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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 3h

Or doctors masking while getting surgery. You afraid of getting bacteria in your wounds? Pfft!

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Kate Violette @kateviolette.com · 4h

Multiple threads on the timeline today that all boil down to adults saying with their whole-ass chests "I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE FUN ALL THE TIME AND NOT DEAL WITH THE LESS FUN PARTS OF REALITY"

And like yeah, I get it, we all get it.

But also, my Frodos, it has indeed happened in our time.

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 5h

And if you are Puerto Rican, we are about to enter a huge healthcare crisis. 20+ of our hospitals could be really close to bankruptcy. Less hospital beds means getting sick is even more of a luxury than it already is.

Avoid getting sick by wearing a respirator.

www.metro.pr/noticias/202...

Anticipan cierre de casi 20 hospitales

Un análisis económico advierte que entre 17 y 24 hospitales privados corren riesgo de quebrar o cerrar.

www.metro.pr

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 5h

With that in mind, masking in public spaces is not that big of an ask.

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 5h

A regular reminder that we are all one covid19 infection away from being permanently disabled.

We are all one virus away from the weight of a racist and ableist healthcare falling on us.

And we are all one healthcare cut away from having to fend for ourselves if we are sick.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 6h

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Benjamín Torres Gotay @torresgotay.bsky.social · 7h

Trabajar hasta los 64 años estudiar o hacer voluntariado, son los nuevos requisitos para recibir el PAN, del cual come (la última vez que verifiqué) el 37% de la población de Puerto Rico
www.elnuevodia.com/negocios/eco...

Lo que debes saber sobre el plan que cambiará los requisitos de trabajo a beneficiarios del PAN

El programa Cuna de Talentos se prepara para extender hasta los 64 años, la edad de los candidatos hábiles para entrar a la fuerza laboral

www.elnuevodia.com

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Julio Ricardo Varela @julito77.bsky.social · 14h

By @vaquero2xl.bsky.social

SAN JUAN — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRP) discussed a pro-independence activist group during a meeting on domestic terrorism last year, according to documents obtained by The Latino Newsletter.

FBI and Puerto Rico Police Discussed Pro-Independence Group During Domestic Terrorism Meeting

SAN JUAN — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRP) discussed a pro-independence activist group during a meeting on domestic terrorism last year, according to documen...

thelatinonewsletter.org

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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: FBI and Puerto Rico police discussed a Puerto Rican pro-independence group last year during a domestic terrorism meeting, according to FOIA docs I obtained.

for @thelatinonewsletter.org

thelatinonewsletter.org/p/fbi-and-pu...

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Roberto Cofresí Hopgood 🇵🇷 writer @rc-hopgood.bsky.social · 9h

With #BadBunny all in the news, and USAmericans and others interested in #PuertoRico, I'd like to recommend this book. It's short and you'll get a good understanding of PR #history and understand a bit about where BB comes from and how bad #colonialism is.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Tweets to make your eyes bleed

Antony Blinken and Andrea Mitchell tweets:

Antony Blinken
@ABlinken
Oct 11
(1/12) In Gaza today, the guns are largely silent. If all goes as planned, the remaining Israeli hostages will return home. Palestinians will get the relief they desperately need and deserve. Nothing can erase the pain and loss of the past two years. But there is real hope of building on this step to finally end the war. President Trump and his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner deserve our collective thanks for producing this ceasefire and the renewed possibility of lasting peace.

A few reflections on how we reached this moment and where it could lead:

Andrea Mitchell
@mitchellreports
Thank you for spending two years working toward this moment creating the basis for the agreement once the two sides were finally prepared to compromise - we hope!
3:34 PM · Oct 11, 2025
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👻 EDITH PUTHIE 👻 @notkoze.trashmammal.club · 1d

Indeed

A left hand flipping the middle finger. Just below the wrist is a solid black tattoo of the coquí, a frog endemic to Puerto Rico.

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 1d

Éxito!

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of how David Lynch said he wanted to keep working but couldn’t because COVID posed too great a risk & people stopped being willing to mask up to protect others.

Ableism is an insidious evil in society & healthcare. It convinces us to abandon each other for profit & convenience.

Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Doaa @doaaomar.bsky.social · 6d

🤲 Your support is more than a donation — it’s hope, warmth, and humanity.
Every share brings us closer to healing. 💫
#Charity #MutualAid #SupportOmar #gaza #freepalestine chuffed.org/project/1153...

Please Help Doaa and Omar Survive After Fleeing Gaza

Hello everyone I am Duaa Jad Al-Haq, 37 years old, Palestinian from Gaza I have a 5-year-old child named Omar who suffers from autism and does not speak and is going through the worst period of his li...

chuffed.org

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Jubilee 🔞 @jethanded-wyvern.bsky.social · 2d

May there be justice yet for all these destroyed families torn apart by drones, by tanks, by soldiers, by fucking bulldozers.

The only state of Israel to exist in is a perpetual state of shame.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Doaa @doaaomar.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hello dear, how are you? Please help me. My father's body is full of sores. He had a stroke and can't move. He needs treatment and a hospital bed as soon as possible. Please don't ignore me.
chuffed.org/project/1153...

Please Help Doaa and Omar Survive After Fleeing Gaza

Hello everyone I am Duaa Jad Al-Haq, 37 years old, Palestinian from Gaza I have a 5-year-old child named Omar who suffers from autism and does not speak and is going through the worst period of his li...

chuffed.org

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Panchi 🎃 @merafera86.bsky.social · 4d

I'm an unemployed Puerto Rican trans woman desperately trying to save up enough money to flee from the USA. Any donation would be greatly appreciated and used to pay for visa, travel, and shelter expenses—which would help me flee earlier than I could without assistance.

Thank you for reading. 🫂❤️

Panchi 🎃 @merafera86.bsky.social · 20d

Shamelessly piggy-backing off of Wylder's post to share my own request for #MutualAid.

I'm a currently unemployed Puerto Rican trans woman living in Texas desperately trying to raise funds to help me flee these Fascist States of America.

Whether you donate or boost, I'll be forever grateful. 🥲💖

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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equally hater and lover 🇵🇷🌺🌻 @captainsparrow.bsky.social · 2d

Alguien en NYC porfa avísenme si saben donde puedo comprar ajíes pal sofrito. Recao a veces lo tienen en mi supermercado pero ají nunca he visto por ninguno de los 3 apas que he tenido. Y mind you que yo vivo en El Barrio

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WokeAlarm🇵🇷 🔨 @basedalarm.bsky.social · 2d

Lo más impresionante de estos animales es que lo que estamos viendo no es un solo organismo sino una colonia de muchos organismos especializados trabajando juntos como un solo *super*organismo

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jdm2 🇵🇷 @jdm2.bsky.social · 2d

People not treating Google AI Overview as Gospel challenge: impossible.

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Joy @joyfromghazza.blacksky.app · 2d

Hello friends, I am Joy, a writer stuck in #Gaza. I live in a small rented apartment after my house was destroyed during the #genocide
I have set a goal of $500 the week.
I GOT 2 donations only today!

Please help me to achieve it to pay the rent.

www.chuffed.org/project/evac...

#palestine

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3d

It’s like the flipside to the hasbara trolls who ask people in bad faith to name a single Palestinian who’s made a positive contribution to humanity. Democrats can’t name any of the Puerto Ricans in Bad Bunny’s video, but they’ll insist that they all contributed greatly to the USA.

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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 3d

Last time Benito tried to put Puerto Rican history in the spotlight for a gringo audience was when he reacted to “island of garbage” by posting his 2021 concert intro video. It had Lolita, Albizu, Blanca Canales, Corretjer… and gringo Dems said it was about “Puerto Ricans’ contributions to the USA.”

Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Halftime Show Could Finally Bring Puerto Rican History Into the Spotlight
www.teenvogue.com/story/bad-bu...

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Could Finally Spotlight Important Boricua History on the Mainland

Bad Bunny is perhaps the only pop star fully equipped to take on the current American sociopolitical ecosystem and the fact that a show must entertain.

www.teenvogue.com

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