Pulse oximeters overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin

This is heartbreaking and preventable!

Inaccurate oxygen readings delayed /prevented potentially life-saving COVID therapies in Black and Hispanic patients. It’s know that pulse oximeter readings overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin.https://t.co/VngsrDlazp
— uché blackstock, md (@uche_blackstock) May 31, 2022

Doctors have sometimes failed to diagnose serious Covid cases for people of color — and FDA says one reason may be flaws in pulse oximeters.

"It’s really shocking that it was only until 2021 for the FDA to actually issue an alert" — @uche_blackstock https://t.co/QqQKSqqMEu
— Ben Leonard (@_BenLeonard_) July 2, 2022

Josef von Sternberg – born 5/29/1894

Josef von Sternberg was a great film director. He is best known for his seven films with Marlene Dietrich which started with The Blue Angel (1930). They are known for their fantastic lighting and photography. Prior to that, he had made some excellent silent films such as Underworld (1927).

☕ 🖤 Look and attitude, courtesy of birthday boy Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich. pic.twitter.com/J1aLseUr0a
— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) May 29, 2022

#filmmaker Josef von Sternberg #BOTD
SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932)
w/ Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong & Louise Closser Hale#mood and #attitude

“He hasn’t been home in four years and she ain’t been very cheerful.” pic.twitter.com/bldhdSRli9
— Judy Cohen (@IKnewThemWell) May 29, 2022

“God remains on speaking terms with everybody.”

French movie poster for Josef von Sternberg’s Shanghai Express featuring Marlene Dietrich artwork by Roger Soubie (1932). pic.twitter.com/q8x231UwfN
— marco douglass (@doug_marco) May 28, 2022

Covers: Down in the Alley

“Down in the Alley” was a 1957 single by the Clovers. Check out the great job by Duane Allman on the 1970 Ronnie Hawkins version.

Covers: Thirty Days/Forty Days

Chuck Berry released “Thirty Days” in 1955. Ronnie Hawkins, who passed away recently, covered it as “Forty Days” in 1959.

Gerrymandering has reduced competitive seats in Congress and state legislatures

There won’t be many competitive districts left after this round of gerrymandering. https://t.co/X2stI15mWj
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) December 1, 2021

Interesting tidbit: Out of nearly 4,300 state legislative seats in 34 states, @CNalysis has just 575 of them ranked as remotely competitive (ranging from Likely D to Likely R).
— Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 (@charles_gaba) May 31, 2022

NEW @CityLab: Nearly 40% of Republican members of Congress in suburban districts are in competitive races this fall, @Richard_Florida & I write. Read more — and see how I categorized every district’s mix of rural/urban/suburban: https://t.co/CqQ0rqNKc9 pic.twitter.com/C2IOkDwDDb
— David H. Montgomery (@dhmontgomery) October 5, 2018

David Wasserman, Cook Political Report's redistricting expert, says the biggest casualty of gerrymandering is "competitive seats."

"That likely means that we're going to see more Marjorie Taylor Greenes or Donald Trump-style candidates elected from safe seats," Wasserman added. pic.twitter.com/d5D3feBZDN
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) December 15, 2021

Would concealed carry reciprocity supporters apply the same standard to marijuana?

Gun supporters want concealed carry reciprocity. They want to be able to carry concealed weapons anywhere even if that’s illegal in the state they are in now. Would they apply the same principle to marijuana? I doubt it. I think they would have a double standard.

Question for concealed carry gun reciprocity supporters: Would you support reciprocity for marijuana? If marijuana was legal in my state, could I smoke it in yours even if it's not legal there?
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) May 30, 2022

Harry Smith – born 5/29/23

Harry Smith is best known for compiling the influential Anthology of American Folk Music which was originally released in 1952. It was released on 6 CDs in 1997 by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. It’s an amazing collection of all kinds of American music (including blues, folk, country, gospel, and Cajun) recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. Tribute concerts were held in 1997, 1999 and 2001. They’re all on CD and there are DVDs of the 1999/2001 ones in a set with the CDs.

A Perfect 10: I wrote about one of the best, earliest, + most important mixtapes ever made—Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, 84 tracks of white-hot feeling, for Pitchfork's Sunday Review. @Marcissist says it's the longest P4K review ever? https://t.co/ilPdPvJtJN
— grayson haver currin (doesn't tweet much at all) (@currincy) February 5, 2023

@Folkways – Celebrating the birthday of Harry Smith – https://t.co/FtVqxOcQVM pic.twitter.com/Op8FhRtRaP
— AllenGinsbergEstate 🐀 (@Ginsbergpoem) May 29, 2022

While Harry Smith, born #OnThisDay in 1923, is most widely recognized for his preservation of American folk music, he was a polymath who had a multitude of interests, including a collection of hundreds of paper airplanes he found on streets of NYC over course of several decades https://t.co/KoihNzHS9e pic.twitter.com/5Njk4Sb186
— Michael Lobel (@mlobelart) May 29, 2022

It’s official! The first solo exhibition of Harry Smith‘s groundbreaking work will open at @whitneymuseum this fall on October 4th! We can’t wait to expand some minds and share his idiosyncratic genius with the masses. Link to exhibition details in bio. ⚗️ pic.twitter.com/AIR1UT4BWE
— Harry Smith Archives (@HS_Archives) February 16, 2023

Harry Smith remains quite possibly my favorite person from the 20th century https://t.co/Zkzf8nqVSc
— Jeremy P Bushnell 🐀 | jbushnell @ cohost.org (@jbushnell) April 4, 2023

The rise and fall of the waterbed

This reminded me of them. There was a waterbed store in Pittsburgh in the early 1970s called Wet Dream Waterbeds. They had to change it to Dream Waterbeds.

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When romance was in the air, you always wanted to top it off with a little extra from the garden hose. pic.twitter.com/QeGBi8TaBm
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 1, 2022

Videos on the terrible AR-15

60 Minutes had something last night. There are other videos on YouTube.

More on the racist Great Replacement Theory

This is now mainstream in the Republican Party.

"The refusal of many GOP leaders to condemn replacement theory even after the Buffalo shooting, and their determination to block greater law-enforcement scrutiny of violent white supremacists, underscores how far we are from that world." https://t.co/OrH7BDDBEs
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) June 3, 2022

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than 6 in 10 Donald Trump voters agree that “a group of people in this country are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants and people of color who share their political views.” https://t.co/rZIIjGbpTx
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) May 24, 2022

#Colorado news anchor reminded viewers of Rep. Boebert’s (R-Colo.) past open embrace of the #racist “replacement theory” that inspired the massacre at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, last weekend.https://t.co/OgbQgLwhEI
— P CADFAEL (@PCadfael) May 21, 2022

Stefanik echoed ‘great replacement’ But firms kept donating.

Every Black, Brown or Jewish person who works at these places is under attack from an extremist movement that dehumanizes and invites violence against them. Their employers are funding it. Sick
https://t.co/EaijvOSJHR
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) May 23, 2022

All over the country, sitting members of Congress, candidates, state politicians and former officeholders have been bringing a white supremacist conspiracy theory to the forefront. Story with @_erinmansfield https://t.co/a4iqWjUVBW via @usatoday
— Candy Woodall (@candynotcandace) May 29, 2022

This is the important context for the discussion of "great replacement theory." https://t.co/8yxK7dE2r5 pic.twitter.com/BKJY3Pa9gL
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 25, 2022

The anti-abortion movement's dark, racist history: https://t.co/obGrhPzkxe
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) July 25, 2022