Now it looks like vax might be available in NYS with a prescription. But the situation is clear as mud.
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Now it looks like vax might be available in NYS with a prescription. But the situation is clear as mud.
And meeting of CDC committee on vaccines has been postponed and may never happen or will be run by anti-vaxxers thanks to RFK Jr. In conclusion, we are screwed. (NY is one of the states affected)
No, that’s a different issue. Eligibility has been narrowed to those with certain risk factors. AND pharmacies are refusing to give COVID vax to ANYONE in states where they say state regs require CDC approval.
100% So much evidence already points to the immediate and long-term damage caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. The Swiss Cheese model for mitigation still holds - layers of protection including vaccines, masking, ventilation, and air filtration all help to lower risk.
Also in Texas, at least three women having miscarriages have died after being denied standard treatment—a D&C—due to Texas abortion ban. Not a safe place for women.
This is what I want all my elected representatives to do. Stand up to Trump’s thugs who are terrorizing our communities.
Sec. Hegseth tries so hard to look like a manly manly warrior man, and he looks like an angry toddler in his too-tight suits.
Now, that’s a big tent!
I think when most Americans hear "socialism" they think of the worst aspects of the old Soviet Union. But Trump is the one trying to have centralized govt control of the economy--extorting concessions from companies, trying to set prices, telling everyone what to do.
Yum.
please care about the futures of both yourself and others enough to #MaskUp in shared air. 🙏🏻 #CovidIsntOver #MasksWork
Heh. Cuomo should ask the crowd at one of his fundraisers in the Hamptons whether they think a two-earner family making $200k and living in NYC is rich.
Yeah, Cuomo's take on the Erie Canal is wrong, but also, how does he think insulting Chicago gets him elected in NYC? Unless he wants to push the MAGA theme that big cities with Democratic mayors are dystopian hell holes. Interesting position for a Democrat (?) running in NYC.
A Christianity rooted in patriarchy will always define women first and foremost by their relationship to men. A Christianity rooted in the gospel of Jesus will always see women first and foremost as fellow human beings created in God's image. May we understand the difference.
NIH scientists say that mRNA vaccines have saved untold thousands of lives. A heroin addled nepo baby whose brain was partially eaten by a worm says mRNA vaccines are worthless and even dangerous. For busy medical patients, it can be hard to know who to trust.
We might all have to switch to soy milk, anyway. All the (wet, cold, dangerous) physical labor in dairy farms in Upstate NY is done by Latino immigrants currently being kidnapped/terrorized by ICE.
These are terrible, if not surprising, news Another act of self-harm - there are too many to count #mRNA #vaccines are one of the most remarkable scientific advances in decades & could be effective beyond infectious diseases, eg in #cancer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 🧪 #medsky #virosky
Hey, you know those HEPA filters you put in the basement of your office/dental practice/school/church because "COVID is over"? It isn't, and here's another good reason to plug those air purifiers back in.
My kitchen today in Rochester, NY - one curtain looks white where sunlight is blocked by the house next door. Curtain on left colored orange by sun shining through wildfire smoke from Canada.
For instance: ICE thugs are abducting NYers at their place of work (stores, farms, roofing crews), w/o due process, sending them to indefinite imprisonment in unspeakable conditions. NYS leaders at every level should be working together to strategize how to stop this. Where are they?
Maybe Dems have moved left, but a better explanation for our rage at establishment Dem officials is their craven unwillingness/inability to respond appropriately to Trump’s existential threat to democracy. (Looking at you, Bello/Morelle/Hochul/Gillibrand/Schumer)
Spoiler alert - they don’t care about WBB. Author of WSJ opinion piece about supposed racism against Caitlin Clark is promoting a narrative of white victimhood, a common MAGA theme.
@wsj.com This again? If only the people carrying on about poor little Caitlin being stomped on by mean Black women would just go back to ignoring women’s sports and telling us WBB is boring & nobody cares about the #WNBA.
Great article, thank you.
James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time.”
How do you power your air purifier in a tent?
Cancer survivor? Mask up!
Yikes
Information elsewhere, including Temple B’rith Kodesh’s web site, says this event is on Thursday, 8/7.
Masked thugs are terrorizing and kidnapping construction workers and farm workers in my state & city for the crime of looking Latino. You’d think my blue state leaders would get together and strategize how to resist & protect our neighbors. Or at least speak out against this terror. Hah.
I am beyond disgusted with my Democratic governor, Congressman, and US Senators, who have proven completely unable & unwilling to rise to meet the demands of this moment in history. Of course the Democratic Party is unpopular.
Haley’s eyes 😳
I mean, the weekend was lots of fun, the contests on Friday were compelling, the player solidarity around the CBA negotiations was great, but the game itself was almost superfluous, and kind of boring after the first few 4 point shots.
Come on, nobody thought that game was compelling.
If you were watching the Studbudz feed, you heard them be invited and cued to “crash” the set. It was funny seeing behind the scenes of a big $$ media operation w/director, lights, big cameras, etc, via the single hand-held phone of the studs’ stream.
So go, already!
So elegant!
The actual game, Team Phee. She drafted to win.
“Maybe the question now isn’t whether it was ready but whether you are” Yes!
Why do people who don't like or care about the WNBA spend so much time talking about it?
Can you help us keep our community safe from airborne illness and wildfire smoke? Providing and wearing free masks is a concrete way to care for each other and fight back against the normalization of mass death. >>> bit.ly/MaskUpSummer
Did Monroe County give Avelo any kind of subsidy to come to Rochester?
I’ve been screaming into the void about this. Nursing homes will close, quality of care will be worse in those still open, and cost for private pay will go up to compensate for less money coming in for Medicaid patients. Reimbursement rates are already too low.
You are so right. Cracks me up when an announcer says "Becky Hammon isn't happy with that call" (or play, or whatever) and the camera zooms in on her scowling, as if she didn't always look like that!
Just sitting by the lake, keeping an eye on the northern border for Kristi Noem.
ICE snatching the people who feed us out of the farm fields. What possible good can come from this pointless cruelty and destruction?
Wow. That little Hailey has an arm on her.
So glad the Trump admin is keeping America safe from Senegalese #WBB players. No way the USA can host the Olympics.
Ellie is everywhere
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#urbangaze #ROC
Medicaid covers 60% of nursing home residents. Quality of care and availability will plummet w/cuts & elimination of staffing requirements, even if you have $ for private pay. And no safety net when your money runs out.
Me too. Don’t make me subscribe to yet another streaming service/app/whatever to see this one show
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Classic how the poster centers Caitlin when she didn’t even play.
Hochul continues to take advantage of every opportunity to be disappointing.
Looks good - but I can't believe you couldn't find posole verde in Chicago. I used to spend a lot of time in Chicago and southern Wisconsin, and there are so many Mexicans and so much good Mexican food there!
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social says she's not endorsing the Dem candidate for NYC mayor because she has "concerns about public safety." Here's a public safety concern: unidentified thugs are kidnapping NY'ers, including children, for rendition to secret prison camps & foreign prisons.
Monstrous: "They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
Cutting Medicaid is pure evil. We should do more, not less, to help families raising disabled children.
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
Yes, it was illegal for Trump to start war with Iran without Congressional approval. So why did you vote alongside Republicans to table the motion to impeach him? For this and so many other violations of the constitution.
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
The trouble with registering independent is you give up the power to vote for better candidates who primary people like Cuomo and Hochul.
Last time I was in NYC subway, my husband - elderly, has cerebral palsy and poor balance - didn't hold on as the train started & literally flew through the air. A young man seated nearby caught hubby, set him gently on his feet, smiled at me, & went back to his reading. I❤️NY
🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️
I agree, but those neck gaiters the ICE thugs wear, that cover their heads, front and back, up to their hats, except for the eyes, aren't masks. The respirator masks some of us wear for health reasons cover much less and aren't nearly as disguising.
Shoving, grabbing, poking. Cunningham and Sheldon ejected (and Mabrey should have been.) Yet no one is calling these players thugs. Gee, I wonder why. Imagine if Angel Reese had pushed Caitlin like that. "Enforcer" is not the word that would be used. #WNBA
The @nytimes.com works so hard to enable totalitarianism. Their reporting on ICE grabbing an elected official makes it sound like his fault, then says Lander's campaign is "capitalizing" on his arrest because his wife posted a video of the appalling incident.
Thanks!
It is so outrageously ableist to say we should ban masks & stop people from protecting their health & the health of those around you. COVID is still spreading. People are still dying from COVID. Millions of people are struggling with #LongCOVID. And COVID is just one of many reasons to mask
We should be proud that our military does not excel at goose stepping in celebration of Great Leader.
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
Happy Obama Appreciation Day.
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I love New York. Also, I like this new chant: No KKK, no fascists USA, NO ICE!
How do you manage to feed yourself while traveling? Seems like it would be hard to eat meals without being unmasked indoors around a lot of other people.
Many #COVID patients needed 9 months to regain baseline well-being, study suggests Physical well-being returned after 3 months, but up to 20% of patients continued experiencing suboptimal overall health-related quality of life 1 year post-infection. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...
We feed you. They hunt us.
I wear a respirator mask in all crowded public situation, for health reasons. It does far less to hide my appearance than the neck gaiters, hats, and sunglasses the ICE thugs wear--plus I'm not armed & not kidnapping anyone.
From reports/photos/videos I’ve seen, it mostly wasn’ two sides “clashing.” More like heavily-armed police violently attacking protesters, bystanders, and journalists.
People keep confidently asserting this - but why? A mask made of material that filters out small particles will protect me (the wearer) when I breathe in, and others when I breathe out.
When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.
Also, he’s accepting and promoting the right’s framing of demonstrators as rioters.
A peaceful protest turned into chaos when heavily armed masked men began throwing tear gas canisters and flash-bang grenades into the gathering giving tRump an opportunity to declare Martial Law. Project 2025 unfolds. # ICE protests # Los Angeles protests
What an interesting, thoughtful thread! Thank you, Derek.
excuse me while I vomit
I was thinking about ICE. What if I were a guy who wanted to kidnap a woman? I could get some friends to come with me, wear neck gater masks, drive a dark vehicle, and just grab them and tell them I am from ICE. Where is the difference to what is actually happening?? No badge? No uniform? No ID?
#Avelo Airlines #protest held in Rochester www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-n...
COVID harms children.
Trump’s administration is putting zip ties on children. These babies dressed to go with their mom to court, bc she was doing the LAWFUL thing & our government ZIP TIED them 😩 I don’t want my tax dollars paying for babies to be zip tied, do you? It was never about protecting us from criminals.
Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension
BREAKING: ICE and private prison contractor GEO Group are refusing to allow Mahmoud Khalil to hold his newborn son for the first time, even after his wife flew them over 1,000 miles to visit. We just asked a federal court to order ICE to grant Mahmoud's request for a contact visit with his family.
Caitlin is fun to watch, but there were a lot of great players in a very entertaining game between the Fever (not just Clark!) and the Dream (who won).