I encourage you to read the 1901 final Congressional speech of George Henry White, who would be the last Black man in Congress for 30 yrs.This “is perhaps the Negroes’ temporary farewell to the American Congress; but…phoenix-like he will rise up some day and come again… blackpast.org/african-amer...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

There is no actual concerted "anti-male" political party or even meaningful political tendency anywhere in the world, but even the tiniest advances for women and queer people are treated as an absolute existential threat to stamp out, and used as ideological fuel for reactionary movements worldwide.

An Opus from my Long C-19 Colleagues from across the world. Lead author, @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social ... Total CHAMPION‼️ My contribution... Sleep Medicine🙏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

It was known from the very beginning that Covid caused blood clots and young people are denied clean air and vaccine protection. #Covidisairborne Young people are being failed by our government so badly.

For more info: www.science.org/content/arti...

The US is so catastrophically bad at actually punishing its monsters that it fully gave up on Reconstruction in under a decade. Miller and all those other dipshits can look back at generations and generations of history indicating they'll be totally fine for the next half century.

Have we reached peak Idiocracy? Not yet. But we can see it from here. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

For many patients, even basic tasks can trigger muscle failure, trembling, or collapse — and pushing through often makes things worse, not better. Read the full article by Becky Ancira Robertson on our website: whn.global/why-long-cov... #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAwareness #COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

Living with Long COVID means your body stops playing by the rules you’ve known your whole life. Weakness, instability, and sudden loss of strength aren’t “just fatigue” or something you can push through, they’re the result of real, measurable damage happening at a physiological level.

Infect ~85% of the population every single year with a pathogen that causes long-term symptoms in 10-30% of individuals, year after year for 6 years, and you had better bet there will be widespread and long-term effects. There is another way. #CovidIsntOver #LongCovid #MaskUp #MedSky #EpiSky

1. A perfect storm of the social determinants of health (the NHS is in an appalling state in the UK, meaning people who can afford to are more likely to use private care) and the fact that the myriad sequelae of infection are simply not being recognised here. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Study Confirms Covid Had No Effect On Healthy Life Expectancy During Decade Before Covid

I talked to Jamie Raskin about his explosive exchange with CNN's Dana Bash. "The media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now," he tells me. "There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

Saturday was the one-year anniversary of Virginia Guiffre’s death. The Epstein survivors aren’t done fighting, but it takes public support to fuel their work. Don’t let the effort to distract work on you. Read & share: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Tough decisions but where there is hope there is life. Would love your feedback ❤️ niallharbison.substack.com/p/the-rocky-...

Today in Queer History on April 26, 2000 Vermont became the first U.S. state to legalize civil unions and registered partnerships between same-sex couples.

Sunday's secret word of the day...😅🤣

Epstein Sordid Blackmail Operation Epstein was able to run this sordid operation for decades precisely because his was only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive operation that began in the 1950s and perhaps even earlier. www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-je...

“The New Civil War is being fought so that you will forget that the Old Cold War ended as a corporate merger.” --THEY KNEW (2022)

Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.

I had to spend an afternoon at the children’s hospital A little boy, IV in hand, walking out of oncology in an N95. His parents behind him, unmasked. Something about that moment I can’t shake—the smallest person in the room holding the most responsibility for his own safety.

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The World Health Organization says glyphosate is a “probable carcinogen,” but that didn’t stop Trump from signing an executive order barring its manufacturers from lawsuits. Our latest investigation:

No One Knows What Is Causing This Coughing Sickness Thing Where You Get All Hot And It Even Seems That People Can Pass It From One Person To Another

It’s Good To Get Sick Because You See It Stops You Getting Sick

Authorities Frustrated By Awareness Of Long Covid Outside Of Designated Long Covid Awareness Day

How Much Brain Do You Really Need

Since When Did Feeling A Little Ill Become An Excuse For Not Working

Yes, But What Else Can Covid Infections Do To You

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

An Eastern Phoebe has chosen our patio for her nest. Love watching her flying in with a beak full of mud or moss. 🪹

And now for another Presidential update. #Cdnpoli #Uspoli

Run the Maths... You can only contract Influenza A if a given strain - once Cövid is readily available for repeated infections 3-4 times/year

Hard to imagine such feckless and ignorant non-clinical laptop twats were given such prominence But their dutiful adherence to the petrochemical Bros was well rewarded at the expense of children The unimaginable cost of their malevolence is a generation of kids with a lifetime of disability 🤬

Researchers with the program published a study last year that estimated long COVID potentially affects nearly 6 million children in the United States, which would make it more common than asthma.

IDSE: 'Long COVID, Here to Stay?' '...as Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, noted: “Long COVID provides an opportunity to understand how acute infections cause chronic disease.” www.idse.net/Covid-19/Art...

Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission. via @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The battery industry is pivoting toward warfare & surveillance. It's not great.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

On Anarchism.

4/19/26: "The team compared data across 3 key dimensions: environmental quality, eco-friendly behaviors & climate-change contributions. "Vermont is the greenest state in America, in part because it has the MOST ORGANIC-FARM acreage per capita'" 2.) Hawaii & 3.) California

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10,000 people. That’s how many ICE plans to detain - cut off from healthcare, accommodations, and due process. Detention causes harm. For disabled people, the risks are even greater. On April 25, communities take action. Find a protest near you: https://tinyurl.com/ICEWarehousing

@profmarkfaghy.bsky.social, Long Covid researcher and LCK trustee is quoted in this article: “For some, walking upstairs, having a shower or even the psychological drain of a conversation can trigger a relapse and the after-effects can last weeks." www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/... #LongCovid