I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

COVID-19 levels are increasing across most of the U.S. as of late December. But flu is overshadowing COVID-19 in healthcare system impacts and headlines. For both viruses, similar precautions (like high-quality masks and improving air quality) work to reduce your risk of infection. bit.ly/3LhxKd2

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

BLUF: Press is talking about "Super Flu" bc this year's dominant strain isn't a great match to the vaccine. Get vax'd anyway (consider the high-dose vax), wear a mask (protects against airborne pathogens), and have a testing + treatment strategy ahead of time because viral replication is exponential

Guess I'll post this again

Look at the date. Disabled people told you. They made too many disabled people.

I don’t want a society where it’s easier to be sick and get a meeting about getting help for ending your life than it is to get a meeting to get help to stay in your home, find a therapist or get healthcare. (This seems to be happening in Canada with MAiD)

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.

web.archive.org/web/20241122... Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I would rather stand in the ranks of an army of fuckups than desperately try to keep my place in a dwindling clique of angels.

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

a short story about blood

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

The train grandpas married collectible grandmas and here we are...

Nancy BY Ernie Bushmiller September 20,1955

Writer and comedian Ryan Ken turning looks while accepting their fourth Emmy last night 😷🧡

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Better Off Ted.

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

COVID-19 spread remains high across the U.S. as our summer surge continues into early fall. As a new school year gets underway, young children remain vulnerable: emergency department visits for COVID-19 were higher for children under 12 than any other age group in late August. bit.ly/41y1HdG

It bamboozles my brain when unmasked people panic and move away from me with wild terrified eyes because I’m masked. Like somebody with a gun backing away from a person in a bullet-proof vest, like “Whoa hey, you expecting some violence?” I don’t know, man, you tell me. You’ve got the fucking gun.

Attorney James Hollis says that over 80% of people in Alligator Alcatraz are sick, many with Covid symptoms. This is eugenics. People have already died in ICE custody. Many will be disabled. The inhumane conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.

Friendly reminder: Be a lesbian, if possible. :)

if Facebook hadn't lied about their statistics and conned everyone into Pivot to Video, the entire internet would be a radically different place today.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

I’ve always thought it weird when ableds express shock that someone who might need a wheelchair from an airport entrance to the gate might be able to walk a few feet at the end. Like, maybe you similarly can do 5 pull ups but probably not 10,000?

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller 2nd version November 24, 1972

Release the Epstein Files.

still being on twitter has the same energy as still being a harry potter fan

We keep going for three reasons: Because life is beautiful and people are worth it, because descending into despair is what they want, and out of pure, unbridled spite for their ghoulishness. Live to see their obituaries, upset them with your joy, protect each other, Stay strong.

I was imagining today what the world would be like if there were no borders at all. If hoarding wealth was so looked down upon that no one even thought of it. If those who were able took care of those who were not. If all the good things we imagine we want for ourselves, we made sure everyone had.

Feeling overwhelmed at the lawlessness? Get involved locally. Concrete, real-world resistance to fascism in your own community is better for you than doomscrolling.

Right before I saw the message from Trump I got a very different one from a friend in Tehran, so deeply surrounded by bombing that he was asking me to help communicate his last wishes. This is what my own taxes fund, so much pain upon my loved ones. We are complicit in so, so, so much violence.

anyway, the country didn't take the white supremacist underground seriously after oklahoma city and now a bunch of tim mcveigh's run the country