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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 2h

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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 18h

Or Mansfield OH!! 😬

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 19h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 2h

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2h

“‘I have not seen them cross the line yet,’ Johnson said flatly, waving off examples of shattered windows, detained veterans, and non-criminal deportations that have sparked protests nationwide.” migrantinsider.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Hasn’t “Crossed the Line.” The Country Disagrees.

From Chicago to Los Angeles, ICE raids are breaking windows, families, and trust — but not, apparently, the Speaker’s conscience.

migrantinsider.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78.bsky.social · 17d

In a sample of thousands of Covid survivors from Rwanda, 34% suffered from #LongCovid symptoms for a study period of up to three years (LC WHO case definition)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prevalence and characterization of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) in Rwanda

Reliable, population-level estimates of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) remain scarce for sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to quantify …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 17d

There appears to be a resurgence of public health units doing, I dare say, really good reality-based public health! They even say COVID…let’s give them some love!

California Department of Public Health @capublichealth.bsky.social · 18d

Lots of coughing & sniffles going on around you? Stay purr-fectly protected by wearing a mask! 😷🐈

Wearing a high-quality N95 mask protects you from respiratory viruses like flu, COVID-19 and RSV.

📲 https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Respiratory-Viruses/When-and-Why-to-Wear-a-Mask.aspx

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Cassidy She/Her @pdxreigns.bsky.social · 2h

There are enough parallels for the comparison to hold. Test. Clean the air. Wear a mask.

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 20h

Our new review article examines the parallels between COVID and AIDS, including the social impacts

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 3h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 4h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Liz Ahern 🌈🧜🏼‍♀️🇲🇽🍉 @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 19h

“He’s a citizen! He’s a citizen! That’s my brother-in-law!”

ICE entered a Walgreens in Chicago running with their guns drawn looking for any person of color.

Apparently they kidnapped a black young man.

Contact Walgreens HQ and ask them to not allow ICE on their property.

#Chicago #Walgreens

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h

This article made me think about the research on why young men make rape jokes—primarily, to find a way to connect with other (misogynistic) men without vulnerability.

The big problem is that the men who start out making rape jokes to “fit in” are also at the greatest risk of raping to “fit in.”

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 3h

There’s plenty of discourse about whether these Young Republicans mean the things they say.

And honestly, it doesn’t matter. Because whether they believe in it or not, the willingness to participate in these conversations predicts the willingness to perpetrate the violence they describe.

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Negro Goodell @dblbam.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck any person that is protecting a pedophile.

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not appealing to your virtue.

I'm not begging you to accommodate some kind of delusional phobia.

I'm not putting this damn thing on my face because I feel like it.

I am somebody's child, somebody's spouse, somebody's parent--and I won't cringe and waffle about protecting them.

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 12h

We don't have a mask rule because we don't understand the science.

We have a mask rule because we DO understand the growing body of evidence that covid can affect heart, brain, and more.

We have this rule because one of us already has life-changing #LongCovid and doesn't want you to experience it.

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 11h

Two friends and ex-colleagues at UT Austin found an old student newspaper article and sent it to me. Everything pre-COVID seems like a lifetime ago. This image in the article was from 2005, before having to worry about my beard giving a poor seal on a respirator. Oh, to be 20 years younger again.

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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 14h

Unidentified masked agents with guns are hunting down people and kidnapping them off the streets, and parents are being ripped away from their kids. And what is Speaker Johnson afraid of? A naked bike ride.

www.koin.com