans right
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And you usually get some smartypants saying "But discs can go bad!"
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
And you usually get some smartypants saying "But discs can go bad!"
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
Yes, discs can go bad. Film and burn. 16mm copies can rot.
But one thing film history has taught us is that titles are far, far safer in the hands of affectionate amateurs than they are with the studios.
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Remarkable how Trump’s anti-black racism is both text and subtext, an animating principle for his entire life, and that his government is stocked with white supremacists and Nazis, yet elite media consensus still very much tip-toes around this, and the opposition deems it all a distraction.
August 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Remarkable how Trump’s anti-black racism is both text and subtext, an animating principle for his entire life, and that his government is stocked with white supremacists and Nazis, yet elite media consensus still very much tip-toes around this, and the opposition deems it all a distraction.
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also, it’s not like the proposal on the table is ‘kill every billionaire in their sleep on purge night.’ it’s to TAX THEM. they should be RELIEVED AS HELL. they should thank god fasting that we’re still inexplicably on ‘tax’
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
also, it’s not like the proposal on the table is ‘kill every billionaire in their sleep on purge night.’ it’s to TAX THEM. they should be RELIEVED AS HELL. they should thank god fasting that we’re still inexplicably on ‘tax’