Gutsy fucking speech from the No Other Land team - receiving an Oscar in a room full of Zionists - we love to see it #FreePalestine #Oscars

“I’m the first Black man to receive the costume design award” Paul Tazewell PERIOD!!! 💚 #Oscars

manifesting #Oscars 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 academy award 🕯 winner 🕯 demi moore 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯️

bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

I treasure my archive of 80's/90/s queer zines. They helped form Queer Nation before the internet.

The committee was designed to reduce barriers to care for people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans. A new executive order deemed it "unnecessary."

this is just fucking terrifying, Patel has no line he is unwilling to cross the full force of the FBI will be turned against anyone they consider a domestic enemy

I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...

I understand that the ship has sailed on masking for most people, but I will simply never understand why you would sit in an emergency room full of other visibly sick folks or an actual CHEMO WARD full of immunocompromised patients without a mask on, at the absolute peak of illness season no less!

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

i too have a fondness for regal themes

Very accurate

Not only is this going to literally kill people they are setting up a system to medicalize and institutionalize vast swaths of this country. I’m just waiting to see when we start seeing massive movement in for profit mental institutions construction bids being granted by the feds

I think many people are about to find out, on a very immediate and personal role, how much real estate the federal government controls. If you thought the pandemic-related office space crash was bad...

A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved from initially prioritizing increased transmissibility to enhanced immune evasion after the omicron variant emerged. #COVID #SARS-CoV-2 #MedSky

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

the fact that they called us “useless eaters” really drives this home re:cutting SNAP and medicaid,

'Of the thousands who’ve lost homes in the L.A. fires, it’s clear that the community with the most to lose — financially, culturally — is black Altadena.'

Heeding the call for an international day of remembrance for Omar Aziz, we announce this webinar discussion on his legacy and the future of Syria. Feb. 15 - 12PM PST / 3PM EST Speakers: Jwana Aziz + a member of Emergency Committee for Rojava Register: bit.ly/omarazizlegacy

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See what happens? They are showing solidarity with oppressed ppl and all of a sudden "we gotta check you out." If ya’ll don’t know about Sudan, it’s one of the biggest humanitarian crises on earth.

Just days after this appeared in Chemistry World 🫠 🧪 www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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Many have asked how it could cost $17.5 million to confine just over 100 unhoused people to a warehouse for 90 days. The answer? The company running the facility got a no-bid contract and has political ties to Louisiana governor Jeff Landry—who invoked emergency powers to detain these men and women

PsyPost: “New neuroscience research shows COVID-19 leaves mark on young adult brains” ‘Scientists have been increasingly concerned about the long-term effects of COVID-19, especially on cognitive function’ www.psypost.org/new-neurosci...

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

SciTech Daily: “Researchers Uncover a Startling Link Between COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s Biomarkers” ‘Researchers found that COVID-19 may accelerate biological processes linked to Alzheimer’s, showing changes in brain-related biomarkers..’ scitechdaily.com/researchers-...

How much time do you have? For starters, it forced me to learn how to protect my family from airborne pathogens when public health fails, and to be wary of “everyone’s” judgment. How about you? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished.

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

“Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.”

If you see this, quote with #flowers from your photo gallery. #FlowerReport pansy power

The craziest part is at the same time Ronald Reagan, seeing the slaughter, called Begin and threatened to withhold all US aid to Israel until it stopped. The bombing ended 20 minutes later. It’s insane how Reagan is the good guy and Biden was the evil far to the right of him in this instance.

It truly needs to be more understood by people that Biden is a radical extremist on Israel in a way most other Zionist Dems aren’t. While most just want to maintain western hegemony and see Israel as an avenue for that, Biden has for decades gleefully cheered on the slaughter of civilians

Is the updated NY mask ban any better? Not really, but it pretends to be. With useless carveouts & a focus on “intent,” it invites bias & puts mask-wearers at risk. Our post explains why the Masked Harassment Bill fails to protect anyone. #NoNYMaskBan www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/wh...

whatever bespoke hypothetical thing you mean by "end social justice practices in the workplace", this version that they mean is the actual, concrete political project confronting labor and the left right now. move accordingly

!!!! This is the point. This is the purpose.

I would like more people to learn that Sometimes You Need to Save Even Valid Criticism for Later When Your House is Literally Burning Down

H5N1 strain that had B.C. teen on life-support found in Nevada cows www.cbc.ca/news/health/... 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

I don’t know how to interact with people whose political education seems to be stuck in circa 2017-2020. The same unwillingnes of broad majorities to adapt to the survival demands of the post-omicron Covid era permeates so many other political questions right now. 😔

Trump: I want to murder my enemies with zero consequences. New York Times: Bold move, sir.

i dare u to comprehend the liberal mind

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked President Trump's executive order forcibly to detransition trans women inmates and transfer them to men's prisons, citing the 8th amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

I can't tell you how many people told me it was impossible for Joe Biden to remove one guy running the post office