Ms. Pointy

Covid cases rising in US as officials plan to restrict booster vaccines Risks of a wave are compounded by new vaccine restrictions from the Trump administration

We're at the start of a new Covid wave. It's getting harder to know how bad waves will be, since everyone has different immunity levels. But with new restrictions to Covid vaccines, I'm worried more people will get very sick. My latest:
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16 people cited after unlawful assembly declared during downtown LA protest Friday The demonstration began earlier Friday with supporters demanding the release of an ICU nurse and community activist who was taken into federal custody in San Pedro.

Gonna try this again with a bit less anger, lol. It is disappointing to see a major media outlet reproducing police statements about what happened on Friday without doing a shred of due diligence to verify those claims.

The 2 people transported were not “pretending to be media,” they *were* media

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists.

Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Why do I persist in reading horror stories before bed? (shakes head at self)

*looks directly at camera*

Floating Museum lets the public walk through history with latest inflatable, ‘for Mecca’ “For Mecca,” a mashup structure that people can walk through, draws on notable original Bronzeville buildings.

“For Mecca,” a mashup structure that people can walk through, draws on notable original Bronzeville buildings.

Given that the city of Chicago wasn’t even founded until a decade after the Erie Canal was completed, it does seem unlikely

If we only had some way to prevent the infections in the first place.

BREAKING

IRS Commissioner Billy Long was fired hours after he refused to furnish additional confidential taxpayer information on suspected undocumented immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security.

Full Story: wapo.st/4lo4rBv

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
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In case you were wondering what sort of mayor Cuomo would be:

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

Literally why I watch music concert docs before bed

Administration planning to "update" the National Climate Assessments Heat and some significant severe weather threats dominate today's weather

There's plenty to be alarmed about as far as the Trump administration and science - but what the DOE secretary says is going on with the Nat'l Climate Assessment and climate science is not about budgets or staffing, it's about attacking science itself. More here: https://tinyurl.com/vpw7evub

"Look, forget the myths the media's created about the White House -- the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

Conservatism in the United States, summarized —>

California man who adopted cats to torture and kill them sentenced for animal cruelty A Santa Barbara man was sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to animal cruelty, authorities announced Wednesday.

California man who adopted cats to torture and kill them sentenced for animal cruelty

Concentration camps on US soil is very American for those unfamiliar with history

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

important sections of the constitution have suddenly disappeared from congress' website—some of which the administration has publicly targeted, including habeas corpus www.404media.co/constitution...

I keep thinking of how in Nazi-occupied Denmark, if a Nazi walked into a bar, everyone would pay up and walk out.

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I started just texting my doctor in MyChart for anxiety med refills months ago. I do not have the mental bandwidth to set an appt. The texts have gotten shorter since then.

My most recent refill request? It was just an ellipses (...). He filled the prescription same day for that.

PETER THIEL: we want to kill everyone. we want slaves. we will scour the earth until nothing can grow

THE NEWS: thats his beliefs and we respect that

The Deep Ties and Deeper Pockets of Minnesota’s Far-Right - UNICORN RIOT Maple Grove, MN – The Rush Creek Golf Club’s event space was filled with the din of knives and forks, scraping and tapping ceramic to the tune of conspiratorial chit chat, as a fluorescent white audie...

The Center of the American Experiment is one well-connected node in a large network of right-wing money moving through Minnesota and the US, with unfettered access to the billfolds of billionaire donors and the bent ears of Republican legislators.

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In the immortal words of E Bear on JJ Abrams’ Wrath of Khan: I don’t think he understands how space works

Hey Apple Arcade and Orbital Knight. Castle crumble level 282 has a bug that kicks you out of the game and never lets you finish the level

So

Fix that please