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submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

When I share a story about a disabled patient being abused or gaslit in a healthcare setting, people act aghast but treat it like an outlier. It’s not an outlier. We all have these stories, some have multiple. It happens in every country & under all political stripes. It’s ableism.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 5 comments

Abortion is healthcare. Period.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

The U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations. And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

Trump nominates Casey Means, a wellness influencer, for Surgeon General. Means is close with RFK Jr, and has built an online following on eugenics adjacent 'wellness' topics that blame the chronically ill for not being 'healthy enough.' This regime isn't even trying to hide their eugenics goals:

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Sidenote, I feel like energy use comes up whenever chatgpt is mentioned that I see, but I do kind of almost exclusively follow leftists, disability advocates, & cat photo accounts so what I typically see is pretty skewed

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search. In this op-ed, politics editor @leximcmenamin.com addresses the environmental costs of AI that not many seem to be talking about ⤵️

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Americans are paying for this with their tax money

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Maybe more British people need to learn about how Churchill acted in Kenya and India and his views of people who aren't white.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Christ. The article is clear: The State Dept. found Israeli units guilty of torture, executions, and blocking aid to starving civilians. Blinken buried the findings, then kept the weapons flowing! But somehow the villains are all of us who drew a red line!? Spare me.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I love that the Pulitzer site is straight up like "Yeah, she won because she's so fearless that she quit her job over censorship," and WaPo is still like "Look! We won!" and just acting oblivious to how this makes them look.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Oh sure, nothing says "make America healthy" like cutting the entire department responsible for occupational health - a brilliant move only if the goal is more chronic illness, not less. 🤯

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Education Department’s civil rights office once helped push a South Dakota school district to treat its Native students equally. Under Trump, that same office decided that helping Indigenous students would discriminate against white students: propub.li/3GIdTRr

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

This is a despicable hit piece that refuses to introspect about the effect of genocide itself on Democrats' electoral loss. The Bulwark's founders helped Trump's rise and ensured Trump's return by demanding Democrats become 2003-era Republicans. Fuck everybody who works there.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Excellent thread discussing a disturbing story. There’s a reason the disabled community has spoken out with deep concerns about MAID/PSA from the earliest days - b/c we knew this was the logical outcome. It’s too easy to use MAID as a universal solution to health care mismanagement.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Addressing the chronic illness epidemic will take more than just disappearing the chronically ill. We need: Universal healthcare & basic income Affordable food & housing Paid time off Clean air & masks in healthcare Without those things, it’s eugenics. It’s blaming the disabled for being sick

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Blatantly unconstitutional (Lamont v Postmaster General), but our current Supreme Court will probably just make up some complete nonsense out of nowhere, cite an English witchburner, and let him do whatever.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yemen is the SOLE nation following R2P = The responsibility to protect, a global political commitment endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly at the 2005 World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A reminder that Democratic leaders have long defended Israeli piracy, starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli apartheid more generally.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, his exploitative mobile home loan business destroyed lives & dramatically worsened the housing crisis. It's repulsive to treat the bullshit he spouted as anything profound as he made massive profits off of gouging people for housing. Fuck him & fuck everybody who admires him.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

@rahaeli.bsky.social absolute vindication, flawless victory journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

There are people who can't mask due to physical disabilities, the vast majority of them are extremely high risk for covid. They're fucked over in a way that few non-hospitalized/non-institutionalized disabled people are by abandonment of general masking & infection control policies.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

If OR staff can safely mask for 12+ hours, so can you.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

So, having not really paid close attention, are you all telling me that most of the seats Reform won came from the Tories, while most that Labour lost went to the Lib Dems & Greens, and, as a result, Labour are going to get even tougher on migration to chase Reform? Almost like it's a choice.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

STV [3 May 25] -- After England banned trans soccer players following Supreme Court ruling, Scotland FA follows suit, banning the ONE player--a fifth tier for Edinburgh Univ. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"The vitamin A treatments that Kennedy has supported in the response to Texas outbreak have put some kids in the hospital after they were given toxic amounts of the vitamin" RFK Jr is NOT a doctor. He's a snake oil salesman and eugenicist Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Stay home when sick

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Boycott it anyway

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Eliminating red dye in processed foods is not going to do much to improve the health of children. Why? Food deserts. Poverty. Homelessness. Lack of healthcare. Widespread COVID A healthy diet is a privilege not afforded to everyone. Tackle inequality first if you want to create a healthy society.

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

Our investigation with @propublica.org found that Arizona’s response to a massive Medicaid fraud scheme left patients without access to the drug and alcohol treatment they needed. This week, the director of the state’s Medicaid agency resigned.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

If you’re in California, pay attention to the language in the “right to mask” bill. It it won’t limit requirements to temporarily remove one’s mask for identification purposes. Covid can infect in seconds, especially if you’re immunocompromised. Breaking the seal is dangerous.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

It's also worth noting that the horrors of food adulteration and fake/contaminated medicine before things like the Pure Food and Drug Act were extremely brutal & extremely real. It's one of the things specifically mentioned in the creation of the idea of social murder.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment