It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

It’s such a mindfuck to see articles & TV shows trying to sensitively reflect on the ongoing COVID pandemic—but doing so only in the past tense, or as if it were a horrible event that ended in 2022 & is all behind us now & we just need to deal with the psychological after effects. It ain’t over.

Please consider wearing an #N95 mask BEFORE you get sick, so that you don't have to get sick. Absurdly, #PublicHealth continues to ask people to wear a mask after they get sick (close the stable door after the horse has bolted) - Via @violetblue.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

5/ But also it’s an act of love towards everyone else. My friends, family, community, and even strangers. Even if the love is not returned".

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Buy a book. Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever. Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.

"Every day, another major corporation or elected official or distant family member is choosing to speak to you in this particular voice. This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak--"

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

This World AIDS Day, we remember the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers lost to HIV and AIDS, and those living with HIV today. We must remind ourselves and each other that the fight isn’t over until the epidemic is over for everyone.

I don't want to talk about World AIDS Day because I don't want to talk about the person I lost because I don't want to deal with the fact that he is gone and didn't get to teach me to use the cameras he gave me or be one of the people I came out to I don't want him to be gone RIP Bob Finney

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.

Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up. If we had clean air in public spaces. Respirators in healthcare. Free masks for those who need them. Better tests & treatment. Paid time off. We would all be healthier.

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

Farewell to a modern great Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc

But the death rate for infants under 2 with whooping cough is 2%, and I was told recently by many very liberal people that if 98 or 99% of people are going to recover fine from something, we don’t need to care about the ones who die.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

How we start today in our home. Happy Thanksgiving! #Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

There are >800 LoCITT-T participants, & >200 people who are eligible & just need to take one more step to claim their spot. There's time for new folks to join! We're particularly hoping to enroll folks from ND, MS, & PR & more BIPOC participants: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

If you have relatives with long covid and will be seeing them tomorrow (or won’t be because they have long covid) please spread the word about this trial of tirzepatide for LC. I’m enrolled, the anecdotes I hear from patients on it for other reasons are very encouraging.

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

The #Leonardi_Effect is very long‼️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Three babies in Kentucky have died of whooping cough. They weren’t vaccinated and neither were their mothers. This is RFK Jr’s legacy. A trail of dead kids who never had a chance. They didn’t get to decide about vaccination. Adults chose for them & they paid with their life.

@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

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What time do you get in?

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

I don't think this is exactly his thesis, but I could get behind a thesis of "people will find ways to spend up to their income level, and then while they have young children their budget will have a massive hole in it, we should do something about that"

We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!

Interesting thought, what would happen if everyone started wearing masks again? If the police and ICE can do it, why can't everyone else? Sure would mess up facial recognition and probably a lot fewer people would get sick as well.

I knew I'd seen him somewhere before

This is why I say his strength is that he’s a bard. We need more bards in the democratic party, Mamdani is one.

does mamdani smell really good in person or something. like he seems very charming yes but what the fuck lol

Mamdani did more to focus the Democrats’ message around FDR and the New Deal (which… of course they should!) than any prominent Democrat has in years. And he got Trump to go along! bsky.app/profile/pale...

We're going to build a city that everyone can afford — and with about 40 days until I become the next mayor of the city, we're hard at work on the transition. (And if that's something you want to be a part of, visit our website!)

Pregnant women need to be informed about and protected from SARS-CoV-2 infections.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

This 👇

Turns out charisma goes a long way in politics!

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.