@nicoletranger
Medical Physicist, technogeekette / gadget geek, pro-choice feminist, semi-obsessive baker, lover of books, ballet, and documentary film, mom to Pretty Boy π. No DMs unless we know each other professionally or otherwise. TIA nicoletranger.99 on Signal
How far away this seems.
Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.
First Covid wave for 12 months is well underway. Hospital admissions are already higher than last year's peak, but are much lower than we were seeing in earlier waves.
There will be weekly surveillance reports through the winter months here:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
"DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree." thedispatch.com/article/dhs-...
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a βbubble of comfort and luxuryβ while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out
#WarRavagedPortland
And who have legal work permits.
If youβre bored or love docs like I do consider watching Bending Lines: The Sculpture of Robert Wiggs on Prime Video. I came away seeing the world differently and I love when that happens.
Come to Canada. This is the kind of research that is embraced and funded.
America First? Not When It Comes to Your Health. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Fighting fire with fire. I endorse this approach.
www.instagram.com/reel/DNRzZiU...
Seriously, HCS must divest from P******r. It is indefensible to compromise patient privacy with an entity that is simultaneously setting up a surveillance state for an emerging fascist regime.
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βSometime in the early part of the 2020s, civilization crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. Thatβs not yet common knowledgeβbecause so much of the solar revolution is taking place in China.β
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
Brilliant strategy for identifying and combatting the overwhelm of living during fascism.
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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
One of the villains of the new Jackal series is a fellow who bears an uncanny similarity to a certain billionaire broligarch. The screenwriter even threw in an βancien regimeβ reference so there would be no chance of missing the context. Brilliant.
Is it Claustrophobia? Or Discomfort? I had a breast MRI before they had optimized protocols and they hyperextended my arm and screwed up my shoulder. I was literally silently begging for it to be over. Of all the procedures I had, breast surgery, needle loc bx, etc.. the MRI was the worst part.
Spied on the Interwebs related to current events: βThe USA is Karenistanβ.
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The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They arenβt pretending to try. There isnβt even the veneer of law.
So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, βI didnβt see any Russians whoβve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.β @maddow.msnbc.com
Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."