While all U.S. COVID-19 metrics remain at low-to-moderate levels as of mid-November, wastewater data show clear signs of this year’s winter wave getting started in the Northeast and Midwest. Read @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's full COVID-19 trends report at The Sick Times: bit.ly/4pgWQaD

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Could you please amplify this time-sensitive MA? 21 short to be able to stay hauzed due by noon. Important health details in pinned post. Much appreciated. Please mask up, care for each other, and sprinkle love everywhere you go; the world needs all the love. 🫂 CA & V3nmo: ZayCrescendo PP: Zay88

Insurance companies in this country are such a scam bc tell me why I got dental insurance because of a tooth emergency but my plan doesn’t have to cover major dental work until I’ve been ON THE PLAN FOR A YEAR???

This is bad. Like really bad. It's not about the children. It's never about the children. This about control over free speech.

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Love how @itsmeio.bsky.social got her account booted after a Nazi targeted her yesterday

Look, let’s call bread bread and wine wine: I want to write more about alternate history baseball, but it’s tough to prioritize it over other things. So if you want to help me make that choice, I offer a lot of benefits for just $3/month. You can shape the future of a whole baseball world!

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser compares AI to 'mad cow disease' and says execs pushing it aren't very creative people 🎙️ Virgin Radio UK

It has now been a year since I stopped posting on X. For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about watching the platform I loved become a conduit for the worst extremism I've ever witnessed. I don't regret leaving. In fact, I wish I'd left even earlier. spitfirenews.com/p/x-bluesky-...

i wrote about social media and AI (not allen iverson, sadly) open.substack.com/pub/mollyhmo...

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I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

I was delighted to join the great @DaniAtomicus on her stellar podcast Public Health is Dead. Kayli Jamison, a Long COVID activist in Canada who I much admire, was also featured. I encourage you all to listen & subscribe to support this excellent work. www.publichealthisdead.com/episodes/bad...

I know 99% of you here joined me in this effort, but no one can say they weren’t warned. I chose the subtitle very consciously.

Birds when the bird feeders get filled after a long time

“The United States has a deep inability to confront the reality that its national project depended on Indigenous elimination and exclusion. The Thanksgiving myth is used to try to smooth all that over.”

How has the media contributed to manufacturing consent for COVID to be “over” (and the decline of public health in general)? New episode ft. @juliadoubleday.bsky.social and @wanderingkayli.bsky.social as well as some comments from former COVID-19 Technical Lead at the WHO, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove

A Google software engineer won his battle against MetLife to receive disability benefits for Long Covid. This is huge Long Covid has a lot of stigma attached to it and it can be hard to get disability. You’re told to “try harder”. It’s “not that bad”. You can “still work”. Not everyone can

I cannot recommend this latest episode of the podcast Public Health Is Dead enough. This is a great resource to point people to when talking about the current state of the covid pandemic. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

The Atlantic used to be one of my go-to media outlets. That changed during the pandemic, as explained here. Great piece.

Hear me out #BlueskyPR

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US OUT OF HAWAI’I US OUT OF PUERTO RICO US OUT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS US OUT OF GUAM U.S. OUT OF THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA! LAND BACK!

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

I bet CNN did not show this in this morning’s coverage of the parade.

6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.

I’m 27 already, i cannot (and will not) fall for rage bait, it’s enough, you have no power over me anymore

🚨 Según documentos de la corte federal, ICE tiene acceso a números de tablilla de vehículos en PR e información de sus dueños. Un documento explica como agentes en Puerto Nuevo hicieron "chequeo de archivos del DTOP" que revelaron el dueño de una pickup 1/

obsessed with this real anti-graffiti poster that looks exactly like the ones you spray graffiti over in Jet Set Radio

Makary and Oz stand there and nod as their boss lies about vaccines not being tested. Can you imagine a doctor sinking lower than this? I can't. It's the Mariana trench of medical ethics.

Es momento de dejar atrás los prejuicios y trabajar hacia un sistema alimentario más justo y construir políticas públicas basadas en datos. Un País donde la mesa de cada familia, sin importar su ingreso, su edad o sus circunstancias, tenga espacio, dignidad y alimento suficiente. Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

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The "AI" and "automation" offered by some companies and platforms is just a front for digital sweatshops in poor countries.

Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come your way But the hotter the battle you see It's the sweeter the victory, now

I know everyone is struggling with the #shutdown. But if you're able pls consider helping! Sharing and commenting helps too. Thank you.

➕➕ #Stunday Sunday ➕➕ Lost Bayou Ramblers at the Music Box, a magical evening 📍New Orleans, 2016

In the past couple years, I've noticed a trend of formally CC folks justifying & defending powerful politicians & influencers for going to superspreaders maskless, being too burnt out to care about Covid etc. We need to hold powerful people accountable

Santiago Colón se declaró culpable ayer, según documentos federales. Según declaración de culpabilidad, Santiago Colón aceptó dinero y comidas a cambio de cambiar data de solicitantes. Hacienda desembolso $128,000 dolares por sus acciones.

🚨 SCOOP: Federales acusan a empleada de Hacienda de fraude con fondos de COVID. Según documentos federales, Elsa Santiago Colón alegadamente modificó los credenciales de 21 contribuyentes en SURI para que un individuo no nombrado sometiera aplicaciones fraudulentas para el programa BIG.

fascists are running amok disappearing people off the street everyday and democrats are condemning socialism

Already reported on the FBI's antenna in El Yunque, but wanted to share a FOIA doc I just received from the agency. Doc confirms that FBI requested construction drawings for El Yunque Tower, as well as comms room (not previously known), for ACRx system.

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I've seen a lot of sites for supporting places that are currently under occupation, but a lot of them were missing Puerto Rico. So I made one! I also made a little graphic for panels! Feel free to post & share wherever!💚 liberationresources.carrd.co Panel: drive.google.com/file/d/1gnm9...

Democrats are leaning into the meme war because they think if they win in culture, they don’t have to win in policy—and no one will notice. I’m gonna use that. I’m writing it down so I don’t forget.

Allison O'Donnell Substack: 'I was the Deputy Director of the Office of Long COVID. Now I’m terrified I have it' 'In the Office of Long COVID we heard time after time from patients who never got better & their life changed completely. And now I am living it' innerunion.substack.com/p/i-was-the-...

They program your brain with a steady stream of rot, and then repeatedly ask the same question to the same audience until they get the answer that their programming has worked.