A lot of people get parenting autistic children wrong. And I'm going to explain how in the simplest of terms. They think autistic kids need to learn how to tolerate things they find intolerable, because... "that's life." (1)

After abandoning every mitigation and infecting kids repeatedly, our media wants to know: why do so many children have Long COVID? My latest looks at the newest research, the comforting lies that just won't die, and how we got here: www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid...

What are the stages of grief again? Denial is the first one. Ppl will figure it out. It'll just take some time #AvoidCovid 😷 "SARS-CoV-2 [...] has been increasingly linked to the dysregulation of crucial oncogenic pathways, highlighting its potential role in cancer development and progression" 👇

Population wide supplementation as a public health intervention is not new and has yielded incredible health benefits through the years don't let the misguided attacks on fluoridated water fool you. Why do you think iodide is added to table salt? Since we are intent of forgetting history here is a 🧵

if we are lucky, we will all grow old enough to one day be disabled. it’s the only marginalized status that every single person on Earth can move into. this can happen through no fault of your own. start accommodating for your future self.

A shameless plug for the TV show “Andor” but it was just May the 4th and this quote felt like it was talking right to us. Goodnight friends. 💚 Get some rest.

How bad is this flu year? (See the purple line) We’ve had 1300 more hospitalizations than by this point last year: 5224 vs ~3902 Last year (blue) was the 2nd worst flu year in Colorado history. And we've had *34% more hospital admissions for flu* than last year … (On top of all the COVID)

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

Hey, y’all 🫶🏻 You co-signed RFK Jr's eradication of disabled people the moment you took your mask off when the government said it was ok to do so. Fauci's "the vulnerable will fall by the wayside" and RFK Jr's "autistic people don't contribute" are two sides of the same eugenics coin.

It helps to learn about linguistic prescription and its roots in white supremacy. The opposite of prescription is description. Language naturally evolves with fluidity, has diversity, and can only be described. That's why no one really uses Esperanto.

Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social: writer and archivist Nadica Zimmerman, founder of the CovidSafeHotties forum, shares what it's like to continue taking COVID-19 precautions in rural areas that lack significant COVID-safe communities. thesicktimes.org/2025/04/18/m...

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

I feel like we need to have baby steps for protestors, too. We’ve been too propagandized for too long and need to find our sea legs. We need all the kinds of protest to be able to stop fa$cism.

It’s never too late to start wearing a mask. Now more than ever it’s important to protect your health & the health of others No one is coming to save us, but we can save each other A well fitted respirator (like an N95) protects against Covid & shows solidarity with disabled & marginalized people

This one goes hand in hand with "why are you making everything about autism"... Because, in my brain, everything IS about my autism. Not a thought passes through it without being impacted in some way by my autistic brain wiring.

When people ask me when I'm going to stop wearing a mask, my new response is "have you see what's happening to public health in America? Do you think there will be any support if you get Long Covid?"

BTW, April is Autism Acceptance Month. I think this—that Autists are more likely to do the moral thing when no one is looking —is why a lot of us continue to wear KN95/N95s. I’d rather do the right thing to protect my health and community than the popular thing. My own definition of integrity.

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

#AutismAcceptanceMonth starts tomorrow. Please don't give to Autism Speaks; their $$ rarely supports autistic people/families, and their 'awareness' work portrays autistic people as burdens, not humans. From @autisticadvocacy.org, a good org to support instead. autisticadvocacy.org/considerthef...

Did you know? Masking is an intersectional practice. SARS disproportionately affects marginalized groups. It’s a working & labor class / feminist / trans & LGTBQIA+ / BIPOC / poor & housing-insecure / 🍉 & Geno-side / resistance issue. Read thread below for links.

WE THE PEOPLE DEMANDED - PROTESTED - and - VOTED for the government to help us by creating these initiatives, programs, offices, and services. DOGE is the fraud, taking away our government right in front of us. Wake up, y’all.

⬇️ Must-read interview with Dr. Špela Šalamon, MD, a physician and biomedical scientist specializing in the genetics of complex and degenerative diseases. “Organ and vascular damage without obvious symptoms…affects more than 50% of those infected.” whn.global/five-years-o...

Podcast recommendation, here. Learn about the airborne nature of SARS and why it’s important to mask up for your community and your own health. Since, ya know, Public Health is Dead, and they aren’t telling you this. open.spotify.com/episode/2xw9...

Begging my local organizers to understand this. Stand up to fa$cism and our oppressors who want us (yes, you, too) gone. Wear a well-fitted respirator mask, please. This is about you surviving as much as protecting others

As an environmentalist, it’s important to me that we champion nuclear energy. It’s clean and safe. Safer than you are imagining. So safe that we are literally wasting money to make it safer because it’s already ✨the safest✨ and ✨cleanest✨ energy source we have!

"Nuclear energy can help align Thailand’s sustainable development goals with its commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2065, an expert says." https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2991189/nuclear-energy-can-help-thailand-says-company

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Be the change you want to see in the world 😷🌍

Heyooooh, Congress allocated all those programs and fundings based on decades of hearings, laws, and dedicated action by their constituents. Everything DOGE is doing is against the American People. Stop the Regime from dismantling our government and democracy. Wake up!

The Regime’s Greenland visit just pisses me off. When the VP says that Greenland (under Denmark) is not safe, from a U.S. Military Base in Greenland, doesn’t he know _why_ we have a base there?? We made ✨deals✨ to protect them in exchange for peace. Read Tim Snyder: substack.com/@snyder/note...

All of us or none of us. We are all connected. Don’t you see if we don’t defend our most vulnerable first, that they just move up the line?? You think they were gonna start with the strongest, for some reason?. Mask up to protect yourself and others. We are all connected.

"As part of efforts to deny transgender people protections under the ADA, anti-transgender attacks often rely on harmful stereotypes about disabled people. This narrative is destructive to the bodily autonomy & agency of the trans & disability communities." www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

💞 Filtration is very helpful for many things. A very energy/cost efficient way to improve learning, accessibility and health 👏 youtu.be/ycgLBUfIM_c?...

Learning about CO2 helps understanding many things 💫 www.steampoweredfamily.com/the-greenhou...

Thread of references supporting airborne transmission as the dominant route for SARS-CoV-2:

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... This isn't some fear mongering or alarmist rant. Its true Measles CAN HARM IT WILL HURT PEOPLE IT CAN KILL

Every trans person deserves safety, dignity and respect. No exceptions. No conditions. No debate. Visibility is only meaningful if it leads to real change. #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility

Millions die prematurely from air pollution every year. Where does this pollution come from? In our new article, @pablorosado.com and I look at the breakdown, pollutant-by-pollutant. ourworldindata.org/air-pollutio...

Ok, for my own sanity - I need to talk to Canada + the people's allies right now... This is 100% false. Straight up, not true. An absolute lie. I cannot emphasize enough this is completely made up. Not one word is true. It is factually incorrect, did not happen. Untrue, like the sky is green.

“Vance, who never left the base, and has never before visited Greenland, was quite sure how Greenlanders should live. He made a political appeal to Greenlanders, none of whom was present, or anywhere near him… It takes some patience to unwind all of the nonsense here.”

I did a bit more digging about a recent BBC news article about how installing air quality monitors had a 'dramatic' effect on health. It is an initiative by @sthelenscouncil (X a/c) and @WarringtonBC (X a/c) called the Healthy Air for Healthy Lungs project. So what's it all about?... 1/thread

🤦‍♂️🙈 “Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.”

Are you trying to organize against fa$cism and to resist the State? Please read through.

If you havent read “Twenty Lessons” by Tim Snyder, heres a video of John Lithgow reading it. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing. Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases. No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.