it is not shameful to wear a respirator. frankly, it should be far more shameful to not take simple steps to prevent needless infection to community members. is keeping each other safe not the point?

don’t let chatgpt in the shire

we should take all their money. not joking. these guys are completely incompatible with democracy. there’s no reason we have to tolerate them with any kind of power. take their money and give them a garbage route so they can be useful to society for the first time in their life. otherwise, prison

Because they are invested in the armed management of inequality, which policing was designed to do, and which continues to benefit them materially.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Liam Ramos. Five years old. Just starting to understand temporality, to read, to tell stories about the world around him. The world should come to a screeching halt.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

If you're in central Texas & you have room to house a shelter dog in a spare room Friday - Mon/Tues, area shelters would love your help getting dogs out of outdoor kennels and into homes for a brief break. You don't have to do a lot with them, just let them decompress while we wait out the weather.

“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!

people will call you an ideological purist for saying this guy shouldn't be the next democratic presidential candidate

Democrats: we can't do anything about the gestapo, we need to stay focused on affordability. Voters: OK, let's talk about your plan to tackle affordability. Democrats:

this is very much not the core of the issue. we tolerate all sorts of biological advantages and disadvantages in sports. the real fundamental question here is: why is this one different than the others?

Blaming vaccines is easier because it feels like it’s something controllable. Covid is airborne and this is a much more concerning reality. There is no need to panic, we have the science to prevent. Problems can only be fixed however, when we are able to talk about them. #TalkAboutCovid

Please remember that if you’re too sick to protest, boycott or get engaged in the resistance… it’s ok. Everyone contributes in their own way. Many disabled people can’t be boots on the ground but want to help any way they can. Make events inclusive. Focus on accessibility. Don’t leave us behind

It’s unmistakable how much the way institutions treat lying federal officials is the same way they treat lying abusers and predators. Even when they contradict themselves, admit to wrongdoing, and repeatedly undermine their own credibility, institutions support their side over their victims.

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

MTG on the Epstein scandal—"elites doing horrible things and getting away with it"—may have an egalitarian air about it, but only if you fail to read it alongside the rest of her conspiracism. She's talking about the Jews. She's always talking about the Jews. flaminghydra.com/marjorie-tay...

HA HA WHOOPS WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DEMS STRATEGY OF 'IF WE'RE ALWAYS IN POWER THE ROT IS OKAY' BACKFIRED

i think if we abolish ICE for murdering innocent people we should do the same for police

Apropos of absolutely nothing to do with the masked men with no visible agency insignia carrying crates of who knows what out of the shooter's house, but HBO just released an amazing documentary into DHS "shadow units" whose job was to destroy evidence of Border Patrol's crimes

ICE, not content with murdering refugees and activists, is now doing their best to get utility workers killed.

Abolish ICE and claw back their pension fund to pay some reparations.

Our letter to WHO, signed by over 2,300, calls for respirator use in healthcare to protect patients and staff. Covered by Kat Lay in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

✨ It's perfecty legal to refuse to hire forner CBP and ICE employees. Throw those resumes in the trash. ✨

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.

Once again, I implore media outlets to stop saying these are CDC decisions. These are changes being made unilaterally by RFK Jr. against the expert advice of CDC scientists. I note that RFK Jr. no longer recommends flu vaccine for kids in the midst of a horrible influenza year.

Antivaxxers like RFK Jr love to cherry pick policies from countries like Denmark so they can falsely justify reducing vaccines in the US, while ignoring context. If they really wanted to learn effective health policy from Denmark, they would be pushing for universal single-payer healthcare.

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

I don't think it's just nostalgia everyone's feeling, I think people are sincerely lonely. And not just young white men, who are not special. I think all kids, gender aside, want to spend the next few years talking shit to their friends on used dirtbikes without surveillance.

When has an American Congress ever stopped the president from committing war crimes? That is a genuine question, by the way. It would be nice to have some sort of example. If it has ever happened.

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

our government is not legitimate. never was but more obviously now. stop paying taxes and registering your identity with the dmv. show up to court naked. give as much respect and legitimacy as it gives and shows. pee on the flag. spray paint "butthole" on the white house.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

It’s also time to start wondering if some of these reporters are a little cooked by the bots themselves. Reporters aren’t inured to chatbot psychosis. In fact, some of them may have drank too much of the kool aid from sources selling them stuff. We’re in a new world of stupid. Adjust your credulity.

Imagine the power Zohran Mamdani wearing a mask on the subway would have in encouraging people to do the same.

Pro tip: If you are attending a crowded event in winter, wearing a well-fitting mask like an N95 can serve double duty by keeping your face warm and keeping viruses away. (yes, transmission can still happen outdoors in crowds or with close and sustained contact to someone who is sick).

Lucky wants to have a serious conversation with you. That is it's not too late to get the Covid and flu shots this year.

I have been masking now for six years and it’s for me now just everyday normal life. It’s my choice to do this, to protect my health and those around me. It’s a decision I made a long time ago and still people ask me when I am going back to normal. 🧵

Vaccines are very important but think of them as a seatbelt. If you keep crashing that car you are going to get harmed. We need layered mitigations research shows this.

This lady is not your friend.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Woke up today to the news

Children and teens who had a Covid reinfection had a doubling of #LongCovid risk (PASC) and a significant increase in many other adverse outcomes (Figure) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I mean, I did 🤷‍♂️

Me every time I hear one of Ezra Klein’s opinions: