Destiny Sugarbuns

Fewer than 50 slots left in this Long Covid trial (down from 1000!)

They’re especially hoping to enroll folks from North Dakota, Mississippi and Puerto Rico, as well as more BIPOC participants.

To sign up: longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Naomi, the manager who told them to get out because they didn't have a warrant, is a fucking badass.

I have no doubt rent is higher in the cities than in small towns but even in small towns no one can afford to rent without roommates anymore. Housing is out of control everywhere

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...

Not one fucking word from any quoted health expert on cleaning classroom air.

Yes, talk about vaccines, ofc that's important.

But there's something else we could talk about here: a measure that protects everyone but doesn't trigger endless debates on the choice to vaccinate.

Clean classroom air!

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

I will keep banging on this drum: if we want to fight fascism, we're going to have to normalize masking because no one is coming to save us

decreases after that point. Parents who say they want to wait months may or may not follow up on those promises, and often it's for reasons beyond their control. But FYI my sister was literally six months old when we became survivors. A few months really, truly can be too late.

In what way have I "weaponized" my experience? In what way have I harmed you or violated your rights by saying "what happened to me contradicts your narrative"? Day of birth is the rule because that's a day we know babies will be in the hospital, and the statistical likelihood of vaccination

"yes, I'm being abused" it might have been too late to protect them from Hep B. If you had been in a freak accident and died or been arrested by hateful state agents your child could have ended up placed, temporarily or permanently, in foster care, where the risks of abuse increase.

I really am not attacking you personally as a parent but I am talking about a reality I still think makes you fundamentally uncomfortable, which is that you don't have the power you think you do to ensure your child is never hurt. Hep B vaccines are preventive. If your child answered your question,

I'm not telling you to argue with my trauma, I'm telling you to acknowledge the reality that 2 kids in every classroom need the protection you say only adults need. It's not about centering me as a single person with freak experiences, it's about the fact that survivors are everywhere.

If you had started with the point of bodily autonomy I might not have engaged at all but when you come out with "kids don't need hepatitis protection" I'm going to tell you that's a dream world you're living in.

What does any of that have to do with the point that housing is how you solve the problem of homelessness?

Hey Facebook, post from the girl guide of Canada that reads: Inclusion makes Girl Guides of Canada stronger. It ensures that girls and youth have a place to build confidence, develop the skills to thrive and connect with a community that sees them for who they truly are. Girl Guides of Canada welcomes all girls – cisgender and transgender – as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in spaces that focus on and are driven by the experience of girls. Learn more about our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility at girlguides.ca/inclusivity

The Girl Guides of Canada on dark blue symbol with the trans flag at the bottom.

The Girl Guides of Canada say: Be prepared to protect trans rights.

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

Mamdani Vows to Sweep Out Crackdowns on Homeless Camps City numbers show that sweeps started under Mayor Eric Adams have not delivered on referrals for housing in more than a year.

NEW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...

It was an honor to have so many conversations w Leslie Lee on his podcast & mine. His being out about his LC status on every platform was extremely brave. There’s a social cost to being out about chronic illness & “salting the vibe”. Whether talking TV or pandemic, he was incisive & a truth teller

I live in a small town with a lot of poverty and trust me, yes, it's like this everywhere.

Please, rich kids snort ritalin and rich adults snort coke and drink like fishes. Nobody's worried about their property values falling because that's a function of poverty, not self-medication.

Exactly. Rich people with addictions stay housed just fine

HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM

I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.

PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!

People need homes they can afford!

This is exactly what I mean when I say parents end up protecting themselves from the reality of the world their children live in. You can erase a conversation about CSA from public space if you don't want to have it but child survivors exist and are impacted by the vaccines you're talking about.

Screen shot of Destiny Sugarbuns replying to a comment labeled Post not Found. Destiny's comment reads, "Do you want to be the one to have the conversations with parents about how they can't actually predict when babies will need protection against STIs? Because I was a fucking toddler."

Screen shot of two replies by Go Ask Alice Destiny Sugarbuns. First reply reads, "I know there are circumstances and I am sorry that happened to you. This was not happening in my home. I am also not into medicating all possibilities of the horrible things that can happen to kids on the day they are born, there is time. It's not fair what you went through." Second reply reads, "removed my other posts since l am not desiring to continue a conversation that is so triggering for people. Peace"

Screen shot of reply by Destiny Sugarbuns to Go Ask Alice. Reply reads, in two comments, "Statistically there are two survivors of CSA in every classroom. Protecting all children from birth is much more realistic than expecting the parents of those children to proactively seek out preventative care. And if you find this subject too triggering to leave up in public just imagine how unlikely it is that any individual parent broach the subject proactively."

And the rest of the conversation:

An account named Go Ask Alice with a cat emoji and a profile picture of an inflatable frog replies to a post with 1.5 thousand likes. The visible portion of the original post is a photo of Senator Bill Casssidy (a white man with white hair and wrinkles) holding a pencil in the air as though using it to emphasize a gesture. Go Ask Alice's first comment reads, "Can I comment on the nuance here though? As a mom? Hep B is a sexually and blood transmitted disease that is required to be vax on the day of birth. If the mom is vaccinated, it's not coming from her, and babies generally are not having sex and sharing needles. This requirement is because of"

Go Ask Alice's second comment continues, "Sex workers and IV drug users. So ALL people follow a requirement put in place for sex workers and IV drug users. Since the vaccine has rarely been but known side effects, allowing parents to choose it at a later date is not dangerous and in fact can reduce danger. I am pro vax and pro this vax"

Go Ask Alice's third comment concludes, "But I'm anti REQUIRING it as done on the schedule. I personally refused because causing a challenge to the immune system the second one is born is not needed. We need to have more nuanced conversations around WHY certain vaccine are on the schedule and WHEN. Then we will have less anti vaxxers"

The conversation now deleted:

unlikely it is that any individual parent broach the subject proactively.

Statistically there are two survivors of CSA in every classroom. Protecting all children from birth is much more realistic than expecting the parents of those children to proactively seek out preventative care. And if you find this subject too triggering to leave up in public just imagine how