[via the grio.com] The North Flint Food Market Cooperative (NFFM) is Flint’s first cooperative grocery. Unlike traditional grocery stores, run by corporations, NFFM is a co-op owned by approximately 900 community members who have invested in the store. #BlackskyNews thegrio.com/2025/12/08/w...

Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!

Heavy presence of ICE in this area of CBus. Stay safe, know your rights.

I just went through two airports and seen like 4 people with masks on. I wish y'all would act like shit is serious.

HEY SURVIVORS !! HEY ATTENTION TO ME beloveds you do not have to read or witness all of this . You do not have to re traumatize You don’t owe nobody nothing

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell could not have sold children for sex without rich perverts buying children for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

A daily preventive pill can be invaluable for people at risk for HIV. But some doctors don't know much about prescribing them. And billing headaches are common. Here's how to overcome those hurdles. n.pr/49mT6i6

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”

I wouldn't give a fuck how many billionaires there were if everyone had what they need and the massive income inequality gap disintegrated. The issue isn't that some have too much. It's that tens of millions have NOTHING and are one average personal crisis away from homelessness & starvation.

Congressman Thomas Massie says that the release today “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law that [President Trump] signed just 30 days ago.”

I'm sure the Trump regime thinks it's being sneaky-smart by making Bill Clinton the star of its initial release from the Epstein files. They may not realize that decent people – the kind of people who despise Trump – want all the facts exposed on people connected with Epstein, including Democrats.

This very good girl is Stella. She is very ill tonight and fighting for her life. Many animal friends wait for her at the Rainbow Bridge, but her Earth family loves her too. If you have a minute tonight send a good thought for Stella and all of us who love her. Thank you.

This is disgusting. Trans youth deserve healthy, full lives. Gender-affirming health care is life-saving, and the ongoing fixation on trans kids is cruel and harmful.

WATCH - @rokhanna.bsky.social : “The DOJ’s document dump DOES NOT COMPLY. We are exploring all options.” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

If you are a high school senior in NE Ohio, check out this link. College Now manages my scholarship and many others. collegenowgc.org/get-help/sch...

Its The Kennedy Center, The Dept Of Defense and The Gulf of Mexico. And donald is still a felon

Dear Blue Cross/Blue Shield. If a patient with a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease has a witnessed transfusion reaction to remicade in their rheumatology clinic you can't demand they get another infusion of remicade before you will cover an alternative.

This administration specializes in fearmongering, not facts. The facts: 86% of trans youth report s*cidal ideation and 56% have attempted to end their lives. Anti trans laws increase attempts by ~72%. <1% report regretting GAC. If they are trying to protect children, science says they are wrong.

Healthcare is a fundamental human right. Medicare for All. Immediately.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

Just got stopped by ICE at the Speedway off fisher on the West side. Looking for Haitians. New York plates on both vehicles that blocked me.

Columbus folks: tons of social media reports of ramped-up ICE activity in town, focusing on Northland and on the west side, up to Hilliard. The Dispatch just published this, with video of these fuckers tacking a guy on a bike and dragging him off. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

This is the best piece I’ve read so far on why the Guinea-Bissau RCT, in which a proven life-saving vaccine will be deliberately WITHHELD, is unethical “When benefit is established, withholding an intervention is no longer neutral experimentation it becomes premeditated harm”

Listen to Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy.

Being on an all fat/no carb or sugar diet for a few days is brutal. As much as I like meat and butter independently, pairing the two together is a bit much and adding an 18 hour fast to the end might break me. I am going to eat all the Reeses at the end of this...all of them😂

INBOX: Former NIAID director Jeanne Marrazzo is suing the Trump administration. She alleges the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally fired her after she blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

there is a kind of schadenfreude when a truck that passes you driving like a maniac in the snow ends up in the ditch that you may only ever experience in the midwest

Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me? rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...

People have become desensitized to the racist propaganda coming from official govt communication This is SHOCKING IP theft is the least of its crimes It’s lying racist scapegoating and low-key stochastic terrorism Unacceptable There must be accountability for all of the abuse in comms’ depts

I do think that if the main public health message from the authorities to the population is get the flu vaccine then the flu vaccine should be free and readily available for all. That’s not the case at the moment.

I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.

#USDemocracy Funny , over at X, the SMS formally known as Twitter, from whence most of us came, they are circulating a meme that says; “Amish people don’t have much money and they don’t use SNAP.” So the anti-socialists are using the perfect example of socialism as an example of anti-socialism.

There's a considerable literature on having patients shop by price. Unsurprisingly patients just end up not getting care. These people don't give a shit about evidence. Or patients.

Texas, let’s win this thing. #JasmineForUS #TexasTough

Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

The people currently in charge of the dismantling of science and medicine deserve nothing more than scorn and contempt from the entire medical community. They have lashed their legacies to a sinking ship, and will suffer as a result. May no one ever forget what they have done nor forgive them.

Quick update. There was a miscommunication and as result surgery was moved by a day. I’ll be dropping him off on Dec 11 for xrays/labs and surgery on the 12th. The hope is he’ll be able to come home Saturday. Thank you @teacherkknu.bsky.social and everyone in this lovely community. We love you. ❤️🩷💜

Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.

There is no subtlety to the racism of this administration

And again, if there are any questions on efficacy. A 2023 study by the Surgeon General found there was a 99% decline in reported cases of acute hepatitis B among children, adolescents and young adults from 1990-2019 as a direct result of infant immunization. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And beyond this — it is unethical on so many levels to run randomized placebo-controlled trials in infants. No child in a vaccine trial should be left unprotected and exposed to incurable disease when there is an effective therapeutic vaccine.

Patel: When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life. But i guess attacking Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police that gets you pardoned and favor with donald. 🙄

It's really not great that your access to vaccines and accurate public health information now varies depending on where you live

Rep Pramila Jayapal: "Remember the militarized raid on a Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night where agents rappelled from helicopters and zip-tied sobbing children? It has resulted in ZERO criminal charges two months later. The cruelty, chaos, and fear are the point."

A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA: former FDA commissioners call out Dr. Prasad's departure from previous standards in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....