Kari O’Driscoll

Microsoft is fueling genocide in Gaza. End the military contracts now. #NoAzureForApartheid #MSBuild www.instagram.com/reel/DJ18fe2...

@thanedar.house.gov I hope you get support in the House and Senate.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Talking with Jess Graham about Our Relationship to Pain by It's Relatable Kari talks to Jess Graham about their new book, Being (Sick) Enough, and what it means to build a relationship to pain

New episode @jessicagraham.bsky.social & I talk about their new book & rambled on about #trauma, #addiction, #autism, #chronicpain, #spoonies... Jess is an amazing writer, healer, human living with chronic pain while holding a seemingly indestructible spark of hope. megaphone.link/MBSLLC301906...

RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

‘It's a dangerous situation’: GOP Rep. with most Medicaid constituents sends a warning Rep. David Valadao is telling his leadership to tread carefully but not drawing a red line, at least for now.

Rep. David Valadao expressed deep concerns that many of his GOP peers are pushing politically toxic, and ultimately doomed, proposals to make deep cuts to Medicaid

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

There was a flurry of news about tariffs. It passed. The real consequences will hit US consumers around Memorial Day. Important then to remind everyone of cause and effect.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

#AbolitionNow

Supreme Court to hear school disability discrimination case At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specia...

At issue is a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Specifically: What do parents have to prove in order to get that specialized help?

Controversial take: I hate what the tariffs will do to folx who are struggling to get their needs met, AND if this results in all of us examining our overconsumption fetish, I won’t be sad. We don’t *need* gadgets and cheap clothing from the global south

Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

Musk’s staffers are now forcing federal employees at several agencies including the FAA to sign non-disclosure agreements. The goal is simple: silence the resistance through more threats and now, forced agreements. Maybe we’re not supposed to be talking about being forced to sign NDAs… oops, lol.

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Everyone, hide the ketchup…👇

It’s going to get messy.

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend!

A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

The Interior Department announced late yesterday that it will fast-track approvals for coal, gas, oil, and mineral projects on public lands.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT.

sincerely,

a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

I mean, billionaire philanthropy is totally self-serving, anyway, so at least he’s being completely honest, unlike folx like Bezos and Gates

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.