Author Madeline Miller (Circe, Song of Achilles) has long #COVID, & writes a devastating account of it & our healthcare system.

"Despite the crystal-clear science on the damage covid-19 does to our bodies, medical settings have dropped mask requirements, so patients now gamble their health to receive care. Those of us who are high-risk or immunocompromised...have not only been left behind — we’re being actively mocked and pathologized."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/

🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 73F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

Special Counsel Jack Smith got a secret warrant for former President Trump's Twitter account, documents show.

There's been an 80% drop in unruly passenger incidents on US flights since 2021.

Free school meals, a pandemic program, are now permanent in #Massachusetts.

There are 82 days remaining until #Halloween.

#Transgender #lgbtqia
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#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Absolutely crazy.

In Alabama, a town never held elections for mayor. Instead the position was passed on from white man to white man like the crown of a kingdom.

But in 2020 Patrick Braxton decided to file the paperwork to be a real official candidate for mayor, and as no one else filed, he became mayor by default.

But then the locks on the town hall suddenly changed…

CNN has the full story, and it is pretty wild:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/06/us/newbern-alabama-mayor-dispute/index.html

ProPublica does it again: 1/..

“NEW: #ClarenceThomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the #SupremeCourt Justice to Luxury Travel

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.” #SCOTUS

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court