Boston College: 80 sickened after eating at Chipotle

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BOSTON (AP) — Boston College said the number of students reporting gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle this weekend has climbed to 80….

The GOP Just Lost the Senate | Dame Magazine

When the election really heats up, you can be sure that this vote on freezing Planned Parenthood funding—as well eliminating parts of Obamacare— will become a major issue. While the Affordable Care Act may not be terribly popular among the general population, hundreds of thousands have received better insurance coverage through the plans, and the biggest criticism is just that the administration didn’t go far enough when it comes to regulating the industry and making healthcare more affordable. As for Planned Parenthood, despite the ongoing criticism and attacks from the right wing, approximately 60 percent of voters still want the organization to continue being funded.The anti-abortion movement is pointing to the Planned Parenthood defunding vote as a sign of changing momentum. Alliance Defending Freedom notes in a press release that in 2011 a defunding vote failed the Senate 42 to 58, a sign of how far the right has progressed that now a defunding bill actually passed the Senate instead. But even their own voting numbers show that the momentum they claim isn’t there. In fact, there more votes against the defunding measure in December than there were in August, when the Senate previously voted against funding but could not get the 60 votes needed for its passage. This is even truer once you take into consideration that Majority Leader McConnell switched his nay vote to a yea since it wasn’t needed as a procedural move this time.American voters support Planned Parenthood, and that support will no doubt continue even as the organization is attacked both politically and physically. Thankfully, the funding will remain intact thanks to President Obama, who will veto the bill. And when November comes around, those right-wing-pandering senators may very well see just how much the mainstream voters disagree—and likely lose their majority in the process.

Source: The GOP Just Lost the Senate | Dame Magazine

Anya Groner: The Public Is Us – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics {Fear and Infectious Diseases}

Fear isn’t useless. It’s essential that we maintain the tension between individual liberties and community health, and expressing fears, particularly competing fears, is one way that’s done. Public skepticism helps ensure decision-makers do enough to minimize disease without abusing power or diminishing civil liberties. Still, it’s vital to keep paranoia in check. The theorist Eve Sedgwick posits that, like typhoid and measles, paranoia is communicable. We pass it along to those we interact with. This happened when the media responded to Dr. Spencer’s Ebola infection and it continues to happen in the ongoing debate about childhood vaccinations and measles. Paranoia distorts decision-making, which is part of the reason that a hundred years after Mary Mallon’s isolation began on North Brother Island, we still struggle to conceptualize the relationship between community and individual health. When it comes to disease, whether we acknowledge it or not, we’re part of the public. The public isn’t an abstraction. It’s us.

Source: Anya Groner: The Public Is Us – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Humans of New York

“We’ve been waiting for two years now. We’ve been through all our interviews. Last week this letter came and said that we’ve been ‘deferred.’ I’m not even sure what that means. We were very truthful about everything. We have nothing left in Syria. I want to continue working as a doctor in America. Here my hands are tied. Refugees are not allowed to work. I don’t have papers. I can’t communicate with anyone. I worked my entire life to become a doctor. I did nothing but study for six years. I didn’t even have a hobby. Now I’m doing nothing. I’m losing hope. I’ve started to wonder if it would have been better for us to go the illegal way across the sea.”(Gaziantep, Turkey)

Source: Humans of New York

Early Winter

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Barcelona city

I’m extremely busy with work and I don’t have the energy to do anything. No physical energy and no mental energy. I spend all my free time lying in bed trying to recover from the exhaustion of work. This means I have no time or energy for the internet, my family or any of my hobbies. I can’t read or watch youtube or make collages or go out or take pictures or anything. I rarely see my boyfriend cause we have opposite schedules. When I work, he’s free. When I’m free, he’s in class for six hours.

Luckily, we did get to go to Vic on my only free day. He skipped class, otherwise we couldn’t make it. A two-hour train trip, seeing gorgeous mountains and valleys, to attend the annual medieval market in Vic. I’ve been going there for the last few years, and last year I invited him to come with me. We were just friends then, but on that trip our relationship began to take a kind of romantic turn. Five days after the trip, we found ourselves hooking up in my bed and having profound conversations, and we’ve been obsessed & in love with each other ever since. So of course we had to go to Vic again this year. 

I’ve been so busy and exhausted that the christmas tree and all the decors are still in the attic. I’m a huge fan of Yule time, and usually by December 2 I’ve already put up the tree. But this year I can never remember that the tree is missing from my house. I don’t feel like doing all that work of taking it down in three weeks, so I don’t feel like putting it up for that reason.

I did get a lovely poinsettia, as I do every year. It’s my favourite thing to do! Poinsettia shopping!

I hope I can go to Barcelona with C before Yule, and see the city with all the lights, and visit the Christmas markets in the Romanic/Gothic quarter.

Once in Vic, we began the day stopping by the same coffee shop where we ate last year. Good times!
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The city of Vic

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Hello Morocco

Bought a beautiful handmade and handpainted dragon incense burner 🙂

Humans of New York – Trump This!

The whole purpose of my trip to Turkey and Jordan was to interview refugees who had been approved for American resettlement. So when this couple showed me the letter saying they’d been ‘deferred,’ I was a bit confused. But I continued the interview anyway. As I learned the rest of the couple’s story, I noticed my UNHCR facilitator typing on her phone. After a few minutes, she came over to me and showed me the screen. It was a text message from the main office. It said: ‘They’ve been approved. Would you care to tell them?’ So it was my great honor to inform this couple that they were going to America. This portrait was taken thirty seconds after they learned the news.(Gaziantep, Turkey)

Source: Humans of New York

Islamophobic Organization’s Misleading Poll Used To Justify Donald Trump’s Call To Ban Muslims From America | Research | Media Matters for America

Source: Islamophobic Organization’s Misleading Poll Used To Justify Donald Trump’s Call To Ban Muslims From America | Research | Media Matters for America