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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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Researchers from around the world headed to Santa Fe for long COVID conference A few years have passed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but but researchers estimate millions of people are still living with the effects of long COVID. The Keystone Symposia on ‘Long COVID...

“We don’t have consensus, we don’t have treatment guidelines, and most of those 400 million people in the world don’t feel like they are getting the treatment they need"

- Dr. Daniel Altmann, Imperial College of London

Via @bhanlon15.bsky.social

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I hope you don't let us down

I support my family and my father's—14 people in total—in Gaza under extremely difficult conditions. My father suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. My wife has stomach bleeding. Medicine prices have increased over 20 times,
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This Texas Democrat Fled the State to Block Trump and Greg Abbott's Redistricting Effort "It's one thing to fight against my community and try to silence us. It's a whole ‘nother thing if we just lay down and take it."

over 50 Texas Dems fled the state to block Greg Abbott and Trump's push to redraw Congressional districts.

Lauren Ashley Simmons, a 36-year-old union organizer who won her seat last year as a progressive challenger to an anti-trans Dem incumbent, is one of them. new @teenvogue.com

Those With Chronic Illness in Gaza Say They’re Denied a Bare Minimum to Survive Living with chronic illness means not just fighting disease and hunger, but also trauma and a collapsed health system.

93 percent of Gaza’s children — nearly 930,000 kids — face catastrophic hunger. More than 650,000 children under 5 are now at immediate risk of life-threatening malnutrition.

Our all-in-one library is nearly complete. Share this with anyone who cares to learn more about the long-term damage any COVID-19 infection can do to the body. Each section has relevant peer-reviewed studies and more. www.citizenscovid.com/covidlibrary/ #covid19 #covid #covidconcious #longcovid

PMC Dashboard, Aug 4, 2025 (U.S.)

COVlD transmission is higher today than during the majority of the ongoing pandemic.

The CDC warns transmission is high/very high in 10 states/territories.

PMC estimates 1 in 95 people are actively infectious.

Donate to Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety, organized by Caroline Corbett Hi beautiful people! My name is Caroline and i’m a U.S. citizen from Utah… Caroline Corbett needs your support for Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety

This is Lubna she’s the quietest of the four sisters- or at least to me she is- she lost her first baby at full term a little over a year ago

The book cover for Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Edited by Kelly Hayes. The book cover features an artistic rendering of a person with long hair wading into a body of water at night in a wilderness.

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

UNICEF Leader Returns From Gaza With Harrowing Warning of Mass Child Starvation The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster,” said the UNICEF deputy director, “They are being starved.”…

"The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster,” said the UNICEF deputy director, “They are being starved.”

The most draconian laws are often positioned as "a way to protect children," but of course the real question is, which children?

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Get caught up: Good #Covid vaccine updates, US slams into its summer surge (rising fast nationwide), study: Covid “wakes up” cancer cells, Aotearoa #LongCovid studies now recruiting, UV light trial shows reduced infections, freaky new variant worries trackers, more:

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Africa: Long Covid is Like 'Experiencing Malaria Constantly' - How Sufferers Struggle to Access Basic Care Guest Column - Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Kizito Zua, a farmer living in Arua, a city in northern Uganda, had earned his way selling his produce at the local market.

Africa: Long COVID is like 'experiencing malaria constantly' allafrica.com/stories/2025...

The media created a set of largely bullshit moral panics 2021-24, that consistently pushed the public towards more fear/cruelty towards others – around trans people, shoplifting/crime, homelessness, woke college kids/cancel culture, immigrants, COVID/schooling. It greased the wheels for fascism.

Laura Palmer’s House Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.

My newsletter is BACK! New article on Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and the dream of justice: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...

We've known that Covid increases the risk in survivors of cancer, but today @nature.com a mechanism of reactivation of cancer cells elucidated in the experimental model
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Not a Distraction: Epstein, Elite Impunity, and the Rot at the Core To wave off every horror as a distraction is to participate in the very obfuscation that protects the powerful.

Every word of this. Thank you @mskellymhayes.bsky.social.

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The government is walking into our house, knocking down the smoke detectors, hammering off all the locks, putting gum over any doorbell cameras we have, canceling our insurance, and none of it is going to be for any reason other than: they want us unprepared and vulnerable. They want chaos for us.

I'll feed grief all the love leftover, by J. Raymond My goal now is simple - make something useful from everything painful. Nothing that harmed me will go to waste. I'll water every broken, sowed piece of me until the lesson necessary grows. I'll hang grateful wreaths upon every closed door. When lonely, I'll find the peace hidden in silence. When sad, I'll mourn with my whole heart. I'll feed grief all the love leftover until I'm full again. Not even my heartache will go to waste. My bad habits will become footholds. The backs of these demons - spineless stepping stones. I won't be anywhere dark for long. There isn't much time left for us and these dreams. I've got to spend it carefully. With those who appreciate and accept me equally. The love I squeeze out of each day will be proportionate to the amount I pour into it. I'm going to make a heaven out of these hells, you'll see.

Folks is this bad?

It should never be controversial to speak up about mass starvation. Having regular access to safe and nutritious food is a human right.

This stopped me cold. I just keep reading the headline. It seems literally impossible to me, that this thing that cut through an entire generation has an answer now.

It's impossible to convey how terrifying those years were, how much loss there was, how much pain. My heart. It feels like a miracle.

This is the age range when air pollution starts damaging your brain Air pollution damages the brain. Here's when it starts.

NEW RESEARCH: breathing polluted air in midlife (45-60 yo) can accelerate cognitive aging decades later. Even low levels of pollutants harm memory and processing speed.

Your reminder that dementia is projected to triple by midcentury. Also we’re cutting Medicaid.

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The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us) It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care

In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.

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Incorrect! The pandemic is being *treated* as if it’s over, and a lot of people don’t know what the word means.

Studies across 14 nations show 25% to 30% rate of long COVID Among the 25% of participants in 1 study who said they experienced long-COVID symptoms, 13% reported sleep disorders.

Deaths from acute Covid are significantly down from the pre-vax days. But long Covid? Now topping 30% in 14 countries recently reviewed, a direct consequence of a vax and relax strategy that allows infinite reinfections. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...