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Get your vaccine, but also wear a mask. The vaccine does a great job of keeping people out of the hospital & alive, but it doesn't prevent people from catching COVID. Avoiding COVID infections is the only sure way to avoid long COVID. (Also, COVID never left. It's surging now, but it's always here).
Sadly, Wil Wheaton just caught COVID too 😔 bsky.app/profile/jour...
Buffy the COVID Slayer: Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of reboot' 'I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again' said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19. But why is her action significant? www.thecanary.co/global/world...
It's really disappointing that Portland made Wil Wheaton feel pressure to take his mask off & he caught his first COVID infection at Rose City comic con. The more people who wear masks in public, the more normalized it becomes & fewer people will get sick. Do better, people. Stop spreading COVID.
Last year I wrote about Nick Fuentes’s AFPAC in Detroit, and all the groypers in the GOP who went to his various events.
any outlet that reported the “pro-trans ideology on bullet casings” thing owes the public an apology and an explanation if you are serious about turning down the temperature, start by showing some shame and regret for your role in turning it up in the first place by allowing yourself to be played
Thanks - this is the first time I've seen this addressed in any of the articles I've read about Oregon's vaccine obstacles.
With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
Yesterday, when the shooter was an imagined trans Muslim woke leftist, it was WAR. Today, when the shooter turns out to be a young, gun-toting white male and the son of a sheriff, it’s “pray.”
I don't see a lot of talk about reports that his father is a retired sheriff's deputy... That seems like something that should have more attention on it, considering how much money this country throws at police "to keep us safe".
The fact that the Trump administration is making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish academic in the US right now should show how absurd it is to claim that this assault on higher education is really about protecting Jews.
One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.
No one has given a clear explanation as to why other states, like our neighbor Washington, quickly found ways to make COVID vaccines more accessible but Oregon can't. It's beyond frustrating.
Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.
More than three dozen people filed to run for statewide office, #orleg and district races today, the first day candidates could officially file. The @oregoncapitalchronicle.com team will keep tabs of candidate filings over the next six months here: oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/11/w... #orpol
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
So @governor.ca.gov made sure to say something about Charlie Kirk But didn’t speak up when a Black woman was pulled off television in front of him and has had NO follow up to the targeting of Black colleges Aight cool
And people wonder why I still mask & take other precautions for COVID. This child "recovered from the initial measles illness, the child developed and ultimately died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis" YEARS later. Everyone out here saying "oh I've had COVID X times and I'm fine". Please...
Too young to vaccinate when they got measles (first measles vaccine is typically at one year). They were "school-aged" when they died, according to the article.
A child in LA County has died from a complication following measles. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis can occur from 2-10 years after acute infection. This is why we vaccinate. The child was too young to receive the vaccine, but if everyone else does their part we all but eradicate the disease
Everyone in media needs to watch this tiktok guy named therapyjeff explaining to them as if they are children that it’s okay to not feel sad right now
Covid has killed ~5-6x the number of people this year as those who died in 9-11. Both are heartbreaking, ❤️🩹 but only one is grieved publicly. The other is barely noticed & declared over
say it all plainly. it shouldn't be hard or controversial. this is this man's legacy www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...
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"But while Weiss is widely understood as a provocateur, what is less well understood is how she has used the Free Press to empower rightwing factions within established elite institutions," writes @davidklion.bsky.social. Really important reporting here. www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
When We Told Democrats To Abolish ICE They Expanded Their Funding
The first deployment of updated Covid shots under the Trump administration has been plagued by access issues and misinformation amid confusion and chaos at U.S. health agencies. My latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
RFK Jr. has said anyone can get a COVID booster if they want one. HE IS LYING. He has created conditions that make it difficult for people to get immunized. States are stepping in; he is creating chaos. Impeach. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
The media's job RIGHT NOW should be educating the public on who Charlie Kirk was, and his many evil positions. They have ample footage to illustrate it As should every political 'resistance' esque group. Where's the Lincoln Project's two minute highlight reel of his violent, racist, Christofascism
If you want to contact the governor about honoring an extremely bigoted propagandist www.oregon.gov/gov/pages/co...
Well done, @portlandmercury.com 👏🏻👏🏻
Yankees honor slain anti-free speech activist: defector.com/yankees-hono...
feels relevant as TPUSA folks are currently trying to blame the ASU professors who protested a Kirk event *years* ago, the AG currently prosecuting the fake electors (which includes TPUSA folks), journalists who wrote about TPUSA, and whoever else they’re looking to silence atm
Once again we're proving the Joker right, huh? If Black, Brown, or Indigenous people are killed, if Palestinians are mass murdered or trans people are criminalized, if immigrants are sent to gulags, it's all part of the plan. But if one cishet white racist gets shot, everyone loses their minds.
One final thing. It's odd to see Ezra Klein, a total policy nerd, say Kirk did politics the right way when Kirk had almost no interest in either policy, or the empirical rigor necessary to get policy right. Kirk's approach to politics was 99% culture war rage stoking w/ almost no policy content.
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If you've experienced domestic violence or supported DV survivors, you'll recognize the walking on eggshells dynamic. SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
When we eulogize political figures who have died we usually do so with snippets of their own words that exemplify the essence of their life’s work. So let’s see them, all of the Kirk quotes in which we see him urging his followers to embrace the better angels of their nature.
The bizarre liberal eulogies of Kirk by Klein, Newsom, & others overlook his relationship to violence & that of the white conservative movement more broadly. If we're serious abt not wanting to live in a society where ppl are subjected to this sort of thing, we absolutely can't normalize this stuff.
As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
There is no need to celebrate Kirk. He was a victim of gun violence, which is a serious public health problem in America. But Kirk wasn’t working to make this country better in any way. He was eroding it with his dark money operation. And he was a fascist.
Jesus christ what is wrong with Democrats
The neo-Nazi accelerationist group The Base planned a mass shooting at a right-wing 2nd Amendment rally at the Virginia state capitol in early 2020. They were arrested before they could carry it out but their goal was to incite a race war
The vague term "political violence" is used specifically bc of its elasticity. It can be contorted to include a murder (despite the motive and perpetrator being unknown), property damage (committed for life-preserving reasons), or protesters using signs as shields when they are attacked by police.
I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.
Truly what the fuck
You have GOT to be kidding me. This is absolutely shameful and truly shocking, even for the Yankees.
Because of what I study, I’ve spent more time than any normal person should listening to Charlie Kirk on our local AM station. Let’s just say that his content made Rush Limbaugh seem like a paragon of generous civic engagement by comparison.
"But there was the issue of—like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.” - variety.com/2025/music/n...
Banner Health, the largest health system in Arizona, is currently refusing to offer COVID19 vaccines or to provide prescriptions for them. Our healthcare system is utterly broken. “Everybody who wants a COVID19 vaccine can get one”, quoth RFK Jr.
This must be why my kid's kindergarten teacher said "it's important for kids to get sick in kindergarten, to help them build their immune systems for the future" 😑
Durham County saying the part that should never have been quiet. Masks work. More masks work better. Cases are rising again. Protect yourself and others by getting vaccinated, yes, but also? KN95 (or better) masks. dconc.gov/Public-Healt...
I agree violence is inexcusable. But I don’t agree that America is better than this. America is exactly this. #thisisourlane
Access to Covid vaccines hasn't been this confusing since the rollout in early 2021. This tip sheet from Association of Health Care Journalists can help journalists plan coverage of the ongoing confusion to meet the needs of their audiences. healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/09...
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
Utah reports high school–related measles outbreak; US total reaches 1,454 Utah now has 22 cases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...
I think it is corrosive on a spiritual level to live in a world where we are so unused to justice that a political assassination feels like cause for celebration. We get to feel conflicted about this, we have been deprived every "appropriate" route to justice And also, this is not justice
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Go New Jersey! 💉🦠👊🏼 #oregon is *still* behind on policy changes - it’s crickets from @tinakotek.bsky.social who could act but doesn’t 🙄 Get your #covid shot in Washington state, with a governor committed to public health 💉🦠💚
I know I'm more than a day late on this, but for some reason it came across my feed now — I confirmed with Sanofi today that they haven't yet shipped the Novavax shot, so it isn't available anywhere. They plan to start shipping next week.
“No single organization can solve this alone,” the Duke stated. “Gaza now has the highest density of child amputees in the world and in modern history." Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Foundation. sussex.com/highlighting...
Btw, if you want journalists to cover Covid and Covid vaccines more, you need to read the articles they do write on this topic. Clicks can help factor in what types of stories are covered. Just liking/resharing isn't enough, especially if there isn't a paywall.
@tinakotek.bsky.social why hasn't Oregon done this? Restricting access to Covid vaccines is going to result in even more death and increased hospitalization rates. Do better.
1/ Covid-19 vaccine access in the U.S. right now depends on your zip code. Even people 65+ or high risk face different rules across state lines. And if you’re younger and healthy, access is basically blocked, except in a few states. Let's break down state variability for Covid-19 vaccine access🧵
Love how they declared Covid over because 'hey we have vaccines now!' but then they block & restrict access to those vaccines
this is a big story and should also be seen as laying the groundwork for project 2025’s surveillance of women
The Naperville Raab family coordinates genocide together. Raab's MOTHER fundraised in the US so her son could kill more people in Gaza. Through a NONPROFIT. Registered by an Illinois DERMATOLOGIST (Raab's father). www.dropsitenews.com/p/us-nonprof...
An American sniper in Isreal kills brothers and can't understand why their father would try to collect the bodies and killed him too. Evil has a name: Daniel Raab. He is not the only one, there are many like him. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
📌 A Must Read Investigative journalism reveals insane depravity of Israeli snipers. “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me. I mean, what was so important about that corpse?” -Daniel Raab Q: How does an entire society get to this point? A: Zionism
BREAKING: Susan Monarez, forced out by RFK Jr as CDC director, to testify in front of Senate panel next week. Monarez has said RFK Jr pressured her around vaccines. RFK Jr has said she was untrustworthy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Heck yeah!! ❤️
My parents are over 65 & they are looking into going up to Washington to get their vaccines too, because of how difficult Oregon has made it (yes, I know it's ultimately the fed government driving the chaos, but many states have quickly implemented workarounds to make vaccines accessible to all).
I wrote to my local Oregon state reps offices today about my extreme frustration with the Covid vaccine rollout in Oregon. Senator Kate Lieber's office responded fairly quickly to thank me for bringing it to their attention and said they were reaching out to OHA to get more info.
A reminder 💉🦠 Washington state’s governor issued a standing order to make the new #covid vaccine available to anyone over 6 months 👊🏼👊🏼 Oregon governor @tinakotek.bsky.social has done nothing 🙄 Oregon still lacks a Health Authority director 🫠 Go to WA, where science matters in public health 😎
Oregon **could** have COVID vaccine accessibility if @tinakotek.bsky.social issued a standing order, as the governor of Washington state did **last week** 👊🏼 But apparently our governor can’t be bothered, so many Oregonians are crossing the border for public health 🙄
Yeah, Oregon has really dropped the ball. If your friend is close to WA, she may want to try getting it there. We got ours at a Walgreens in Vancouver without issue.
That's what I did, but I also sent emails to my local state reps to complain too, because it's absurd and not at all accessible for most people.
If you're close enough to WA, you may want to go there. We got ours at Walgreens in Vancouver over the weekend. I wrote to my local state reps about it though too, because it's absurd that Oregon is making it this difficult.
Other states, like Washington, figured it out really quickly. It's not clear to me why it's harder for Oregon to do the same.
As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: The FDA is allowing the vaccine ONLY for people 65 and older, or an underlying condition www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla seems to have been drone struck while in Tunis by Israel.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Another day, another public promise of war crimes endorsed by the world:
This emergency department data demonstrated the disproportionate toll of the summer wave on very young children, at a time the Trump administration says they don’t need updated vaccines.
Yup. And they're about to make it even harder for kids to get Covid vaccines, so it's not too surprising they don't want this data out in the open.
The CDC quietly neutered the best Covid data on the planet yesterday. ED data visualization has been stripped of age stratification, and state-by-state trends. ED data has been far better for state by state trends than WW. Poof.
former FDA commissioner @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social on trump and RFK Jr.
It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.
I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT
More details on #Ebola outbreak in DRC: Index case was a pregnant woman (in third trimester), who came to Bulape General Reference Hospital on 20 August with fever, bleeding, bloody diarrhea. She died on August 25. Then two health care workers, who first had contact with her, developed symptoms...
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I never understand when I hear educated people say that COVID *does* have seasonality, because we consistently see waves in late spring/summer and again in winter... But wastewater data shows us that COVID is always around.
Hopefully SARS-CoV-2 will eventually become a well-behaved and mild seasonal virus, but we’re not there yet. 17/17
I was starting to believe the H5N1 outbreak from dairy cattle was winding down. I was wrong. I hadn’t detected H5N1 in CA wastewater in 6 months, and then 4 samples in a row came up positive. The sequences were all B3.13 (the dairy cattle lineage). 1/
Not dismissing that some people feel fewer side effects on Novavax, but if it is possible, I'd try to get the mRNA vaccine ASAP before the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on September 18-19. Truly, who knows what people appointed by RFK Jr will try to do.
That sounds like the cost of Paxlovid without insurance; I think Covid vaccines out of pocket are around $200 (still outrageous and they should be free, but way better than $1700).
We're heading across the river to Vancouver tomorrow to get our Covid vaccines, because too many people we know have had their appointments canceled in Oregon. The Oregon Board of Pharmacy is requiring prescriptions sent directly to pharmacies, even for people 65+, until ACIP approval. Really sucks.