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Losing my favorite way to have juice in the house…

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Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena

gofund.me/c8485b58

Distancing yourself from disabled / chronically ill ppl is also why the majority don’t wear a mask in public spaces

They subconsciously or consciously go “they’re immunocompromised, I’m not like them”

You’re more like us than u want to admit

Each COVID reinfection increases your risk of LongCOVID

“It is those of us who were asked, how many lives would you trade for indoor dining and said…0. Those of us who were asked, how long will you care for your neighbor and said, I always will. Those of us who were told, you don’t have to ❤️ anyone, not anymore, and said, that’s what makes me a radical.”

“When leave home…I can always put on a mask. I can always guarantee that I’m not going to infect someone, disable, or kill them, be responsible for them losing their livelihood, home, partner, be responsible for them ending up like me, trapped indefinitely in their one-bedroom apartment.” #COVID

Reminder that this session is today at @socialismconference.org. Also, if you preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart through my favorite indie bookstore, you'll receive a special note from me, tucked into your book, when it's released on November 4.

Come what may, I will bet on us, every time, because there is no other bet worth placing. I am all in, fam. I will never stop looking for openings and aiming at them. I will never stop reaching for people and saying, “Take my hand. We can do this.” Because we are worth it.

Viewpoint: RFK's reckless firing of CDC #vaccine advisors not supported by evidence

Kennedy's rationale is based on a series of inaccuracies and part of a pattern of misrepresentation.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Photo: CDC

The most important thing you can do is visibly do things that make sense for you and who you are and where your skills and capabilities lie.

If someone sees you, they will think "oh, it's okay, I'm not alone."

It was entirely clear this is what they were doing. They say it's about immigrants but nothing would stop them from using this on citizens. It's a clear violation of the privacy act. They're combining databases from DHS, HHS, SSA, and IRS to surveil everyone.

www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Destroy DOGE, undo every bit of its work, and render every DOGE employee unemployable in their professional field for life. End their careers and shame them in every way we can. And make them see that we fixed the government and everything they did was for naught.

The Black Place In an autocratic America, I’ll choose my hill to die on.

New article! On depression and resilience in an autocratic America: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-black-...

The Anti-Empathy Revolution of Elon Musk Musk views empathy as a “bug” that threatens his political agenda. This framing is instructive.

"To counter the forces of alienation and animosity that seek to divide us, we must build a culture of care. By creating as much safety and justice as we can, wherever we are, we will forge bonds that will sustain us in moments of collective resistance and refusal."

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How To Be a Fighter When You Feel Like a Punching Bag Many of us are suffering from a kind of social atrophy.

My latest: "The more often we have experienced true helplessness, the more likely we are to feel powerless in situations where action is possible. And the more we freeze or flail in response to threats, the more deeply ingrained those responses become."

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

Wishing you healing & restorative rest, a full recovery, and antivirals to help (if appropriate for your care)

What is Long COVID? A Beginner's Guide

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many.

A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

"In fact, COVID is highly vascular, attacking the blood vessels and increasing your risk of blood clots. And at this late date, there’s no excuse for the public to be under the impression that COVID solely affects the lungs; it is a deliberate decision to leave people in the dark." 💯

Pushing back on covid denialism is anti-capitalist work, as the push to live life as if it were 2019 or prior only serves capital interests. If you are a person who spends their life fighting for other people, you should already be used to standing out for your beliefs. You got this😷

The Village Christmas Project – 2024 Welcome to this year’s adopt-a-family! Below are Amazon wish lists of families who have been affected by long COVID. They have been asked to include wants and needs. Here is a little bit abou…

Hey, y'all! Christmas is coming quickly! And the families listed below need your help. They have wish lists at the link below, where you can learn a bit about them and their journey with long COVID.

thevillagechristmas.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/t...

Collective Survival, Adaption and Direct Action Defiance must be woven into the fabric of our daily lives, rather than simply proclaimed at marches or on social media.

I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.

Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...

My XOXO talk is online. It's a v. personal look at what it was like to cover the pandemic, live through it, be broken by it, and heal from it. I talk about my approach to journalism, a 7-part code for being a public figure, why I left the Atlantic, and a lot more. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

Any remotely-functioning society would bring the hammer of god down on sports betting, but any remotely-functioning society isn't cutting its citizenry to the bone as it burns through every form of extractive finance possible. It used to be houses. Now it's fucking car loans and sports books.