USA: Respiratory virus activity in the US is high, driven by influenza and RSV. COVID remains relatively low but is rising. Flu positivity is 24.7%, with 8 recent child deaths linked to influenza A (H3N2). RSV-related ED visits and hospitalisations in children aged 0–4 are increasing.

:( hope this doesn't last longer than the week. its only January why are we at almost 30°c

i miss the library i used to work at in college. i went there and volunteered there as a teen through highschool too. they closed it in 2021 because it wasn't up to earthquake codes. it won't open for three more years and i miss it

Here are the brands and sizes recalled 👇🏻 this is a serious recall. please check your fridge if you buy these brands.

I think about this basically every day now.

Mexico, next?? mexiconewsdaily.com/news/trump-m...

(holding my swollen purple wrist to my chest bc having it at any other angle is very painful) im sure its fine. i dont have to go to the ER it's fin e

A gentle reminder in your grief that Renee Good was out there to protect her Black and brown neighbors from ethnic cleansing. That is still the mission. The focus should remain on slowing down the ethnic cleansing campaign and on protecting Black and brown families and communities from destruction.

see: the very basic ask to wear a respirator in, at the very least, public indoors spaces—like the grocery, pharmacy, healthcare, on transit, places where people *must* go—in order to spare your fellow humans the consequences of the administrations gutting of our healthcare system.

Keith porter was also murderd by ice. Please donate to their gofundme. Funerals cost like 10,000.

hit ciconia credits last night and these still. make me so teary eyed no matter how many times i get to it. i love ciconia so much

In 2023, I asked for the people who would be in the surgical suite during my surgery to wear N95s instead of surgical masks. The hospital said no. They also refused my reverse isolation for recovery. I had COVID a week later, and Long COVID a few months later.

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

Dios Habla Hoy (Hope Church) in South Minneapolis is seeking donations to buy groceries for community members unable to safely leave their homes, as well as volunteer drivers. Donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati... Volunteer driver signup here: dhhmn.elvanto.net/form/8f54a7f...

36 people have died at ICE's hands in the past year may of these deaths did not happen on camera, but it does not make them any less horrifying and unacceptable this is a list of their names, where they lived before being abducted, and a link to crowdfunding if i can find it

In addition to mass graves, and endemic anti-Indigenous racism, White nationalists are infesting Canadian public and social media spaces, and the entire Canadian government gave a standing ovation to a Ukranian who fought in the Waffen-SS, while both parties demonize immigrants for everything.

Today marks 1,000 days since the war in Sudan began. We stand with the people of Sudan caught amid a contest for power by the belligerents and their foreign backers and call for policy solutions that center civilians. We mourn the +150,000 killed and the millions displaced.

Trump suggests U.S. military will hit cartels on ‘land’ in Mexico

"I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised

“Surgical masks are to respirators what the typewriter was to the modern computer, said @adamfinkel.bsky.social, who was chief regulatory official at the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration between 1995 and 2000: “Obsolete.”’

they returned with ideas of the impossible and new methods for calculating infinity

enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!

i am so sorry to be doing this again. my abusive grampa is demanding we have $300 for him with a deadline of Tomorrow i am so tired and the grief of losing dad last month has made everything so much harder if you want art in turn for a dono, just ask; i will be slow www.paypal.com/paypalme/adj...

i also really fucked up my hand earlier today i should probably go get it checked out

why do i need a cover letter for a college dining hall front of house position that pays minimum wage. are you insane. what do i even write for it (not the job i was talking about in the other post)

this job is in another state and that terrifies me but idt ill get it and i told myself if it was still up by the end of this week i'd apply so. wish me luck i guess

i think its so awesome that there are trans men in the world who have a chance to choose a new name for themselves and they'll pick isaac. this isnt ironic i really do think its beautiful its such a cool name shout out to all the self-named isaacs out there

oh it is worryingly windy outside today. i dont like that

“They didn’t stop the ICE agent, but they stopped me,” said Jose Madera, who followed a vehicle driven recklessly by ICE agents, who continue to roam freely nationwide, even after killing Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday. Full story: lataco.com/job-center-d... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

nothing is going right today and the Internet is a genuine hellscape for me right now im genuinely about to perform spontaneous human combustion

Sunday Jan 4, when we were freaking out over the Venezuela military operstion, the Guardian published an exposé on the 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025—the agency’s deadliest year in more than two decades This article has short write-ups on every single one of the 32 people. No pay wall.

Ni siquiera es una cosa de quien está sufriendo más en el policiometro, es una cosa de matar finalmente a ese pequeño duende en tu cabeza que te dice que todas las cosas en Estados Unidos son excepcionales

Well at least no one’s dying anymore… oh

the obama admin expanded ICE, the biden admin expanded ICE. not sure just voting blue is helping

i haven't been able to stop worrying or crying all day i wish i could do something

My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?

Today’s awfulness occurred on the one year anniversary of the wildfires here in LA. Trauma and grief, on top of trauma and grief.

Boy, I tell ya. #pixelart

We have another victim of the carceral state here in Boston who needs to be sent to his rest. Shacoby is supposed to still be here. Help his family send him off.

I don’t find it productive to shame people for ‘showing up late’ wrt to social awareness. We all show up when we show up. But I strongly encourage new people who show up to do so while assuming a listening posture. I promise, we’ve heard your ideas & opinions before, back when we were less informed.

This the right call. Please check in with neighbors who may need support with childcare.

i love and appreciate and am grateful so so so so grateful for my Internet friends past and present please never forget that

There's obviously nothing wrong with sitting with, mourning and being frightened by the violent face of the state in the US! The problem is ~specifically doing it in a way that denies the pain of that same violence in other countries~

The police do actually shoot to kill a lot in France, too From the Paris Massacre to Nehul Merzouk, there are plenty of famous examples of police violence and repression that politically aware people should be expected to know

US Weekly COVID update: Jan 5, 2026 🔸1 in 65 Actively Infectious 🔸749,000 New Daily Infections 🔸5,390,000 Infections In The Past Week 🔸3,000,000 Infections in 2026 🔸270,000 to 1,080,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases 🔸1,600 to 2,700 Weekly Excess Deaths Source: pmc19.com/data/

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

i dont know whats ok to say or not and a lot of it is paranoia. i know. but im kind of fucking terrified of being online and while i know even if i deactivate it won't ERASE erase everything and if they wanted to they'd find anything but apologies in advance if i remake. again.

Is this a tragedy? Of course it is. Hopefully it will spur greater movement on this problem. But its been tragedy this whole year, in fact its been one the last 23 years