Made a gif from @washingtonpost simulation on social distancing:

Getting on Twitter to monitor the downfall of Twitter is fucking wild

Oh My God. @jolingkent just got hit by a flash bang/firework live on @MSNBC while reporting from the protest in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Breaking News: Police and protesters clash in Capitol Hill. @KIRO7Seattle

Here's the sad reality: what happened to George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery & Christian Cooper has gone on for generations to Black Americans. Cell phones just made it more visible. Dismantling systemic racism in our nation starts with demanding justice & holding offenders accountable.

friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization

Terrence McNally died today from COV19. All I can think of is Andre’s mother:

Today the @NEJM published ethical guidelines for the allocation of resources as we fight #COVID19. These are critical because we lack sufficient supplies and equipment to care for all comers.

THINGS YOU CAN DO WHILE SOCIALLY DISTANCING: — Stare at the blank page before you — Open up the dirty window — Reach for something in the distance (it's so close you can almost taste it) — Feel the rain on your skin

@AOC RT @nowthisnews ‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — Historian Rutger Bregman wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed

A demagogue without his followers there to reflect back to him the reality he wants to see:

A dating app that mines your messages and makes fake profiles that interact with you using your own patterns of communication.

When a Cancer comes for you they will drag you down to the ocean floor.

A drinking game where we take shots and read excerpts from our undergrad essays on gender (we all have one, don't lie)

Today I was asked why we should bother paying interns if they’re “getting experience for their résumé.” Here’s what we have say about that:

Instead of trying to #raidArea51 to free hypothetical aliens, can we plan a raid on the border facilities where actual humans are imprisoned? #BorderCrisis

I just read the news that @HarrisPoll 's research for @glaad shows acceptance for LGBT has declined. I'm curious how the researchers controlled for bias in their sampling—anyone know where I can read up on their methods?

I have never spoken publicly about my abortion. I'm speaking now because of intensified efforts to strip Constitutional rights from pregnant people and to criminalize abortion. I shared my story in an Op-Ed with @nytimes. https://t.co/AjBxRLtBet

I wish every university professor would read this piece by @dr_eprice