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Your illness is not a business opportunity. Your pain not a profit margin. The healthcare system is a machine of organized abandonment—an engine of extraction dressed as care. We will not fix it with more “choice.” We will fix it by ending the rule of capital over life.

Here’s an Inconvenient Truth: Disease Is in the Air | The Tyee We ignored the science of airborne transmission for a century. Carl Zimmer tells us why.

“In ‘advanced’ nations, clean water is considered essential, but we tolerate foul air, despite a century of evidence that it harms.”

Uproar as disability protesters in wheelchairs dragged out of House Medicaid meeting Republicans insist the proposed new work requirements won’t hurt people with disabilities, but disability rights advocates disagree

Folks need to pay attention to how Republicans are using anti-immigrant tropes to cut Medicaid: "Many Republicans have said that the legislation would only cut coverage for able-bodied men, & specifically focused on undocumented immigrants." #IllnessPolitics
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keep your eye on the target

ok game on 😈

UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

Three children freeze to death in Gaza as Israel blocks tents, mobile homes Official says Jenin is ‘uninhabitable’ as Israeli forces make preparations to set up a base in the refugee camp.

Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities.

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Pods for Our Current Moment (SOIL Blog) — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project We are in a political moment that is exacerbating a deep contradiction: we will need each other more than ever before and we are still fully engulfed in a heavily-documented epidemic of loneliness tha...

Wrote about pods for my latest blog post.

"The beauty of pods is that they are grounded in relationships and not bound to any specific location, demographic or issue. They can be used for long-term or temporary needs, shifting to adapt to whatever is most needed."

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Please wear a mask when you can. Even if you don't always, even if it's not the best mask, even if you didn't this morning and you'd feel silly if you did now... any amount of masking is better than none. Nobody is perfect, we're all doing our best, please mask and protect yourself and everyone ❤️

[photo: Six orcas move through calm water. The image is taken just above the surface of the water and the image is slightly overexposed from the sun shining off the water, creating a dreamy glowing effect. Four of the orcas have a small portion of their backs visible above water while the other two only have the fins visible.]

Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with.

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N95 masks protect against wildfire smoke, airborne viruses, and more. They are an essential public health tool. Like condoms and many other public health tools, the government should make N95 masks free and easily accessible to the public throughout the year.

Screenshot of post from Ritchie Torres which reads @RitchieTorres Follow The lunatic who shoved the innocent New Yorker in front of an incoming subway was wearing a mask. Wearing a mask for the purpose of committing crimes against innocent New Yorkers or for the purpose of intimidating and harassing Jewish students on college campuses should be strictly prohibited by state law. Reinstate the pre-COVID mask ban. 2nd post reads am proposing a ban on wearing a mask for the purpose of committing crimes or harassment and intimidation-not for the purpose of public health.

Covid is not over and masks are one of our best tools to avoid infection. Mask bans are ableist, discriminatory and would mark a return to ugly laws.

Anyone willing to shove someone in front of a train is not going to reconsider just because their mask is illegal. 🧵

Screenshot of GoFundMe titled Cassie's Surgery Fund with a goal of $15,000, and $3,580 raised with 62 donations.

It's been a few days since Cassie's fundraiser has gotten donations, please donate if you can! Cassie is a beloved pillar of the Chicago trans community and has helped countless trans people move. She's an angel and needs our help!

A negative covid test on day one of symptoms has a 40 to 70% chance of being a false negative. Air on the side of caution. And test again on day 3 and 5.

The Intersection of Disability and Genocide The Intersection of Disability and Genocide   dena harry saleh   “Flies, mosquitoes, gunshots and bombing – everything is against me 😂”    – Khaled Sulaiman   Khaled Sula…

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Survivor: Twinks vs Dolls
Who has the connect?

being around other peoples happy families makes me feel like a stray dog when they try to ask me about my family

I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

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love this idea and the rest of the thread as well (more details on the precautions)

for this go to settings > accessibility and then "require alt text"!