I mistook your post as a possible invitation to dialog about a matter of shared importance.

I don't want to get yelled at. But I think it's a huge mistake to expect a U.S. President to do better than realism allows. I think Biden's done good and prevented bad. His failures hurt. But the moral force has to come from public pressure, always. Institutions aren't moral.

My latest article in @thebulwark.bsky.socialplus.thebulwark.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson, Polite Extremist

The new speaker of the House has deep ties to proponents of the New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that helped fuel the January 6th insurrection.

"Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust." - Audrey Lorde

And FitBit should count it as a workout!

It does.

Your regular reminder that pandemics are social problems, which cannot be solved by the products of biomedical research if the social infrastructure necessary for delivering said products is in fucking tatters.

KBbachynski.bsky.socialOct 27, 2023 11:39pm

“Unless they are ill, many adults interact infrequently with the medical establishment. When they do, they may get care in a variety of places — making it no one person’s job to ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations… adults often have to figure this stuff out themselves”

‘We’re absolutely making it too hard’: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders v...

The process of keeping track of which vaccines are recommended — and avoiding paying for them out of pocket — has grown increasingly convoluted.

Whether it's caused by an airborne virus, guns, or war, refuse to normalize mass death.

Jews calling for a cease fire have taken over Grand Central ✊ Tell me again how they’re marginal. Absolute nonsense.

Same.