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Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch The Handmaid's Tale. Now. Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA. When a book becomes alive. Too quick. It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong. #TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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The Canadian government has once again very quietly released a bombshell report on Long Covid, which states that out of 438,531 people (adults + kids), 50% had at least one lingering symptom for up to two years. No media coverage. tinyurl.com/5dj9w4ke

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Masks belong in healthcare. Doctors have a duty to do no harm, and when they refuse to mask they’re putting patients lives at risk. When you’re the patient, it’s terrifying. You feel abandoned. De-valued. Like your life doesn’t matter. No one should have to choose between care and Covid:

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So this interview lasted 2 hours so this “you’re scaring me” part might seem like an overreaction or fearmongering to someone without that context. There’s a lot of evidence to support my hypothesis that a potential H5N1 pandemic would be worse than COVID.

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Sending the 300 migrants to a prison in El Salvador is a violation of 13 international laws and/or treaties, US law, and 3 Constitutional Amendments.

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If you know, you know

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442 ppl dead this past week in the US. 83,100 new cvd cases. 12,538 ppl dead thus far from cvd this year. while leaders do nothing and businesses pretend everything is fine.

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🧪 Important study 👉Pointing to enduring immunometabolic dysfunction underlying Long Covid, highlighting the need for therapies targeting immune and metabolic restoration 💊 👉 Disruption of gene regulation may also indicate ⏫ risk of cancer 📝🖇️ tinyurl.com/4dxz3ufv

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Before the pandemic, healthcare workers would mask upon request or in high risk settings like NICU, transplant, oncology wards. Now? I hear a story almost every day of someone being infected because the HCW refused to wear a mask. We won’t even protect premature babies who can’t mask themselves

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When Roe was overturned, someone asked me what’s next. And I said: eugenics. Old-timey eugenicists were anti-abortion and pro sterilization (with varying opinions on birth control). Because it’s all about who should and who should not be having children. 1/2

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Bro literally got holy ghosted

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I’m pretty sure that as soon as you open the Merlin Bird ID app it sends out a signal to all the birds to shut up.

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Preprint… www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Medical misogyny kills, traumatizes & maims. My chronic illnesses were brushed off for years as “anxiety”, related to weight, being vegan and/or “nothing”. When I needed a hysterectomy to save my life, I was told I needed a man’s permission. My Mom’s pancreatic cancer was missed & deemed stress

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This week Edinburgh Acting School has been getting our new studio spaces set up in @summerhallarts.bsky.social. We've been busy painting and kitting it out, and on Monday I'll be running the first Actors' Gym in the new space - if you're a professional actor in Edinburgh, grab a drop-in ticket!

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Columbia is proof that appeasement doesn’t work. Harvard is doing the right thing.

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Watching my skin age is fascinating. But sad, too. Arms.

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The only way to prevent long COVID is to avoid getting COVID. This is the message public health should be delivering to the masses. It’s dreadfully unfair that they’ve allowed a novel virus to go unmitigated, creating a mass disabling event where each infection is a dice roll with disability

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Complementary with what? Each other? The decor? My clothing? And don’t get me started on the grammar etc. @lner.co.uk Maybe invest in adult literacy classes for your staff?

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Reynisfjara, plus Jokulsarlon, Iceland. March 2025. People. Peopling. #iceland #reynisfjara #vik #iceland #southiceland #jokulsarlon #people #humanconnection #couples #couple #friendship #companionship

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I've spent my money on some dumb things over the years. I've bought on shoes I've never worn. I've paid for cocktails that cost £18 and pissed them out. When I was 16 I spent all £100 of my birthday money on five DVDs, one of which was American Pie. But I've never financed a transphobic hate group.

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Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

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Rich people are amazing. People will be going hungry out there, and they’ll be like yeah, but I went to space.

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“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

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Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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The Wednesday edition of the virus update is now out with the latest news and data of the day. Covid Is Leading To A Higher Risk Of Car Crashes And Bad Driving youtu.be/zQQaYm0UWGs?... via @YouTube

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The first camps weren't in Germany.

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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#GVerse #Food4Thought 😉

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The penguins are mobilising.

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Then why the hell do we not protect the kids? Study finds kids who get COVID-19 face higher rates of kidney disease, worse kidney function. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/vi...

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theatre: May 2 at 4 PM ET. livestream. excerpts from MINOTAUR. by Caridad Svich. directed by Joshua William Gelb. performed by Scott Shepherd (GATZ) with Joshua William Gelb & Rory Willats. video design by Rory Willats. free. online at Culturehub. rsvp at www.culturehub.org/events/minot...

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