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"If Covid damaged our immune systems, we would be seeing record outbreaks of other diseases." That was the argument in 2022. Three years later, we're having the worst resurgence of flu, tuberculosis, measles, and whooping cough in generations.

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

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submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

It’s not over yet. Call your representatives, especially those you live in red districts! 👇

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich. Thread on the next steps of the process.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Under the watchful eye of the fascist anti-vaxxers, Americans under 65 without “preconditions” are losing access to Covid vaccines We barely test. We have no clean air. No mandatory masking in healthcare. Some areas have mask bans This is a policy of forced infection. Two days left to speak out!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The only thought I’ve had in my head since finding out that 2 of the 5 “aid” trucks “allowed” by Israel into Gaza held only shrouds & body bags is Navajo Nation sending for federal help at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic & receiving a truckload of body bags. It’s the same colonialism.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 406 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

1. That I make much better art when not in such an insular place as art school, when I have psychology, mythology, the wider world to learn about and draw from to create. 2. Emotionally, no, but as someone who was terrified of failing the SATs & therefore abstained, art school was my only choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”. I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

Oh this is perfect. Every time someone blanks out the nipples on images of this protest they're saying that trans women's breasts are in fact breasts, and not just saggy man chest. Media sanctioned gender euphoria all round! 😈🤭

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Please remember this the next time you’re tempted to make a cute meme or photo or whatever the latest AI trend is. Or when you want to ask it a question “for kicks”. You may think it’s fun, but it’s causing tremendous harm. To artists. Writers. Creators. Workers. And especially the environment.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

submitted 6 days ago • 398 comments

People continue to act like disabled & covid caution folks want to return to lockdowns. We don’t. We want clean air in public spaces. Paid time off. Better access to testing. Free respirators and mandatory masking in healthcare. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

The inclusion of a sweeping provision to ban state and local regulation of Al systems for a decade is an egregious overreach that must be removed from the spending bill. @resist.bot #resist #trump #dailyaction #handsoff #resistfascism Text SIGN PKZFZA to 50409 or go to: resist.bot/petitions/PK...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Call your reps. #noai #resist 5calls.org

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Was feeling rather crappy today due to some ongoing digestive fuckery. And then I remembered that my neighbor specifically knocked on my door yesterday to show me a cool corn snake he rescued, and again today to show me his friend’s teeny puppy. The world is still good, my friends.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

Masking should be mandatory in all healthcare settings. Hospitals and doctor’s offices are where most sick people congregate. It’s also the most likely place for more high risk people to be. You shouldn’t have to risk getting sicker or more disabled while trying to get treatment.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

Please really do call your congressperson, this is…this is a lot

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):

submitted 13 days ago • 139 comments

If it’s our “patriotic duty” to be healthy, then government has a duty to provide the means to achieve that Universal healthcare Paid time off Clean air UBI They don’t want to provide those things because it isn’t about health, it’s about blaming the chronically ill so they can be eliminated

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

You can’t “try harder” your way out of chronic illness. You can’t “healthy diet” your way out of chronic illness. Disability is not your fault. It’s not a moral failing. Absolutely we should do whatever we can to be healthy, but folks need to accept that disability can & will happen to everyone

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Been having some digestive issues lately and need to get more fiber. Turns out anything can be a salad if you try hard enough.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

These minis are now available in my IG stories 👀🌸✨ www.instagram.com/nimasprout

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

ICYMI: As kids keep getting sicker, media ignores scientific papers pointing to immune dysregulation and damage after COVID. Instead, parents are urged to “watch out” for unusual waves of RSV, flu, and more, while masks, clean air & COVID go unmentioned. www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

New: - US on track for worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948 - Conspiracy creep w/no medical license tapped as US Surgeon General - HICPAC, NIOSH ended - Cool Haunted Woods #LongCovid game - #Covid surges land in AU, Thailand, Taiwan - I got ranty www.patreon.com/posts/covid-... #PublicHealth

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

This is how we bring new life to monster truck rallies

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Your reminder to take in 17776, a true masterpiece www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

submitted 16 days ago • 439 comments

When the garbage truck comes at 6:30 instead of 7:30 like is always has…. 😵‍💫

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who wants to hold public office should be required to live, for one year, on minimum wage.

submitted 17 days ago • 16 comments