The Nation has published two essays that I wish all US health workers—and patients—would read as fascism sweeps across the country: 1) How doctors become fascists: www.thenation.com/article/soci... 2) How not to be a fascist doctor: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Please remember that many disabled people won’t be at the No Kings rallies tomorrow. A lot of the planned events are not accessible and/or disabled people are not safe or well enough to attend. Anything you can do to increase accessibility and inclusion will help the resistance!

Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day

the federal authorization to replace benefits ended december of last year & this september was the last opportunity to request those benefits. meanwhile, the trump administration cancelled 94 million pounds of contracted food to food pantries: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

it just happened in my community, also. many of my ELL students are reporting this — the theft is happening electronically & the charges are from out of town. but now the only option is to cancel & replace the card; benefits are no longer replaced: www.fns.usda.gov/snap/sunset-...

at the ER with family & have been told it’s okay to unmask. when i explained we’re not doing it out of concern for spreading covid (we barely go out & test routinely), but instead protecting ourselves, was told there is “LOADS” of covid right now — yeah no shit.

YOLO brunchers

I wish the radical left was real

“Bluesky isn’t fun” problem and “Bluesky is the only social media platform where you will actually see the news” problem are the same problem

stop placating fascists. there is no middle ground, there should be no compromise.

Wonder how many Jane Goodalls there were in tribal and farming communities in tropical Global South countries around the world who had also observed that some non-human primates lived very social lives similar to their own families. The number of stories that go untold... a pity

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A new list of the 25 most threatened primates has been published by the International Primatological Society, which held its 30th congress in July. Some species are absent from the list thanks to an improved outlook, but others have been displaced because of the deteriorating situation for others.

they also alloparent & have the craziest calls. i miss seeing them every day.

Got to admit, telling 40 million users who already stopped posting on another site "what you going to do, stop posting?" is a brave move, let's see how that works out

“law-abiding americans” excludes the current president.

suburban hell is getting yelled at by a white man in a lifted pickup truck to “take off that mask!!!” while waiting for curbside pickup. this is why all of you ‘leftists’ & ‘allies’ need to put your masks back on. normalize that, not whatever this MAGA twilight zone is.

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RIP Jane Goodall. “If we do not do things differently, we are finished,” she said. “We can’t go on very much longer like this.” #COVID www.theguardian.com/science/2020...

Jane Goodall is not going to stop inspiring us now.

If you want to hear from Jane Goodall tonight given the news, this podcast interview she did for Wiser Than Me earlier this year was really good.

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i actually started using bluesky during my covid infection. i found a lot of comfort & support here at the time while i was holed away in a hotel room distracting myself with ‘behind your touch’ & HKIA. another lesson i learned at the time: hard candies are a must with paxlovid

fortunately it wasn’t noticeable thanks to my standing desk but after tonight’s remote class i realized i was wearing my “i will not die for the fucking economy” tshirt.

never in my life have i been happier to be out of arizona.

if they had any common sense, this would lead to a discussion about layered mitigation strategies. but instead they’ll just throw away everything — no masks, no vaccines, all infections.

this is how i got covid. immunocompromised & arguing for providers to mask around me all while they know my health status. trying to determine which appointments are necessary & which can be put off for now (i.e., aren’t worth risking infection for). we shouldn’t have to make these compromises.

would be awesome if she followed the clear science on masking, too. i maybe wouldn’t have gotten covid & consequently long covid if she had.

they are horrified by his comments about an acceptable number of gun deaths while they’ve rationalized covid deaths in the same way.

they will complain here about people like charlie kirk & his messaging on everything else but then their actions align with his & the right when it comes to infectious disease. how dare you imply that your health & well-being should be a bigger priority than their seen smiles & brunch dates. 🙄

the “we don’t owe vulnerable people anything, it’s on immunocompromised people to protect themselves against my plague breath” folks are coming out of the bluesky woodwork again. reminder: it’s not worth the spoons to argue with selfish assholes; block block block.

lol more like i’m everybody else’s nightmare seanmullen.com/covidcompete... #CovidCompetency #ScienceLiteracy

unserious cartoon reality

kimalah is out of a dangerous living situation & now has a chance to settle into a new home. please support her move by donating & sharing her fundraiser.

WWBD

currently in a presentation put on by the local health department & the presenter highlighted that many infectious diseases are spread through the air. their recommendation for prevention (outside of vaccination) is “hand washing” — absolutely no mention of masking. why are we like this???

not getting vaccinated against communicable diseases is *antisocial* behavior. okay so then these people should not get the benefits of living in a society. the fact that we let these people dictate the social norms around covid are why we are dealing with this bullshit now.

a silver lining to being immunocompromised & forced out of a society that ignores plague is that i have never seen other humans filming a tiktok in a grocery store.

but keep ignoring disabled people who have been warning you all about this long before any scientists did.

“you’re so angry about this.” yes, of course i am. why the fuck wouldn’t i be??? oh, i’m sorry, let me be more delicate about all the harm you want to ignore because it interferes with your brunch plans.

i was at the local cancer hospital a few weeks back & there were lots of coughs (you know, that recently normalized open-mouthed toddler type) & very few masks. but these people are going to speak out now about rfk & maha & the anti-vaxxer bullshit? where did they think this was all leading???

this is why i can’t take any of them seriously when they act shocked about the current lack of vaccine access, confused by the novel mystery “flus” that routinely pop up at this time of year, all while still refusing to put on a fucking mask when they go to a doctor’s office or grocery store.