An important thread. Anyone can be disabled by a seemingly mild covid infection. Over 409 million people were estimated to have long covid by the end of 2023. We are in a mass disabling event.
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An important thread. Anyone can be disabled by a seemingly mild covid infection. Over 409 million people were estimated to have long covid by the end of 2023. We are in a mass disabling event.
THREAD: 20 years after Katrina, Haley Barbour is often remembered fondly for his leadership. Often forgotten? That he decided to redirect $570 million in federal housing funds—money designated to help low-income Katrina survivors who lost everything—instead to a port expansion project.
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social I would like Labour to explain how clinically vulnerable are supposed to survive a Winter unvaccinated and access unsafe medical care when #Covidisairborne. You are taking away our right to #BodilyAutonomy #RightToBeSafe #ECHR The guidance on masks has also been 🧵
His ass weaseled out of the military and Vietnam because he allegedly had bone spurs.
🐥If this Senate hearing with Bobby "The Quack" Jr pissed you off, send a message: Quack-O-Gram delivery begins on 9/15🐥 🐥 $3. Man in a duck suit. Rubber duck with "impeach the quack" message to YOUR Rep🐥 Link: www.standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams #ImpeachTheQuack @standupforscience.bsky.social
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
Love these beautiful kitties!! 💕🐾😻
Jones on Blanche/Maxwell Interview: That kind of interview is worthless... The only person it was worth anything to was Maxwell — in order to get herself moved to a less secure prison, a camp, and potentially to position herself for clemency or a pardon.
This book is *so* good. Finally had time to read it in full.
What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM! West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪
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When government stops believing their existence relies on the consent of the governed, then the governed are cannon fodder like everyone else is.
So Hegseth’s missiles were fired at a boat: ✅ they had no idea where it was going ✅ they had no idea who was on it ✅ they had no established authority to act ✅ but definitely wanted to murder whoever was on it Everyone involved should rot in prison forever
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
Trump is gearing to appoint military lawyers to augment the underfunded Immigration Judges (IJ). In our article below, one of the variables we tracked was the employment background of the IJs. We confirmed previous research that IJs from ICE or the enforcement side were much more likely to deny 1/
Kim Jong Un introduced President Xi to his teenage daughter. He didn’t introduce Trump to his daughter. I can only assume he’s read the Epstein files.
Courtesy of TPM, I learned today that back in July, the labor departments of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania agreed to work together to investigate (and prosecute) wage theft cases. That’s a great move! Esp given the complete federal Hostility to workers. www.nj.gov/labor/assets...
TPM piece: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-labor...
No lies detected from Gavin Newsom! #ResistTrump
Only in a Trump administration can illegal activity be monetized into a hedge-fund opportunity for Trump's cronies.
Watch as Trump supporters, who are *obsessed* with pretending to care about child sex abuse, circle the trailers to discredit all of them.
One of the Epstein survivors (I missed her name, forgive me) just announced a number of the survivors will be compiling their own list of perpetrators involved in the sex trafficking operation.
Massie (R-KY) is just on fire: "I don't know if that's precedented in this country to have a president call legislators to say that they're engaged in a hostile act, particularly when the so-called hostile act is trying to get justice for people who've been victims of sex crimes." #TrumpEpstein
Also ask ombudsman about being allowed to be in surgery room for advocacy or health reasons- clearly the Dr office is not concerned about infection control so they can’t use that excuse- barring that see if you can get a live stream. I don’t trust those folks.
Contact the patient advocate or ombudsman office at that center. That had been helpful for me when Dr office was not. Whatever happens, protect yourselves as best you can. This all sucks.
My husband has an upcoming surgery. We asked if the surgeon and the other attending healthcare workers could wear N95s during the surgery. She said, We wear N95s only if we know the patient has COVID. 🤔 🫠
Can't believe that asshole is deliberately flying jets over this presser. If any of the neanderthals believe their king/god is not guilty then why the fuck is he trying to drown them out??? He is a rapist but they don't care. He lets them be the worst of themselves, the hate, racism, and misogyny.
This post is a replacement for a now deleted post that some interpreted as Sinophobic, which wasn’t my intention. My point is that the wealthy and powerful, regardless of their nationality, have access to treatments and potentially life extending “technologies” that most of us don’t.
There’s overlap between Xi’s remarks and the interests of powerful Silicon Valley tech bros. Peter Thiel, for example, has expressed interest in blood transfusions from the young to extend life and is rumored to have paid for such treatments, a rumor he denies (www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08...).
If your president spends all his days trying to get around the law and circumvent the constitution, you need a better president.
Absolutely. Also see the concrete public health ideas for states/governors I lay out in this piece below, as well as the idea of deliberately polarizing the public health debate: bsky.app/profile/greg...
🎯 from the debt to Epstein survivors, @reptimburchett is entirely full of shit and pretends to care about anything but attention
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They want kids to die.
“For decades, the state has required numerous vaccines for kids attending school, including shots that protect against Measles-mumps-rubella, polio, chickenpox and Hepatitis B. “But Ladapo on Wednesday compared these mandates to ‘slavery’ and promised that they all will soon end.” wth is happening
“President Trump, I’m a registered Republican… this is not a hoax. The abuse was real. Humanize us. I would be more than happy to meet with him.”
I’m not going to repost them all (I find them triggering), but @factpostnews.bsky.social is publishing powerful clips from today’s presentation by some of the women victimized by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Um, I was told that tariffs would bring the American manufacturing back
Missouri’s Republican governor Mike Kehoe called a special legislative session to redraw congressional districts and weaken ballot initiatives, partaking in the new Republican strategy of a mid-decade gerrymander to secure a House majority in 2026.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
Let me tell you a story about one of these hardcore criminals who was born into a very wealthy family. Despite his life of obscene privilege, he relished being a scam artist his entire life. Conning people made him feel powerful…something he would later parlay into politics…
One of the victims on the Todd Blanche-Maxwell interview (paraphrase): that voice was the same voice that manipulated me to fly across the country forward career changing job into Epstein's abuse, and there was no pushback from Blanche on that lying, manipulative woman. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
They bombed without warning a non-threatening small boat, which is insane and a violation of international law even if it was carrying contraband which we have no way of knowing, and then gleefully shared it as a snuff video.
New, from me: The EPA is breaking. *About 1 in 4 employees out *Core research unit closed down *Employees suspended and fired for writing letter for dissent *Trump judicial appointees OK'd cancelling of $20 billion climate change program donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
The Trump administration has tried and failed to present the EPA grant funding as criminal, the financial arrangement as crooked, and the plaintiffs as suspicious. Multiple DOJ career prosecutors looked at the evidence and found nothing. One even resigned rather than be forced to pursue the case.
Read and weep... and then begin planning for building something entirely new out of the ashes.
This is the guy that a bunch of people tried to get his guns taken away before he went nuts..and everybody failed to do that including the military who could of done it and not teally worry about violating the guys second amendment rights..they dont care
Silicon Valley is always announcing it's bringing on utopia for the whole world (and maybe some exoplanets) while creating hideous dystopias personally and locally (and sometimes internationally).
How many times can Trump and Bondi release the same years-old publicly available Epstein documents in the name of transparency?
Fascist republicans often accuse others of grooming children to be gay or trans when in fact they are grooming children to be Nazis or grooming them for rapists and pedophiles.
This. RFKJr wants to reverse this
Local governments and environmental advocates are asking the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to establish a preliminary health goal for 1,4 dioxane in drinking water. www.wunc.org/environment/...
Unsafe staffing is the quiet emergency in Missouri hospitals missouriindependent.com/2025/09/03/u...
This is the result the bosses wanted to guarantee by bringing Trump back in, to end the Biden era labor market that gave workers power over bosses
Wait they transferred a Club Fed inmate who complained to media that Ghislaine Maxwell being sent there was inadequate to her crimes to a HARSHER prison??!? Wtaf!! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5519...
Okay, so apparently Platner was literally a Blackwater merc
Not going to stop thinking about the comment that Trump is sending Confederate armies to occupy Northern cities. How much more is there to say? That’s not a “distraction.” It’s what the white supremacists who tried to secede have wanted for over a century. It’s not a distraction to them at all.
Plus, the probable incompetence of this move and then management makes me very nervous as a resident of the state next door. I lived in Colorado Springs and I never felt nervous in this same way about it being there. Also: After living there and in Grand Forks, thought I was done with ground zeros
Trump’s long weekend of humiliation, mocked by Americans and foreign leaders, is a great thing. He needs the illusion of strength. So keep on talking about how frail he’s looking — and what he is hiding. www.salon.com/2025/09/03/t...
Over 1,000 current and former HHS staff call for RFK Jr's resignation. His actions place the health and lives of all Americans at risk. Join us. Read the letter. Call your representatives. Good health is neither partisan nor ideological. www.savehhs.org
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Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
Never start a headline with "Trump Says." It is true that he *said* it, but whatever he said was almost certainly not true (or it's propaganda or conspiracy theories or unproven assertions or hate speech). Print truth, not lies.
Trump spewed partial truths and complete fiction in a firehose of falsehood yesterday. The threat of punishing states with mail-in voting is on the table. The GOP is celebrating its extrajudicial murder and denial of due process to 11 people aboard a Venezuelan boat. Good News? Florida Democrats
“weakening centuries-old power” is another way of saying violating the Constitution. But why speak clearly when euphemisms will do?
We overperformed in two special elections for a state senate seat and a House seat yesterday - our first Gen Z candidate! Many thanks to canvassers, phone bankers, and donors to the FDP and candidates for helping this happen! 🎩 Florida Data Geek Typo for the year notwithstanding.
ICE has resumed doing business with a controversial hacking company that had been dropped for running afoul of a Biden-era executive order against dealings with unethical spyware vendors.
Media outlets that paid extortion bribes to this fucker should lose their licenses and the people responsible should be blacklisted from *any* media work in the future. Pull the licenses, make groups reform into serious journalism entities, have them reapply, kill the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Dr. Offit co-invented the rotavirus vaccine, he is a pediatrician and a physician scientist who has dedicated his life to protecting children and advocating for vaccines. His term was due to end 2027 but of course his expertise was intolerable to RFK.Jr. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s “solution” to school shootings? Arm teachers. No funding for safety, no action on gun laws, just more weapons around kids. He wants classrooms turned into war zones and teachers forced into combat roles. Our children deserve learning, not lockdown drills. Books, not bullets. Moron.
Trump made $3.4 billion while in office. Thou shalt not pretend he took a pay cut for the people.
GIFT ARTICLE: "Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Amy Maxmen will be on WNYC in about 5 minutes. She's an expert on epidemics and has been doing investigative reporting on CDC's lack of response to the ongoing measles outbreaks. Tune in and call in!
I am reading comments here Americans giving stats of people shot over the weekend like it’s a contest who can have the most number of HUMAN BEINGS shot. What kind of country do U live in? What kind of people talk like this. Like it’s nothing. Canada had 2 stories. Wildfires & baby bear in a park
What sucks about these major lower court decisions is that people can no longer trust that the Supreme Court will actually uphold the US Constitution on appeal and rule against Trump when they clearly should. That court is aiding and abetting his lawlessness. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Both Bobby worm brain & Jay Bhattacharya need to go now!!! It’s the only way to restore trust in science in America Thread 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
How to report on Nazis. And it's real, I checked thenightly.com.au/editions
Criminal Trump broke the law again… are Felon’s allowed to do that ?? apnews.com/live/donald-...
they’re all this guy
2016: Cheese Cheese No Joy and her fellow travelers dismiss SCOTUS as a relevent election issue. 2025: theconversation.com/how-the-cons...
Watch the trump-Miller police brutalise and attack protesters in L.A. on September 1st at 1:45 am. This is a brazen constitutional violation ! The government cannot use its armed forces against peaceful protesters. This is also happening in other US Blue cities (see source below). #RESIST !!
😡Sexual Abuse Victims Reveal How Convicted Sex Trafficker Maxwell Lured Girls into Epstein’s Web‼️ 🤔If Republicans TRULY stand against PEDOPHILIA, WHY do they support Trump, Maxwell’s friend❓️ WHY aren't they protesting her transfer to a cushy prison? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
Good morning to everyone except the landlord who thinks it's okay to brandish a gun at their tenant for asking for repairs.
I just found that this man was charged with "terroristic threat of family/household" in 2019 in Texas. Yet he still had guns and now a little boy is dead.
The biggest thing about Trump's absence from public view is that Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social will be holding a press conference tomorrow with many Epstein victims. Trump was Epstein's bestie.
Judge: Trump’s LA Troop Deployment Violated Federal Law www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
Judge rules Trump illegally deployed National Guard to L.A. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Good morning, you beautiful humans. We have some good momentum going into this week ahead of Thursday’s hearing. Let’s use it! Call your reps, demand they fire RFK Jr. They’re listening- we’ll see which of them steps up to do the right thing. #SaveHHS #USAnotRFK #FireRFKJr
The chief scientist of Moderna (who was very nice to me and gay!) gave a TED talk on the main stage the same year I was one of their science track speakers, 2022 — Moderna went out of their way to communicate with the public 🧪 www.ted.com/talks/meliss...
I’m glad @emptywheel.bsky.social wrote this. I’ve been watching Noem in recent weeks and wondering if Kilmar Abrego had an actionable slander claim against her? It seems like she has no proof for any of her slurs.
New from @lhn.bsky.social in @wired.com: '"States are merely an ‘agent’ for the (USG) in counting and tabulating the votes... must do what the (USG), as represented by the President...tells them”-DJT... election experts emphasize that this is a completely inaccurate...' www.wired.com/story/trump-...