Which of those people do you want to be?
And we can take this moment, where we start to notice Long Covid is a still-growing problem from a still-active pandemic and say, “What can we do to reverse this trend?” We can ask, “Who else have we excluded & how can we be more inclusive?” Or we can just yell “I have to live my life!” & ignore it.
Imagine choosing a week where your own wildly unpopular war has caused gasoline prices to shoot up more than 20% to use taxpayer dollars to attack a state policy that could insulate consumers from oil-price shocks.
Metro-secretarial
Next, NYC high school auto shop classes to include teaching repair skills for clean-coal-powered cars.
It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping.
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👍 This whole pandemic has been a crisis gone to waste. Rather than use it as an opportunity to expand healthcare & coverage when the country was begging for more access, Biden & Dems went for “masks off,” “personal responsibility” & “ask your doctor” when 30% of the US doesn’t have a regular doctor.
And yet, 6 years on, all we ever hear about is “all that learning loss” from 2020 suspensions of in-person school, replaced by remote schooling. Almost no one seems upset by what are now many more days lost to absenteeism from acute and chronic illness.
I totally get that—but boy do I wish there were space on the campaign trail for a community that acknowledges the ongoing pandemic and the need for either scheduling events in the open air or doing at least some mask-required meet & greets.
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Me, today:
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Just seeing this—SIFUABS for sure.
Hope that all your back-burner stuff can now glow white-hot.
On this day—now the 15th anniversary of the start of the Fukushima crisis—I want to again remember and thank the sailors and marines who were generous with their time and honest with their answers. More honest than the US govt has ever been with them—or with any of us.
What I’m sayin’.
When will I stop posting my disgust and dismay over being the only properly masked person in a large, institutional healthcare setting?
Not until others are also properly wearing quality respirators. 😷
Wait—so there are _flattering_ photos of Pete Hegseth?
Trump rolls out the self-licking ice cream cone of casus belli.
The administration essentially tells Senators: “Now that we are attacking them, they won’t stop attacking us—so we have to keep attacking.”
OK…. How is this “goal” even an issue unless you start a war to achieve something else? It’s essentially “now that we are firing at them, the won’t stop firing at us… so we have to keep firing.”
Self-licking ice cream cone as casus belli.
Not only amazing that in statements from both Blumenthal (above) and his CT brethren @chrismurphyct.bsky.social you have Senators who were briefed saying the Trump team has no plan to achieve its “objectives,” it seems the objectives (whatever they are) are “classified” and can’t be revealed.
Thank YOU!
Sen @blumenthal.senate.gov emerged from Tuesday’s classified briefing from Trump admin officials & said, “The objectives that have been outlined for this war will require boots on the ground.”
Yesterday, “Meat-Grinder Pete” Hegseth was asked about US ground troops in Iran & refused to rule it out.
Whatever the goal is in Iran—unless it’s just kill people and make new enemies—the US is nowhere near achieving it.
Nor is it achieving any goals for global power.
Nor is it helping the US economy.
And it is now even more aggressively losing the war against the climate crisis.
US: Losing the battle AND losing the war.
And the bigger war.
AND an even bigger war.
The saying goes, “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that dies,” but the US feel less like an elephant than a whale flopping around on the pavement.
“Since… the attack… began, at least 12 civilians have been killed in oil-rich Gulf countries. All but one of them were foreign nationals.”
The link to the 🧵 that contains the above chart & much more info to remind you that #CovidisNotOver #CovidIsSTILLnotOver
Thanks as always to Dr. Hoerger.
And, keep your vaccines up to date, wear a quality mask/respirator when inside in public, stay home if you’re sick, demand cleaner indoor air.
As I “celebrate” the first anniversary of my fifth anniversary of “I’m outta here” day, the US marks its 101st consecutive day of more than 1/2 million new COVID infections. And even as this wave finally starts to ebb, today is still worse than almost half the days since the start of the pandemic.
