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seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Bari Weiss nurtured the anti-vaxx rhetoric that directly contributed to 6 million children developing Long Covid. Her rise to head of CBS News is deeply disturbing. The Free Press promotes the most toxic neoliberal, climate denying, MAGA adjacent trash you can find.

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale. futurism.com/future-socie...

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

The cost of doing nothing☠️‼️ @binitakane.bsky.social 🙏🏻 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“…The most glaring omission is the widespread frontotemporal brain damage people have suffered from repeat infections with a neuroinvasive virus. It's well documented how such damage manifests as emotional instability, memory problems, decreased reasoning abilities, & a lesser capacity for empathy.”

“We live in a society that decided years ago to ignore a global pandemic, & continues to look away as the numbers of people disabled & killed by Covid climb each day. We’re forced 2 continue contributing to the economy & carrying out our civic duties without a shred of protection from…institutions…”

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law. They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

And will anything be done about it? Of course not!

Went back to the office for the first time since March 2020 and wow, do I feel like a lab rat with all the passkeys, elevator security, figuring out the water dispenser. Great view of the city as always, but I do not miss in-office corporate life *at all*.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

the fellowship of the arts: thread

People unfamiliar with COINTELPRO, a federal surveillance program from the '60s/'70s that infiltrated civil rights movements, should really look into its history. And it's all the more insidious now with monitoring online spaces. Be careful out there!

Made the mistake of posting to a Facebook group today. RIP my mentions. Reading comprehension must be at an all-time low. Someday, we'll have to reckon with the ongoing, criminal underfunding of education and how badly public health botched educating people about brain damage from COVID.

Customs held onto an order for a month, and when it finally arrived, the bag had been ripped open and taped shut repeatedly, and most of the order was missing. Good times.

The US is a semi-authoritarian state. Folks need to grasp that it's not all or nothing -- authoritarianism has a sliding scale. Different states repress in different ways; some are harder on commerce than on speech or vice versa. Pundits deny the complexity in order to dismiss real, growing threats.

A leaked US Army memo warns the Next Generation Command and Control system built by Anduril, Palantir, Microsoft and others—is riddled with cybersecurity flaws and “very high risk” due to severe cybersecurity flaws. The flaws could give US adversaries undetectable access to battlefield data.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

My ai bubble popping prediction is that *all* of the economic safeguards and institutions and redundancies that existed during the dot com bubble and 2008 housing bubble are now gone, long since been rotted away by the very people causing the bubble.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Finally found a primary care doc willing to work with me on Long COVID. It's exhausting to think of all the appointments coming up, but I'm grateful we're finally looking into it. Starting with neurology and rheumatology. Just don't tell me, "Labs are fine, it's all in your head." 🥲

COVID is still here. It is still disabling people. It is not "endemic" but the dangers are being ignored as it spreads. #COVID #LongCOVID #Disability #Death

The sequel to We Want Them Infected is done! COVID killed 1.2 million Americans while vaccines saved millions. Yet, disinformation superspreaders were empowered, where they are taking a wrecking ball to science & medicine. How did that happen?🧵 sciencebasedmedicine.org/everyone-els...

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

THE PURGE Polls show that Project 2025 didn’t resonate. Voters thought it wasn’t real. Well, now we’re living it and it’s already 47% implemented after only 9 months. Trump’s shutdown is a shortcut: gut the federal workforce, fire career experts, replace them with loyalists. Laid out in P2025. 🧵

A neighbor said she saw agents dragging residents, including children, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said. “It was heartbreaking,” she said. ⁦‪@Suntimes‬⁩ ⁦‪@WBEZ‬⁩ www.wbez.org/immigration/...

This is how you journalism

"The White House is launching “TrumpRx,” a government-run website where Americans can buy medications directly.... But this is really just political theater rather than a real fix for sky-high drug costs. TrumpRx will likely be about as useful as a degree from Trump University."

A student with an accuracy rate of 57.2% would receive a failing grade.

“Just because you got through your first infection & didn’t develop long Covid, it’s not that you are completely out of the woods,” ... some patients “develop new symptoms after subsequent infections or worsening of their pre-existing long Covid symptoms” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

You are not going to believe this shit.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post. I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing. Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

NEW: TX is asking NY courts to declare NY's reproductive health care shield law unconstitutional in an attempt to enforce its abortion ban across state lines. @law.ucla.edu's @lindsaywiley.bsky.social lays out a legal case for why NY (and other shield states) can and should reject such overreach.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

“oh no, what if there were a couple of state-run grocery stores in New York City”

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I have 2 appointments this week to talk about the long list of ongoing symptoms that accumulated after 2 COVID infections (2020, 2022). Hopefully someone will listen this time, because in June, all I got was a shrug and a smile. Bringing my notes this time!

As a primary care physician at MGH, I’m seeing more and more older adults turn to #cannabis and #CBD — not just for curiosity, but because these treatments are helping with sleep issues, anxiety, and chronic pain Please check out my video on this topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGJy...

"Nearly 7 in 10 COVID survivors tested didn't know they had a dulled sense of smell" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/nea...

My husband came back from shopping--he took a bunch of photos of prices to show me. $14 per a pound of chuck, average price $70 per pack. LOL get out of here. Going to be eating nothing but potatoes soon.

Vaccination is highly effective at preventing hospitalisation for acute Covid-19. The NHS is under unprecedented pressure. A sensible, evidence-based policy decision would thus be to significantly widen eligibility for free Covid-19 vaccination. inews.co.uk/news/health/...

ICE is shooting at journalists Reporter for the local CBS affiliate was sitting in her station’s truck w the windows down outside the ICE facility in Broadview near Chicago. There were no protesters, it was quiet, but ICE agent shot their truck w a pepper ball blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/29/i...