In 2017, I had to abandon ship. I was lost at sea. Caribbean fishermen, in the dead of night, risked their safety to pull me out of the ocean.
Ever since the first illegal boat strike, I've been haunted by the betrayal of our duty to render aid and what it means for the safety of life at sea.
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children.
Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Goooooood evening and happy Sunday!
The out of pocket cost of the birth of my son, after “good” insurance, after meeting my deductible (despite a wicked pregnancy, everyone was healthy) was OVER TEN THOUSAND US DOLLARS.
And then I went back to work still bleeding. So I don’t think it’s the phones.
Penguins & whales are two group separated by 325 million years, yet they share a strange commonality:
Neither has the ability to see the color RED.
Let's talk about what that says about their shared evolutionary history. 🐧🐋🧪
9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.
Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own.
I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The article the ADA tried to censor last week is now #2 on PubMed’s trending list, has a skyrocketing altmetric (largely due to Bluesky, btw), and is the 50th cited/viewed article among the 300,000 articles published recently. Gotta love the Streisand effect!