Destiny Sugarbuns

COVID is not done with you, even if you're done with it.
I used to feel like I needed to be gentle with people like this; but watching my mother die of COVID complications this year has stripped me of any remaining empathy.
Don't get vaccinated, enjoy the consequences.
Just stay tf away from me.

Ditto customer-facing employees not being allowed to wear headsets. Let people listen to their music and audiobooks while they hand you things, it's just a pointless power trip to make them pretend to have no personal interests or thoughts.

Please donate now! Every dollar you give translates directly into meals for food-insecure New Yorkers. Every Sunday, our group of friends gathers to cook more than 2,300 hot meals to share with food-insecure neighbors t...

On her birthday, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social is raising money for EVLovesNYC.

I was able to donate 100 dollars. Please join me.

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RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

If my worst covid effects are that I missed a bunch of cool things I wanted to do and I'm tired for the next six months, but I was never in danger of dying, isn't that still worth preventing? Don't you want to help that not happen to a stranger?

They just led a penis away in handcuffs. That's gonna follow them around.

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

Yeah, I think every health care worker in the land should wear a respirator mask around patients

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

DARTMOUTH OUT!

We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Excerpt from Sept 2025 guidance for indoor air quality professionals PDF by Health Canada. I've highlighted the phrase In addition to (followed by advice to recommend respirator masks) Ventilation can help reduce viral transmission in indoor spaces by preventing the accumulation of potentially infectious respiratory particles in the air. Good ventilation, combined with other personal protective measures, can further reduce the risk of infection. In addition to improving indoor ventilation, the following should be considered (PHAC 2021a, 2022, 2023a, 2023b, 2023c): • Encourage occupants to stay home and away from others if they are not feeling well. • Limit the amount of people in areas where ventilation is poor. • Have policies that require or strongly recommend people to wear a well-fitting N-95 or KN-95 respirator mask in indoor public settings. • Provide supplies for people to clean their hands often (e.g., soap and water, or alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60% alcohol). Remind occupants to clean their hands after contact with shared surfaces and objects, and after coughing or sneezing. • Regularly clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces and objects. › Develop and put into effect routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols that focus on shared surfaces, objects, and equipment. › Use disinfectant products with a valid drug identification number and follow manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and disinfection.

Health Canada has released new guidelines for air quality professionals that clearly state Covid can linger in the air & respirator masks should be considered IN ADDITION to improving ventilation

🔗 www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

If you can't come and see me in person, please do come to the online-only event hosted by Charis Books tomorrow night, where I'll be speaking to E.R. Anderson. Spend your Saturday evening talking DILF: charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-1...

When you get your COVID vaccine don't forget to thank the COVID conscious people whose activism forces our government to keep it available.

"ME/CFS isn’t about doing less by choice.
It’s about the body’s inability to recover.
It’s time to shift the narrative from motivation to biology."

Thank you @sunsopeningband.bsky.social et al for writing this new manuscript:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here

mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them

If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit.

"Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and…

I was purged from the voting roll.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

I still can't believe how the entire IRB and ethics offices are gone.

It’s also incredible how many more places could be made meaningfully COVID-safer with a $200 air purifier and a $50 filter change every 6 months.

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAHOOWA

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

I remember watching what was going on back in 2020 with SARS troops opening fire on and kidnapping protesters and trying to tell folks that this would be America soon if Trump retains powee, and of course i had people arguing "We'Re AlReaDy TherE!"

🙄🙄🙄

It’s comforting to know that there are more people out here that are masking than I originally thought.

I lost one of my best friends to Long COVID, so I don’t play about that.

At all.