autsciperson.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Please make sure every senior you know is aware that Trump just gave his blessing to senate Republicans to also cut Medicare in his big ugly bill so they can afford to give tax cuts to billionaires and corporations. Not just Medicaid, but Medicare. Everyone should know and write their senators.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Donald Trump is causing harm and chaos to distract us from the Senate debating his disastrous "Big Ugly Bill" that rips away healthcare for 16 million Americans. We need to oppose these actions & ensure that people have access to Medicaid and food assistance.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

When asked about the ban on Medicaid being used for gender-affirming care for transgender people, Elizabeth Warren says “I haven’t seen it”

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

The AMA's House of Delegates has adopted an emergency resolution opposing RFK Jr.'s move to gut the federal vaccine advisory council. The nation's top doctors association will seek a U.S. Senate investigation of his action, as well as alternate vaccine advice from elsewhere to invest in.

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

I really wish Simone Biles (& others) would read this – or literally any of the similarly in depth analyses of the research & complexities surrounding trans ppl & sports (no paywall) on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop... & Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

the FTC's newly announced workshop on "Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices in 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Minors" is a contiunation of ways that state attorneys general, notably Ken Paxton, have used consumer privacy laws to go after trans healthcare: www.texastribune.org/2024/05/30/t...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The weight of a T. rex brain was about 350 g (0.7 lbs), a quarter that of a human brain, but in a 6,000 kg body. Before you feel too superior, though, they likely had some of the most finely tuned olfactory senses of any dino & visual acuity 13X that of humans, superior to modern hawks.

submitted 135 days ago • 12 comments

Right now, if you are immunocompromised, getting literally anyone in healthcare to bother actually wearing a mask around you is like pulling teeth. You could be in dialysis or chemo, and still have to beg them every time to put on a mask so they literally won't kill you.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

And they’re not even feeding and housing them.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

And as I always harp on when this comes up— not just cervical cancer! HPV causes penile cancer, anal cancer, head and neck cancers. It is important for people of every gender to get the vaccine, and in the US you can get it up to age 45

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

💉 The #HPV #vaccine isn’t just safe — it’s revolutionary. A major Swedish study found it cut cervical cancer by nearly 90% when given before age 17. We’re not just preventing infections — we’re eliminating a cancer. #VaccinesWork #HPV #CervicalCancer #PublicHealth www.cancer.gov/news-events/...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

If you've seen the fantastic news about the HPV vaccine preventing cancer and think it doesn't apply because you don't have a cervix, please know that this vaccine helps EVERYONE—HPV causes types of cancer anyone can get, regardless of anatomy: www.mskcc.org/news/5-reaso...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The fact that the State Department is planning to open an Office of Remigration didn't get even anywhere close to the attention it deserved. Remigration is explicitly a European far-right/neo-Nazi word that in Europe refers quite explicitly to ethnic cleansing beyond simply immigration enforcement.

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

Kinda shocked to discover this: not only does Maryland have a contract with ICE, MD Democrats voted to UPHOLD it in April. I don’t remember hearing anything about this. boltsmag.org/maryland-287...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

It is not possible or practical to assert total control over thousands of people, many of whom are protesting spontaneously. The right is very intentionally seeking out negative images and inevitably will find some. What you are doing by obsessing over this is giving the right exactly what it wants

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Please read this thread. Violence is also in the details, in the smaller injustices that grind us down, in the ways the state humiliates us to manipulate bystanders into behaving. Involuntary audience participation in security theater.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Definitely the time to get a COVID booster if you haven't had it in 6 months! Not medical advice, but I took Claritin 2 hours before and Pepcid 30 minutes before getting my mRNA booster recently, and my symptoms were way more minor compared to previous mRNA boosters I've had (Novavax not available)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds

submitted 1 day ago • 385 comments

It's so disheartening watching everything I've spent a decade warning people was going to happen, actually happen, and to see how many of them still don't seem to care.

submitted 1 day ago • 359 comments

we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

do i love hearing about the ACIP dissolution? absolutely not. this is awful. but i am imploring you, reader, to not merely hang wring, but direct people’s energies to what CAN be done to prevent disease even as our government fails: ventilation, filtration, far uv, & MASKS. we are not without tools.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Everything Autistic women have ever said about how poorly society treats them is on display in the treatment of Greta Thunberg.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This! As a person who actually detransitioned (and is now retransitioning) because of the extreme violence I faced as a transgender child, I loathe these 'detransitioners' and TERFs who weaponise real detransition against trans people who put trans kids in danger. #transgender #detrans

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

i detransitioned more than this bitch and i have managed to not be a full fledged freak about it

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I’ve been experiencing a lot of these people calling themselves “detransitioners” lately when they were literally just exploring their gender expression through haircuts/makeup/clothing and aren’t actually trans.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

TERFs: wHy cAn'T yOu jUsT bE gEnDeR nOnCoNfOrMiNg? Also TERFs: A gay haircut was totes transitioning

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 1 day ago • 1453 comments

If anyone is on the fence about Fulop, please check out his website and all of his policies. He has A LOT. If you liked Elizabeth Warren in 2020 because she was a progressive policy person, Fulop is the same way. IN CASE YOU FORGOT, TUESDAY IS ELECTION DAY.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I wrote about the administration bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia home just to prosecute him, the strength of the case, and the Democrats' moral and political capitulation.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

"The chief of Justice Department’s criminal division in Nashville resigned over the decision to charge Abrego Garcia"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This has confirmed what we always knew: The government can bring back people they illegally deported. Every single person has a right to their day in court. It's past time for President Trump to bring back everyone who was unlawfully deported and guarantee their rights to due process.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments