The Human Cost of Failing to Name COVID 'Airborne' by @jvipondmd.bsky.social in collaboration with @dickzoutman.bsky.social and I Discussing real consequences on #Health #Safety #Welfare along with #CovidisAirborne #PPE #LongCOVID 's long shadow 🌬️😶‍🌫️😷 via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

GREAT IDEA Bernie Sanders suggests reading the EPSTEIN FILES during the filibuster on Donald Trump’s SAVE Act. Total transparency before the nation!

youtu.be/ryvw7RGXGdY?... Parody written by my mother! I'm so proud of my 88 y.o. mother: she wrote the words and chose the music last week, and the Parody Project put the music and images together with the words.

My photo for today, 14th Feb 2026, a Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) bathing near a red berry bush for Valentine's Day this morning. Starting a new thread this very day, the old one was getting long and frayed. 🧵

#oneofthetwo because getting sick would interfere with me gigging and the other things. Always hoping to spot the other one.

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"Some absolutely outstanding work by activists to sneak these wraparounds onto copies of the Daily Mail in shops." via Ian Almond

The oligarchy wants full control of what we watch and read.

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Summarily smashing part of the White House without announcing it “threatens the fundamental idea of the republic—government by the people and for the people, conducted in public view,” Jake Lundberg argues. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

🗳️ #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment. The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult. It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history. Until then, they're all to blame.

This photo?

Friday’s giggle……

CBS been cooked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich... "That's just how it is."

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE: Pepper spray the Portland frog Tear gas members of Chicago PD Zip tie children Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night Open fire on a civilian in her car Yet they say immigrants are the threat. Protesters are the threat. We know better.

It's back! Yay! www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Thank you, General (Retired) Mark Hertling, for saying what all of us who have served know we serve the Constitution and will not execute any order that goes against our oath.

We're back! In our latest #SETILive podcast, Simon Steel spoke with a team of scientists about the discovery of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and what types of observations we can expect going forward. Listen to the full episode: www.seti.org/seti-live/ 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

61% of Latino proudly voted for Trump 👇

BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.

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Powerful…

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... This is a really ugly look for 🇬🇧 - where peaceful demonstrations were once regarded as our basic human right. These demonstrators are altruistically protesting against genocide and starvation. “If you tolerate this, your children will be next” .

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Fact check: mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia). This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs. Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

Don't let the issue fade. That's the whole point of all the distractions and shutting down government that has been going on.

And capitalism is the friend of those in power so it’s going nowhere unless we make it!!

Acknowledge the impact of Long Covid on individuals, society and the economy and call for: better prevention, better treatments (including clinical pathways), more research; recognition of Long Covid as an occupational disease; recognition of Long Covid as a disability.

Act to make gatherings safer and more inclusive, based on what has been learned from the pandemic about airborne infectious pathogens.