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Healthcare settings have a duty to mitigate COVID. Patients shouldn’t be infected in the place they go to seek care. What about HCWs? A new study showed 40% had symptoms of Long Covid. This is a mass disabling event. It’s creating chronic illness patients, while taking HCWs out of the workforce:

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Love this work by Mark Cohen… Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #photography

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

1/ I never took DHS's scary-sounding notice that I had 7 days to leave the country too seriously, because it was obviously some kind of mistake. But what about the people the emails were actually aimed at? Let's talk a bit about immigration "parole" and what Trump is doing here

submitted 64 days ago • 46 comments

I know times are bad because any date from the future (2034, 2078, 2026) sounds like it could be the title of a post-apocalyptic movie.

submitted 64 days ago • 134 comments

This, all day every day.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

submitted 67 days ago • 38 comments

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 68 days ago • 385 comments

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

submitted 79 days ago • 233 comments

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

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submitted 78 days ago • 8 comments

Updated: I have still not made enough for a room for another day. I have check out tomorrow at 11am. Please help share and contribute what you can🥺🙏🏾 #MutualAid #Sexwork #BlackSky #BookSky #Blue #Harris #Lgbtq #Writingsky #promosky #mutuals #politics #trump #blm #bluesky

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in a few months I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is way over its skis here 1/9

submitted 78 days ago • 525 comments

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

submitted 79 days ago • 185 comments

One of the best ways you can help us fight mask bans is to wear a mask. Wear it to show solidarity with disabled and vulnerable people. Wear it to stand up to fascism. Wear it to protect your health for the battle ahead. The more people masking, the harder they are to ban. Normalize masking!

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

"people should start saving now" is an awful shitty thing to say to the 7.5M disabled people on SSI who legally cannot save more than $2k without losing their benefits which are a max of $943 a month to fucking begin with www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

submitted 104 days ago • 57 comments

Because the first question shifts the blame to the desperate, making their morality the focus, while the second question demands accountability from the powerful. It's easier to question survival than to challenge greed.

submitted 164 days ago • 225 comments

When did firing national park rangers, scientists and air traffic controllers become a better idea than just taxing billionaires?

submitted 114 days ago • 14 comments

We must speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues

submitted 117 days ago • 6 comments

Though based on the latest science we should update Seuss to clarify that trees & other plants do have ways of speaking to each other & other kingdoms of life through astonishingly complex means & that Western science has been engaged in a long overdue process of learning to listen & understand them

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett exposes near $1 billion in new contracts for Musk in just 2 weeks: "This is nothing more than a money grab. He's not out there trying to save money for the American people, he's lining his pockets."

submitted 117 days ago • 96 comments

NEW: The Trump admin is considering destroying 160 million COVID tests, worth half a billion dollars. This would be a horrible waste. COVID is still around, and causes high levels of illness and deaths throughout the year. Tests are expensive. The government should send them to people for free.

submitted 118 days ago • 40 comments

The “it’s just a flu!” COVID minimizing language has made people downplay the risks of COVID & forget how serious flu can be. After 5 years of COVID reinfections it’s hard to know if you’re “healthy” “I wasn’t aware that the flu virus could do something like this to a perfectly healthy child”

submitted 121 days ago • 13 comments

❤️ This Valentine's Day, we are sending extra love to the dedicated, hard-working federal workers in our country! Amidst unprecedented budget cuts, illegal funding freezes, and an unpredictable political climate, your continued commitment and service does not go unnoticed.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite covert public assistance program: The mortgage interest deduction.

submitted 124 days ago • 3 comments

TBH lot of people are on public assistance and don't even realize it, because it's not explicitly framed as govt assistance.

submitted 124 days ago • 31 comments

Humility is in order right now. No one knows what will make a difference. So do everything that you can to take some form of constructive action. 1000 people taking action is ALWAYS better than 1000 people doing nothing or 1000 people acting like East German figure skating judges.

submitted 128 days ago • 69 comments

Why are there so many fake Keanu accounts?

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Here at Arizona State University, Republicans are asking students to report illegal immigrants. In Nazi Germany people were asked to report Jews for "deportation". Eerily similar. ASU students are protesting the MAGA strong-arming. JOIN THEIR PROTEST. Like and repost. www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

submitted 135 days ago • 5 comments

It’s May 6, 1933 again. We cannot comply.

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment