Slowly working through the new, oh-so-rich #NIH funding paper. Dr. Leslie V. Farland & Lady Blackhole, you’ll appreciate this gem: “For all applicants, the cluster with the lowest award rate, 7.5%, is characterized by the words ovary, fertility, and reproductive, ... 1/2 advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/e…

In UK, any household can get a **7-pack** of rapid tests every day for free… An incredible example of what taking a true public health approach with regard to #COVID19 testing looks like.

After eight infants died, 3.3 million pillows were recalled. Guns are the leading cause of death among American children, but for 40 years, a special exemption from regulation by the CPSC has prevented the government from overseeing firearms like every other consumer product. 🤷‍♀️

My path started on a street in St. Louis that’s so notorious, it’s not even there anymore. The crime rate was so high, the city tore down all the homes. I've survived domestic and sexual violence, evictions, and being unhoused. I am the people I serve. harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…

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I have never seen someone on trial for murder unhandcuffed standing directly behind a judge #Rittenhouse

Your weekly reminder that when we say that American medicine was built on the backs of Black folks... Harvard medical school was moved from Cambridge to Boston to allow for easier access to the cadavers of indigent Black folks for white male medical students to dissect.

As ER waits expand into days now apparently, the city “strongly” recommends that 18,000 people cheering, screaming and yelling wear a mask while inside the enterprise center for 3 hours tonight

Today, an overwhelming majority of St. Louis Public Radio's on and off-air staff are taking a historic step in becoming the first NPR radio station in #Missouri to form a union, with CWA as our bargaining representative. #WeMakeSTLPR (🧵)

Just so y’all know: There are only 33 Black Women neurosurgeons in this country. ONLY 33. This is not accidental. This is not an IQ issue. This is intentional systemic exclusion. This is racism in medicine

NEW: National rent control is closer than you think. A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, & AvalonBay are spending millions to block it.

trump mugshot and pumpkin spice latte released tomorrow. an early autumn barbenheimer of sorts

Union nurses at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital walked off the job this morning, and plan to picket through Friday morning. The 48-hour strike marks the second action the union has called in four months: stlpr.org/health-science…

Oh interesting tweet by a journalist let me just go check something

Doctors get paid more in the US because there are half as many physicians per head compared to European countries. That’s twice as much work. Physician reimbursement still only makes up <8% of healthcare spending. We can all work for free and Americans would still go broke.

the elites destroyed schooling in this country for profit, they treat teachers like dirt, kids get shot in school, they tell you college is not important and it can’t be free, and now you’re sitting around mad about h1b visas lmao. you’ve been robbed blind!!!