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People facing the fight of their life shouldn’t have to worry about fighting Covid, too. #HealthCareNotHealthCareless

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A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles. By Violet Affleck May 18, 2025 "After all, the promised end to the pandemic has been more a matter of public relations than public health." yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

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Did you know one of the best things we can do to help the bee population is to plant lots of flowers in our gardens? Especially in urban areas. I try to have plants blooming throughout the year for them. And here they are on cue, visiting my Oriental poppies #gardens #flowers #bees #insects #nature

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Oh, it’s not just a jersey thing? What could have made this a national issue? What change at the FAA in the last 6 months? Impossible to tell.

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Yesterday I gave a presentation to a group of public librarians on genAI, and I think it was one of my best ones yet. We had a lot to get through in a short amount of time, but we hit all the bases.

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HHS Secretary RFK Jr. answers question from Sen. Scott about commitment to sickle cell disease research and minority health at US Congressional HELP Hearing on DHHS budget 2026 (May 14, 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwC...

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RFK Jr revealed (for the first time?) that his son has Long Covid. thesicktimes.org/2025/05/14/s...

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#MedSky #DisabilityJustice Long Covid - happening soon see link for livestream of HHS Secretary RFK Jr. testimony on budget

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US Senate HELP Committee minority report on NIH research cuts (May 13, 2025)

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US Senate HELP Committee hearing with HHS Secretary RFK Jr. 1:30pm at 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building Weds May 14 2025 - live video streaming link here for testimony on FY 2026 Dept of Health & Human Svcs Budget : www.help.senate.gov/hearings/hea...

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The man checked out 50 books on topics that included Jewish history, African-American history and LGBTQ education. Then burned them. www.cleveland.com/community/20...

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The 'they're doing it anyway so we might as well decide it's allowed" mindset on education policy is really accelerating my transition to Angry Old Curmudgeon

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The Episcopal Church pulls out of resettlement agreement with United States Government after white preference given for South African refugees. www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2...

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"Narcan funding under threat in proposed federal budget" (Midland Daily News, May 6, 2025) www.ourmidland.com/news/article...

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San Diego, Boston and Seattle are among U.S. cities losing out on lucrative conferences including all the hotel, restaurant, entertainment, transportation and other local purchases that domestic and international conference attendees would have done. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle. Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.

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Jeff Bridges says he contracted COVID while receiving chemo. @tinu.bsky.social fought tirelessly for masks in healthcare. She had long covid & cancer and HCWs refused to mask for her. We must do better. People are dying & becoming disabled because HCWs prioritize comfort over infection control

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Just hours after the Copyright Office released its report on AI training—stating the obvious, that much unlicensed commercial training of AI on copyright-protected material is unlikely to qualify as fair use—President Trump has fired the Register of Copyrights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

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(with correct link this time) May 15, 2025 - Yale Med: 'Unraveling Long COVID Pathogenesis: Insights Gained and Frontiers Ahead' 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET - Hybrid event. In person and via Zoom Hosts: Serena Susan Spudich, MD, MA Akiko Iwasaki, PhD medicine.yale.edu/event/unrave...

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PolyBio @polybiorf.bsky.social Spring Symposium: Zoom seminar with 10 minute research updates from 33 researchers. Friday, May 16, 1100 ET / 1500 UTC polybio.org/spring-2025-... Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #longcovid #chronicillness #mecfs #lyme #cci

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Every few years there's a case where a single vote decides an election. Yet so many people still refuse to see the value in their vote. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Measles. Is. Back. A disease we had basically eradicated in the U.S. is now spreading in schools, hospitals, and communities. Why? Because misinformation kills. 🧵

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CNN: 'Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects' Bridges: “My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/e...

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Any politician who wants to ban migration for care homes should be forced to wait 9 hours for the toilet. I imagine pandering to anti-immigration groups would then feel as painful and illogical as it does to disabled and older people left without care workers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Pontiff got Creole in him www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/pope-leo-xiv...

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Veterans Reinstate Oath to the Constitution May 25 2025 12:00 Noon Independence Hall, Philadelphia We won't take an oath to a king. #ReinstateOath #DefendConstitution #NOKing

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Got some fresh basil to make pizza and decided to take one of the two stalks of leaves, clip the end, dunk it in Root Boost powder and leave it in a glass of water. Hey presto, it has already formed a couple of tiny roots overnight!

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Theatre and arts organizations have been some of the best places for spotting masks and respirators in the wild. The Kennedy Center mask ban is extra painful because it’s targeting maskers in one of the few places they felt relatively safe. Pro infection eugenics.

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These are screenshots of the running spreadsheet being kept by law students at Georgetown. Green indicates law firms that have stood up to Trump, red are those that have capitulated to Trump. I'll put the direct link to the spreadsheet in the first comment.

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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking people to show up at town halls between now and when Congress reconvenes at the end of the month. We need to push back against NIH cuts and political interference. 1/

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If you are a social scientist or trainee, please sign and share this open letter calling on the Trump admin to reinstate global health funding and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Trump's State of the Soviet Union tonight.

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Pair of Cardinals is convinced that the best nesting materials are in my back porch area, so they keep getting in and themselves trapped there.

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Gamechanger for my anti-Candida diet food life - buckwheat crust pizza! www.powerhungry.com/2021/09/28/2...

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America's workers are not "falling" into homelessness. They're being pushed. My essay for @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

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Here's the first regrown leek which is getting pretty big by now (a few weeks after sprouting in water and then planting) -- not sure but this might be ready to harvest. 🌱

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Unacceptable: The HHS Secretary's response to a child's death from a preventable disease for which there is a good vaccine should NOT be "no big deal, we had more outbreaks last year" while also omitting that for the past 10 years, there have been 0 deaths. #MedSky www.statnews.com/2025/02/26/t...

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Starting to regrow lots of kitchen vegetables now - leeks, green onion,garlic, ginger root and sweet potato. My first regrown leek is looking about ready to harvest for a soup and then start regrowing again. Trying to stretch the budget a bit wherever I can, plus it's fun to grow things. 🌱

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From my librarian colleagues: "The [Library of Congress Subject Headings] tentative list released today (February 18) contains proposals to change subject headings pertaining to "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" (and also Mount Denali to Mount McKinley)"

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Honest question for Elon: What explanation would you like me to give my constituents who rely on this program? Or the other 9/11 families? Because I'm about to get in my car and drive wherever the hell you are right now to find out myself. This makes me sick.

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