Stanley Beck

We are still boycotting Disney and Hulu right? Or did that end?

I think he’s just baiting Trump.

We’d think each of these stories would be enough to cause a battle cry to end ICE. This department has become America’s Gestapo with attack dogs. The worst of humanity being paid by our tax dollars. There was a time when there was no ICE, this work was done ethically under a different department.

At the top of the food chain, wolves and other top predators exert a positive effect on ecosystem health. Bringing them back is crucial to restoring the health of the planet.
The Serengeti Rules (2019)
PBS Documentary
youtu.be/AT3X5hKkgOE
How Wolves Change Rivers
George Monbiot
youtu.be/W88Sact1kws

Gender equality in the U.S. and around the world is not a pipe dream. Fifty years ago women in Iceland showed the way.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

As we experience another bad respiratory virus season, yet another study shows that Covid infections can dysregulate our immune systems. Public health leaders need to pay attention to this.

(** I block anyone who uses the term 'airborne AIDS'. It's both clearly not that & profoundly inappropriate.)

There’s a boycott of Amazon

Yes, and even just plain nasal spray works better than no nose spray.

The grocery store feels like a germy gauntlet where I race away from one aisle with a coughing kid to the next with a sneezing grown up.

* There is no such thing as "just a flu". Viral infections are bad for us.

* Viruses are variable. Non-evolutionary, typological thinking does not work.

* Viruses evolve. They don't automatically get milder. More infections means more evolution.

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* The immune system is not like a muscle and immunity debt is bullshit.

* There are various ways that repeated COVID infections could be causing short- and/or longer-term immunity theft, making people more vulnerable to other infections.

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Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season:

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* Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals.

* We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water.

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Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection Growing evidence suggests that lymphocyte subsets are declined in COVID-19 patients, but it is unclear if these alterations persist after widespread e…

"Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise. The sustained subnormal lymphocytes—particularly in cardiovascular disease cohorts—highlight a key immunologic feature of long COVID ..."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There’s an active Amazon boycott. Please shop elsewhere.

What If COVID Reinfections Wear Down Our Immunity? | The Tyee Dr. Anthony Leonardi is a lightning rod for debate. If he’s right, this pandemic poses a greater threat than widely assumed.

More or less as per AJ's predictions from early on in the pandemic #leonardieffect thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Read this twice.

“Our findings redefine SARS-CoV-2 infection as a condition of long-lasting immune compromise.”

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

Private Prisons About 90 percent of people in ICE custody are held in facilities run by for-profit companies.

White supremacists are running around with face masks and guns, stuffing people into unmarked vehicles, and taking them to for-profit corporate detention centers that receive very little oversight if any as America just seems to shrug his shoulders.

www.brennancenter.org/series/priva...

Hey if you want to make an anti- vaccine omelet you have to break a few people-dying-of-preventable-diseases eggs

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants LP.8.1, LF.7.1, NB.1.8.1, XFG, and BA.3.2 following KP.2 monovalent mRNA vaccination | mBio Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to evolve, producing variants that escape vaccine-induced immunity. The current work shows that KP.2 monovalent vaccination provides limited protection against antigenically distant Omicron variants (LP.8.1, LF.7.1, NB.1.8.1, XFG and BA.3.2). These findings highlight the ongoing challenge of maintaining vaccine effectiveness against evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants and argue for continuous updating of vaccines.

Another Covid study indicating that vaccination-only immunity > "hybrid" immunity > infection immunity. It doesn't come as any surprise; infection isn't as immunogenic as vaccination. Don't seek Covid for updating antibodies. Vaccinate instead.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Thank you for explaining. So, no magic extra effectiveness of this year’s boosters. I’m glad to have access to boosters, but still hoping for a sterilizing nasal vaccine to get us out of the danger of long COVID.

This is what they've done.

“I’m disgusted, because it wasn’t only myself— it was my elderly mother in her 90’s and my sister too. It makes no sense. Who bought him off?”

A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion

The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts

A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,

The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

The time has come to declare war on AI "It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."

"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."