On this day in 1957, U.S. Army troops escorted the Little Rock Nine to Central High School in Arkansas. Less well known—in August 1958 all the city's high schools were closed for a year to resist integration. Students learned through televised lessons, as shown in these photos.

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1. The intense and all-encompassing institutional and societal pushback seen in some countries against any intervention to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19, whether that be vaccines, or air filtration / purification, or masks, is not simply as a result of mandates or lockdowns.

2. The memory of these policies is a component of it, to be sure, but the deep underlying reason is a shared yearning for the world to be as it was in 2019. In effect, 2019 has become the status quo that almost everyone needs to cling to. This need is pathological in nature.

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6. The great and tragic irony is that the more societies agree to ignore it, by prioritising a yearning for the status quo above all else, the more of a force multiplier our societies become for the virus. Societies have become the virus's greatest ally. /end

CIDRAP’s piece titled “High false-negative rate limits value of rapid COVID tests for kids,” listed sensitivity of RATs as 64.2% in symptomatic kids & 56.2% in asymptomatic kids. WHO & FDA performance standards for RATs specify a minimum sensitivity of 80% www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

autumnal walk footsteps and leaves bond the trail. #haikufeels #inkMine #dailyhaikuprompt

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

📢 PSA As indoor activity increases and if you're looking for a very inexpensive and effective air purifier -- try making a CR Box. Easy. I've had mine (2) for 5 years. This one has the industrial look. Much gratitude to coinventers @jimrosenthal5.bsky.social and @jimrosenthal5.bsky.social ❤️🌹🙏

That look when you add up the monthly cost of Long Covid… and then remember you don’t have an income because of Long Covid. What’s the expense that hits you the hardest?

N95 respirator works while sharing air indoors in all settings:

TODAY Show: “Violet Affleck, 19, Gives Powerful Speech About Long COVID and Children at UN Event: 'I Am Terrified'” “The daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck advocated for filtered indoor air and masking to help prevent children from getting long COVID” www.today.com/health/viole...

NBC News: 'Violet Affleck gives speech at U.N. on long Covid' www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts...

Boston: "Violet Affleck, daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, makes impassioned speech at U.N. about long COVID" '..Affleck, 19..spoke to the U.N. on Tuesday about the need for global indoor air standards to combat long COVID & other post-viral conditions' www.boston.com/culture/cele...

The Cut: 'Violet Affleck Spoke About Long COVID at the U.N.' 'Affleck criticized leaders for “ignoring, downplaying, and concealing” the risks of long COVID.' www.thecut.com/article/viol...

The Atlantic: 'Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID' 'In her new novel, the author captures the strangeness of ordinary life for the chronically ill' www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

The Guardian: 'Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood review – long Covid from the inside' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

"We knew how to protect you, and we didn't." "We can recognize filtered air as a human right as intuitively as we do filtered water." #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver ⬇️⬇️⬇️

@fitterhappierAJ on X wrote: Claiming people were less likely to get #LongCovid with #Reinfections#LongCovidwas not only wrong, but incredibly short-sighted. By the numbers, most people with LC now would have gotten it from reinfection. The conjecture also pacified and beguiled the public. @whnnl […]

Emily Oster, Leana Wen, Bob Wachter, Monica Gandhi, Francois Balloux, Jay Bhattacharya and many others — their cynical minimization of an ongoing pandemic directly contributed to the prevalence of Long Covid. This tragedy is their legacy

Violet Affleck, 19, called on members of the United Nations to protect future generations from long COVID.

we’re in denial our late-summer lettuces delicate with frost

Reading poetry written in this manner points out the strengths of using the simplest, unadorned, words in a poem. Too often we reach automatically for the fancy word & chains of modifiers thinking we are refining the poem or improving the effect!

Decades of research have found that acetaminophen is safe for children when administered as recommended. Misleading claims link the medicine to autism. These false claims send a dangerous message to parents and does a disservice to autistic individuals. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

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“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

There is no conclusive evidence that taking Acetaminophen during pregnancy harms children, but there is very strong evidence that getting COVID does.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

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There are 600,000 of you who now follow us on Bluesky 🦋 As journalists ourselves, we understand that regularly reading stories about broken systems can take a toll, and we never take the community here for granted. Thank you to all of you who care deeply about the work we do.

"even as disease levels trend down, there is still a lot of SARS-CoV-2 going around, & levels are unlikely to drop too much further as we start getting into colder weather" "where this wave has already passed its peak, levels remain quite high even as they decline" thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/n...

www.nature.com/articles/s41.... link.springer.com/article/10.1.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neuroimaging reveals that both structural and functional abnormalities in the #basalganglia are associated with #fatigue in LC & ME/CFS. Some studies on LC has observed differences in metabolic heterogeneity (variability) within the basal ganglia, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

NEW @teenvogue.com: a Texas bill passed this summer mandating schools deadname trans students, leaving enforcement to districts. @kitoconnell.com speaks to trans students in TX: “I’ve never felt more at threat here. I can’t stop thinking that everything would be so different if I detransitioned.”

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

We’re at the intersection of multiple wicked problems: Combating climate change, AI slop, fascism, ongoing pandemic, Long Covid. And that’s just off the top of my head. johndupuis.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

People will always find it in extremely poor taste to be judged merely for what they have said & done, rather than by how they imagine themselves to be.

The concept of the corporate state was way underplayed in fascism studies for too long. The institutional union of the government, big business and the church to crush labor is the distinguishing feature of fascism.

1/4 🧵⚠️ To our Fellow Feds: Last week, CDC told employees with disabilities to return to the office or use personal leave -- even if unsafe. Union pushback paused this illegal directive. But the fact it was issued and how some supervisors reacted is a wake-up call.

It is against United States law to provide weapons to forces that commit war crimes. Yet our government in Democratic and Republican administrations have continued sending American made bombs to an Israeli government carrying out a genocide. It is time to Block the Bombs.

A healthy public health response would have expanded, rather than narrowed, the tools in our anti-COVID toolkit since 2021. Instead, institutional mitigations like clean air were never implemented, and now the last tool standing is under attack. www.thegauntlet.news/p/with-rfks-...

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google all sent emergency memos to employees on H-1B visas, instructing them not to travel outside the country and urging those abroad to return immediately. It’s yet another example that appeasing tyrants only tightens their grip.

It’s cool that RFK Jr and his cherry-picked team of science deniers are going to try to prevent Americans from accessing a medicine that can prevent nearly all cases of chronic hepatitis and 50% of liver cancers this week. So healthy, right?

A doctor in Buffalo, New York talks says her hospitalized young patient with sickle cell has a Border Patrol Agent outside his room.

In case you’re confused, this is the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. 90% of chronic hepatitis cases occur as a result of infection during infancy. Chronic hepatitis causes 60% of all liver cancers. Almost like we can prevent acute AND chronic illness? 2/

[5 of 5, posting the poem "Fathers" by Grace Paley] the necessary eradication of the new fathering fathers (who are their sons) as well as the women and children who will surely be in the way. -- Grace Paley

[4 of 5 posts of poem "Fathers" by Grace Paley] these scenes were brand new exciting for an old woman who had watched the old fathers gatherings once again in familiar army camps and com- fortable war rooms to consider