Brazil: Health officials urge people to update COVID-19 vaccination. Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) from COVID-19 are rising in 4 Brazilian states: Rio de Janeiro Ceará Amazonas Paraíba Source: archive.md/U0oD3
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Brazil: Health officials urge people to update COVID-19 vaccination. Cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) from COVID-19 are rising in 4 Brazilian states: Rio de Janeiro Ceará Amazonas Paraíba Source: archive.md/U0oD3
Oh shit that was the wrong article- here’s the one I meant to link. Read this one too. www.freep.com/story/opinio...
It's not complicated: Not one more taxpayer dollar for genocide.
Read this. There are programs that are *working*. They got their funding frozen or cut completely. Demand this funding gets reinstated. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
Instead of approving the unconstitutional and illegal military occupation of cities and states by the federal military??
Maybe we could demand those programs get their funding reinstated?
Maaaaaaaybe we could try some more of the local community investment and organizing that has been happening across the country? Like how groups in Detroit are working to get a deescalation program set up that has had tons of success but got funding cut by trump?
Figure something else out with your local crime problem. because it’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND ILLEGAL to use the federal military!
I don’t know why it’s so confusing to particular people that this is UNCONSTITUTIONAL SO IT IS ILLEGAL. In the US, we don’t solve local crime with federal military AND THAT IS THAT.
Astemo Ltd. is planning a $95 million investment and chose Michigan for its expansion over competing sites in Ohio, the governor's office said.
Every time I turn around there’s another person or thing that’s collapsing from the pedestal of lies it was sitting on.
I just feel like Brick from cat on a hot tin roof right now. It was the only thing left for me to believe in! And you are dragging it through the mud!!!
I lost track of him after his defeat to GW and didn’t pay much attn to him in other posts (he worked with Obama admin and maaaybe Biden? I don’t remember) so I don’t know if he’s had other scandals where people already knew he was a sack of shit.
Just heard John Kerry is probably involved with Epstein files (from ABC News) and that’s a fucking disappointment. He is one of the very few people I’ve voted for bcz I respected him (he was anti war organizer).
That’s why we created this worksheet, and why I’m organizing workshops this week, including one on facilitating people’s assemblies.
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
We tried so hard to explain that the anti-trans panic wasn't just going to hurt trans people. Whether through recklessness or intent it resulted in extremely weird, broad, harmful laws. I'm not mad, but I'm telling you, we really tried.
Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions has been bought by US private equity so a contract with ICE is cool and good now. I wonder how much of this meant to make up for brain drain from inside of the US govt. USGs biggest advantage for many years was that it built its spying tools in-house.
in case you're new here...no he has not made any significant changes to this city or for the true long term citizens of detroit. he has made a bunch of money in the same ways black mayors have been strung up for. he has invited a bunch of cheapskate gentrifying businesses. he's not FROM detroit
I cant say what I want to say right now.
Hooooly shit. And before anybody starts, Chicago has got one of the oldest Mexican town areas in the country. Which is to say, the Mexicans you all are about to say ‘don’t take your flag to the rally’ to? Are very likely US citizens.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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Rateba’s sons barely escaped death in a massacre today. Mohammed sustained some injuries and she messaged me asking me to pray for him. I asked if she would also like me to share her link and she said yes- so if you’re inclined to offer prayers or help please do gofund.me/2790a0f8
lol what a joke. We’re headed over the cliff bcz Joe Joe White Man is so desperately angry at black people he decided to believe Elon Musk.
Wait I thought tariffs were supposed to on board factory jobs here in US?
Following an immigration raid at an active wildfire in Washington state, wildland fire professionals are raising alarms that the leadership team in charge of the fire response may have sent their crews into an ambush. stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...
no but WAIT. I thought the only way to not completely wipe out western humanity was by forcing people to have babies! population something something is the most important issue of our times! I thought!
said person has bail conditions for stalking and harassing a trans woman.
ICE is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order.
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There is no politic in the world more violently hopeless than centrist garbage politic.
The entirety of the Trump admin's platform is "rule by personal grievance" overseen by all the worst, most deficient individuals. They succeeded in ginning it all up through Fox News. It's losers convincing other losers that the reason they're losers is everyone's fault but their own.
Wow. Over many years I’ve learned to not pay much attn to the latest challenger of incumbent that Ds are going to poor millions of worthless dollars into. Maybe this one….???
Reading about this entire situation this morning is something ELSE.
We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
If I had to choose a ‘we’re going to fix this bullshit’ team, I would literally pick anybody out of all of the choices before I picked the centrist. And then even if I had the last pick and the centrist was still there, I’d be like, we’ll play one person short.
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
Kurosawa and Mifune had that shit on
The guy Musk is responding to (and has allowed back on to his platform and boosted to 100k followers) is part of an extreme Neofascist splinter party. Musk is actively trying to cause violent unrest but he’s so rich UK politicians fear to call him out on it
MJs stage director:
How old are some of these white supremacists we see molting from their human shells? Are they like cicadas where they come out once every 17 years?
Wow are we in that moment right now.
I saw the show The Watchman a good long while ago and I don’t remember much about it but that feeling that permeates the entire story- that white supremacists are ‘passing’ as normal human beings and they’re just waiting hydra-like, for the right moment to rebirth?
If workers stand together WE will win. WE. Too many people think they’re not workers too.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
And then…just the fucking tragedy of it. JT Ready kill his partner, her family and his myself in 2012. What would’ve happened if any of the ‘purity policing’ moderates had said wow- I think we need to pay attn! Would we be where we’re at right now?
And like right wing radicalism and extremism is happening bcz we won’t ‘settle’ rather than bcz white ‘moderates’ are generationally prioritizing their economic self interests and benign white supremacy.
Deleting that history- deleting the immigrant community’s relationship to that man and the history of organizing the Latino community and immigrant community did against that man…it has the effect of continuing to make our analysis and our organizing look ‘radical’ and ‘divisive.’
And also…just. I’m too weary to get into it. But just…look at all the work by communities of color and immigration organizers, look at all the history- that gets erased just by this meme.
More politicians than Donald trump are protecting their economic self interests by making their own constituents the enemy.
Which is a way to say- the people saying ‘purity culture’ weren’t right back then, and they’re not right now. And just like particular white feminists were protecting their economic self interests by making feminism a job instead of a movement-
Which is all to say- this ‘purity culture is divisive’ thing has been happening for at least two decades that I’ve been a part of.
Which was just another way of complaining about purity politics. Which is just another way of saying it’s been our fault all along that trump got elected.
Jealous was the big thing lobbed against woc and black women bloggers and online organizers at the time. Which was just another word for divisive.
Supported border vigilantes doing ‘what our govt won’t do’ (monitor and militarize the border). A feminist on tumblr called me a beaner and told me to shut the fuck up, lol. Oh and told me to stop acting so jealous and divisive.
I remember I specifically talked about him trying to become ‘respectable’ by putting on a suit and running for office and that feminists need to have an analysis of that bcz it’s a strategy I was seeing crop up nationwide (they were getting regularly hosted by lou Dobbs at the time and Arnold S-
I reported back then about the efforts of border vigilantes to normalize white supremacy, nationalism and anti-immigrant hysteria thru integration of respectability political theater.
I know him as a person I followed and reported on for years before he killed himself and his gf/her family. He did a lot of border vigilante work but also had close connections to several Arizona politicians and ran for office.
He wound us in a murder/suicide situation with his gf- he killed her and several people in her family before killing himself. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/arizo...
For those that don’t know or remember, he was one of the original border vigilantes that eventually bled into the tea party and then MAGA.
I just saw a meme featuring him and I’m so irritated and upset right now.
Does anybody remember who JT Ready from Arizona was?
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
Like—it’s appalling to me to see how normal it is that literally everything we’re fighting over today has a direct line to slavery and anti blackness.
So I haven’t gotten into the section on Garfield and education yet, but it just hinted at what’s to come- Garfield wanted education funded by federal govt bcz he believed southern white elites were trying to erode ability to get education for esp former slaves bcz they wanted a permanent peasantry.
This is indicator that bluesky is actually a threat and not anywhere near dying lol.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Put all his shit in garbage bags and throw them in the front yard
I was just telling my mother that I would’ve liked to see that 83yo gorgeous Black woman in a bikini! She needs to model 😩 Also… I wear all the crop tops and bikinis
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Reading a bio about president Garfield. His oldest kid died from diphtheria. A series of shots we call Tdap immunizes most kids today against diphtheria by 6 years old.
I don’t even know who or what ‘Magic’ is. It’s surely not a person.
I know somebody with an entire closet of Michael Jordan shows- the first pair ever released until today.
Wow that’s a powerful intervention Mr DuBois makes. Gonna make the time to read this! And hunt down other works of his!
After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Yeees. And that so many of these shots are preying on middle aged women who’ve ’tried everything’—were shifting from even pretending it’s about health and moving into it’s about still remaining sexually desirable even as middle aged undesirable woman!!! And I think that’s garbage.
Which says that ‘single celebrity’ who people were coming out to see was pretty normal back then too
This is a garbage memory of his- magic? Larry? Michael? Like, sure there was more team play back then, but I don’t even need to say those players last names for people to know who I am talking about.
Aaaaand—I just want to reaffirm that fat bodies ARE DESIRABLE. Bcz it really feels like all these shots and celebrities whispering all their promises of never having to be fat again are bringing us down a road paved on fatphobic hatred rather than health based choices.
And yes I know nobody has to base their choices much less health care decisions on my sexual preferences lol.
I’ve had to really wrestle with my feelings on this cuz I know it’s none of my business what anybody else does with their bodies etc.
I actually think fat people and thick people and people with bodies that resist bras and panties and belts—are hot. And it makes me feel sad and also sort of slapped in the face when I see another person whose fat body I was attracted to goes on the shot.
3. A song that reminds you of summertime- I actively hate summer. this is the best I can do. m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HJC...
Well it belies the near constant narrative that liberals to leftists are so nasty and so filled with constant cancel culture that were actively destroying blue sky and making university classrooms miserable.
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
And for the record? I didn’t learn how to ice skate until I was in my late 30s. But I did have that song choreographed as a child *just in case*.
I had to have a talk with it and tell it listen, just because I MAY have an entire choreographed figure skating dance set to you as a song and just because I MAY still know that entire dance after how many decades does not mean you are automatically my favorite 80s song.
So I posted that the Pretenders had my favorite 80s song and then I went to bed- and THIS song popped up in my brain, ready to fight. It said How DARE You. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3A...
"Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing its lab would perform — the only one in the U.S. capable of doing so. The CDC no longer has the capacity to do that.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Sigh. "The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator." craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
And as if the only possible response to egregious experimental testing (if we agree that’s actually a situation, which is been proven repeatedly it’s NOT in RFKs arguments) is dismantle and defund all public health forever with no meaningful replacement at all?
But now RFK is running around justifying the dismantling of ‘DEI’ public health based on ‘experimental testing’ as if informed consent doesn’t exist?
That is- the same public health doctor that conducted experiments on the black men at Tuskegee? Did the same thing to Guatemalans. That (and a TON of organizing by esp black and woc feminists) led to restructuring public health around informed consent.
As we reclaim and rebuild our public health system, we have to recognize that what’s at stake is that they used what has saved public health to destroy it.
I think public health MUST recognize the disparities in outcomes between pregnant white people and pregnant black people. The funding that did that was some of the first clawed back by RFK.
Science is science is about the same thing as ‘keep politics out of science’ to me. I DONT agree science is neutral and I DONT believe public health is capable of being ‘neutral’ and I don’t believe it should be.
And the really complicated stuff starts when I recognize that there’s some pretty significant differences between my understanding of public health and my neighbor that has the ‘we believe science is science’ sign up all thru beginning of Covid.
There’s some pretty fucking huge differences between my understanding of public health and RFKs understanding.