Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

As a dog person, I just LOVE this. 😍

The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now. I. Told. You. So. Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole. Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

In future psychology text books, this will be used to instruct how a narcissist feels when someone else gets all the attention

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said.. “I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons” More celebrities need to speak out like this.

One simple, powerful and often overlooked thing you can do to resist fascism? Wear a mask, ideally an N95! Covid is not over Masking sends a powerful message that you value your health & the health of your community That you don’t think disabled lives are expendable It’s radical community care

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Paging @mark-carney.bsky.social because this is also what Canadians ACTUALLY want from you, and NOT repealing the luxury tax so the 1% can save money on their 100K$+ aircrafts and 250K$+ boats 👇 #cdnpoli

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

The firing of the award-winning political staff of @teenvogue.com is going to go down as another ‘wrong side of history’ move of this era. Shame on the magazine. What a bitter disappointment.

So Teen Vogue will be just another propaganda rag now. Gross. Solidarity with all the staffers and writers who were laid off.

A reminder to support your local bookstores, wherever you live. 🤍

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

As a social/psychological experiment, giving a bunch of emotionally unintelligent narcissists an ungodly amount of money, power, and unfettered access to gaslighting AI flattery machines is producing some quite fascinating results. But yeah, the practical consequences are...not good.

I have come to believe that becoming a billionaire causes literal, physiological brain damage.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic

This is several days old. But amidst so much else id missed it. That’s a stunning number. No wonder they about-faced. Reminder of the power of consumers in oligarch era, not subject to the same kind of targeting.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

#RFKJr is a pathological liar, an incompetent unqualified conman, who is so toxic and dangerous he is literally causing deaths. A feature of totalitarianism & religious extremism is NOT trusting experts, but instead trusting cult leaders and corrupt conmen like himself.

Rolling Stone just published a major article on the impact of Long Covid. And they’re also doing this.

Masking at protests not only protects your identity, it also helps protect against flu, covid, and other viruses going around right now. Please protect yourself and others: mask up.

There’s no number of COVID infections that will make you immune to COVID. The more times you catch it, the higher your risk of Long COVID — and other serious health problems.

Another article must read repost From Long COVID Odds to Lost IQ Points: Ongoing Threats You Don’t Know About www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Long Covid is real.

“… we will never get clean air without public pressure, and there will never be public pressure without public awareness that COVID is dangerous. As long as the public continues to treat COVID like a cold the government has no incentive to move on clean air.” — @juliadoubleday.bsky.social

I teach all of my classes in an N95 because my gift from having COVID (pre-vaccine) is an autoimmune disease that destroys my kidney function. COVID gave me kidney failure, which will require a kidney transplant. What's the #1 cause of death (aside from CKD) in patients waiting for dialysis? COVID.

Heads up, this guy has done the risk assessment and he’s positive that kids can be serially reinfected with COVID forever with no serious consequences! To suggest otherwise is fear, just ignore that JAMA Pediatrics has declared long COVID more common than asthma in kids 5 years into its existence.

PEOPLE! We shouldn't have to do this again but here we are. I missed my appointment a week early (I got COVID a week before the dual shots), you don't have to. Please protect yourself and others if you feel a head cold, sore throat, aches, fever etc. Mask up and/or get vaccinated if you are able.

A very important thread. None of us are special, we are all at risk of becoming disabled. That is, if we aren’t already.

Repeat Covid infections increase your risk of Long Covid. We are in a mass disabling event that too many people are choosing to ignore. Every infection is a dice roll with disability, and many (children included) are being infected once a year or more. Mask up, clean the air, get boosted!

This is why you need to not just mask, but mask consistently in public.

The official journal of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research Opens has now published a weighing up of "COVID is the airborne A-Word" in a constructive level-headed manner. 😮 (For info: @jessicawildfire.bsky.social @drseanmullen.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social )

Finally, some good news

Mask up. 😷

Biden lied when he said the pandemic was over. 1 American is dying every 11 minutes from #COVID. 100,000 Americans contract #LONGCOVID each week

"Dear MAGA — guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump," wrote health analyst Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding. "Maybe you should get them too. Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster."

5/ But if officials warned the public to avoid reinfections, they would undermine the weak government fiction that the pandemic is over. It isn't. Far from it.

4/ Patient-blaming ("you didn't eat healthily, that's why you got Long COVD), skirts the issue: government mismanagement, globally, of an #OngoingPandemic is the cause of preventable cases of #LongCOVID.