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submitted 7 hours ago • 127 comments

You know your country is over when elected officials are getting murdered in their homes.

submitted 7 hours ago • 250 comments

Healthy eating is a privilege. “Wellness” is a privilege. Being able to go to the gym, yoga, hiking etc are all privileges. These things won’t “cure” disability, but even if they could, they’re out of reach for a huge portion of the population. Universal basic income now.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 13 hours ago • 162 comments

this is an existential threat to water sources on the west coast honestly they should secede over this could kill the cities

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

I must have missed the part of the Letter from a Birmingham Jail where Martin Luther King Jr. explains that since white moderates aren't ready yet for integration and equality, the fight for civil rights is lost and we need to wait for them to catch up so as to spare their feelings.

submitted 15 hours ago • 13 comments

screams unendingly and piercingly in ecotoxicologist cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

Razor Blade Throat Not As Bad As It Sounds, Says Spokesperson For Virus

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

A good move toward transparency. I have advocated for it for a long time: www.the-scientist.com/opinion-we-m... blog.slavovlab.net/2023/04/15/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza.” That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers. She was told not to come to school the next day.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

there will be no 2028

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

🧵 ICE AIR FLIGHTS—17 JUN 2025 ✈️ First rendition flight of the day is already landing in Nassau, the Bahamas 👀 Follow this thread for ICE Air updates ⤵️

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

For those interested in following virus trends in Texas, here’s the TEPHI dashboard dashboard.tephi.texas.gov/public-dashb...

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The Japanese government has launched "Decokatsu," a campaign to help citizens decarbonize & live more eco aligned lifestyles. It consists of 4 actions & one of them is... Wait for it: REMOTE WORK 👏🏼

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Dear anti-maskers—please take note of some of the recent discourse on disability. It might only take one infection to make you into a type of person that your anti-masking friends would, all things being equal, be perfectly happy to see die

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

submitted 1 day ago • 2683 comments

Crazy that Luigi is charged with terrorism but the guy who had a hit list of democrats and shot 4 and killed two isn't

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

What's next? Here's some information from Erica Chenoweth's research. "...contemporary movements tend to over-rely on mass demonstrations while neglecting other techniques—such as general strikes and mass civil disobedience—that can more forcefully disrupt a regime’s stability."

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Neurons are cool, but do you work with something cooler and understudied like the Blood-Brain Barrier? As a Guest Editor, I invite you to submit manuscripts focused on the Brain-Immune-Vascular interface for NPJ Dementia! More info at www.nature.com/collections/... #Neuroscience #Alzheimer

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A Subway offers free food to the homeless each & every single day between the hours of 3-5pm. It includes a 6" sub & small drink. This should be a thing all across America ❤️ #PoorPeoplesCampaign

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The reason why so many kids have long Covid is bc physicians lied to patients & called this condition anxiety for 5 years and continue to refuse masking in appropriate respirators like n95s to prevent airborne transmission. They also refuse to use HEPA purifiers in waiting rooms & patient rooms.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

submitted 1 day ago • 1455 comments

You know, I don't have a problem with sexual harassment being something that permanently disqualifies someone from holding public office.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

With RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines specifically and science overall, it is critical to monitor your state legislature for any attempts to undermine required childhood vaccinations for school attendance. Each state decides which vaccines are required, not the Federal government.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Five months ago, Evanston became a Welcoming City. Today, we've learned that the Evanston PD shared its network of license plate data with at least seven out-of-state agencies conducting immigration searches in Illinois cities.

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

A remarkable demonstration of how brain-computer interface can be developed to enable a paralysed person, unable to speak, to speak intelligibly and expressively - a brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 ICE AIR FLIGHTS—16-JUN 2025 ✈️ Over the weekend, ICE Air activity continued with rendition flights to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. Follow this thread for ICE Air updates ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Long Covid is now the number one chronic illness in kids "Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy" By @juliadoubleday.bsky.social Https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-is-now-the-number-one

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I don't say this to downplay the protests. It's great to see people out there. What I am saying is that if people think peaceful protest once a month waiving a few signs will topple or hamstring the regime, they're sorely mistaken. You need something like euromaidan to put a stop to this.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

In light of Mamdani's performance, is astonishing there aren't more insurgent primary campaigns. Democratic establishment is discredited. Power is just sitting there like a mountain of gold but instead of being guarded by a fire-breathing dragon, it's fossils like Chuck Schumer

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

If you could vote out fascism, we wouldn’t know what war is.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Our latest cryptic lineage paper was accepted in PLoS Pathogens. This paper has some nuanced implications about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. 1/ journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

They are manufacturing consent to coup a mayor

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Preprint surveying Kaiser Northern California members in 2022-2023: an estimated 1.8% had ME/CFS, of whom 97.8% were undiagnosed. Those undiagnosed were significantly more likely to report onset within last three years, compared to those with a diagnosis: 53% vs. 28%.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Nazis targeted disabled people first & pioneered the term “useless eater” They convinced the masses that we were less than”. People taking up resources & not contributing in any way. When Dr Oz says we must “prove our worth” to get Medicaid, he’s just resurrecting the concept. Don’t let him

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 161 comments

Six GOP governors activated the National Guard ahead of #NoKings because they claimed the protesters may be violent. 5 million of us marched. And so far all actual violence seems to have come at the hands of counter-protesters, Christian nationalist terrorists and law enforcement.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

I believe in the power of a robust welfare state precisely because capitalism has done its job well. The productive capacity of the world has made it such that I know we can afford the policies I want to see.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I'd rather be rich in memories and moments than money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

#OnMyWalk to a very long and hot walk to #NoKingsDay protest. We made our voices heard that we want #NoKings in America!

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

✈️ Yes, ICE Air is flying today. And I’m on the streets. ✊

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments